Thank you for your willingness to share your experience in education and citizen engagement models and to contribute to the work of other heritage organizations across Europe!

This template aims to guide you when describing your method and providing background information on your work. We are also welcoming contributions by researchers or experts reporting on the cases they have analysed/researched (in this case, terms like “your organisation” or “your work” relate to the organisation you have been studying).

Here, we are looking for successful models and methods for citizen engagement and education implemented by heritage civil society organisations (CSOs)s – your approach to stimulating the participation of volunteers, activists, the young, diverse marginalized groups and other social groups in the work that you do. These could be innovative ways of educating young people in the value, narratives and meaning of the heritage you are dealing with; of teaching conservation and heritage maintenance skills and methods to amateurs; crowdsourcing memories, narratives and objects; co-producing heritage content with diverse groups of citizens; using digital media and virtual platforms for educating and encouraging engagement in heritage; etc.

When writing details about the method try to imagine that a practitioner from another CSO wants to read this and learn from your experience – go beyond data and description and delve into specific methods, tips and advice and also think about possible ways of adapting your method.

We will analyse all of the contributions we receive during April and May 2017 and make a final selection of case studies which represent a range of methods and contexts. We will inform the representatives of each selected application and carry out further interviews with these organisations if needed.

The following is a set of questions related to your work. They are formatted to help you structure your response in a way that is best suited for sharing.