With the foundation and legalisation of the "Association of Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network" – "FORTS-2-MARKET" – in November 2014, there is now the guarantee to continue networking, marketing and tourism development of FORTE CULTURA in a wider range. With the adoption of a statute and membership fees, there is now also the base to win new members europe wide and to enlarge the network.

The purpose and mission of the association is to promote further conservation, the cultural touristic use and the public presentation of the European cultural heritage of fortified monuments as well as the trans-national co-operation in research and knowledge transfer as a contribution to European integration.

At the same time the first managing committee of the association was elected, consisting of five representatives from Germany, Hungary and Poland.

The new managing committee of the association “FORTS-2-MARKET” (from left to right): Hartmut Röder, Agnieszka Zurawska-Tatala and Erika Farkas (Members of the board), Dirk Röder (Treasurer) and Frank Riesbeck (Chairman). Foto: H.-R. Neumann