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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, 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.

On 18–19, May 2023 representatives of Europa Nostra and Krakow Heritage Hub participated in a high-profile international conference, “Cultural Heritage Crime: In Wartime and Beyond”. The conference was organised by The EU Advisory Mission 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.