Culture Strategy 2025

The Culture Strategy 2025 is a national sectoral strategy of Georgia. Its main objective is as follows: Georgia is a creative country and regional hub where innovation and creativity, along with safeguarding and revitalising national heritage and cultural diversity are the fundamental pillars of social wellbeing and sustainable development.
Among others, the Strategy provides to develop legislative initiatives, identify artisans, create an integrated public electronic database, develop crafts studios, encourage corresponding publications and support the participation in exhibitions and fairs in order to develop the Georgian traditional craftsmanship and contribute to its integration into the international market; to support the development of sustainable entrepreneurship by studying historical Georgian crafts and by employing the resources of the existing and forgotten traditions; to support the realisation of training programmes for artisans (marketing, copyright protection, etc.) and the development of distribution networks, in order to ensure the production and sale of high quality products; to introduce a synchronised policy of spatial planning and cultural heritage protection - consider the principles of integrated conservation and energy efficiency; create environmentally-friendly architecture and apply new technologies; to preserve, develop and promote historically developed entrepreneurial clusters and business activities associated with specific urban spaces (e.g. trade of products of traditional craftsmanship); and to promote and exploit the economic potential of cultural resources (e.g. intangible, tangible and natural heritage, exhibitions, concerts, festivals, traditional holidays, etc.) in terms of encouraging sustainable development of tourism, use this potential to create unique, authentic and internationally competitive touristic experience.