European Heritage Volunteers is a member of the Expert Group on Cultural Heritage of the European Commission.

In 2025, European Heritage Volunteers received two awards: the “Star of Outstanding” at the 2025 Global Awards for World Heritage Education Innovative Cases and a European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2025 in the category “Education, Training & Skills.”

European Heritage Volunteers' project "Good practices of volunteering for European cultural heritage" within the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 had been selected by the State Miniser for Culture and the Media of the Federal Republic of Germany as a "project of all-state relevance".

The project "Good practices of volunteering for European cultural heritage" had been extended in for another year. The two-year project 2018 / 2019 had been awarded with a special mentioning within the Europa Nostra Awards / European Heritage Awards 2020.

The same project had been selected as finalist of the 5th Edition of the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention 2021.