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The 🇪🇺 Voice of #CivilSociety committed to #CulturalHeritage #EuropeanHeritageAwards #7MostEndangered #EuropeanHeritageAlliance #EuropaNostraAgora
Today, the EU Council of Ministers held a first formal & positive exchange on the #CultureCompass, presented by Cssr Glenn Micallef.

Beforehand, Europa Nostra & @eurheritagehub.bsky.social urged Ministers in a letter to back the Joint Political Declaration on the Compass.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📰 NEW: A large article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung tracks the discourse around #Generalštab, a protected Modernist building in Belgrade which is at risk to be illegally demolished to make way for a Trump Hotel & towers.
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📰NEWS: In a new interview with @theartnewspaper.bsky.social, our SG @sneskaen.bsky.social highlights how in the case of the Belgrade’s Generalštab Modernist Complex, protecting heritage and preserving European values such as democracy go hand in hand.

👉 www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/p...
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
👋 Come work with us!

Europa Nostra, the largest and most representative federation of cultural heritage NGOs in Europe, has two internship vacancies.

📆 Apply by 15 December!

More information 👉 www.europanostra.org/get-involved...
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It only takes 5️⃣ minutes!

Fill out @creativeeurope.bsky.social's User Satisfaction Survey for the Creative Europe Project Results Platform to help make the platform more user-friendly, relevant & valuable for Europe's creative community.

Submit by 5 December 2025👇
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The #CostaCarras European Citizens Awards 2026 are open for submissions! Run by Europa Nostra & @Ellet_gr_NGO in honour of #heritage champion Costa Carras, the awards recognise exemplary campaigns to safeguard heritage across Europe🏆

Learn more & apply: www.europanostra.org/apply-for-th...
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
When Culture wins, Europe wins! 🇪🇺🤝

Europa Nostra welcomes and strongly endorses the Culture Compass for Europe, a landmark document placing culture & cultural heritage at the heart of Europe’s future.

Read our full statement: www.europanostra.org/when-culture...

#CultureCompassEU
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Europa Nostra was honoured to be awarded the 2025 Empress Theophano Prize yesterday in Thessaloniki for 60+ years of protecting and promoting European cultural heritage as a vector for unity, identity & sustainable development.

Watch the full recording👉https://www.youtube.com/live/3pbI-2aCwII
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Building on our #EuropeanCulturalHeritageSummit 2025, the new #BrusselsManifesto calls for culture & heritage to be placed at the heart of EU policies, budgets & values.

Let’s shape a future where #HeritageMatters for Europe!

Read the full Manifesto 👇 www.europanostra.org/europa-nostr...
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🎉 Today is the day!

Europa Nostra is honoured to receive the 2025 Empress Theophano Prize at a ceremony in Thessaloniki, Greece this evening.

🎥👉 Follow the event via the livestream, from 17:30 CET / 18:30 EET: www.theophano.eu

@sneskaen.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Tomorrow Europa Nostra will receive the 2025 #EmpressTheophanoPrize in a ceremony in the emblematic 2,000-year-old Rotunda of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Save the date for the livestream:

📆 Thursday, 6 November
⏰ 17:30 CET / 18:30 EET
🎥🔗 www.theophano.eu
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Yesterday our Secretary General @sneskaen.bsky.social visited the School of Arts & Crafts of the Fabric of Saint Peter at the Vatican🏛️, winner of a Europa Nostra Award 2025.

#CulturalHeritage #Restoration
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We are grateful to Italia Nostra for its support and dedication over these many decades!
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🇮🇹 Yesterday our SG @sneskaen.bsky.social joined the celebration of Italia Nostra’s 70th anniversary in Rome — one of the founding organisations of Europa Nostra back in 1963.

#ItaliaNostra70 #EuropaNostra
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🌍 Today we mark 20 years since the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society — the #FaroConvention — was opened for signature. This landmark document has transformed how Europe understands, values, and engages with heritage.
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has paid tribute to the accomplishments of 2025 #EuropaNostraAward laureate Varvara Buzilă — because Europe’s strength comes from “the richness of its cultures.”

Read her full statement 👇
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚀Open call for professional chamber music ensembles! #MERITAcubed is looking for 44 ensembles (22 string quartets + 22 piano trios) under 36 years old.

📅 Find out more through the pre-application Q&A: Tuesday, 4 November at 11:00

🔗Join here: us02web.zoom.us/j/83996996394
October 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
👏 A huge thank you to everyone who participated in today's European Heritage #PolicyAgora, co-hosted by the
@europarl.europa.eu.

Your expertise & commitment are greatly valued!

#InvestinWhatMatters #EuropeanCulturalHeritageSummit #EuropeanHeritageSummit2025
October 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Live from the #PolicyAgora ▶️ panel insights at the @europarl.europa.eu:

👉 Rising nationalism is a direct threat to European culture
👉 Music is essential to the DNA of Europe
👉 Education about our shared cultural heritage is a major key to preserving democracy in Europe
October 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
During today's European Heritage #PolicyAgora, MEP Marcos Ros Sempere affirmed how vital culture is in shaping our shared European identity.

#InvestinWhatMatters
October 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
In his #EuropaNostraLecture at today's #PolicyAgora, historian Orlando Figes highlighted important lessons from 19th century history that we can apply to today's reality, including the importance of preserving culture and protecting the work of artists.
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
What a fascinating #EuropaNostraLecture from historian Orlando Figes!

We learned:
🚂 The advent of the railway was revolutionary for spreading culture
©️ Copyright law fundamentally changed culture
🎨 Challenges 19th century artists faced can provide a cautionary tale about AI
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Historian Orlando Figes is delivering this year’s #EuropaNostraLecture based on his acclaimed book 📕 "The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture" — which explores the genesis of European culture in the 19th century.

#PolicyAgora #InvestinWhatMatters
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
At today's #PolicyAgora, co-hosted by the @europarl.europa.eu, President of Europa Nostra Belgium Paul Dujardin reminded us of all of the ways cultural heritage makes Europe richer.

#InvestinWhatMatters
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🎨⚓️ A snippet of @volteuropa.org MEP Nela Riehl's opening remarks during today's #PolicyAgora, co-hosted with the @europarl.europa.eu, which remind us how necessary it is to keep valuing our shared cultural heritage.

#InvestinWhatMatters
October 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM