A call for ‘European Heritage Stories’ hopes to identify the European dimension of heritage sites and heritage work undertaken by the communities in Europe, while ‘All you have to do is fill in the application form and your story will be published on the EHDs portal’.
European Heritage Stories writes:
The Call for European Heritage Stories intends to identify the European Dimension of heritage sites and heritage work undertaken by the communities in Europe. It refers to past or existing ‘stories’ that communities would like to share and potentially develop into a project to further contribute to their communities. The Call for European Stories was launched as an activity of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, the successes of which it now aims to build on, and supporting the European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage, adopted in December 2018 to secure the long term impact of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. In the framework of the joint vision of shared European values, the Call is also open to the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award winners and the European Heritage Label sites.
The Call for European Stories is open to:
- EHDs communities from 50 European States signatory to the European Cultural Convention that have organised at least one EHD event in the last three years:
- EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award winners and;
- European Heritage Label sites.
If you are an organiser of a project involving European cultural heritage, with a mission to share your experience with the rest of Europe, or if you have an idea for a new project then you are indeed the true storyteller we are looking for! All you have to do is fill in the application form and your story will be published on the EHDs portal.
- If the Story has the potential to be developed into a specific one-off project, organisations will also be able to apply for a grant through a second round of applications.
- Detailed information on eligibility can be found in the EHD Stories Brochure.In order to have the European Story received and promoted as such, any individual or legal entity can submit their entry.
You can submit your story through the application form available from the website. It should be noted that one of the objectives of the Call for European Stories is to empower communities and provide for an open space where multiple narratives could and should co-exist. Therefore, the European Heritage Days invites storytellers to outline their own vision of the European Dimension and what the European values referenced in their heritage sites and work are. Trends identified in this and future Calls will be included in the updated definition of the European Dimension on a European level. Each community can submit up to three stories per Call and up to one project proposal to be eligible for the grant procedure (maximum €10 000) connected with one of the submitted stories.
Detailed information can be found in the EHD Stories Brochure.
