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About us….

Heritage EuropeHeritage Europe was formed asThe European Association of Historic Towns and Regions”  by the Council of Europe in October 1999 as part of the initiative “Europe – A Common Heritage”.

We aim to promote the interests of Europe’s historic cities through international cooperation between heritage organisations and historic towns - sharing experience and good practice and promoting the sustainable management of historic areas.

We have members in 30 European countries and through our membership arrangements represent over 1000 historic towns and cities.

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HerO Project

HerO logo.TIFHerO - “Heritage as Opportunity” was an Urbact II project looking at a methodology for a more integrated approach to the management of historic towns.In particular it showed how historic towns can benefit from EU structural funds. The project partners worked closely with Heritage Europe in the development and production of the final documents.The 'Road to Success' reports now published provide details about the project (the HerO Brochure). Policy recommendations are aimed at the Mayors and decision makers of Europe's historic cities. The Guidebook shows how to deliver a more integrated approach to the sustainable mangement of historic towns and is aimed at practioners. Flagship projects list succesful projects that have attracted significant funding form the European Structural  Funds and the Good Practice compilation sets out a wide range of case studies from the partner cities. Lastly the Strategy Paper aims to influence future EU policy presenting the case for more priority to be given to realising the untapped potential of cultural heritage in the period 2014 -2020. Download your copies nowclick on the individual reports here:

   
The HerO Brochure  

The Policy
Recommendations

   
The Guidebook   Flagship Projects
 
The Good Practice
Compilation
  The Strategy Paper

 

For more information on the HerO Project visit www.urbact.eu/hero .

Printed versions of all documents are also available – please contact via e-mail to: welterbe@regensburg.de 

 

 


 

INHERIT - Investing in Heritage

A Guide to Succesful Urban Regeneration


'Investing in Heritage – A guide to successful Urban Regeneration' presents a powerful and convincing analysis of good practice with clear recommendations aimed at local and regional authorities across Europe, on how to successfully regenerate cities through investing in heritage.

The full report is now available on-line.

Full Report pdf (2.69mb)

 


Sustainable Cultural Tourism Project - IMPACTS

Heritage Europe has received interest from several European historic towns  and regional authorities in a proposed project "IMPACTS" based on the Sustainable Tourism Guidelines produced in 2010. The group of experts set up by Heritage Europe to produce the original guidelines has also shown interest in continuing to advise on the new project.

Tthe potential partners expressing an interest in “ IMPACTS” are:- Dubrovnik (HR), Gent (BE), Valletta (MT), Province of Friesland (NL), Province of Reggio Emilia (IT), Nis (RS), Shrewsbury (UK), Osmangazi (TR), Niksar (TR), and Liège (BE).

Following a meeting of the expert group and representatives of the partner cities,held at the headquarters of English Heritage in London in June, an outline proposal for the project was drafted and circulated to all the potential partners. The IMPACTS project will be coordinated by Heritage Europe's lead expert, Brian Human.

Click here for the outline proposal. Read More ….

Information on the progress of the IMPACTS project proposal will be made available on our website.


The Sustainable Cultural Tourism Guidelines are available as a download in both summary and full versions. Click here to dowload. Printed copies of the summary are also available in both English and French – please contact the Secretariat at: - european-association@historic-towns.org


New Members

We are continuing to roll out our campaign to attract new members with particular emphasis on individual towns/cities. The campaign is proving to be a success with several new member towns/ cities joining the association – notably Stip, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Drogheda, Ireland; Osmangazi, Turkey; Bruges, Belgium; Poitiers, France; Niksar, Turkey; Conwy, UK; Isla, Malta, and most recently Nessebar, Bulgaria. We were also very pleased to see Dubrovnik, Croatia rejoining in January of this year.

 

Go to Members to see the full listing.

 


 

Dates for your Diary….

 

14-16 September 2011, Ravello Italy. CEC international conference -

"World Heritage at Risk - the economics of tangible and intangible heritage under threat"


Click here for programme and registration details...

For more information visit www.cecseries.org

13-14 October 2011, Leuven Belgium. 5th EuroIndia Summit -

"Smart Sustainable and Innovative Cities". The summit is hosted by the City of Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and IMEC Leuven in collaboration with the EuroIndia Centre and the Confederation of Indian Industry. Top leaders, politicians,industrialists and academics from India and Europe will attend the 2 day event.

Indian Corporate & Academic List 
List of Indian Public & Official Dignitaries

Click here for Summit brochure, Programme and Registration form.

13-15 November 2011, Venice. International conference organised by UNESCO Venice office in collaboration with Venice International University - " The Future of Venice and its Lagoon in the context of Global Change"


Click here for preliminary programme details...

For more information visit www.unesco.org/venice

Latest News - Conference postponed until further notice.

22-25 November 2011, Sintra,Portugal. Organisation of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) World Congress "World Heritage Cities and Climate Change"

27 November-2 December 2011,Paris. ICOMOS General Assembly and Symposium to be held at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris. Symposium "Heritage - Driver of Development"

8 – 9 December 2011,Berlin. International Conference – “The Heritage of the City – the Future of Europe, new opportunities for Integrated Urban development”

This major conference is being organised by the Federal German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.
Register now
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Click here for conference programme . . .

EVoCH Project (Economic Value of Cultural Heritage):-

24-25 August,2011,Helsinki. "The State of the Art of the Research and Methodologies in Cultural Heritage"

March 2012, Vienna. "Cultural Tourism and Preservation of Cultural Heritage"

For details of the EVoCH project and events e-mail to info@evoch.eu

 


European Heritage Alliance 3.3

Heritage Europe working with Europa Nostra and a wide range of European heritage organisations will participate in the newly formed European Heritage Alliance 3.3.

Heritage Europe's Secretary General Brian Smith said, speaking at the conference in Amsterdam in June - "the time is now right for European heritage organisations to work together to ensure future EU policy reflects the needs of cultural heritage and historic towns".

 

A working group including Heritage Europe will meet in Brussels on September 7th 2011. The aim is to produce a strategy document by the end of 2011 to directly influence future EU policy on cultural and natural heritage. The document will be posted on our website as soon as available.

As part of this new joint approach Heritage Europe is backing the "we are more" campaign launched by Culture Action Europe in partnership with the European Cultural Foundation.For more information on the European Heritage Alliance 3.3 and to give your support to the campaign - click here.

 


Experience Exchange…. Nominate a member of your team now!

We are inviting submissions from member cities to nominate one person to work on a key issue in another member city of your choice for a period of a week. All expenses will be paid in return for a short report on the lessons learned. Last year we supported a very successful experience exchange between, Delft, Netherlands and Newcastle on Tyne, UK.

Download the exchange visit reports here.

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