About the Community
Established: 2016
Last renewed: 2023
Contact:
Jean-Olivier Gransard-Desmond
(jogd@arkeotopia.org)
Sophie Hueglin (s.hueglin@web.de)
EAA has
become one of the largest organisations of Archaeologists in Europe and has a
great potential to influence European politics. The EAA has participatory
status with the Council of Europe, joined the European Heritage Alliance 3.3 in
2017 and is represented in the Council of Europa Nostra. The EAA sets
professional and ethical standards for archaeology through its Statutes, Codes
and Annual Meeting Statements (e.g. the EAA 2019 Bern Statement on Archaeology
and the Future of Democracy). In this the EAA Communities aid to define
important aspects of archaeological work through constant communication and
consultation with EAA membership at EAA annual conferences and EAA
publications.
The Political Strategies Community (PSC) sees its role in cooperating closely with the EAA Executive Board, EAA Advisory Boards and other EAA Communities to define and prioritise policy objectives and find allies outside EAA with shared goals for political action.
In the coming three years the milestones of PSC are:
- Throughout: support EAA Executive Board in representing EAA at European level: e.g. at the Conference of INGOs at the Council of Europe
- after benchmark campaign in the European elections in May 2024, to lobby on the National and European levels for an implementation of the benchmarks as embraced by the political groups and parties in their responses;
- Throughout: to intensify the communication with EAA members and markedly increase the number of PSC subscribers and supporters.
We
welcome EAA members and non-members alike to contact and engage with PSC in
order to share, discuss and actively address political concerns from archaeology
and heritage managemnent at the National, European and global levels.