Looking forward: future priorities for the EAC
2025 workshops
During the 2025 Annual Meeting in GdaÅ„sk participants were invited to think once again, and in greater depth, about the themes proposed in Brussels (see below) – about how the EAC can respond to the needs of archaeological heritage management in the coming years.
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The workshop sessions were divided into four topics, chaired by a moderator, and they allowed EAC members and colleagues to discuss the topics freely and help the EAC shape its activities to address its members’ priorities in the coming years.
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The results of the workshops will be published by the EAC later in 2025.
1999-2024 Celebrating 25 years of the EAC
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.
Making Choices
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.