The Mutual Cultural Heritage Programme (MCH Programme) was officially launched on the 1st of January 2009. This programme, which is an initiative of and financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is aimed at maintaining mutual cultural heritage and making it accessible, and thus making the mutual past tangible.
Policy Framework
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have together drawn up a Policy Framework for the MCH Programme 2009-2012. This policy framework is intended to formulate the ambitions regarding MCH and to set down a structure for realising these ambitions.
Partners
The Dutch government has defined India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Ghana, Brazil, and Suriname as well as Russia as the priority countries, and is working closely with these countries during the MCH programme.
A heritage-wide delegation consisting of the Cultural Heritage Agency, the Nationaal Archief and the Netherlands Institute for Heritage is carrying out the programme in cooperation with the priority countries and the Dutch embassies in these countries.
Project proposals
Proposals for Mutual Cultural Heritage-projects can be submitted with the Dutch Ambassy of the MCH-country in question.
Use the format for a MCH-project proposal and the criteria for receiving a project allowance.
Newsletter
Four times a year the MCH-programme issues a digital MCH Newsletter.
