Deadline: 9-Sep-25
Are you leading or part of a heritage project that deserves recognition at the highest European level? Whether you are an individual, a team of experts, or an organisation, this is your chance to share your achievements and compete for Europe’s most prestigious heritage awards!
The European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards aim to identify, recognise and champion best practices in the protection and conservation of cultural heritage as well as innovative developments and knowledge in the care and promotion of tangible, intangible and digital cultural heritage. Through the power of example, the scheme enables the exchange and transfer of experiences and skills across borders and between communities in Europe and beyond. It increases the visibility and understanding of the multiple values of cultural heritage for Europe’s society, economy, environment and culture.
Categories
- Outstanding heritage achievements will be awarded in the following categories:
- Conservation & Adaptive Reuse
- Research
- Education, Training & Skills
- Citizens’ Engagement & Awareness-raising
- Heritage Champions
Heritage Covered
- Types of heritage covered by all five award categories:
- Tangible heritage:
- Archaeological sites, including underwater archaeology.
- Architectural heritage, encompassing single buildings or groups of buildings in rural or urban settings, including religious, industrial, and engineering heritage.
- Building additions or alterations, as well as new building projects of any type (cultural, residential, religious, industrial, or engineering) within historic areas in both urban and rural settings.
- Cultural landscapes, such as historic urban environments, townscapes, city or town squares, streetscapes, historic parks and gardens, and larger areas of designed landscape or cultural, environmental, and/or agricultural significance.
- Movable heritage, such as collections or single works of art or objects of historic significance.
- Intangible heritage, including traditions, cultural and social practices, knowledge and skills related to traditional crafts related to traditional crafts
- Digital heritage: born-digitally or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources.
- Tangible heritage:
Prize Information
- The European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards will honour up to 30 outstanding heritage achievements, among which up to five Grand Prix will be awarded, each with a monetary prize of €10,000.
Geographic Focus
- Entries for the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, may only be submitted from countries participating in the Culture strand of the Creative Europe Programme , i.e. the EU Member States, the three EFTA-countries Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland and other acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates to the EU. The following countries are:
- Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine.
- Nominated legal entities must be citizens or legal residents in at least one of the Creative Europe participating countries.
- Entries submitted from countries that are members of the Council of Europe but are not participating in the Culture strand of the Creative Europe Programme are only eligible for the Europa Nostra Awards. The following are those countries which are eligible for the Awards on the preceding basis: Andorra, Azerbaijan, Holy See, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
For more information, visit Europa Nostra.