EFFORTS

EFFORTS is the European network organisation established in 2017 to share knowledge and practical expertise on military heritage, such as walled towns, forts & and defence lines. The basis for EFFORTS was laid during the final conference of the At Fort Interreg IVC project in Suomenlinna, Helsinki (Finland 2014) and international conferences on military heritage in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands 2016), Berlin-Spandau Zitadelle (Germany 2017), Venice (Italy 2018), Antwerp (Belgium 2019), Oudenaarde and Brussels (Belgium 2020 and 2021) and Kaunas (Lithuania 2022). Today EFFORTS unites more than 150 European fortified sites and networks in 23 countries and is growing. Since 2018 EFFORTS has been a European professional representation of fortified sites. It is member of the Europa Nostra managed European Heritage Alliance 3.3. EFFORTS' main mission is the structuring of European cooperation and keeping military fortified heritage on the European policy agenda. EFFORTS believes that European..

Primary location: Maastricht Netherlands