Applications are open for the twin European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra awards, regarded as Europe’s most prestigious awards in the heritage field.
Celebrating 20 years in 2022, the Awards annually honor up to 30 outstanding heritage achievements, among which up to five receive a Grand Prix, based on additional categories. Each winner of a Grand Prix receives a monetary award of €10.000. In addition, the Public Choice Award is presented to one of the selected award winners, following an online vote conducted by Europa Nostra.
The deadline for applications is February 1, 2022. All applications must be submitted via the online application procedure.
Many Jewish heritage preservation, restoration, education, and community action projects, as well as committed activists, qualify for the Awards — so we encourage you to apply!
To date, out of hundreds of awards presented, only a few Jewish heritage sites and projects have received the prize.
They include the Portuguese Synagogue complex in Amsterdam (2012) and the synagogue in Mád, Hungary (2004, the Jewish Cultural Heritage Education Program of the POLIN Museum in Warsaw (2017), activist Szymon Modrzejewski, cemetery restoration including Jewish cemeteries, in southeast Poland, (2011), and an exhibition, The Invention of a Guilty Party, in Trento, Italy about how an alleged ritual murder case in the 15th century stoked antisemitism for centuries (2021).
This year, the Awards will be presented in five categories:
Conservation and Adaptive Reuse
Outstanding projects aiming at conservation, regeneration and adaptation to new uses of cultural heritage, including cultural landscapes.
Research
Innovative research projects which lead to tangible effects for the safeguard and enhancement of cultural heritage or/and to improve the access, enjoyment and understanding of heritage assets by communities.
Education, Training & Skills
Exemplary projects or related to cultural heritage with the aim of fostering knowledge transfer, capacity-building and/or enhancing traditional or new skills and crafts related to heritage.
Outstanding heritage-led projects which foster social cohesion, inclusion, multicultural dialogue and understanding, nurture a sense of place and belonging, celebrate diversity a
Heritage Champions
Influential and inspiring individuals or organisations whose exemplary action demonstrates an exceptional level of dedication, impact and civic engagement for the safeguard and enhancement of cultural heritage.
Entries can be related to tangible, intangible or digital heritage. The scope of the entries can range from small to large, from local to European and international.
Watch a video about the Awards and application process:
The Europa Nostra Awards were set up in 1978 to recognize outstanding heritage conservation initiatives and were presented to some 650 exemplary projects until 2001.
The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards were launched by the European Commission in 2002 and have been run in partnership with Europa Nostra ever since. Since 2002, there have been nearly 600 award-winning projects from 34 countries.
The Awards are organized by Europa Nostra in collaboration with the European Commission, with the support of the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
Entries for the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards may be submitted by all countries that are signatories of the Creative Europe program, that is the 27 EU Member States, the 3 EEA-countries Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland and other third countries that have signed an Association Agreement with the EU. Entries submitted by countries that are members of the Council of Europe but are not among the signatories of the Creative Europe Programme are eligible for the Europa Nostra Awards.
For more information: Elena Bianchi, Heritage Awards Coordinator, [email protected]
1 comment on “Call for Applications: European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards”
Thank you for doing such a good work. I am writing to you again, I have done that before, about the small cemeteries in Rona Des Sus and Rona the Sus. the gates and fences are gone and many grave stones are gone too. I was asked to raise over 30,ooo euros to repairs Rona des Sus, where my grandfather is buried. this is impossible for me. I am 81 and wish to fulfill my promise to take care of the only grave of the family. Can you help? please!