Lobby For Cultural Heritage
Acting as a European cultural heritage lobby, Europa Nostra seeks to secure adequate support for cultural heritage in various areas of European policy-making and funding. It advocates the need to take cultural heritage into consideration when formulating and implementing all European and national policies which have an impact - direct or indirect - on heritage. Europa Nostra also seeks to highlight the importance and the specific character of cultural heritage within the wider cultural and policy agenda of important international partners: namely the European Union, the Council of Europe and UNESCO.
During its European Heritage Congress held in Amsterdam (June 2011), Europa Nostra and 27 other European and international networks and organisations active in the wider field of cultural heritage decided to set up the European Heritage Alliance 3.3.
In March 2010, Europa Nostra opened a Liaison Office in Brussels, whose task is to coordinate Europa Nostra’s lobbying of EU Institutions and other European and international bodies based in Brussels, Strasbourg and Paris.
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