Piet Jaspaert, Board member

Louise van Rijckevorsel, Brussels office

Pomorskie Regional EU Office Brussels, 27 February 2013

EUROPA NOSTRA

The Voice of Cultural Heritage in Europe

Who we are

Europa Nostra represents:

• 250 non-governmental organisations

with a total membership of over 6 million citizens

• 150 associate organisations

• 1500 individual members

from almost 50 countries in Europe and beyond

As such, it has become:

The Voice of Cultural Heritage in Europe

Who we are

Governance

• President: Maestro Plácido Domingo

• General Assembly

• Council

• Board

• Scientific Council

• Special Committees and Working groups

Who we are

Our President, Maestro Plácido Domingo

Designated in 2012 as “UNESCO Artist for Peace”

Member Organisations in Poland

• Patria Polonorum

• Society of Friends of History and Monuments

of Krakow

• Scientific Society of Polish Archaeologists

• Towarzystwo Przyjacio_Warszawy –

Society of Friends of Warsaw

Associate Organisations in Poland

• International Cultural Centre

• Zespol Palacowy Kurozweki

Who we are

Country Representations in 16 countries

Europa Nostra Austria Italia Nostra

Europa Nostra Belgium Europa Nostra Norway

Europa Nostra Danmark Centro National de Cultura (Portugal)

Europa Nostra Estonia Europa Nostra Serbia

Europa Nostra Finland Hispania Nostra

Europa Nostra France Europa Nostra Sweden

Europa Nostra Deutschland Europa Nostra Turkey

Elliniki Etairia (Greece) Europa Nostra UK

Finances

Annual Budget = cc. 1.000.000 Euro

Main sources of income:

a) Membership fees and donations

b) EC grants (Awards + Core Support)

c) Specific Project Funding (e.g. Annual Congress)

What we do

• Heritage Lobby in Europe

• Saving Endangered Heritage

• European Heritage Awards

• Pan-European Network

• Partnerships

1. Heritage Lobby in Europe

• Europa Nostra Brussels Office

• European Heritage Alliance 3.3

• Creative Europe Programme

• Research Joint Programme Initiative on Cultural Heritage

• EU Horizon 2020 Programme

• EU Cohesion Policy Programme

• European Heritage Label Scheme

• European Heritage Days

Europa Nostra Brussels Office

Wall plaque outside Europa Nostra’s Liaison Office at 67, Rue de Trèves

European Heritage Alliance 3.3

“[The European Union] shall respect its rich cultural

and linguistic diversity, and shall ensure that

Europe’s cultural heritage is safeguarded and

enhanced.”

Article 3.3 of the Lisbon Treaty of the European Union

European Heritage Alliance 3.3

“Towards and EU Strategy for Cultural Heritage – a Case for Research”

“It is the first time Europe’s major heritage organisations have all agreed

to work together to promote the untapped potential of Europe’s cultural

heritage – responding to an urgent need to obtain explicit recognition

within EU policy priorities of the crucial contribution cultural and natural

heritage can and does make to realising Europe’s potential,

economically, environmentally, socially and indeed culturally…

European Heritage Alliance 3.3

“Towards and EU Strategy for Cultural Heritage – a Case for Research”

…We take our name in part from the Lisbon Treaty of the European

Union which stipulates in Article 3.3 that the Union ‘shall respect its rich

cultural and linguistic diversity and shall ensure that Europe’s cultural

heritage is safeguarded and enhanced’.

This is a key reference point for the European Heritage Alliance 3.3 and

our networks and organisations are committed to working together to

support the European Union implement article 3.3 of the treaty. Article

3.3 therefore, together with article 167 of the Treaty on the functioning of

European Union, forms the bases of our work in developing an EU

strategy for cultural heritage.”

Creative Europe Programme

Europa Nostra Council adopted the position paper on the proposed

“Creative Europe Programme” at its last meeting, on 30 May in Lisbon.

The Commission proposal is now under discussion by the Council of

EU Ministers and the European Parliament

Research Joint Programme Initiative on Cultural Heritage

John Sell, Europa Nostra Executive Vice-President, was appointed as

the Europa Nostra representative at the Advisory Board of the

Research Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) “Cultural Heritage and

Global Change: a new challenge for Europe”.

Europa Nostra paper on Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is the future EU Framework Programme for Research and

Innovation 2014-2020 proposed by the European Commission on 30

November 2011. The Europa Nostra Council adopted its position paper on

the proposed programme at its last meeting on 30 May 2012 in Lisbon.

EU Cohesion Policy 2014 - 2020

European Heritage Label Scheme

The European Heritage Label is a scheme to highlight heritage

sites that celebrate and symbolise European integration, ideals

and history. It was launched in 2006 as a way to bridge the gap

between the EU and its citizens by improving knowledge of

European history and the role and values of the EU. It is an

European Union action since November 2011.

European Heritage Days

2. Saving Europe’s Endangered Heritage

• “The 7 Most Endangered” programme

• Europa Nostra campaigns to save Europe’s

endangered heritage

“The 7 Most Endangered” programme

Europa Nostra new flagship programme

« The 7 Most Endangered »

launched on 24 January 2013

with the European Investment Bank Group

“The 7 Most Endangered” programme

DEADLINE for nominations: 15 MARCH 2013

First list of « The 7 Most Endangered » announced on 16 June 2013 in Athens

Europa Nostra campaigns to save Europe’s endangered heritage

• Sant’Ambrogio underground Car Park, Milan, Italy

• Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France

• Rosia Montana, Transylvania, Romania

• Kosovo – EN mission (August 2011)

• Call to save the old city of Famagusta, Cyprus

• Historic Skyline of Istanbul

• Allianoi Campaign, Turkey

Sant’ Ambrogio underground Car Park, Milan, Italy

Sant’ Ambrogio underground Car Park, Milan, Italy

Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France

Historic Skyline of Istanbul, Turkey

“The choice of a suspension bridge with tall pylons is a misfortune

for the historic city. It will impair the historic town forever, if there is

no intervention to change the project.”

