We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for our 2026 Summer Field Schools in Greece. This year’s programmes bring together community focused heritage practice, advanced digital documentation, and hands-on field experience. Both summer schools offer updated structures for 2026, including more flexible online learning, expanded field components, and a strong emphasis on collaboration, critical thinking, and practical application.

Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage

Dates: 08 to 28 June 2026
Hybrid Programme: Online and Paros, Greece
Application Deadline: 1 March 2026
Deadline for Greek Living Heritage Network applicants: TBC

This programme explores how cultural heritage professionals can work with communities in meaningful, responsible, and sustainable ways. The online opening week introduces key concepts, participatory methods, community empowerment, and ethical engagement. The two-week in-person phase on Paros brings these ideas to life through field visits, workshops, and collaboration with local stakeholders. Participants gain valuable skills in communication, facilitation, co-creation, and community driven heritage interpretation, making this course ideal for practitioners, students, and researchers seeking a grounded approach to engagement.

Programme Structure

8 to 14 June: Online training programme

15 to 28 June: Field School in Paros, Greece

Read more and apply here. 

Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage Management

Dates: 24 April to 18 June 2026
Hybrid Programme: Online and Nafplio and Tolo, Greece
Application Deadline: 13 April 2026

The 2026 edition introduces a redesigned and extended online training format based on participant feedback and evolving professional needs. The new structure provides more time between online sessions to process material and practise techniques, more time between the online period and the field school to support preparation, no conventional lectures with trainers instead acting as supervisors and consultants, and a more on-demand and flexible learning model rather than a strict schedule.

Programme Structure

24 April to 2 June: Online training programme
24 April to 15 May: Cartography using GIS (Online)
19 to 29 May: Photogrammetry and Image Based 3D Modelling (Online)
7 to 18 June: Field School in Nafplio and Tolo (In person), featuring photogrammetry, image based 3D modelling, and terrestrial laser scanning

This hybrid model allows participants to build skills steadily online before applying them intensively in the field school.

Read more and apply here. 

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Ανακοίνωση Υποτροφιών για το Θερινό Σχολείο «Ενεργοποίηση Κοινοτήτων στην Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά» στην Πάρο

Ο οργανισμός HERITΛGE (Πρωτοβουλία για την Ανάδειξη της Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς), στα πλαίσια της συμμετοχής του στο Δίκτυο Ζώσας Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς, ανακοινώνει την προκήρυξη δυο υποτροφίων για τη συμμετοχή στο Θερινό Σχολείο “Ενεργοποίηση Κοινοτήτων για την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά”.

Οι υποτροφίες απευθύνονται σε επαγγελματίες ή ενεργούς πολίτες που δραστηριοποιούνται στη διαχείριση και ανάδειξη της πολιτιστικής και καλύπτουν τα δίδακτρα του θερινού σχολείου. Η διαμονή και η σίτιση των συμμετεχόντων δεν καλύπτεται. Οι εκπαιδευτικές δραστηριότητες του θερινού σχολείου πραγματοποιούνται στα Αγγλικά.

Η μία εκ των υποτροφιών, η οποία προκηρύσσεται σε συνεργασία με τον Δήμο Πάρου, απευθύνεται σε επαγγελματίες ή ενεργούς πολίτες που δραστηριοποιούνται στη διαχείριση και ανάδειξη της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς και κατοικούν ή έχουν ισχυρούς δεσμούς με το νησί της Πάρου.

Ημερομηνίες Σχολείου:
• 15–22 Ιουνίου: Διαδικτυακή εκπαίδευση
• 23 Ιουνίου – 6 Ιουλίου: Διά ζώσης εκπαίδευση στην Πάρο

Το πρόγραμμα πραγματοποιείται με την υποστήριξη του Δήμου Πάρου, ο οποίος προσφέρει τη χρήση της αίθουσας Δημητρακόπουλου στην Παροικιά και της Δημοτικής Βιβλιοθήκης.

Κατά τη διάρκεια του θερινού σχολείου, οι συμμετέχοντες θα εκπαιδευτούν σε θεωρητικό και πρακτικό επίπεδο μέσα από διαδικτυακά σεμινάρια και επιτόπια συμμετοχική έρευνα στο πεδίο. Θα εξετάσουν καλές πρακτικές στην ανάδειξη της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς και θα ανταλλάξουν εμπειρίες με ειδικούς από όλο τον κόσμο.

Καταληκτική ημερομηνία υποβολής αιτήσεων:
Κυριακή 15 Ιουνίου 2025, ώρα 12:00 μ.μ.

