Slide 1

Poland

NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD

Marlena Happach has been appointed acting director of the National Heritage Institute – a new cultural institution established pursuant to the order of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of 17 May 2024 on the merger of state cultural institutions: the National Heritage Institute and the National Institute for Monument Conservation and the establishment of a state cultural institution – the National Heritage Institute, as of 10 June 2024. Marlena Happach is an architect, urban planner, and social activist associated in Warsaw. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, and also studied at L’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette and at the Technische Universität in Berlin. Her thesis, The Concept of Transforming the Stegny Housing Estate, was awarded the Erhard Busk Prize.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY
The first European Heritage Summit was organised in London from April 26 to 28, 2006 by Dr Simon Thurley, former Chief Executive of English Heritage. The mission of the summit was to bring together for the first time those responsible for Europe's cultural heritage, to create an opportunity to exchange experiences in heritage management and to initiate joint action. The first summit brought together 23 European countries, who agreed in the summit's final declaration to continue to meet annually in the form of a European Heritage Heads Forum. Each year, future host countries are chosen by mutual agreement at the annual meeting, so that the tradition can continue.

Permanent Secretariat - secretariat@ehhf.eu
Place Saint-Géry 23, 1000 Brussels