CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Grants for Internship and projects 2025

6th Call for Applications for Grants for Internship for Projects and Artist Residencies “Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis”

Submission deadline: Until Monday, 3rd November 2025

Territorio Mudéjar announces the SIXTH EDITION of Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis research stays and projects aimed at directly supporting the work of researchers and project promoters who want to work on the development of villages through the responsible and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage resources.

The projects carried out since 2019 have strengthened this initiative as one of our initiative as one of our most important lines of of our most important lines of work based on the development of actions that enhance the retention and attraction of talent, actions aimed at the construction of highly qualified professional networks networks linked to the use of historical, artistic and cultural resources , contributing to medium- and long-term territorial development.artistic and cultural resources , contributing to medium and long-term territorial development.

Territorio Mudéjar is an association of local councils, currently comprising 49 member councils, one council pending membership and one collaborating partner, whose objective is to consolidate a unified and collaborative management network for the use of historical and artistic resources linked to the important Mudejar heritage, understanding them as a driving force for the development of towns and as an element of identity for the maintenance of the communities that make up our territory.

Our action program follows strategic lines aligned with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, whose guiding principle is that “the cultural identity of territories will contribute to sustainable social and economic development by differentiating markets and, in turn, enabling their integration into a diversified economy that can ensure their future success.”

This project is dedicated to Professor Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis, a staunch defender of the management of Aragonese heritage, villages, and territory, as an action of the people and as an innovative field of work with a promising future.

His work exemplified with perfect coherence the possibility of combining research work of high scientific impact with a commitment to the land and its people. of high scientific impact with a commitment to the land and its people, not only favouring the knowledge, conservation and dissemination of its historical-artistic heritage, but also by modernising work processes and by proposing innovative innovation projects in which natural, cultural and heritage resources are a key element in the future of the towns.

Vista panorámica del casco urbano de Tarazona con la catedral, la torre de la Magdalena y la plaza de toros octogonal.

Transdisciplinary thinking, networking, and partnerships as tools for innovation

RESEARCH STAYS FOR PROJECTS. THE OPPORTUNITY TO FORM ALLIANCES WITH STRATEGIC ENTITIES AND PROFESSIONALS TO DEVELOP PROJECTS WITH GREATER IMPACT.

The activity, which began in 2019, has established itself as our organization’s most important strategic project, consolidating the R&D&I strategy with 29 pilot projects involving more than 40 management professionals.

The project was considered an exemplary case study by the Ministry of Culture and Sport at the World Heritage Managers Meeting held in Mérida in 2022.

It has also been considered an example of innovation and good practice in various European cooperation projects. In this regard, we should highlight our organization’s position, through the Estancias project, in the Interreg Europe program: between 2019 and 2023, as part of the MOMAr Models of Management for Singular Rural Heritage project, our project was chosen by the provincial government of Groningen and the Libau Foundation as a reference model for their Heritage Lab project, the centerpiece of their action plan. in 2024, our organization took part in the launch event for the REliHE Religious Heritage in Rural Areas project at the Polytechnic University of Turin, invited to present the project as a case study of good practices.

The long-term goal is to build an innovative structure that supports an international network designed to meet the needs of managing heritage resources located in villages.

Thus, in 2025, the association has partnerships with administrations and entities with which it shares objectives and methodology for growth: the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites, with management entities from fourteen UNESCO heritage sites; the Network of Medinas, within the framework of a collaboration on international projects and routes; the architecture and design department of the Polytechnic University of Turín and various other universities.

The activity, which began in 2019, has established itself as our organization’s most important strategic project, consolidating the R&D&I strategy with 29 pilot projects involving more than 40 management professionals.

The project was considered an exemplary case study by the Ministry of Culture and Sport at the World Heritage Managers Meeting held in Mérida in 2022.

It has also been considered an example of innovation and good practice in various European cooperation projects. In this regard, we should highlight our organization’s position, through the Estancias project, in the Interreg Europe program: between 2019 and 2023, as part of the MOMAr Models of Management for Singular Rural Heritage project, our project was chosen by the provincial government of Groningen and the Libau Foundation as a reference model for their Heritage Lab project, the centerpiece of their action plan. in 2024, our organization took part in the launch event for the REliHE Religious Heritage in Rural Areas project at the Polytechnic University of Turin, invited to present the project as a case study of good practices.

The long-term goal is to build an innovative structure that supports an international network designed to meet the needs of managing heritage resources located in villages.

Thus, in 2025, the association has partnerships with administrations and entities with which it shares objectives and methodology for growth: the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites, with management entities from fourteen UNESCO heritage sites; the Network of Medinas, within the framework of a collaboration on international projects and routes; the architecture and design department of the Polytechnic University of Turín and various other universities.

THE ARTISTIC RESIDENCY. THE PLACE WHERE IDEAS ARE BORN

Since the 2022 call for proposals, the Estancias project has incorporated a work area called the Creative Laboratory, a space within the research for projects that allowed for the exploration of Territorio Mudéjar as a place of action and creativity, dissolving the boundaries between areas of knowledge, which were orderly and differentiated, and often led us to places that were complex to manage.

