Volunteering is an ideal instrument to bring abandoned or overlooked heritage sites back to the awareness of the public. This may happen for different reasons: because a heritage site is in danger to fall in decay, because a heritage site which had been so far accessible for the public is endangered by privatisation, because important elements of a bigger heritage ensemble are in danger to become forgotten, or others.
In most of the cases the voluntarily engagement can be only the first step to draw the publics’ attention on the particular heritage site or on its state of conservation, and in a second step more substantial measures must follow. But sometimes interventions on a voluntary base which originally had been planned only as a singular or temporary action become the starting point of a long and sustainable process, of substantial and responsible activities for endangered heritages.
Also European Heritage Volunteers’ own history had started in that way – with small, temporary and very specific measures in order to protect endangered heritage sites from decay – as repairing roofs, undertaking water management measures, creating supporting constructions for the static stabilisation of heritage sites and similar activities. Having these own experiences in mind European Heritage Volunteers supports initiatives which are willing to overtake the – temporary or permanent – responsibility for endangered heritage sites by organising volunteering projects at these sites.
Benedictine Abbey Tyniec / Malopolska Region
POLAND
Volunteering Project 2021
World Heritage site Yuso Monastery, San Millán / La Rioja Region
SPAIN
Training Course 2021
Mariabrunn Monastery Complex / Vienna
AUSTRIA
Training Course 2021
Kenozero National Park - Gorbachikha Village / Arkhangelsk Region
RUSSIA
Volunteering Project 2021
Aleksander Melik-Pashaev House Shaumiani Village / Marneuli Region
GEORGIA
Volunteering Project 2021
Schlierbach Monastery / Upper Austria
AUSTRIA
Training Course 2021
Tappo water mill and dam / Kimito island / Anoland Region FINLAND
Volunteering Project 2021
Former synagogue and mikweh Halberstadt / Saxony-Anhalt
GERMANY
Training Course 2021
Lohra Castle / Thuringia
GERMANY
Volunteering Project 2021
Ensemble of the fortified church Movile / Sibiu County
ROMANIA
Volunteering Project 2021
World Heritage site Studenica Monastery / Raška District
SERBIA
Training Course 2021
Kozichkovi houses / Kotel / Sliven Region
BULGARIA
Training Course 2021
Ensemble of the fortified church Hosman / Sibiu County
ROMANIA
Volunteering Project 2021
Effendi Villa Kobuleti / Autonomous Republic of Adjara
GEORGIA
Training Course 2021
World Heritage site Historic Centre of Vienna, Upper Belvedere Castle
AUSTRIA
Past Training Course
Tematín Castle / Trencín Region
SLOVAKIA
Past Training Course
Halsbrücke / Saxony
GERMANY
Past Volunteering Project
Kenozero National Park / Archangelsk Region
RUSSIA
Past Volunteering Project
St. Mary's Church at Maligrad Island / Korca Region
ALBANIA
Past Volunteering Project
Church of Benedictine Abbey Tyniec / Malopolska Region
POLAND
Past Training Course
Erxleben Castle / Sachsen-Anhalt
GERMANY
Past Training Course
Former Grand Hotel Waldlust Freudenstadt / Baden-Württemberg
GERMANY
Past Volunteering Project
Marksburg / Rhineland-Palatinate
GERMANY
Past Volunteering Project
Zorats Chutch / Vayodz Dzor Region
ARMENIA
Past Volunteering Project
Himara / Vlora Region
ALBANIA
Past Volunteering Project
Couchy Castle / Aisne Départment
FRANCE
Past Training Course
Church of Benedictine Abbey Tyniec / Malopolska Region
POLAND
Past Training Course
Pidkamin / Lviv Oblast
UKRAINE
Past Volunteering Project
