Emerging Issues, Opportunities and Threats and How to Deal with Them

The introduction argued that there is a lack of reflection regarding the links between mega-event planning and heritage policy, both in literature as well as in public and policy debates. Given the explorative nature of our work across European cities, this concluding chapter must be, first of all, seen in its intent of generating further discussion and research regarding this precise connection. As the HOMEE project works to spark such debates and harness them to develop and promote informed policy making in Europe and beyond, the inevitable limits of the following reflection should be interpreted as a spur to engage with further and better work in this direction, within as well as outside this specific research project.