The winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2025 will be celebrated at a high-profile ceremony, as part of the European Cultural Heritage Summit 2025, 12-15 October. The Summit is set in Brussels with a 'particular significance' ahead of the Commission's Culture Compass and MFF 2028-2034 negotiations.
By Eirini PolydorouThe 23rd anniversary of Europe’s most prestigious Awards in the heritage field is almost here. The winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2025 will be celebrated at a high-profile event at Flagey, an iconic Art Deco building in Brussels, on Monday 13 October. During the Ceremony, the Grand Prix laureates and the Public's Choice Award winner will be announced, chosen from among this year’s winners and about to receive €10,000 each.
Glenn Micallef, European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, and Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger, Executive President of Europa Nostra will co-host the ceremony. Distinguished guests of the event include Sabine Verheyen, First Vice-President of the European Parliament, on behalf of Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament.
The European Heritage Awards Ceremony will be live streamed here.
The ceremony is part of the European Cultural Heritage Summit 2025, taking place during 12-15 October 2025 in landmark buildings of Brussels, with the motto 'Heritage Matters for Europe'.
According to the organisers: “Holding this year’s European Cultural Heritage Summit in Brussels has a particular significance at a time when the European Commission is about to publish the EU’s very first “Culture Compass for Europe” and when EU Institutions and Member States have started discussing the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework Programme”.
This year’s theme focuses on pivotal key values of Europe, starting with peace, democracy and solidarity and reaffirms “the political, societal, economic and environmental relevance of cultural heritage for the future of Europe and its citizens”.
All participants who register here may attend the European Heritage Excellence Day (Sunday 12 October) at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and a guided visit to the House of European History (Monday 13 October). The Summit’s programme also includes the European Heritage Hub Forum in the Town Hall of Brussels in Grand Place, as “Heritage Matters for Europe’s Cities and Citizens” (Tuesday 14 October). On the last day of the Summit (Wednesday 15 October) the European Heritage Policy Agora will take place at the European Parliament's Zweig Visitor Centre, to discuss “The Europeans: Shared Cultural Roots and Values”, featuring a Europa Nostra Annual Lecture by the renowned historian Orlando Figes and a Dialogue with MEPs.
The Summit is organised by Europa Nostra and co-funded by the European Union, and the Ceremony, jointly organised by Europa Nostra and the European Commission, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme, and with support from the National Lottery of Belgium.
Find more on the European Cultural Heritage Summit 2025 here
Image © Gilles van den Abeele “Hôtel Solvay, Brussels, BELGIUM” by Europa Nostra, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
