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406: 540:. It enables heritage professionals, volunteers and supporters from all over Europe and beyond to meet, debate and inspire each other. It also engages with a wider range of stakeholders, be they policy makers, other European or international networks related to heritage, students and young heritage professionals or the public at large. Europa Nostra is a partner of Wiki Loves Monuments, the Knowledge (XXG) photo contest around cultural heritage. 425:, aiming to identify endangered monuments and sites in Europe and to mobilize public and private partners at the local, national, and European levels, to find a future for those sites, working as a catalyst for action. The 7 Most Endangered sites and monuments for 2013 were selected from a shortlist of 14 prepared by an international panel that reviewed 40 nominations from member organizations from 21 countries. 385:
This awards scheme aims to promote high standards and high-quality skills in conservation practice and to stimulate trans-frontier exchange in heritage protection. By spreading the "Power of Example", the awards also aim to encourage further efforts and projects related to heritage throughout Europe.
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in various areas of European policy-making and funding. It advocates the need to take cultural heritage into consideration when formulating and implementing all European and national policies which have an impact – direct or indirect – on heritage. Europa Nostra also seeks to highlight the importance
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Europa Nostra's main goal is to place heritage and its benefits in the mainstream of public consciousness and to make heritage a higher priority for public policy both at European and national levels. Its specific objectives are to promote, at a European level, high standards of quality in the fields
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Europa Nostra organises an annual European Heritage Congress, including a public Forum on various heritage subjects that are of relevance to the whole of Europe. It also holds smaller-scale national, regional and local meetings and debates with heritage NGOs in different parts of Europe. In addition
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Europa Nostra's network covers almost 50 countries across Europe and beyond. It is composed of over 250 member organisations (heritage associations and foundations with a combined membership of more than 5 million people), 150 associated organisations (governmental bodies, local authorities and
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Any public or private body not qualified to join as a Member Organisation (e.g. regions, cities, towns, governmental heritage agencies, educational institutions, tourism organisations and worldwide heritage organisation) can submit an application to become an Associate
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interpretations, and care for art collections. Moreover, it highlights research, dedicated service to heritage conservation by individuals or organisations, and education projects related to cultural heritage. The awards are supported by the
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of urban and rural, built and natural environment. Europa Nostra also seeks to highlight the importance of cultural heritage as a building block of European identity and as contributing to a strengthening sense of
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or museum) working actively to safeguard the cultural and natural heritage at European, national, regional and/or local level can submit an application to become a Member Organisation.
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to this, Europa Nostra's Scientific Council organises an annual Colloquium to promote and coordinate the scientific study of ancient structures and fortified buildings in Europe.
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Europa Nostra supports national and international campaigns for the preservation and rescue of Europe's heritage which is in danger. In January 2013, with the
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In recent years, Europa Nostra has raised its voice to save endangered historic monuments, sites or landscapes in Europe, including:
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and the specific character of cultural heritage within the wider cultural and policy agenda of its international partners, the
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Europa Nostra is a non-profit organisation, which is financially supported by membership fees and donations, by the
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Europa Nostra's Scientific Council has also published a total of 64 volumes of its "Scientific Bulletin".
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corporations) and also 1500 individual members who directly support the mission of Europa Nostra.
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Acting as a European cultural heritage lobby, Europa Nostra seeks to secure adequate support for
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Individuals who wish to directly support Europa Nostra's action can become an Individual Member.
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Europa Nostra publishes an annual magazine restyled in 2010 with the name "Heritage in Motion"
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to save Europe's historic monuments, sites and cultural landscapes which are in danger, and
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The European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards reward excellence in
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Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
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Region, Italy) threatened by various degrees of destruction or damage caused by the
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having a negative visual impact on the cultural landscape surrounding the Mont;
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Europa Nostra serves as a platform for exchange for those concerned with
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Its activities are coordinated by an International Secretariat based in
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Convention for the protection of the architectural heritage of Europe
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to animate a network of cultural heritage stakeholders in Europe.
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European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards
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Member organisations, associate organisations, individual members
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to act as a representative lobby for cultural heritage in Europe
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Europa Nostra's membership is made up of different categories:
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programme. It has been organised by Europa Nostra since 2002.
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and other public bodies and private supporters and sponsors.
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In March 2010, Europa Nostra opened a liaison office in
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Europa Nostra was founded in 1963 on the initiative of
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European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards

The Hague
Brussels
Cecilia Bartoli
www.europanostra.org
Latin
Cultural Heritage
natural heritage
European Union
Council of Europe
UNESCO
heritage conservation
sustainable development
European citizenship
The Hague
European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards
Italia Nostra
Venice
Cecilia Bartoli
Hermann Parzinger
Plácido Domingo
the Infanta Doña Pilar de Borbón
the Prince Consort of Denmark
Hans de Koster
cultural heritage
European Union
Council of Europe
UNESCO
Amsterdam

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