Vacancies for the workshops are limited, so please apply early.

The Engaging Communities Winter School is a fully online, advanced training program designed to provide a more comprehensive and practice-oriented learning experience than our 4-day Online Workshop, while remaining accessible to those unable to attend the in-person Summer School.

Building on the core theoretical foundations shared across all our training formats, the Winter School introduces participants to key methodological approaches and practical tools, such as qualitative interviewing and fieldwork preparation through an extended and structured online format.

The Winter School is intentionally designed to enrich participants’ understanding of community engagement in a flexible, accessible, and academically rigorous format. It is ideal for professionals, researchers, and students seeking deeper engagement with the subject matter in an online environment.

HERITΛGE provides scholarships to most participants in its training programmes. These scholarships can cover up to 90% of the cost of attendance, depending on the circumstances of the participants and the availability of funding. Read more on Fees & Scholarships.

For details on the application procedures, see the official announcement of the workshop here.

On successfully completing the Winter School students will be able to:

• demonstrate an understanding of the principles of community engagement, collaborative research and heritage values
• conduct research in a dynamic mode, tailored to community needs and community engagement initiatives
• demonstrate skills in applied ethnography, doing long-distance oral history interviews and digitally documenting personal narratives and material objects
• ponder on the uses of art and artistic research in the preservation, highlighting and interpretation of heritage, and its role in engaging communities
• develop an understanding of asset-based community engagement
• develop an understanding of ethnographic methods and approaches
• analyze case studies of community outreach initiatives from the Global South through real life interviews and presentations
• evaluate the ethical issues (and challenges) surrounding community participation and engagement.