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A situation which, however, pushed the FWB to react, in December 2022. A subsidy was then granted exceptionally to operators who do not benefit from automatic indexing (including private archive centers), in order to help the sector face to the difficulties linked to the rise in energy costs.
If this subsidy was a breath of fresh air, it nonetheless remains a one-off aid, which does not guarantee in the long term the financing necessary for the operation of private archives centers. An observation that worries Sarah Lessire: “Archivists often wear different hats and must reinvent themselves every day to cope with this difficult financial situation.“. Micheline Zanatta also agrees: “It’s true that staff are often put in all sorts of situations“.
In 2024, the centers’ subsidy will fall back to its previous amount, without any further consideration of the exceptional indexations of recent years.
“We are calling on the minister for one-off assistance 600,000 euros for this year 2024, which risks being complicated“, details Sarah Lessire. A figure slightly higher than the amount of salary indexations since 2019.
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