Prof. Nuran Zeren Gülersoy, Europa Nostra Turkey

Rosia Montana, Transylvania, Romania

Kosovo – EN mission (August 2011)

Water pump station at the entrance to the Patriarchate of Pec

Call to save the old city of Famagusta, Cyprus

Allianoi, Turkey - Yesterday

Allianoi, Turkey - Today

Allianoi Campaign

“…I wish to extend a personal appeal to you to reconsider the decision

to flood the unique Roman Spa settlement of Allianoi and thus to

prevent such a cultural tragedy from happening.

We are numerous who strongly believe that saving the ancient site of

Allianoi would bring lasting and sustainable benefits to the local

population in Turkey. (…) saving this ancient treasure would enrich us

all, the people of Turkey as well as the other Europeans, for generations

to come. Moreover, instead of disappearing under the water, a site of

such archaeological importance like Allianoi can become a powerful

asset for a sustainable local tourist development, with the creation of

many new jobs..”

Plácido Domingo, President of Europa Nostra

Letter to H.E. Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey

4 January 2011

3. European Heritage Awards

Promoting the Power of Example

European Heritage Awards

• The Europa Nostra Awards started in 1978

• Supported by the European Commission in the framework of the

Culture Programme since 2002

Twofold Aim:

1. To promote high standards and quality skills of

conservation practice and stimulate trans-frontier

exchanges in the heritage field;

2. To encourage further exemplary initiatives in favour of

heritage throughout Europe.

European Heritage Awards

Divided in four categories:

- Category 1: Conservation

- Category 2: Research

- Category 3: Dedicated Service

- Category 4: Education, Training and Awareness-raising

European Heritage Awards

Category 1 – Conservation - Grand Prix 2010

The Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany

European Heritage Awards

Category 1 – Conservation - Award 2011

The Blue Lamb Granary, Gdansk

European Heritage Awards

Category 1 – Conservation - Medal 2006

Biskupin Archaeological Museum

European Heritage Awards

Category 1 – Architectural Heritage - Diploma 2003

Old Paper Mill Complex, Warsaw

European Heritage Awards

Category 1 – Collection of works of arts - Diploma 2002

Collection of Grave Gowns, Lublin

European Heritage Awards

The Letters Project –

Vincent van Gogh’s Letters, Amsterdam, NL

Category 2 – Research - Grand Prix 2010

European Heritage Awards

The Old Workers' of Upper Silesia Estates

Category 2 – Research – Prize 2002

European Heritage Awards

Szymon Modrzejewski, Nowica

Category 3 – Dedicated Service – Grand Prix 2011

European Heritage Awards

Archaeologist Ewa Kawalek, Olszewo Borki

Category 3 – Dedicated Service – Medal 2003

European Heritage Awards

Category 4 – Education, Training and Awareness Raising – Grand Prix 2012

Improve a Heritage Site – Norwegian Heritage Foundation

European Heritage Awards

2012 Awards Ceremony held in Jerónimos Monastery (WHS), Portugal

European Heritage Awards

2012 Heritage Awards Ceremony – Winner of the Public Choice Award

4. Pan-European Network

• European Heritage Congress 2010 in Istanbul

• European Heritage Congress 2011 in Amsterdam

• European Heritage Congress 2012 in Lisbon

• 50th anniversary Congress 2013 in Athens

European Heritage Congress 2012 in Lisbon

• European Heritage Awards Ceremony 2012

• 10th Anniversary of partnership with the European Union in the

organisation of the Awards Scheme

• 40th Anniversary of UNESCO World Heritage Convention

• Cooperation with the Gulbenkian Foundation and organisation

of a Forum on saving Europe’s endangered heritage

• Europa Nostra General Assembly

• Post-congress tour in Northern Portugal

European Heritage Congress 2012 in Lisbon

2013: Europa Nostra’s 50th anniversary

Main Components

• Two key events in Athens and Brussels;

• Series of events throughout the year in cooperation with Country

Representations / Member Organisations

• Series of events organised by the Country Representations /

Member Organisations with the use of the Golden Jubilee Logo

• Communication activities

• Membership recruitment campaign

• Fund-raising campaign

Golden Jubilee 2013

1. Golden Jubilee Congress in

Athens, June 2013

2. European Policy Conference on

Cultural Heritage in Brussels,

Autumn 2013

Golden Jubilee 2013

Events co-organised by EN International Secretariat and

Member Organisations / Country Representations

• January – The Hague: Dutch network

• March – Venice: Italia Nostra

• April – London: Europa Nostra UK

• May – Valletta: Din l-Art Helwa

• August – Verona: FAI

• September – Dubrovnik: “The Best in Heritage”

• November – Cologne: German network

• November – Paris: French network

• December – Amsterdam: Dutch network

5. Partnerships

• UNESCO

• International National Trusts Organisation

• The Best in Heritage

• Wiki Loves Monuments

Europa Nostra – Official partner of UNESCO

“This category of partnership is designed to enable UNESCO to

establish and maintain flexible and dynamic partnerships with any

organisation of civil society that is active in UNESCO’s fields of

competence at whatever level, and to benefit from its expertise, the

representativeness of its networks for the dissemination of information

and, if appropriate, its operational capacities in the field.”

Partnership with INTO

Partnership with The Best in Heritage

Best in Heritage 2011 in Dubrovnik, Croatia

Partnership with Wiki Loves Monuments

2011 Winner Photo - Mănăstirea Chiajna - Giulești, Romania