European Day of Parks 2018: Cultural Heritage-It’s in Our Nature!
The European Day of Parks is a commemorative day for Protected Areas across Europe that was launched in 1999 by the EUROPARC Federation to celebrate Protected Areas throughout Europe. It celebrates the creation of the 1st National Parks in Europe – a set of nine parks created in Sweden in 1909.
2018: Call for a joint celebration with the European Year of Cultural Heritage
Cultural Identity is rooted in the connection to the land. Look at your local traditions, at the stories your landscape tells, at the crafts, literature , and art, at the architectonic styles, or even at the food you eat… Cultural Heritage is, indeed, in our Nature!
Our Heritage: where the
past meets the future
is the key message of the 2018
European Year of Cultural Heritage
May this European Day of Parks in the European Year of Cultural Heritage be an opportunity for our Protected Areas to:
- connect people to their land, bridging natural heritage with their cultural identity;
- understand the past history of our land, and build a future that respects our heritage in all its diversity
We’ve created a short manual to help you developing your activities and events!
Download the Guidelines for Parks
Promotion Tools in your language!
Download the official poster and web banners to promote your event. This year, it’s also available a poster to personalize with your activities and a colouring version. All in your language!
An automatic download will start when you click over your language. NOTE: All images are in .png format, so you can easily edit them in paint or word. If you need the editable file (.ai or .eps) or a higher resolution please contact us to edop @ europarc.org.
There are 2 official posters of the European Day of Parks. in this version, you can also add in the details of your events.
Albanian | Bosnian | Bulgarian | Catalan | Croatian | Czech | Dutch | English | Estonian | French | German | Greek | Hungarian | Italian | Latvian | Lithuanian | Polish | Portuguese | Romanian | Serbian | Slovenian | Spanish
If you are not interested in using the official posters, you can also download the logo and use it in your activities.
Haven’t found tools in your language?
No problem! Just have to send us to edop @ europarc.org the translation of “European Day of Parks” and “Cultural Heritage: It’s in our Nature” and we will be delighted to produce tools in your language!
About the European Day of Parks
Imagine a day when all Parks and Protected Areas come together across Europe, celebrate their successes and declare the value and benefits of Europe’s Protected Areas to communities, decision-makers and the wider public. Well, it is EUROPARC’s European Day of Parks!
Every year European Day of Parks takes place on and around 24th of May. It aims to bring people closer to nature and raise public awareness on the importance of the natural beauty preserved in Protected Areas and the importance of conservation and sustainable management of those places.
Check here to see the previous editions.