The 2026 European Heritage Awards/ @europanostra.bsky.social Awards winners are out!
3️⃣0️⃣outstanding achievements from 18 countries🌍 promoting excellence in cultural heritage.
Vote for your favourite to win the Public Choice Award by 12 May.
🔗 link.europa.eu/qmbG4P
Spotlight:
🇵🇹 Lagar Velho Rockshelter, a complete prehistorical skeleton. Its discovery reshaped our understanding of European evolution & identity.
🔗 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
On #WorldHeritageDay, the spotlight turns to the European Heritage Label.
Since 2011, 80 locations across Europe have been recognised under the Label.
On 22 April, 13 newly selected sites will be celebrated at the EHL award ceremony.
Discover them 👉 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
On 20 April, @glennmicallefeu.bsky.social & leading experts will discuss how to help shape the online world to make European content more visible.
A new study reveals where action is needed to make EU music & literature stand out in a crowded digital environment.
🔗 lnkd.in/eK9A9_uX
The winners of the 2026 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture are out! 🏆
Charleroi Palais des Expositions 🇧🇪 & Temporary National Theatre 🇸🇮
Two projects showing how existing spaces can be transformed into sustainable, inclusive & vibrant places.
🔗 link.europa.eu/MpkFGN
Spotlight:
🇮🇹 Bosco delle Querce Park, a symbol of ecological recovery & sustainability.
🇲🇹 Saint Paul’s Catacombs, showcasing Europe’s early religious diversity.
🇵🇱 Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music, fostering musical cultural exchange.
🔗 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
Through the eyes of a fly, a city comes alive.
In "Maribor Hypnosis", 🇨🇿 Czech author Dora Kaprálová blends illusion, storytelling & unexpected perspective into a journey through a foreign place.
Learn more about the #EUPL shortlisted authors: link.europa.eu/Wb9Njf
Let's spotlight:
🇫🇮 Varkaus, reflecting Northern Europe’s industrial growth & collaboration.
🇫🇷 Rashi of Troyes, honouring one of history’s most influential commentators.
🇩🇪 Pader Urban River Landscape, showcasing sustainable urban water management.
🔗 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
A story of courage, memory and resistance from Cyprus.
In "Sorely Grieved: Eleni of Karpasia" Evridiki Pericleous-Papadopoulou recounts the life of a teacher who stayed to educate children under occupation after 1974.
An #EUPL shortlisted author.
🔗 link.europa.eu/Wb9Njf
The Creative Europe public dashboard is now live 📊
Explore data, track trends and gain insights into how cultural and creative sectors are supported across Europe and beyond— all in one place.
👉 Discover more & dive into the data: link.europa.eu/pDkQKp
Let's spotlight:
⛰️ Provadia-Solnitsata, a 🇧🇬 prehistoric salt-production hub.
🏰 Places of Peace, 7⃣ European sites across 6⃣ countries that symbolize peace & cultural exchange.
🏢 Free Speech network sites, honouring 🇨🇿 freedom of expression fight.
🔗 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
A girl sits by a train window, looking outside at a landscape as the train moves. Overlaid text reads: The EU is giving out free travel passes, and nobody is talking about it. The European Parliament logo appears in the corner.
If you're 18, you can travel across Europe for free.
With DiscoverEU, young people can apply for a travel pass to explore Europe for up to 30 days.
8–22 April 2026 📅
Apply: youth.europa.eu/discovereu
What determines which European voices are seen or lost in the digital world?
A new study shows how to make European content more visible, discoverable, and engaging in today’s complex digital world. 🌐
➡️ Read the full study: link.europa.eu/PmGBJg
Today, we are spotlighting: Mariemont 🇧🇪
From a Renaissance estate to a public cultural domain, Mariemont in Belgium reflects visionary European personalities and the legacy of women patrons in arts and culture.
🔗 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
92K of you explored the Brussels Book Fair @foirelivrebxl this week-end, a record!📚🇧🇪
A great moment for 🇪🇺 literature, also from our Creative Europe stand, with new EU projects highlights, discussions, our books donation to Ukraine & presence of Commissioner @GlennMicallef!
