European Heritage Label
European Heritage Label is a European Commission initiative implemented within the Creative Europe programme. The European Commission designates the Label to sites located within the European Union, carrying a powerful symbolic European value and highlighting the common European history as well as the establishment of the European Union, European values and human rights as the foundation for the European integration process.
The European Heritage Label aims to strengthen the sense of belonging to the European Union amongst European citizens, based on the common values, elements of common European history and cultural heritage, recognition of national and regional differences and strengthening of mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue.Since 2013, the site designation process is conducted biannually for transnational, national and thematic sites. The selection occurs on two levels: on the national level, each member state may nominate two sites per year of application, to be submitted by their respective national coordinators; and on the European level, a European independent expert panel proposes the sites to be designated to the European Commission, proposing one site per member state.
The fundamental criteria for the Label designation include: symbolic European value of the site, the quality of the project proposal in promoting the European dimension, and the quality of the proposed work plan.
Since 2013, sixty sites throughout the Europe, with a strong European dimension, have been designated with the Label.
Croatian holder of the European Heritage Label:
1. KRAPINA NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM AND HUŠNJAKOVO EXCAVATION SITE.jpg)
Photo: Damir Fabijanić
2. THE VUČEDOL CULTURE MUSEUM AND THE VUČEDOL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
Photo: Marko Balaži
3. ST. FRANCIS MONASTERY IN ZADAR - Places of Peace (Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia and Bulgaria)
NEWS
European Heritage Label sites are monitored every 4 years in order to ensure that they continue to meet the criteria for the award of the European Heritage Label as set out in the Decision establishing the action.
The panel has concluded that all 38 sites monitored in 2020, including Neanderthal Prehistoric Site and Krapina Museum, continue to meet the criteria for the award of the European Heritage Label.
More information are available at: https://ec.europa.eu/culture/document/european-heritage-label-panel-report-monitoring-2020
⇒ All information regarding the European Heritage Label, the guidelines document and site application forms are available at the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/culture/cultural-heritage/initiatives-and-success-stories/european-heritage-label/application-process-european-heritage-label
European Heritage Label contacts at the Ministry of Culture and Media
NATIONAL COORDINATOR
Anuška Deranja Crnokić
Acting Director of Directorate for Archives, Libraries and Museums
CONTACT POINT
Morana Bigač Leš
Creative Europe Office
E-mail: ehl@min-kulture.hr
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