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Heritage Voices: Joanna Ślaga on academic heritage

What are the most pressing issues in the heritage sector today? Who are the key players in this field? Which concerns are causing the greatest worries? In our new series ”Heritage Voices”, we discuss hot topics on the heritage map with influential figures from this discipline — practitioners and theorists alike! In the inaugural interview, Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska, head of Europe Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków, talks with Dr Joanna Ślaga, Deputy Director for Research and Strategy at the Jagiellonian University Museum – Collegium Maius in Kraków, about academic heritage — a field that is only now beginning to gain proper recognition in heritage studies.

Launch of the Kraków Heritage Forum activity report

The Kraków Heritage Forum is a unique initiative providing a space for dialogue, experience sharing, and collaboration among NGOs, informal groups, and activists working on the cultural heritage of Kraków. Launched in December 2023 as part of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub project, the meetings aim to support the social, ecological, and digital transformations in the protection and promotion of the city’s heritage.

Kraków Hub lends its voice to the heritage!

In the latest, 19th episode of “Holistic Heritage”, we invite you to listen to conversations with members of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub team in Kraków, and to look back at the early years of this inspiring place and its most important initiatives. The podcast hosts are John Beauchamp and Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Head of the Kraków Hub. Also featured are Deputy Head Dr Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga and Łukasz Pieróg, Promotion and Communications Specialist.

We have mapped the NGO heritage sector in Central and Eastern Europe: What next?

On Monday 30 June 2025 an international webinar took place focusing on mapping the non-governmental sector involved in cultural heritage across Central and Eastern Europe. During the event, the pioneering results of a study were presented, published in the report titled “Mapping of the Central and Eastern European Non-Governmental Heritage Sector”. The event, attended by a diverse group of experts—including scholars, practitioner-experts, as well as representatives of NGOs and European institutions—provided an excellent platform for exchanging experiences, reflections, and setting future directions for the NGO sector working in the field of cultural heritage.

Civic energy powering heritage in Kraków

In the 18th episode of our “Holistic Heritage” podcast, we speak with selected expert practitioners who manage cultural heritage in Kraków — an exceptional Polish city where care for the past is engrained in the DNA of its residents! What makes Kraków so unique in the creation and implementation of projects related to both tangible and intangible heritage? How do grassroots cultural initiatives in Kraków, where competition for free time is fierce, succeed?

Heritage Hour: Mapping NGOs across the CEE region

In our new Heritage Hour series, we turn our attention to a pioneering report “Mapping of the Central and Eastern European non-governmental heritage sector”, published in June 2025 by researchers from the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków in collaboration with the Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation in Warsaw. The report indicates that approximately 33,500 NGOs are engaged in heritage work operate across the Central and Eastern Europe region. However, their operating conditions leave much to be desired — main challenges include financial instability, lack of operational stability, and burnout.

WEBINAR ON THE NGO HERITAGE SECTOR IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE

We invite you on 30th June 2025 at 11:00 AM to participate in an international webinar on the non-governmental heritage sector in Central and Eastern Europe. During the meeting, which will be attended by heritage experts, the results of a project mapping this sector will be presented in a pioneering report entitled “Mapping of the Central and Eastern European non-governmental heritage sector: Report”.

Launch of the report ‘‘Mapping of the Central and Eastern European non-governmental heritage sector’’

With great pride and joy, after two years of in-depth research, we’re thrilled to present the publication of our 200-page report: “Mapping of the Central and Eastern European non-governmental heritage sector”!