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For the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, we, together with Hylkema Erfgoed, are evaluating the Conservation Subsidy Scheme for Monuments (Sim). We are investigating to what extent the subsidy scheme aligns with societal challenges and whether the subsidy sufficiently stimulates the sustainable conservation of monuments.
Given that national monuments are sustainably embedded and visible in our society, the care for them is inherently connected to various current discussions and developments that can change the function and/or perspective on 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 Rebuilding Period and post-war residential areas.
The objective of this evaluation is to obtain a consensus within the monument field about the effectiveness and efficiency of the Sim. It also aims to illustrate the impact of changes in the scheme on different target groups.
Interested in learning more about this evaluation? Please contact Frank Bongers.