1999-2024 Celebrating 25 years of the EAC
EAC: future priorities
As we celebrated 25 years since the formation of the organisation in 2024, the EAC Board invited members to identify their priorities to guide EAC activities for the next 5 years.
At the General Assembly in Brussels on 21 March 2024, the EAC celebrated its 25th anniversary by looking forward. The EAC Board invited members to share their priorities in the context of the Valletta and Faro Conventions, to guide future EAC activities.
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The results of the survey created a clear list of the priorities and challenges that EAC members would like the EAC to help them address in the coming years.
The European Archaeological Council was formed in 1999 to support the management of Archaeological Heritage throughout Europe. In 2015, the EAC published the Amersfoort Agenda, its response to addressing the challenges laid out in the Valletta Convention. The first major theme was embedding archaeology in society, encouraging public participation and integrating archaeology into education. The second theme was the importance of conscious, explicit and transparent choices in archaeological heritage management. The third theme was archaeological data management in the digital age.
To build on this, the Making Choices initiative invited EAC members to consider their priorities, and identify areas where EAC guidance and support was most needed. In 2024, we launched a range of new EAC guidelines resulting from the Making Choices initiative.