The European Cultural Heritage Summit will take place in Berlin and Potsdam from 18 to 24 June 2018
Press release from 05/25/2018
The European Cultural Heritage Summit under the motto "Sharing Heritage - Sharing Values" is Europe's largest event in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The Summit - supported by the European Union, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe - is organised under the leadership of the German National Committee for Monument Protection (DNK), the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and Europa Nostra.
This is the first time that such an international summit has been organised in this form and represents a unique platform for exchange between various stakeholders from the field of cultural heritage. Most of the specialist events will take place from 18 to 21 June. Organisers include the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, the German UNESCO Commission, the German Foundation for Monument Protection, the German Federal Environmental Foundation, the British Council, Eurocities, NEMO, ICOMOS, the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, the Humboldt University of Berlin, Bertelsmann and the Goethe-Institut. Some events are aimed specifically at a younger audience (Youth Conference "Remembrance Culture in a Digital World", Student Summit "Culture Up Your Future - Living out European Heritage in the Digital Age", Young Professionals Summit "Kulturerbe ist Zukunft / The Future is Heritage").
As part of the European Policy Debate "Sharing Heritage - Sharing Values", the role of cultural heritage in relation to European values, identity and cohesion policy will be discussed at a high political level on 22 June at the Alliance Forum and the Berlin Congress Center. Speakers will include: Tibor Navracsics, EU Commissioner for Education; Corina Creţu, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy; Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of the Committee of the Regions; Luca Jahier, President of the European Economic and Social Committee and Françoise Nyssen, French Minister of Culture. The "Berlin Call" will also be presented as part of the debate. This represents an important contribution to the "New European Agenda for Culture" and the "Action Plan for Cultural Heritage", which are currently being prepared by the European Commission.
On the evening of 22 June, this year's winners of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage (Europa Nostra Award) will be honoured in a festive ceremony at the Berlin Congress Center. The ceremony will be attended by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in his capacity as patron of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in Germany, Plácido Domingo, opera singer and President of Europa Nostra, and director Wim Wenders, among others.
On Saturday 23 June, the public will be invited to the "European Picnic in Sanssouci" below the terraces of the Orangery Palace. On Sunday 24 June, the hands-on market "Wir Erben!" will take place on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt.
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