In "The Paper of Your Skin", 🇭🇷 author Lora Tomaš tells an intimate story of travel, grief and complex relationships.
This voice is shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature.
🔗 link.europa.eu/Wb9Njf
Do you like stories where travel transforms the inner journey?
This post's spotlight: Landeszeughaus 🇦🇹
This EHL site connects centuries of European conflict, trade, and cultural exchange. From arms depot to symbol of peace, it tells Europe’s story of transformation.
🔗 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
🏛️ Spotlight: La Nau Cultural Centre
Since 1499, the Universitat de València has promoted Humanism, inclusive education, and intellectual debate in Europe.
Today, La Nau symbolizes centuries of learning, culture, and European educational heritage.
🔗 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
Our first #EUPL spotlight: 🇦🇲Sargis Hovsepyan with "You Die Today, I Die Tomorrow."
His work traces one woman’s search for a forgotten victim of Stalinist repression — a journey through archives, family silences and the weight of unresolved history.
🔗 link.europa.eu/WkVX3G
Join us at the Brussels Book Fair (26–29 March)
📍 Stand 148–152 at Tour & Taxis
Each year we support ~500 translated books across Europe.
200+ writers backed by the EU Prize for Literature
and special dedicated support for Ukrainian books.
🔗 link.europa.eu/WkVX3G
To start the weekend we have the 1⃣spotlighted EHL site: “Free Speech” network in 🇨🇿.
Commemorating the fight for freedom of expression under 20th-century totalitarian regimes. The sites preserve the memory of struggles that shaped European democracy.
link.europa.eu/mfd49V
📚The book sector is at our core. An example? Our LIT call results:
499 works supported
46 translation projects
76 organisations in 23 countries
We promote literary diversity, translators, inclusion & sustainability.
🔗 link.europa.eu/jtK7BK
We have fresh ECOC news!
4⃣cities have been shortlisted for ECOC 2031 in Spain.
Congratulations to Cáceres, Granada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Oviedo!
With the support of Creative Europe, ECOC shapes their future through culture.
Read more: link.europa.eu/PRTckg
Women shape Europe’s cultural scene 🎭
Under Creative Europe – Culture strand, 56% of artists and cultural professionals working across borders are women.
We’re proud to support projects empowering women and girls, from feminist public art to the rise of female rappers.
The Call for European Cooperation Projects 2026 is open!
Are you a cultural or creative organisation?
No matter the size, if you are to collaborate across borders and boost artistic creation, innovation & circulation, apply now!
🔗 link.europa.eu/yQKd7g
Deadline: 5 May
The European Prize for Literature 2026 shortlist is out 📚
🇪🇺 14 emerging authors
🌍 14 countries
📖 Countless new stories
Supported by Creative Europe, the prize promotes linguistic diversity and helps literature travel across borders.
🔗 link.europa.eu/Wb9Njf
Inclusive Comics brings real stories of displacement and survival to life through three powerful comic books.
With Creative Europe support, the project empowers women creators and keeps cross-border dialogue alive.
#StandWithUkraine
🔗 link.europa.eu/xHt6F4
📣 Today we unveiled the #7MostEndangered Heritage Sites in Europe 2026, in the frame of our #7ME programme supported by @eib.org and @creativeeurope.bsky.social.
🧵Find out which sites were selected 👇
Discover more about the 2026 #7MostEndangered sites: www.europanostra.org/europa-nostr...
The European Heritage Label continues to recognise sites that define our shared cultural identity.
🏛️Today, 1⃣3⃣ new sites have been awarded!
Since 2011,➡️80 sites have been recognised for their role in European history and integration.
Read more: link.europa.eu/j74yX7
Happy International Mother Language Day!💙
The 🇪🇺 is committed to protecting not only its 24 official EU languages, but 60+ regional and minority languages that enrich our shared heritage👏
#ErasmusPlus and @creativeeurope.bsky.social
support language diversity: link.europa.eu/ktDBxM
