European Heritage Hub

The European Heritage Hub (EHH) is one of the largest cultural heritage projects covering the whole of Europe, aiming to support green, social and digital transformation. The International Cultural Centre is part of a project consortium consisting of 28 partners led by Europa Nostra.

The project aims to mobilise and strengthen the cultural heritage movement in Europe by bringing together a wide range of multidisciplinary expertise and diverse resources. The project is being implemented by a consortium of European organisations and institutions involved in cultural policy, cultural heritage management, advocacy for culture and heritage, and its digitisation, education and promotion.

The project responds to the need to create a more permanent heritage hub in Europe that will bring together a variety of stakeholders to ensure more structured cooperation and coordination of activities at all levels of governance, from local to European and international. Building on the consortium's extensive knowledge and experience, the Hub aims to deliver on a number of priority objectives of the European Union and its key partners in Europe and beyond.

Objectives

• Stimulate networking, cooperation and knowledge-sharing, bringing together the widest array of public and private heritage stakeholders at local, regional, national, European and international level. Through peer-learning, capacity-building and resource-pooling, the Hub will strengthen resilience and responsiveness towards challenges and foster cooperation capacity across the heritage ecosystem.
• Contribute to the mainstreaming of cultural heritage across key policies, covering all levels of governance and with a special focus on the green, digital and social transformation.
• Be at the forefront of heritage-policy developments, monitoring and analysing the implementation of heritage-related policy developments, programmes and funding sources at all levels, and providing evidence-based recommendations for the development of adequate future policies and opportunities.
• Promote inclusive, diverse and participatory governance in the heritage ecosystem, engaging and reaching out to especially the harder-to-reach audiences who do not participate in cultural heritage-related activities, with a special focus on young people and under-represented groups.
• Raise awareness of the European dimension of our shared cultural heritage, history and memory, demonstrating the multiple values of cultural heritage for our economy, society and the environment among policy-makers, practitioners and citizens at large.
• Enhance the role of cultural heritage for peace building, reconciliation, intercultural and interreligious dialogue as well as for the promotion of key European values, such as democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.

The project is funded by the European Union.