As for the EU, Italy has always been at the forefront in the cultural field. Mrs. Silvia Costa supported the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018 and the launch of the I-Portunus Programme, aimed at promoting the mobility of artists. Mrs. S. Costa and Mr. M. Smeriglio, previous and current Rapporteurs for the Creative Europe Programme, supported the boosting of the budget of the programme 2021-2027.
Regarding the ECOC Programme, as a follow up of the competition for the Italian title won by Matera in 2019, MIC launched the Italian Capital of Culture. Mantova for 2016, Pistoia for 2017, Palermo for 2018 and Parma for 2020-2021 have already been awarded the title.
Italy is active in many cultural programmes carried out by the CoE (such as the Audiovisual Observatory, Eurimages, Phoenician Routes, Via Francigena).
In 2020 (Law 133/2020) the Parliament ratified the CoE’s Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (2005), an important step-forward in the reflection on the role of citizens and communities in deciding and managing the cultural environment. As for UNESCO, MAECI and MiC are jointly responsible for monitoring the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. As far as the latter is concerned, in 2020 the third quadrennial report was submitted[1]: it includes, for the first time, a specific focus on the role of the private sector in the implementation of the Convention.
[1] https://en.unesco.org/creativity/governance/periodic-reports/submission/3896
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