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Winners of the 2024 European Heritage Awards, celebrated in Bucharest

by AI | 09.Oct 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The European Heritage Awards Ceremony took place in Bucharest, after the winners were selected in May. The Grand Prize winners and the Public Choice Award winners were also announced.

European Heritage Awards Ceremony in Bucharest (c) ALEX TUDOR / AGERPRES FOTO

Bucharest – The European Heritage Awards 2024 ceremony, the highest distinction awarded for heritage in Europe, was hosted in Bucharest by the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth, Iliana Ivanova, and the Executive President of Europa Nostra, Hermann Parzinger. The five Grand Prix laureates and the winner of the 2024 Public Choice Award were announced, each receiving a prize worth 10,000 euros.

The five Grand Prix winners of 2024 are: Historic Mine Ignacy, Rybnik, Poland; Saxon Church of Alma Vii, Romania; Traditional Farm Buildings Grants Scheme, Ireland; Citizens’ Rehabilitation of Tsiskarauli Tower, Akhieli, Georgia; Friends of Dubrovnik Antiquities Society, Croatia.

The Grand Prix winners were selected from among this year’s 26 winners from 18 European countries by the Europa Nostra Council, based on the recommendation of an independent expert jury.

The remarkable rehabilitation of the Saxon Church of Alma Vii is the big winner of 2024, receiving both a Grand Prix and the 2024 Public Choice Award, garnering the highest number of votes through an online poll participated in by approximately 10,000 citizens from across Europe.

The awards gala was the highlight of the 2024 European Cultural Heritage Summit, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and held from October 6 to 8 in the Romanian capital.

The winning projects are a testament to the power of heritage to inspire innovation, promote community engagement, and support sustainable development on our continent, stated Commissioner Iliana Ivanova.

The call for entries for the 2025 edition of the European Heritage Awards is open, and applications can be submitted online via www.europeanheritageawards.eu until November 20, 2024.

The European Heritage Awards were launched by the European Commission in 2002 and have since been managed by Europa Nostra, a pan-European federation of NGOs committed to protecting and promoting cultural and natural heritage. Europa Nostra leads the European consortium selected by the European Commission to manage the European Heritage Hub pilot project (2023-2025). It is also an official partner of the New European Bauhaus initiative, developed by the European Commission, and is one of the key European members and supporters of the Climate Heritage Network. (7.10.2024)