The EUROPA NOSTRA Annual Congress 2007 will take place from Tuesday 5 June until Friday 8 June in Stockholm, Sweden.

Part of the programme of this year's Annual Congress is the European Awards Ceremony for the annual EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, to be held in the magnificent Stockholm City Hall.
The Ceremony will be followed by the Closing Dinner, which will be the occasion to pay tribute and thank most sincerely our retiring President, HRH the Prince Consort of Denmark, for his 17 years of dedicated commitment to Europa Nostra and its action for the protection and enhancement of heritage throughout Europe. It will also be the opportunity to most warmly welcome his successor.

Visit the special StockholmCongress website for more information.

As part of this year's Annual Congress, on Thursday 7 June, Europa Nostra, in cooperation with the Swedish Association of Architects and DOCOMOMO International, will organise the Forum "Add Modernism!".

The aim of the Forum is to raise awareness among the general public, but also among decision-makers, of the contribution of 20th century modernism to Europe 's cultural heritage. The Forum will therefore be primarily policy and action orientated and will present to the participants the fundamental arguments for considering modernism as an integral part of Europe's cultural heritage. The arguments will be either focusing on the cultural “raison d’être” of modernism and its contributions to the European culture, or on more technical and functional aspects of the conservation of modernist buildings and sites.

At the end of the Forum, Europa Nostra will present a declaration on the importance of adding the modernist cultural heritage to the "conservation agenda" at local, national and European level.

The Forum "Add Modernism!" will be preceded by a Panel Discussion on Swedish Heritage, with representatives of main Swedish Heritage NGOs. The Panel Discussion will be honoured by the presence of Their Majesties the King and the Queen of Sweden, and of HRH Princess Madeleine, Patron of Europa Nostra Sweden.

The Panel Discussion and the Forum will take place in the Auditorium of the Moderna Museet, located on Skeppsholmen.

Compulsory registration before 15 May 2007.

See the ForumProgramme for more information,

or contact

Mr Sander van der Ven, Information Officer
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