Partners
Bridging HERitage is carried out in collaboration with partners from eight European municipalities and universities.
More detailed information about each partner, including their background, expertise, and role within the project, will be added soon.
Heerlen is a medium-sized municipality in the south of the Netherlands with a rich history dating back to Roman times. The city is known for its mining heritage, modern urban renewal, and strong cultural identity. Following the closure of the coal mines in the 1960s and 1970s, Heerlen faced major socio-economic challenges, including unemployment, vacancy, and social inequality. At the same time, the city has gradually transformed itself into an innovative municipality with a strong focus on culture, heritage, sustainability, and quality of life.
Within the municipal organisation of Heerlen, there is a strong emphasis on collaboration with residents, social organisations, and European networks. Heritage plays an important role in this approach. Heerlen increasingly positions itself as a heritage city, highlighting archaeology, mining history, and intangible cultural heritage. During the Heritage Year 2025, for example, the connection between history, identity, and the future was a central theme.
This directly connects to the European project Bridging HERitage. Within this project, Heerlen collaborates with partners from several European countries to highlight the role of women in cultural heritage and history. The municipality of Heerlen acts as the coordinator of the project. Bridging HERitage contributes to a more inclusive perspective on heritage and encourages the active involvement of residents and local communities. In doing so, Heerlen underlines its ambition not only to preserve heritage, but also to use it as a tool for social connection and European cooperation.
Established in 1946 and located in central Transylvania, Romania, Universitatea de Arte din Târgu Mureș (The Târgu Mureș University of Arts) is a multicultural public university which organizes BA, MA and doctoral level study programmes, as well as different courses, workshops and conferences, ensuring the education and continued improvement of creators and specialists in the performing arts (and including specializations ranging from acting, theatre directing, script writing, choreography, stage design to theatre and music studies).
Additionally, the University manages two professional theatre venues with regular performances, consolidating its avowed mission to design and proliferate creative activities for teachers and students in the performance arts fields in the Romanian, Hungarian and English languages. Currently, the University boasts a number of approximately 500 students and a faculty consisting of 150 professors, researchers, instructors and administrative staff hailing from all major regions of Romania, as well as from abroad.
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The Association Paredes for Social Inclusion (APPIS) was created in 2007 by a group of entrepreneurs (42) that pretended to give their contribute and demonstrate their social responsibility for social inclusion by the education. In this moment the association has 9 professionals. The core business is work in social inclusion through education. The association is dedicated to activities that rises the skills of students and their families in order to scholar success. The strategic objective of APPIS is fighting school failure and school dropout through the prevention and remediation of risk factors and by inducing external factors of success.
APPIS has being promoting the adult education because if families return to training or education system that will help to value the importance of education. For another point of view the adult education is important to get more opportunities in work, to advance in the career, to get better positions and so on. People you are engaged in live long learning are more motivated and open to have different experiences, are more related to culture and develop a civic participating feeling. APPIS is accredited for adult education.
After finishing the studies we help students to find opportunities for doing work traineeships in the country or abroad in order to help then to be find employment opportunities. Some of the enterprises are also available for some periods of traineeship in different fields. Our mediators teach students how to do a curriculum; how to prepare an interview and to find jobs opportunities among other interesting topics related with employability.
Additionally, APPIS also developed in 2010 and 2011 a project called Prevent Paredes that aims to prevent risk behaviours and to promote healthy habits of life and since 2015 is developing a reinsertion project that aims to give new opportunities for those you have addicted behaviour, to find a job e being inserted in the society autonomously and a minimum quality of life.
The Paredes for Social Inclusion Association intends to constitute itself as a response of proximity, for different social problems applying innovative methodologies and projects, valuing the change through education. Because of that APPIS works in different fields of intervention: Socio-educational intervention; Prevention of risk behaviors; Promoting healthy lifestyle habits; Promoting school success; Family training; Reinsertion of individuals.
As the target audience of APPIS is people in a situation of socio-economic vulnerability, APPIS always values gender equality, the integration of diversity (in its multiple manifestations) and intercultural dialogue in its intervention.
APPIS has experience in international projects both as coordinator and partner.
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