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About European Heritage Days 2025

The European Heritage Days 2025 focus on architectural heritage – the common theme is "Heritage and Architecture: Windows to the Past, Doors to the Future." Organisers are invited to contribute events that showcase and celebrate architecture as cultural heritage, addressing issues such as design, conservation, and the cultural and social significance of architecture.

Una Europa is happy to join this year's call of the European Heritage Days by presenting a gallery of noteworthy buildings on its partners‘ campuses. This image gallery highlights the history, diversity, significance and beauty of academic architecture in Europe. In the focus area of Cultural Heritage, Una Europa promotes a holistic understanding of cultural heritage as expressing and shaping societal identities and values. The built environment of universities reflects a specific domain of institutional life, often grown over centuries and influenced by the academic cultures that create and use it, and it projects visions and aspirations of the future of learning, teaching and researching together. 

Explore our gallery of images from our partner universities and learn more about buildings on the campuses of:

Institute for Theatre Studies

The Institute for Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin has been housed in the building designed by architect Hans Th. Lehmann since 1999. Originally, the building was constructed for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) who moved there in 1940.

Restaurant Building of UCD

University College Dublin moved to the suburbs of south-eastern Dublin in the 1960s. Construction began on the Restaurant Building in May 1968. After a spend of half a million Irish Pounds the Restaurant Building was opened in September 1970.

National Library of Finland

The National Library of Finland is part of Helsingin Yliopisto / Helsingfors Universitet (University of Helsinki). It was designed by German architect Carl Ludvig Engel. The main building was completed in 1840 and the Rotunda was built by 1906 to extend storage facilities.

Facultades de Filología y Filosofía

The Faculties of Philology and Philosophy are in one of the most important buildings in Madrid's Ciudad Universitaria. It was rebuilt after the Spanish Civil War. In 1935, the Maumejean workshop created a stained glass window for the main lobby, based on a design by Agustín Aguirre López.

Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie

The Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie was inaugurated in 1930. It offered large exhibition spaces to house the collections of antiquities and casts gathered at the Sorbonne. Since 1970, the building has housed the art history and archaeology departments of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Lichthof of UZH Main Building

The new main building of Universität Zürich was designed by Swiss architect Karl Moser and inaugurated in 1914. It features an impressive glass-roofed courtyard at its center. Originally, a collection of casts of ancient statues and reliefs was displayed there, some of which are still on view today.