Winners of 2024 European Heritage Awards announced

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

• NewsEye: A Digital Investigator for Historical Newspapers, Austria/Finland/France/Germany

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

• Society of Friends of Dubrovnik Antiquities, Croatia
• Else “Sprossa” Rønnevig, Lillesand, Norway
• Professor Piotr Gerber, Wrocław, Poland