Social entrepreneurship through cultural heritage-CHEER - EN

In this course, we focus on starting a social business in sectors of cultural heritage. But what does that mean? You will learn more about this in the second unit of this course, however, we want to give you a first idea here.

Cultural Heritage can be distinguished in:

• built environment (buildings, townscapes, archaeological remains)

• natural environment (rural landscapes, coasts and shorelines, agricultural heritage)

• artefacts (books & documents, objects, pictures)

Cultural heritage is not only manifested through the tangible forms above, but also through intangible forms, which includes voices, values, traditions, oral history. Popularly this is perceived through cuisine, clothing, forms of shelter, traditional skills and technologies, religious ceremonies, performing arts, storytelling and music.