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Culture for co-creative Partnerships

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The Work Package 5 of the network project Europa Nostra Heritage Agora (2025-2028), entitled Culture for co-creative Partnerships, intends to build on Europa Nostra’s leading role in mobilising the heritage sector and civil society in Europe. It builds on the policy opportunities offered by Work Package 2 – Artists and Cultural Professionals and makes links with Work Package 3 – Culture for the People and Work Package 4 – Culture for the Planet. It engages Europa Nostra’s network to pass on its knowledge and to lead to new, innovative and creative partnerships with heritage and non-heritage stakeholders alike.

 

European Heritage Masterclasses

 
The yearly European Heritage Masterclasses have gained reputation as an effective and active training programme. These hybrid masterclasses focus on the role of heritage as a vector to foster international cultural relations, democracy, peace and intercultural dialogue. Special attention will be paid to both candidate countries for membership of the European Union and to neighbouring countries of the EU. These small-scale workshops are organised in conjunction with other activities of the project and in cooperation with relevant public and/or private partners. The selection of participants ensures gender, intergenerational and geographical balance and representativeness within the groups.

The European Heritage Masterclass 2025 on International and Cultural Relations encompasses 13 lessons given by Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger, Archaeologist, Historian and Cultural Heritage Expert, who was the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), one of the world’s largest cultural institutions, from 2008 to 2025, and who is the Executive President of Europa Nostra. The masterclass was filmed in Amsterdam on 9-10 December. The 13 short videos of the European Heritage Masterclass 2025 will be published on this webpage at the beginning of 2026.

   

Campaigns for Heritage

 
Since its founding, Europa Nostra has deployed and supported campaigns to safeguard endangered heritage throughout Europe. Our shared cultural heritage is under growing threat: from disasters caused by natural and human-induced hazards to the impacts of climate-change, conflict, neglect, poorly planned development, violation of the rule of law and lack of funding. The activities of this Work Package focus on relevant endangered heritage sites – both in and outside Europe – that are not already covered by the 7 Most Endangered Programme.

  • In response to the destruction of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, Europa Nostra strongly supported the creation of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Fund, in a statement published on 19 June 2025, on the eve of an expert meeting in Florence. Over 1,400 heritage sites have already been devastated by Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Fund is a crucial step in protecting, restoring, and rehabilitating Ukraine’s cultural legacy, which forms part of Europe’s shared heritage, and should become a key instrument of the country’s lasting recovery and resilience.

 

 


 

Partnerships for Heritage

 
Europa Nostra has established transformative partnerships with other European or international organisations to promote the mainstreaming of heritage policies and encourage the safeguarding of tangible and intangible heritage in Europe and beyond.

With the aim of addressing the need for a heritage- and culture-led transformation of our society, our economy and our environment, Europa Nostra will continue to work with its partners (including the European Heritage Alliance and its individual members) on new innovative activities, and enter into new creative partnerships with civil society organisations. Attention will also be paid to intangible heritage, notably the music sector.

 

  • In 2025 a new partnership was established with the European Union Prize for Literature, which recognises emerging European literary authors, and is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU. As part of a joint venture, six previously listed 7 Most Endangered sites will be paired with awarded authors from the same country to create short social media videos that tell a personal story while drawing attention to the endangered heritage associated with each site. A total of six videos are planned to be produced by July 2026.

 

The expected outcome of this Work Package is the emergence of a more transdisciplinary, transnational and cooperative stakeholder engagement strategy across Europe and beyond. Through new and reinforced partnerships, capacity building models, and cross border campaigns to safeguard endangered heritage, the Agora project will also contribute to increased democratic engagement in the heritage and culture sectors, and a more robust participation by stakeholders both inside and outside the EU.

 

Agora Outcomes

 

EIB Institute The A.G. Leventis Foundation ANBI