What is EUNIC?

EUNIC is the European Union National Institutes for Culture. The purpose of EUNIC is to create effective partnerships and networks between the participating organisations, to improve and promote cultural diversity and understanding between European societies, and to strengthen international dialogue and co-operation with countries outside Europe.

EUNIC events in Lithuania

Europa Nostra is the pan-European Federation of non-governmental and non-profit heritage organisations. This federation is the representative platform of 225 member organisations, 170 associate members and 1300 individual members active in Europe. It is the voice of this vast movement of European civil society active in the field of heritage towards international bodies concerned, in particular the European Union Institutions, the Council of Europe and UNESCO.

Why do we want to find Grandfathers Footsteps in Lithuania?
Iver Henningsen became a sanitarian soldier (Red Cross) on the Eastern Front and participated in the fightings in 1915 both near Augostowo, Polen and through Lithuanian from Marijampolė to Zarazai. He wrote more than 150 letters and made 106 drawings, which he sent back to his family in the town Hadersleben, near the Danish Border.

With this letters and drawings in our hands and minds our small group we want to walk and drive the same route as Iver Henningsen did in Poland and Lithuanian to meet the landscapes and especially the followers of the people he met in 1915.

It will be a journey in the past, but also a journey into a part of the new Europe, which not many Danish people have knowledge of.