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Watch our first on-site discussion Jacek Purchla and Robert Piaskowski talking about problems and solutions for historic cities.

The European Heritage Hub is one of the largest cultural heritage-driven projects across Europe to support the green, social and digital transformation of our society. The latest podcast talks about the background, assumptions and importance of this project for the whole of Europe.

Watch our first on-site discussion Project awarded with the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022

On March 5, 2024, we initiated Citizens’ Heritage Forum on tour. At the invitation of the Marshal’s Office of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, the team of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub presented projects realised by Europa Nostra and carried out a workshop for non-governmental organisations operating in the region.

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.

20 lutego 2024 r. odbyło się pierwsze posiedzenie Rady Doradczej międzynarodowego projektu European Heritage Hub [Europejskiego Huba Dziedzictwa], którego jako regionalne centrum Europa Nostra jesteśmy partnerem. Jednym z członków Rady jest profesor Jacek Purchla, wiceprezes Europa Nostra i prezes Towarzystwa Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, operatora krakowskiego Huba.

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.

On February 28, 2024, the third Kraków Heritage Forum took place – a meeting of Kraków non-governmental heritage organisations. Nineteen people from sixteen organisations and representatives of the Kraków Municipality took part in the meeting. The topic of Kraków’s intangible heritage, initiated during the second Forum, was continued in the workshop formula.

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.

We launch the fourth podcast in the “Ukraine Heritage Spotlight” series, in which we raise important issues regarding the heritage situation in Ukraine. In this episode, we talk to Professor Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi, who heads the UNESCO Desk in Ukraine.

The Council of Europe, 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, is organising an International Conference “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.