Common use of Community added value and contribution to EU policies Clause in Contracts

Community added value and contribution to EU policies. In view of the large degree of dispersion of pieces of art within Europe and the highly fragmented knowledge and management of the collections, REGNET offers the services to create a global view based on a contextual and thematic approach. Further more the high level of accessibility combined with various levels of consultation of the information will suit the requirements of the occasional visitor, educational institutions and scientists/researchers. The different views of the same information will range from a quick referential search towards educational purposes. The easy access and availability of this global information will boost the cross-cultural knowledge within European regions and stimulate Europeans to visit the objects in situ they discovered via the REGNET-service. This will substantially increase the culture stimuli of the citizen and at the same time contribute to a multicultural and more European awareness and feeling. REGNET intends to reach some basic aims: • The dissemination of the European Culture Heritage facilitating to European citizens the access to catalogues of intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage stored in archives, libraries and museums and galleries • Integration of e-business into the information systems used in Cultural Institutions • The development of new and exploitation of existing cultural infrastructures • The use of standards in the field of information structure, retrieval and e-business • The interoperability between systems (interoperable access to distributed resources/catalogues: cultural & scientific content and products & services) based on the complementarities of the capabilities of each partner (group). • The establishment of a service infrastructure which allows to develop a network of (cultural) service centres throughout Europe. Besides the relevance to EC policies in the area of science and research some initiatives are mentioned in the attachment: 1. eEurope - An Information Society For All". 2. Draft Recommendation No. R(98) ... on cultural work within the information society - New professional profiles and competencies for information professionals and knowledge workers operating in cultural industries and institutions". 3. Structural Funds (EFRE) 4. Culture 2000