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KEY DATES: DATES: KEY April-May 2018 April-May Heritage the European for the competition of Launch Week Makers April 2018 European Heritage Stories for the Call of Launch August -October 2018 October 2018 17 the European Heritage Stories, for Ceremony Award () 2018 November the European Heritage Makers Winners of the visit of A Strasbourg (France) to Week Throughout 2018 trans-border projects of Development COMPONENT II II COMPONENT CULTURAL OF YEAR EUROPEAN SPECIAL FOR PRIZE EU THE OF EDITIONS HERITAGE NOSTRA HERITAGE/EUROPA CULTURAL LABEL HERITAGE EUROPEAN THE AWARD The EU Prize for / Awards Heritage/Europa Nostra Cultural for The EU Prize • ‘Funding trans-border projects’, to enable the realisation to ‘Funding trans-border projects’, • small-scale cross-border projects. of recognises best practices in the conservation, in the conservation, best practices recognises education and communication research, management, The 2018 award ceremony shared heritage. of Europe’s European Heritage in June during a high-level place took the German Europa Nostra, organised by Summit in , and the Foundation of Heritage Committee Cultural Heritage. Cultural Prussian ENGAGEMENT PILLAR ENGAGEMENT

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HERITAGE DAYS HERITAGE COMPONENT I COMPONENT CULTURAL OF YEAR EUROPEAN SPECIAL EUROPEAN THE OF EDITION HERITAGE WHAT? WHAT? FOR WHOM? WHOM? FOR WHY? WHY? dimension of their local heritage; dimension of inspire children and to Week’ Heritage Makers A ‘European • the European discover their surroundings, explore to youth their local heritage and share their stories; dimension of implemented as from 2018: implemented collect to European Heritage Stories’ for A ‘Call • understand the European communities how of testimonies part the of of Year the European reinforce helped to popular initiative activities are being new Three Heritage. Cultural Every year, over 30 million people of all ages enjoy access access enjoy all ages of 30 million people over year, Every across Europe as and unique events opened sites rarely to The initiative has four main components: has four The initiative General public, local communities, older people and older people local communities, General public, with special groups including people hard-to-reach social exclusion. of those at risk needs and in Europe, and ultimately bring us closer together. ultimately in Europe, and of our heritage is shared. Putting our common values, values, our common Putting heritage is shared. of our and heritage in the spotlight can shared history a and reinforce contribute to The European Year aims to make cultural heritage make aims to Year The European accessible engage also aims to Year The physical barriers. communities Sharing heritage, history and values, to bring and values, history Sharing heritage, Europeans closer together EUROPEAN INITIATIVE n°1 September 2018 The European Heritage Label (EHL) celebrates heritage COMPONENT IV — sites that symbolise European ideals, values, history and REMOVING BARRIERS AND INCREASING integration. In 2018, a touring exhibition of European ACCESS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE Heritage Label sites was launched and a high-level award Physical, social and geographical barriers hindering ceremony for nine new labelled sites was organised. participation to cultural heritage are being tackled through two different projects: KEY DATES: • The Access City Award (ACA) will 26 March 2018 recognise cities that have done outstanding work in European Heritage Label award ceremony in Plovdiv making their cultural heritage accessible. () • The WeAre#EuropeForCulture project aims to engage April 2018 both younger and older Europeans (aged 13-30 and 55+) European Heritage Label yearly gathering in who are hard to reach and do not already participate in () cultural heritage activities. 22 June 2018 • In addition, the EuropeanaTech 2018 conference allowed EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award Ceremony and adoption of the Berlin Call to Action discussion on how best to share and embrace technologies “Cultural heritage for the future of Europe” in Berlin that allow us to share our cultural heritage digitally. () 22 June 2018 KEY DATES: Local award ceremonies of the EU Prize for Cultural 15-16 May 2018 Heritage in laureate sites EuropeanaTech Conference in (the ) Second semester 2018 COMPONENT III — Launch of the WeAre#EuropeForCulture project SHARING HERITAGE, DIGITALLY 3-4 December 2018 Three projects are encouraging sharing heritage through European Day of Persons with Disabilities Conference digital means: in Brussels (Belgium) • Story Map: Interactive map-based interface for cultural 4 December 2018 heritage by the — Joint Research EU Access City Award ceremony in Brussels (Belgium) Centre (JRC) allowing users to explore cultural heritage initiatives in their surroundings, such as the European PARTNERS capitals of Culture, the European Heritage Label sites and • European Commission services dealing with culture, the sites having been awarded EU cultural prizes. education, social inclusion and employment • Connecting European Citizens through their shared • The Joint Research Centre (JRC) culture with Europeana Migration & Europeana • , partner for the European Heritage Days 1914‑1918 Collections • Europeana Two types of collections and events are being held in • European Heritage Label sites 2018: Europeana Migration and Europeana 1914-1918 • Europa Nostra and winners of the EU Prize on the centenary of the end of World War I. for cultural heritage • Europa Nostra’s #Ode2Joy Challenge • European Disability Forum Participants are invited to create a video of their interpretation of Beethoven & Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’ and post their performance on social media.

KEY DATES: 15-17 March 2018 Launch of Europeana Migration Collection Days 9 May 2018 Europe Day – contributions on #Ode2Joy challenge were livestreamed June 2018 Launch of the cultural heritage Story Map

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