Building on the momentum initiated by the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, the European Heritage Hub project gathered expertise and pooled resources to establish a cultural heritage movement, fostering synergies and cooperation between existing heritage initiatives and creating new ones when relevant. It was at the forefront of heritage policy development at all levels of governance and supported heritage professionals in acquiring the necessary skills to adapt to our society’s transformation and build their resilience.
The project actively engaged the extended networks of all partners through innovative tools and creative awareness-raising campaigns, and, ultimately, reached out to citizens at large, with a special emphasis on the younger generation of heritage students and professionals.
The European Heritage Hub carried on the legacies of both the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 and the European Year of Youth 2022, and contributed to the European Year of Skills in 2023.
The project entered its second stage in 2025.
Project goals
- Shape and raise the capacity of the heritage ecosystem across Europe, pooling the expertise and resources of public and private actors at all governance levels
- Contribute to the mainstreaming, integration and continuous monitoring of cultural heritage across all relevant policies at all levels of governance
- Support the elaboration of evidence-driven heritage-related policies at all governance levels through ongoing monitoring and research Promote an inclusive, diverse and participatory governance in the heritage ecosystem, also in the spirit of commons, in which diverse stakeholders and citizens shall actively participate
- Raise awareness of the multiple values of cultural heritage for our economy, society and the environment among policy-makers practitioners and citizens.
Project partners
- Europa Nostra
- Europeana Foundation, The Netherlands
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Eurocities ASBL, Belgium
- ICLEI European Secretariat GmbH, Germany
Affiliated partners
- Horizon 50-200, Belgium
- Centre Européen de Musique, France
- Elliniki Etairia Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage, Greece
- Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
- Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, Poland
- Asociación Hispania Nostra, Spain
Associated partners
- Gmina Miejska Kraków – Miasto na Prawach Powiatu, Poland
- Organization of World Heritage Cities, Canada
- Direção Geral do Património Cultural, Portugal
- Dimos Athinaion, Greece
Funding information
| Funding stream | Pilot projects and preparatory action (PPPAs) (opens in new window) |
| Contract number | 101115029 |
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