The Work Package 2 of our network project European Cultural Heritage Agora (2022-2024), entitled Networking of Organisations and Individuals throughout Europe and beyond, intends to facilitate the networking and exchanges of best practices in the heritage field. It also aims at enhancing synergies between existing projects/programmes and creating new cooperation opportunities with public and/or private partners.
The activities have actively involved – through physical or online participation – members of the Europa Nostra’s network (organisations and individuals) but also non-members (stakeholders, policy-makers and citizens, including harder-to-reach audiences) both within and beyond Europe.
European Cultural Heritage Summits
Organised by Europa Nostra, the European Cultural Heritage Summit is Europe’s top heritage “rendez-vous” gathering representatives from the large heritage community from across Europe and beyond. During the Summits, we have mobilised Europe’s heritage ecosystem to jointly act for a more peaceful, beautiful and sustainable future. In the face of so many pressing challenges, including the deplorable invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which Europa Nostra firmly condemns, we are ever more convinced of the urgent need to place Europe’s common values and shared cultural heritage at the very heart of our democracies and of what brings us together.
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Our Executive President, Hermann Parzinger, called for greater involvement of heritage in the political space 💬 “#CulturalHeritage is often over-looked, considered idealistic, unachievable, utopian. But the reality is, #culture matters to us all” #EuropeanHeritageSummit pic.twitter.com/ixB1LyrOe2
— Europa Nostra (@europanostra) September 29, 2023
Sub-networks for heritage
This activity shall support the further development of sub-networks dedicated to young heritage professionals and students, to women in the heritage field and to heritage stakeholders from the Western Balkans, Latin America as well as the Mediterranean (with possible outreach towards Africa), as a way to further enhance the inclusiveness and diversity of Europa Nostra’s network.
#Youth4Heritage
Coordination of the #Youth4Heritage network and organisation of annual thematic events.
2022 Event: News
2023 Event: News
🔛 Starting now: Webinar on #heritage for peace & reconciliation. Did you register? Make sure to check your inbox for the link to join 📩
We have 40 experts with us for what promises to be an engaging & inspiring session. Stay tuned! 👏 #Youth4Heritage https://t.co/mBXx0s2YZv pic.twitter.com/qjTWPcSfgx
— Europa Nostra (@europanostra) November 16, 2023
#Women4Heritage
Coordination of the #Women4Heritage network and organisation of annual thematic events on the occasion of Women’s Day on 8 March.
2022 Event: News
2023 Event: News
2024 Event: News
🙏 Thank you for an engaging & inspiring exchange. Only through inclusive & collective action we can forge a sustainable future for generations to come 👥🌿 Would you like to be part of this movement? Join our #Women4Heritage network on Linkedin 👉https://t.co/lPHDLjyW2b pic.twitter.com/ljr8xTSVuo
— Europa Nostra (@europanostra) March 8, 2024
#World4Heritage
In the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has put cultural heritage under severe threat, the #World4Heritage network aims at bringing civil society organisations together to help Ukraine in this difficult moment.
2022 Event: News
2023 Event: News
The expected outcome of this Work Package is the further consolidation and empowerment of a forceful and united civil society movement for cultural heritage across Europe and beyond, as the most representative voice towards decision-makers at all levels.