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Europa Nostra (Latin for "Our Europe"), the pan-European Federation for Cultural Heritage, represents a rapidly growing citizens’ movement for safeguarding Europe's cultural and natural heritage. It is the voice of this movement to relevant international bodies, in particular the European Union, the Council of Europe and UNESCO. It has consultative status with UNESCO and is recognised as an NGO partner. Europa Nostra's network covers almost 50 countries across Europe and beyond. It is composed of over 250 member organisations (heritage associations and foundations with a combined membership of more than 5 million people), 150 associated organisations (governmental bodies, local authorities and corporations) and also 1500 individual members who directly support the mission of Europa Nostra. Europa Nostra's main goal is to place heritage and its benefits in the mainstream of public consciousness and to make heritage a higher priority for public policy both at European and national levels. Its specific objectives are to promote, at a European level, high standards of quality in the fields of heritage conservation, architecture, urban and rural planning and to advocate a balanced and sustainable development of urban and rural, built and natural environment. Europa Nostra also seeks to highlight the importance of cultural heritage as a building block of European identity and as contributiing to a strengthening sense of European citizenship. Europa Nostra was founded in 1963 on the initiative of Italia Nostra, as a response to the serious threat to the survival of Venice, caused by regular flooding. In 1991 it merged with the ''Internationales Burgen Institut'' (the International Castles Institute), itself created in 1949. Today, Europa Nostra is presided over by world-renowned opera singer, Maestro Plácido Domingo (Spain) and its Executive President is Denis de Kergorlay (France). Previous presidents have been HRH the Infanta Doña Pilar de Borbón from Spain (2007–2009), HRH the Prince Consort of Denmark (1990–2007) and Hans de Koster from the Netherlands (1984–1990). Its activities are coordinated by an International Secretariat based in The Hague (Netherlands) headed by Europa Nostra's Secretary General, Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović (Netherlands/Serbia). In several countries, the International Secretariat is assisted in its tasks by country representations. Europa Nostra's main activities are: # to act as a representative lobby for cultural heritage in Europe # to celebrate and promote excellence through the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards; # to save Europe's historic monuments, sites and cultural landscapes which are in danger, and # to animate a network of cultural heritage stakeholders in Europe. == Lobby for cultural heritage == Acting as a European cultural heritage lobby, Europa Nostra seeks to secure adequate support for cultural heritage in various areas of European policy-making and funding. It advocates the need to take cultural heritage into consideration when formulating and implementing all European and national policies which have an impact – direct or indirect – on heritage. Europa Nostra also seeks to highlight the importance and the specific character of cultural heritage within the wider cultural and policy agenda of its international partners, the European Union, Council of Europe, and UNESCO. During its European Heritage Congress held in Amsterdam (June 2011), Europa Nostra and 27 other European and international networks and organisations active in the wider field of cultural heritage decided to set up the European Heritage Alliance 3.3. In March 2010, Europa Nostra opened a liaison office in Brussels, whose task is to coordinate Europa Nostra's lobbying of EU institutions and other European and international bodies based in Brussels, Strasbourg and Paris. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Europa Nostra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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