Cite this as: Butterworth, J. 2026 The EAC at 25: Looking Forward, Internet Archaeology 72. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.72.3
During the European Archaeological Council (EAC)’s 26th Annual Meeting in Gdańsk, Poland, in March 2025, workshops were held to explore four key heritage management priorities identified by members in a survey conducted in Brussels, Belgium, the previous year, namely: the potential of citizen science; the challenge of heritage crime; the role of heritage and archaeology in landscape management processes; and the issues posed by climate change and the need for sector sustainability. The priorities and key points raised in the workshops are reported here, with reflections regarding the future actions that EAC might take to support its members in addressing them.
Corresponding author: Jenni Butterworth
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European Archaeological Council
Figure 1: Word cloud derived from the 2024 Brussels survey. © European Archaeological Council.
Figure 2: The 2025 workshops held at the Artus Court, Museum of Gdańsk, Poland. © Tobiasz Bułynko, National Institute of Cultural Heritage, Poland.
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