Europa Nostra

Europa Nostra is a pan-European organisation representing over 220 heritage NGOs active throughout Europe. Europa Nostra was founded in 1963 in Paris.

Europa Nostra aims to promote heritage and its benefits in the public consciousness and to make heritage a priority for public policies both at European and national levels. Its specific objectives are to promote high standards in the fields of heritage conservation, architecture, urban and rural planning and to advocate balanced and sustainable development.

In early 2006, Europa Nostra was selected as the new Liaison Office for the co-ordination of the "European Heritage Days" a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission.

In June 2007, participants of the Europa Nostra Forum in Stockholm “Add Modernism!” adopted a declaration calling on “all European Institutions and Governments to apply the same rules, standards and funding structures to the protection and enhancement of architecture of the Modern Movement as are applied to all other architectural heritage”.

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