The strategic directions for 2006-2010 build upon those adopted in 2001.

• SD1. Supporting the capacity of national institutions responsible for cultural heritage in Member States to achieve their goals.
• SD2. Encouraging the integration of risk preparedness, preventive conservation and maintenance strategies into national conservation policies.
• SD3. Promoting policies that integrate concerns for all types of cultural heritage (movable and immovable, tangible and intangible, cultural and natural, living heritage etc.).
• SD4. Working through partnerships and networks so as to maximize impact and to reduce duplication of effort among different agencies.
• SD5. Ensuring long-term continuity of partnerships after specific collaborative programmes have concluded.
• SD6. Incorporating cultural heritage conservation theory and practice in education curricula at the university level.
• SD7. Ensuring the widest possible access to information about conservation and its importance, by means of different media, different publics and different languages.

updated on: 12 July, 2006