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For the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, we are evaluating, together with Hylkema Erfgoed, the Subsidy Scheme for Monument Conservation (Sim). We are assessing to what extent the subsidy scheme aligns with societal challenges and whether the subsidy sufficiently stimulates the sustainable conservation of monuments.
As national monuments are sustainably embedded and visible in our society, the care for them is inseparable from various current discussions and developments that may change the function and/or perspective of monuments. Categories of monuments that we now consider obvious were not so in the past, such as industrial heritage, cemeteries, healthcare heritage, and new categories like monuments from the Reconstruction period and post-war residential areas.
The objective of this evaluation is to obtain a shared view within the monument sector on the effectiveness and efficiency of the Sim. It also aims to provide insights into how changes in the scheme have affected different target groups.
Want to learn more about this evaluation? Please contact Frank Bongers.