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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.