The European Cultural Heritage Summit 2023 takes place in Venice from September 27 to 30. The event is organized by Europa Nostra which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.
Office hours at our headquarters (ul. Św. Jana 12) on September 21. exceptionally, are canceled.
The deadline to submit a nomination to the 7 Most Endangered Programme was extended. The new deadline is 30 September.
On September 7, 2023, the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Krakow celebrated its second year of functioning with a symbolic inauguration.
On September 7, 2023, the spectacular conservation of the Veit Stoss Altarpiece in St. Mary’s Basilica in Krakow received the European Heritage Award | Europa Nostra Award 2023 – the most important European award in the field of cultural and natural heritage.
The Europa Nostra Heritage Hub for Central and Eastern Europe in Kraków, invites you to two online panel discussions, which will address key issues of current heritage international agenda, having the civil society – the soul of Europa Nostra activities – in their core. The live streaming will take place on Thursday, September 7 and will be available via our YouTube channel.
The premiere of the film and a conversation in the Play Krakow TV studio as part of the Play Culture series about the Conservation of the Wit Stwosz Altarpiece in St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków awarded this year’s European Heritage Award | Europa Nostra Award.
ICOM-ICME International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography invites for ICME 2023 Annual Conference “Museums and Change: Transforming Our Institutions for the Future”, which has been organised in collaboration with the Néprajzi Múzeum – Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, from 03-07 December 2023. The Call for Papers is open until 15th of September.
The year 2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the inscription of the Historic Centre of Krakow on the UNESCO World Heritage List. To mark the occasion, the City of Krakow has launched the Krakow Heritage website, which comprehensively presents the city’s heritage phenomena and introduces the forms of its protection.
If you know of important heritage in Europe that is endangered, nominate it for the 2024 edition of the 7 Most Endangered programme. Submit a nomination by 15 September 2023.
Cultural heritage experts, professionals, practitioners, volunteers, public and private institutions, organizations, and local communities now have a new chance to win Europe’s most prestigious awards in the field!
On June 29, 2023, UNESCO Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit organised a debate devoted to the presentation of the results of the project “Supporting the resilience of Ukrainian school children through enhancing awareness of their living heritage”.
Elżbieta Szumska, the owner of the Gold Mine in Złoty Stok (Poland), received a commemorative plaque accompanying the European Heritage Award | Europa Nostra Award for 2022 in the category of Masters of Heritage.
Voting is now open for the Public Choice Award at the European Heritage Awards | Europa Nostra Awards 2023, the EU prize for cultural heritage funded by the Creative Europe programme! This year, 6 projects from Central and Eastern Europe were awarded in three categories.
Europa Nostra Heritage Hub for Central and Eastern Europe in Krakow was among the experts and organizations invited to participate in the work of the European Commission expert sub-group on safeguarding cultural heritage in Ukraine. Kraków Heritage Hub is represented by Professor Jacek Purchla, vice-president of Europa Nostra.
On June 13, 2023, European Commission and Europa Nostra announced this year’s winners of the European Heritage Awards | Europa Nostra Awards. Among 30 heritage achievements from 21 countries there are 6 winning projects from Central and Eastern Europe.
The European Commission and Europa Nostra have announced today the winners of the European Heritage Awards | Europa Nostra Awards 2023. This year, 30 outstanding heritage achievements from 21 countries have been awarded Europe’s top honour in the field. Among this year’s winners was the Wit Stwosz Altarpiece in St. Mary’s Basilica in Krakow.
Department of History and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (EUI) invite to a lecture by Virág Molnár (New School for Social Research, New York) titled „From home to the homeland: Heritage tourism without borders. State-sponsored heritage tourism: the case of Hungary”, which will take place on June 9, 2023.
UNESCO’s latest pilot project “Teaching and Learning with Living Heritage in Ukraine” seeks to enhance awareness of living heritage among Ukrainian school children by developing a resource kit for school teachers on how to integrate living heritage in school-based education in Ukraine. It demonstrates the role culture can play in recovery and reinforcement of cultural diversity in emergency contexts.
The Council of Europe is organising, in the framework of the Latvian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Culture of Latvia, an International Conference entitled “The Nicosia Convention: a criminal justice response to offenses relating to cultural property”, which will take place in Riga, Latvia, on 15–16 June 2023.
