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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 with Warsaw. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, where she studied at L’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette and at the Technische Universität in Berlin. Her diploma 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 on 26–28 April 2006 by Dr. Simon Thurley, former Chief Executive Officer of English Heritage. The mission of the Summit was to gather the European cultural heritage leaders for the first time, creating an opportunity to exchange on their experiences heritage management and initiate common actions. The first Summit was attended by 23 European states which agreed, in the Final Statement of the Summit, to continue meeting annually as a forum of European heritage heads, known as the “European Heritage Heads Forum”. Each year, future hosting countries are chosen by general agreement at the annual meeting, so that the tradition may perpetuate.

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