The Future for Religious Heritage (FRH) NGO is welcoming applications for its Religious Heritage Innovator of the Year award.
The award is a competition launched by FRH in 2022 to celebrate and promote excellence in the field of religious heritage.
It is open to organisations, public administrations, universities, cultural heritage professionals, academics and researchers, museums and representatives of European civil society with a project related to religious heritage.
Each edition of this annual award recognises “five projects that have contributed or contribute significantly to the safeguarding, enhancement and/or promotion of Europe’s places of worship.”
Entries to the competition are evaluated by a high-level jury of experts according to the values of inclusion, sustainability, resilience, innovation and cooperation, in line with the pillars of the European Commission’s Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage.
Deadline for applications is 30 November.
The award will have an overall winner and four finalists whose projects will be widely promoted by FRH as examples of best practices and presented at the 2024 FRH Conference.
Participating projects may be ongoing or completed. The jury will consider the following aspects:
Innovation
What makes the project innovative? Is it a new idea or a significant improvement of existing elements? Does it use cutting-edge technology? Does it propose a new way of carrying out the work? Does it provide a new vision of a certain topic?
Sustainability
How does the project contribute to sustainability?
Contribution to society
How does the project benefit local communities, the town or region, European citizens and society in general?
Project scope
What is the impact of the project on the local, national and international levels? Has it actively
involved other actors or stakeholders? Will it have a long-term impact?