Europe’s top heritage award winners were celebrated with a memorable online Ceremony on 10 November. More than 1,000 people from around the world watched the livestream of the Ceremony to witness the announcement of the three Grand Prix laureates and the Public Choice Award winner, selected from among the 21 winners of the 2020 European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, and the unveiling of the two winners of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes, for excellence in heritage-led innovation and international relations.
The virtual European Heritage Awards Ceremony was co-hosted by Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, and Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, Secretary General of Europa Nostra, with the participation of Hermann Parzinger, Executive President of Europa Nostra.
Koen Van Balen, Coordinator of the ILUCIDARE project, introduced the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes for cultural heritage-led innovation and international relations, emphasising how cultural heritage can spur innovation in many ways and how it can be a key element in people-to-people international relations. The winners of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2020 were then unveiled by Commissioner Gabriel: TYPA – the Estonian Print and Paper Museum in Tartu, Estonia, for excellence in heritage-led innovation; Archaeology for a Young Future, a collaborative project by partners in Italy and Syria, for excellence in heritage-led international relations.
Unfortunately the nominated project from ‘s-Hertogenbosch did not win the ILUCIDARE Special Prize for excellence in heritage-led innovation. Huibert Crijns was however invited to co-host the Europa Nostra workshop “fostering sustainability” and shared his experience. This was a great platform to share lessons learned from the Local Flavours project.
The good practice from ‘s-Hertogenbosch is included in the booklet about the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2020: issuu.com/europanostra/docs/2020-awards-magazine