On 18–19, May 2023 representatives of Europa Nostra and Europa Nostra Heritage Hub for Central and Eastern Europe in Kraków participated in a high-profile international conference, “Cultural Heritage Crime: In Wartime and Beyond”. The conference was organised by The European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) Ukraine in Lviv.
World Vyshyvanka Day is an international holiday dedicated to preserving the iconic Ukrainian embroidered shirt (known as “vyshyvanka”) as a symbol of the material and spiritual heritage of the Ukrainian people. Every year on the third Thursday in May, Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine from more than 100 countries wear vyshyvanka in celebration of this heritage. The World Vyshyvanka Day received European Heritage Award | Europa Nostra Award 2022 what expanded its impact in Europe.
We are pleased to inform you that we are starting enduring office hours from today. We cordially invite you every Thursday from 10.00-14.00 to the headquarters of the Society of Friends of Kraków History and Heritage [Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa] – a historic tenement house kamienica Krauzowska – at ul. Św. Jana 12 in the heart of Krakow, 1st floor, Representative Room.
On May 9-11, 2023 the first meeting of the partners of the large international project European Heritage Hub is taking place in Brussels. The project is implemented by a consortium of European organisations and institutions dealing with cultural policies, cultural heritage management, advocacy for culture and heritage, digitisation, education and promotion of heritage. Within this project Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Krakow will carry out a pilot mapping of the non-governmental sector of cultural heritage in Central and Eastern Europe.
The new Käte Hamburger Kolleg Centre for Advanced Study inHerit. Heritage in Transformation, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, invites applications for fellowships to begin in 2024.
The Organising Committee of the International Congress of Belarusian Studies is pleased to announce the Call for papers for the 11th Congress, which in 2023 will take place in Gdańsk, on September 22–24. The Congress will address 14 research areas, including all major social and humanistic disciplines. One of the thematic panels will be devoted to historical and cultural heritage.
Preserving Jewish Cemeteries Project organise a photography competition for university students studying at university or college in Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. Winners will receive up to €1.000 in camera/video equipment and have their work shown in prestigious venues and online.
The International Visegrad Fund (IVF) and the European University Institute (EUI) offer grants to post-graduate scholars from Central and Eastern Europe interested in European integration to conduct research at the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU). Successful applicants will receive a research grant of 5.000 € to cover all research expenses. The grant programme application deadline is 30 April 2023. Candidates may apply through the HAEU’s online application form.
Europa Nostra and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute announced this year’s list of the 7 Most Endangered monuments and heritage sites in Europe. 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of this innovative programme. The Memento Park in Budapest is among The 7 Most Endangered sites for 2023.
The Forum is organised by the Romanian Order of Architects, Europa Nostra and Asociația Prin Banat in cooperation with the Timișoara Municipality, the Timiș County Council. The sessions will be dedicated to a Masterclass on Diversity and Inclusion in the cultural heritage field and to contemporary issues facing built heritage in historic town centres. The Forum is part of the official programme of the European Capital of Culture Timișoara 2023.
The 7 Most Endangered programme is Europa Nostra’s flagship programme. It mobilises public and private partners on a local, national and European level to find a viable future for threatened monuments and sites in Europe. It offers more visibility, generates additional attention and media coverage.
Europa Nostra and a group of relevant partners, including the Europeana Foundation, Eurocities, ICLEI, KU Leuven and Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Krakow, have been selected for EU funding for the implementation of a pilot project establishing a European Heritage Hub.
Charter for Mega-events in Heritage-rich Cities is a set of recommendations for cities planning to organize large events in historic cities. It was created as part of the international research project HOMEE – Heritage Opportunities/threats within Mega-Events in Europe 2018-2021 and it is the result of extensive desk research, Living Lab workshops and a number of case studies. Its provisions were verified during validation workshops by experts and practitioners.
Annual Policy Conversation 2023. Wtorek, 28 lutego 2023, 15:00-18:00, BOZAR, Bruksela
Watch our first on-site discussion Jacek Purchla and Robert Piaskowski talking about problems and solutions for historic cities
Watch our first on-site discussion Project awarded with the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022