Για να υποβάλετε αίτηση ή να ενημερωθείτε, επισκεφθείτε το https://heritagemanagement.org/training/summer-schools/engagingcommunities/

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HERITΛGE is pleased to announce new dates for our 2025 summer schools. The HERITΛGE summer schools are excellent opportunities for heritage professionals and students to develop existing knowledge and learn new skills for managing heritage. Applicants do not have to have previous experience in the particular field of study and we welcome students eager to improve their understanding in new areas of heritage. Places are limited so we recommend applying soon!

HERITΛGE is offering two programmes for 2025:

Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage

Date: 16 June – 6 July 2025 
Location: Paros, Greece (in person and online)
Language: English
Lecturers: Dr Aris Anagnostopoulos and Dr Lena Stefanou alongside guest lecturers, Dr
Evangelos Kyriakidis and Vicky Papadimitriou

This hybrid programme aims to develop a different approach to community engagement that is based on social and artistic research with community-led initiatives. Through meetings, assignments and fieldwork, students will be introduced to the principles of community engagement and learn how these can be applied in different circumstances, appropriately addressing cultural differences within the field. The duration of the course is two weeks, with five three-hour meetings. Fieldwork will take place on the island of Paros, in Greece.

I applied to this workshop to improve my fieldwork methodology, and I found it greatly helped
me develop because I was able to learn about those details that we cannot learn without
going into the field and starting to work. It has really helpful for me on how to conduct my
research questions and how to engage with the people I am interviewing. (Elif Aydin, a PhD
Candidate at Istanbul Technical University. Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage,
2024)

Click here for more information and how to apply.

Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage Management

Date: 13 May-17 June 2024 (applications now open)
Location: Nafplio, Greece (in person and online)
Language: English
Lecturer: Dr Cornelis Stal

HERITΛGE have collaborated with HOGENT University (Belgium) to deliver three integrated and consecutive specialist courses in geomatic topic. These courses will cover GIS, Photogrammetry and image-based 3D modelling, and Terrestrial laser scanning*. Students will be provided with hands-on instruction, hands-on demos and exercises in each. Skills taught will help heritage professionals in restoration, documentation, or visualization projects specifically but can be applied to a range of other fields.

*Please note that these specialist courses can be booked individually. For those  intending to just do sections of the field summer school, please contact at the email info@heritagemanagement.org for further information and arrangements.

I decided to take the course because I think it could be very useful in my work both for documenting for the future, using it for planning in daily work with managing heritage buildings. Also to make available on the internet for people who are not able to visit in person.(Helen Myhr Radell, Project Leader, Stiftelsen Skansen. Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage Management, 2024)

It was amazing, moving from place to place from old archaeological sites to old church photogrammetry and dealing with all this senior equipment like drones, laser scanning. Processing all this data gives you fuller information and the full picture about the process so you will then be able to it by yourself! (Khaled Hiatlih, Co-founder Heritage Roots. Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage Management, 2024)

Click here for more information and how to apply:

This course is supported by Metashape.

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By Dr. Aris Anagnostopoulos

It is almost a decade since we first had the idea to create a summer school for archaeological ethnography and heritage in the village of Gonies, in Crete. From the beginning, we had two basic ideas in our minds: one, that this would not be simply a school transferred into a remote place, but it would be a way to teach by doing research and by engaging with local populations. The other was that we had to find a way to involve locals as experts in their own heritage in the process. It was a very instructive experience for all of us, not only for its successes, but also because it made us think again about the way we work and the way we think about heritage, collaboration, and local communities in a more global way. 

In this new version of our Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage summer school, we have moved to an entirely different setting, the island of Paros, in close collaboration with a grassroots festival, the Paros Festival. Besides the change of location, the form of the summer school itself has changed towards a more hybrid form. Faced with the pandemic and lockdowns, we took the whole process online, but at the same time sought to keep a close link with the locality, even remotely.  

We realized that remote work, especially with increased online presence of local places, may bring unexpected insights to the whole process of research and engagement. We already had evidence that the online presence of heritage projects increases their accountability and can serve as a research and engagement field of its own. At the same time, online work may bring together participants from a wide variety of backgrounds and contexts. This is important to the way we approach community engagement in heritage, as something that does not follow a blueprint or a set of ready-made techniques, but as an open-ended response to the needs and capacities of local places, groups, and stakeholders. At the same time, however, we have had to deal with the limitations of online work, especially structural inequalities in access and infrastructure. While we have found ways around this, such as the development of asynchronous modules that people can access in their own time, we are now geared towards creating hybrid forms for our workshops, that combine physical presence and online components, as a way to counter these inequalities.

Dr. Aris Anagnostopoulos is an Head of Community Engagment at HERITΛGE , Honorary Lecturer at University of Kent  and Researcher for the Ottoman Heritages project .

Community Engagement Summer School page: https://heritagemanagement.org/training/summer-schools/engagingcommunities/ 

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