These are the 2024 European Heritage Awards winners
The European Commission and Europa Nostra announce the 2024 winners of the European Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards. 26 outstanding heritage achievements from 18 countries have been awarded Europe’s top honour in the field.
Organisations and individuals from 38 European countries submitted a total of 206 eligible applications. These were evaluated first by dedicated selection committees and then, the awards’ jury, composed by 12 European experts made the final selection.
22 outstanding projects from EU Member States and countries associated to the Creative Europe programme received a European Heritage Award. In addition, four projects from the United Kingdom were awarded the Europa Nostra Award.
These are the winners in the five categories
Conservation & Adaptive Reuse
- Royale Belge Building, Brussels, Belgium
- Schulenburg Mansion, Gera, Germany
- Ignacy Historic Mine, Rybnik, Poland
- Saxon Church in Alma Vii, Romania
- St. Michael’s Church, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Snow Wells, Sierra Espuña, Spain
Research
Education, Training & Skills
- Teryan Cultural Centre - Empowering Nagorno-Karabakh Refugees, Yerevan, Armenia
- Boulouki - Travelling Workshop On Traditional Building, Greece
- Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme, Kilkenny, Ireland
- Serfenta Crafts Revitalisation Model, Cieszyn, Poland
- White Carpentry School, Narros del Castillo, Spain
Citizens’ Engagement & Awareness-raising
- The Square Kilometre, Ghent, Belgium
- The Silence that Tore Down the Monument, Kamenska, Croatia
- Preserving the Community Halls for Local Civil Society Activities, Finland
- Fortified Castles of Alsace Association, France
- Citizens’ Rehabilitation of the Tsiskarauli Tower, Akhieli, Georgia
- International Festival of Classical Theatre for Youth, Syracuse, Italy
- Foundation for the Conservation of the Historical Estate Ockenburgh, The Hague, The Netherlands
Heritage Champions
Grand Prix laureates and the Public Choice Award winner announced at Awards Ceremony
The Grand Prix laureates and the Public Choice Award winner – each receiving €10 000 – will be announced during the Award Ceremony whichwill take place on 7 October at the Romanian Athenaeum, in Bucharest, Romania. The event will be co-hosted by Iliana Ivanova, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth and Hermann Parzinger, Executive President of Europa Nostra.
The ceremony will be a highlight of the European Cultural Heritage Summit 2024, co-funded by the European Union, which will take place between 6 and 8 October in Bucharest under the high patronage of the President of Romania, H.E. Klaus Iohannis.
About the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards
The European Commission launched the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards in 2002 and Europa Nostra ran the initiative ever since. For 21 years, the awards have been a key tool to recognise and promote the multiple values of cultural and natural heritage for Europe’s society, economy and environment.