Our foundation, PDKEKA, created the Heritagebuilder.eu website as its first major project, with the mission to digitally preserve the architectural heritage of Central and Eastern Europe. We believe that our region’s beautiful, diverse, and often overlooked built environment deserves to be safeguarded in digital form — so that its beauty and its stories remain accessible for future generations.

Our goal is to ensure that we, the people of Eastern Europe, can tell our own stories through the buildings, towns, and landscapes that shaped us. Over the next five years, we aim to map every significant monument and heritage-worthy building in the Central and Eastern European region, and to share the stories behind them — from the perspective of local communities.

At the heart of our foundation’s work lies the rich culture of our region: its many languages, its varied economies, its history of shifting borders, and its complex ethnic landscape. We believe that these layers of identity can be felt and understood most vividly through architecture. Buildings — whether homes, churches, castles, or public institutions — carry the memory of the past and the spirit of the people who built and used them.

This is why we consider the heritage-mapping project essential: it serves as the foundational encyclopedia of our region’s built heritage, a structured base for all future initiatives. It is fundamental work that brings clarity, connection, and visibility — and it enables us to preserve the beauty and diversity of Eastern Europe together.