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On January 9, 2024, Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Krakow signed a cooperation agreement with the Centre of Community Archives in Warsaw. The agreement includes creating a community archive devoted to activism in the area of heritage in Central and Eastern Europe.

We already have ten podcasts about heritage in our catalogue – the premiere is always on the first and third Tuesday of the month. Our two podcast series “Holistic Heritage” and “Ukraine Heritage Spotlight” are available on major streaming platforms. Choose your favorite and listen to our guests.

Listen to the next episode of our ‘Holistic Heritage’ series. In this episode, we invite you to join us for our conversation on the promotion of industrial heritage and how best practices are being shared across the continent.

On December 15, 2023, the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Krakow was a space for discussion on the contemporary dimension of traditional Ukrainian embroidery – vyshyvanka- its special symbolism during the ongoing war with Russia. Dr Lesia Voroniuk, who is creating a vyshyvanka museum in Ukraine, came especially for the meeting from Chernivtsi.

On December 18, 2023, the team of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub visited Centre of Community Archives in Warsaw. The visit aimed to set directions for joint activities in the area of development of community archives.

The head of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków, Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska, was appointed to the Working Group for the Intangible Heritage of Kraków. The group was inaugurated on December 15, 2023, by the Mayor of Kraków, Professor Jacek Majchrowski.

On the occasion of its 60th anniversary Europa Nostra produced a series of podcasts presenting its history, current projects and plans for the future. In this podcast, we peer into the future, outlining priorities for both Europa Nostra and the broader heritage sector in the coming years.

On December 13, 2023, we inaugurated regular meetings of Kraków heritage organisations from the non-governmental sector. Their goal is to get to know each other, network, discuss topics important for civic organisations and joint projects. Thirty-three representatives from twenty-four organisations took part in the first meeting.

Did you know that Europa Nostra was created exactly 60 years ago? At this occasion Europa Nostra produced a series of podcasts presenting its history, current projects and plans for the future.

Listen to the next episode of our ‘Holistic Heritage’ series. In this episode, we meet Professor Andrzej Betlej, Director of the Wawel Royal Castle. He discusses the behind-the-scenes preparations of a blockbuster exhibition ‘Image of the Golden Age’.

Europa Nostra and ALIPH Foundation have strengthened their cooperation to contribute to the protection of cultural heritage in EU neighbouring countries, in the frame of the European Heritage Hub project.

Conversation with Lesia Voroniuk, creator of World Vyshyvanka Day, about vyshyvankas – traditional Ukrainian embroidery – as a weapon and a talisman read from the contemporary perspective of war, struggle and seeking refuge. The conversation will be followed by a panel discussion which will put vyshyvankas in a broader artistic, anthropological and social context.