EFFORTS - European Federation of Fortified Sites jobs and careers

About EFFORTS - European Federation of Fortified Sites

EFFORTS mission is to share expertise, promote cooperation and emphasize the significance of fortified heritage as a continuing connection to our common European history and as a condition for social, economic and spatial development. The EFFORTS priorities are: • Dissemination of knowledge, internal and external • Creating the European network of fortified cities, regions, sites and of fortification organizations • Organizing access to funding and joint action opportunities for members • Working towards policy influencing The EFFORTS vision is: Military heritage forms a special part of our cultural heritage and consequently of the collective memory of Europe. Preservation and re-use of this heritage is important because of, the special architecture and engineering; the opportunities for strengthening the intercultural and international dialogue and the local challenges in the socio-economic field after the military departed. The EFFORTS motto is: from stronghold to welcoming arms. Until now an active European network of fortified towns, forts and lines of defence was non-existent so that this specific part of heritage was insufficiently represented in a European context. EFFORTS ih here to change that!