We invite representatives of the cultural sector to the training program “Heritage: Projects that Change Communities”.
As part of the training, we will improve practical skills in designing and implementing complex projects that will potentially have a long-term impact. The training program includes a lot of practice: consideration of successful Ukrainian cases of working with heritage, a lot of joint group work, idea development, and project design. The focus is on strategic planning, financial management, communication, partnerships, inclusiveness, and crisis management.
Training program format
We plan the training program to be flexible but also intense. The training will consist of 12 trainings, which will last 1-2 working days every two weeks. The introductory and final training will be mandatory. The rest are optional: you can take all 12 trainings, or only those that are most relevant to you. However, you will be required to attend at least 4 trainings. The program will last six months. We have also provided additional learning opportunities: expert consultations, networking events, networking, etc.
The final task will be a team project: developing a development initiative, presenting it, and defending it. Protected projects can also be submitted to the REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage grant competition to try to win funding for the implementation of a component.
We invite you to apply for the training program:
- cultural managers, museum managers, tourism and heritage managers;
- representatives of local governments (departments of culture, tourism, education);
- leaders of communities working with intercultural heritage.
The selection process will focus on experience (at least 1 year in the field of culture), involvement and work with objects/heritage, and motivation.
Registration is open until November 1, 2025 at the link.
The program will cover the following topics:
- Economics: financial modeling of heritage sites, solid projects in the public sphere, development financing (who funds and how).
- How to create a development initiative from individual projects: practices (cases).
- Sensitive topic of heritage: (intercultural and conflict heritage, uncanonization, commemoration and memorialization, the institution of memory).
- Instrumentalization of heritage: what is design or its absence.
- Partnerships: local, intersectoral, project-based.
- Impact evaluation — theory of change.
- Legal and management aspects.
- Digitalization (destruction of heritage).
- Cultural strategy, institutional landscape. Cultural policies. Advocacy.
- Communications in the field of cultural heritage.
- Approach to attracting grant funding (to selecting a grant opportunity).
- How to work with budget funding.
- Management of cultural heritage.
We want the participants to develop their competencies in the management and development of cultural heritage, with an emphasis on practical skills.
We invite you to apply by November 1. The training program “Heritage: Projects that Change Communities” will begin after November 10.
“REHERIT 2.0: Shared Responsibility for Common Heritage” is implemented by the Center for Urban History and the Centre for Regional Development of the PPV Economic Development Agency with the financial support of the European Union.
This publication was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. Its content is the sole responsibility of the partners of the REHERIT 2.0 project and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
