European Heritage Residency 2025

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage civil society network, and the National Trust to host the first edition of the Inclusive European Heritage Residencies from 14 until 20 June 2025 at Hardwick Hall, United Kingdom.

Around 10 heritage stakeholders will be selected to come together and discuss heritage best practices and explore the twin roles of heritage places in enriching people’s lives and restoring thriving natural environments. 

Find out more about the programme here on the Europa Nostra website.

The Inclusive European Heritage Residency 2025, based on our successful Incubator programme, is designed for heritage students, professionals, site managers and stakeholders with a diverse range of expertise, backgrounds and experience. Applicants from all ages, races, faiths, gender identities and with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

The programme is rooted in an exploration of the National Trust (for England, Wales and Northern Ireland)’s brand-new strategy People and Nature Thriving.  We will use a 2000-acre estate in central England Hardwick Hall as a case study to explore how heritage professionals and places across Europe can restore nature, end unequal access and inspire millions. 

Hardwick Hall, a spectacular Elizabethan house filled with rich furnishings and tapestries, provides a physical and contextual backdrop to a week of discussions, learning and debate about how to care for, present and tell stories about cultural sites. Participants will focus on a ‘live brief’, contributing their own ideas and expertise to Hardwick’s plans for the future.  

The Residency’s programme will provide a comprehensive and immersive experience, fostering knowledge exchange, active learning and meaningful dialogue among participants. Delegates will have the opportunity to present their own work and experience in heritage site management. The Residency will provide useful information and ideas for improving or initiating the participants’ own local projects or ideas on how they might transfer some of the presented best practices to their own localities. 

The Inclusive European Heritage Residency 2025 is organised in the frame of the network project Europa Nostra Heritage Agora (2025-2028), co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. It builds on the success of the European Heritage Youth Residencies co-organised by Europa Nostra in 2023 and 2024 and the INTO Incubator programme. 

To learn more about the Inclusive European Heritage Residency 2025 and the application guidelines, please read the Call for Applications.

Applications must be submitted by 14 April 2025 via the following link.