FORTE CULTURA Network

EFFORTS Europe Congress 2025 'Inspiring across borders'
2025-12-02 00:00 - 2025-12-04 23:59 (Europe/Berlin) | Brussels
We invite you to the first cross-border annual EFFORTS travelling network congress: meet three cities in three countries and their fortified city development :

Arras (member of the UNESCO Réseau des Sites majeurs de Vauban – FR),

Bergen op Zoom (member city of Zuiderwaterlinie and Vereniging van Nederlandse Vestingsteden – NL)

Oudenaarde (member city of Vlaamse Vestingsteden and the Wellington Barrier City Cooperation, BE).

Connecting the three cities in a two-day travelling congress departing from Brussels, participants are invited to interact with city-planners and heritage experts working on a sustainable reuse of their fortified heritage and this in a European cross-border project space.

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The congress is free of charge for EFFORTS Europe members, courtesy of the participating cities and regional partners. Evening dinners are at own expense and participants are to organise hotels in Brussels themselves.

In cooperation with the cities of Arras (FR), Bergen op Zoom (NL) and Oudenaarde (BE)

FORTMED 2026, Rome (IT)
2026-02-19 00:00 - 2026-02-21 23:59
FORTIFICATIONS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN COASTInternational Conference – Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

FORTMED 2026_Roma is the ninth edition of the Conference Fortications of the Mediterranean Coast. The Conference, organized by the Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome, will take place on February 19, 20, and 21, 2026, at the new location of the Faculty of Architecture in Via Mariano Fortuny, in the Borghetto Flaminio area.

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INTERFEST Annual Congress 2026, Dresden (DE)
2026-04-15 00:00 - 2026-04-19 23:59 | Dresden, Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden, 01067, Germany
Jahrestreffen des Studienkreises für internationales Festungs-, Militär- und Schutzbauwesen (INTERFEST).

FORTE CULTURA Congress 2026, La Línea de la Concepción (ES)
2026-04-21 00:00 - 2026-04-24 23:59 | La Línea de la Concepción, La Línea de la Concepción, Spain
FORTE CULTURA General Assembly 2026

FORTE CULTURA Congress 2026 “From La Línea to Europe: Fortifications and Sustainable Tourism”

Excursions to La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Tarifa and probably Gibraltar

Exchange and get together

International Conference - Fortified Heritage for Tourism and Leisure, Valetta (MT)
2026-09-02 00:00 - 2026-09-04 23:59 | Fort St. Elmo, Valetta, Valetta, Malta
The Department of Tourism Management of the University of Malta is pleased to announce that it will host the FORTE CULTURA Malta Symposium 2026.

Dates: 2 to 4 September 2026.

Venue: Fort St. Elmo, Valletta, Malta

The Symposium will look at the conservation, architecture, management and tourism aspects relating to the rehabilitation and sustainable reuse of fortified heritage.

Tentative programme:

Day 1: Presentations by international delegates, including parallel workshops

Day 2: Visits to Fort St. Elmo, Fort St. Angelo and other fortified heritage sites around the Grand Harbour.

Day 3: – Morning: Presentations on Malta’s fortified heritage. – Afternoon: Visits to the fortified historic town of Mdina.

Managers of fortified heritage, tourism practitioners, conservation architects, urban planners, environmentalists, academics and others are invited to present their own experience and knowledge relating to the rehabilitation and management of fortified heritage.

So pencil the dates in your diary: 2 to 4 September 2026.

There will be no registration fee. Further information will be made available early in 2026.

If you are considering attending the FORTE CULTURA Malta Symposium or, better still, if you wish to give a presentation write to: john.ebejer@um.edu.mt or to office@forte-cultura.eu.

We welcome the submission of a paper in conjunction with your Symposium presentation. It is intended to produce a publication. Note however that this will not be peer reviewed.
