Bucharest – The European Heritage Awards 2024 ceremony, the best distinction awarded for heritage in Europe, was hosted in Bucharest by the European Commissioner for Innovation, Analysis, Tradition, Schooling, and Youth, Iliana Ivanova, and the Govt President of Europa Nostra, Hermann Parzinger. The 5 Grand Prix laureates and the winner of the 2024 Public Selection Award had been introduced, every receiving a prize value 10,000 euros.
The 5 Grand Prix winners of 2024 are: Historic Mine Ignacy, Rybnik, Poland; Saxon Church of Alma Vii, Romania; Conventional Farm Buildings Grants Scheme, Eire; Residents’ Rehabilitation of Tsiskarauli Tower, Akhieli, Georgia; Buddies of Dubrovnik Antiquities Society, Croatia.
The Grand Prix winners had been chosen from amongst this yr’s 26 winners from 18 European nations by the Europa Nostra Council, primarily based on the advice of an impartial knowledgeable jury.
The exceptional rehabilitation of the Saxon Church of Alma Vii is the massive winner of 2024, receiving each a Grand Prix and the 2024 Public Selection Award, garnering the best variety of votes by way of a web based ballot participated in by roughly 10,000 residents from throughout Europe.
The awards gala was the spotlight of the 2024 European Cultural Heritage Summit, co-funded by the Artistic Europe Programme of the European Union and held from October 6 to eight within the Romanian capital.
The profitable tasks are a testomony to the ability of heritage to encourage innovation, promote neighborhood engagement, and help sustainable improvement on our continent, said Commissioner Iliana Ivanova.
The decision for entries for the 2025 version of the European Heritage Awards is open, and functions could be submitted on-line by way of www.europeanheritageawards.eu till November 20, 2024.
The European Heritage Awards had been launched by the European Fee in 2002 and have since been managed by Europa Nostra, a pan-European federation of NGOs dedicated to defending and selling cultural and pure heritage. Europa Nostra leads the European consortium chosen by the European Fee to handle the European Heritage Hub pilot mission (2023-2025). It’s also an official companion of the New European Bauhaus initiative, developed by the European Fee, and is likely one of the key European members and supporters of the Local weather Heritage Community. (7.10.2024)
