As European Capital of Culture 2022, Kaunas was the venue for the EFFORTS Europe Annual Congress 2022. Fortress experts from 10 countries came together to talk about European cooperation and to find out about developments in the Kaunas fortress system in workshops. The European Fortress Summer 2022 also concluded in Kaunas. The EFFORTS Award 2022 was presented to Olha Tikhonova, representing the Ukrainian fortresses.

Since the kick-off on 6 April at the FORTE CULTURA Fortress Conference in Terezín (CZ), around 100 fortress events in more than 15 countries have taken part in the European Fortress Summer 2022. The European Fortress Summer, powered by EFFORTS and FORTE CULTURA, now concluded in Kaunas at the EFFORTS Annual Congress. FORTE CULTURA presented the new Fortress summer video and the Ukrainian fortresses were symbolically honoured with this year’s EFFORTS Award.