In 1985, in Granada, at the 2nd European Conference of Ministers responsible for Architectural Heritage, the French Minister of Culture proposed that the project be internationalised under the Council of Europe.
Several websites are maintained, and various initiatives are undertaken to assist protected property owners and to increase public awareness, most notably the European Heritage Days, which are called (fr) "Journées du patrimoine en Wallonie", (nl) "Open Monumentendagen", and (de) "Tage des offenen Denkmals", depending on the language of the locale.
European Union | European Parliament | Member of the European Parliament | European Commission | World Heritage Site | European Space Agency | European | Happy Days | European Court of Human Rights | English Heritage | European Court of Justice | European Economic Community | West Midlands (European Parliament constituency) | Around the World in Eighty Days | European People's Party | Indo-European languages | Days of our Lives | Party of European Socialists | Three Days Grace | Hundred Days | European Convention on Human Rights | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | The Last Days of Pompeii | Proto-Indo-European language | President of the European Parliament | List of women in the Heritage Floor | European route E65 | European Poker Tour | heritage railway | European Touring Car Championship |
The German-speaking Community of Belgium, part of the area known as "East Belgium" also hosts the European Heritage Days, and calls them "Tage des offenen Denkmals".