This workspace allowed us to work on the concept of “artistic residency” with the aim of understanding the heritage space and the context in which it is located as a multifaceted space, promoting artistic creation projects with a strong connection to the territory, the landscape, and/or the heritage space.

Following the success of the first call for artistic residencies, this area continues to focus on research, experimentation, exchange, learning, critical reflection, and the dissemination of local practices and knowledge through dialogue between artistic research, communities, the territory, places, and non-places.

The aim is to encourage the opening up of new processes and directions of knowledge in order to explore new paths; to foster creative thinking by generating spaces for dialogue and starting points between art, science, and technology from an artistic perspective, with a view to the development and maintenance of communities and their inhabitants.

To improve the monitoring and support process for the selected residency, this second call for applications focuses on working with the concept of Cultural Landscape, in support of the designation of Cariñena as European Wine City 2025.

CONSULT:

Image: Courtesy of the artist-researcher ©ChemaAgustín Riglorámico Project

Since the 2022 call for proposals, the Estancias project has incorporated a work area called the Creative Laboratory, a space within the research for projects that allowed for the exploration of Territorio Mudéjar as a place of action and creativity, dissolving the boundaries between areas of knowledge, which were orderly and differentiated, and often led us to places that were complex to manage.

This workspace allowed us to work on the concept of “artistic residency” with the aim of understanding the heritage space and the context in which it is located as a multifaceted space, promoting artistic creation projects with a strong connection to the territory, the landscape, and/or the heritage space.

Following the success of the first call for artistic residencies, this area continues to focus on research, experimentation, exchange, learning, critical reflection, and the dissemination of local practices and knowledge through dialogue between artistic research, communities, the territory, places, and non-places.

The aim is to encourage the opening up of new processes and directions of knowledge in order to explore new paths; to foster creative thinking by generating spaces for dialogue and starting points between art, science, and technology from an artistic perspective, with a view to the development and maintenance of communities and their inhabitants.

To improve the monitoring and support process for the selected residency, this second call for applications focuses on working with the concept of Cultural Landscape, in support of the designation of Cariñena as European Wine City 2025.

CONSULT:

Image: Courtesy of the artist-researcher ©ChemaAgustín Riglorámico Project

DIGITALISATION = STRATEGIC TOOL

The management of historical, artistic and cultural heritage is evolving rapidly thanks to digital technologies. The challenge now is to apply a strategic vision to these processes and the unprecedented opportunities offered by new technologies, and to use them in the most and the unprecedented opportunities offered by new technologies and to use them in the most efficient way possible, ensuring that the efforts efficient way possible , ensuring that the efforts made at this time of “boom ” have a long “boom” are sustainable over time and allow for the development of future projects.

Therefore, one of the criteria being continued this year is that all deliverables in a digital version (photographs, photographs, videos, etc.) must year is that all deliverable products in digital version (photographs, videos, digital models, audio files, etc.) must be videos, digital models, audio files, etc.) comply with the study Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage: mapping parameters, formats, standards, benchmarks, methodologies, and guidelines published in 2022 and follow the lines of work indicated in the recommendation of 10/11/2021 on a common European data space for cultural heritage , thus adapting the quality criteria in this way quality criteria established in the in the Digitalisation Strategy of Territorio Mudéjar.

This strategy is in line with the latest recommendations of the European Commission and also takes into account, the standards of the most commonly used platforms and repositories such as Europeana and such as Europeana or Google Arts.

The aim of Territorio Mudéjar is for all projects to have a digital focus that allows for the implementation of adapted transfer channels. To this end, all beneficiaries of the aid will receive information and training on the Territorio Mudéjar Digitalization Strategy during the first phase of their project and will be monitored continuously throughout its development to help them comply with it.

The management of historical, artistic and cultural heritage is evolving rapidly thanks to digital technologies. The challenge now is to apply a strategic vision to these processes and the unprecedented opportunities offered by new technologies, and to use them in the most and the unprecedented opportunities offered by new technologies and to use them in the most efficient way possible, ensuring that the efforts efficient way possible , ensuring that the efforts made at this time of “boom ” have a long “boom” are sustainable over time and allow for the development of future projects.

Therefore, one of the criteria being continued this year is that all deliverables in a digital version (photographs, photographs, videos, etc.) must year is that all deliverable products in digital version (photographs, videos, digital models, audio files, etc.) must be videos, digital models, audio files, etc.) comply with the study Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage: mapping parameters, formats, standards, benchmarks, methodologies, and guidelines published in 2022 and follow the lines of work indicated in the recommendation of 10/11/2021 on a common European data space for cultural heritage , thus adapting the quality criteria in this way quality criteria established in the in the Digitalisation Strategy of Territorio Mudéjar.

This strategy is in line with the latest recommendations of the European Commission and also takes into account, the standards of the most commonly used platforms and repositories such as Europeana and such as Europeana or Google Arts.

The aim of Territorio Mudéjar is for all projects to have a digital focus that allows for the implementation of adapted transfer channels. To this end, all beneficiaries of the aid will receive information and training on the Territorio Mudéjar Digitalization Strategy during the first phase of their project and will be monitored continuously throughout its development to help them comply with it.

Terms and conditions of calls for applications

Research for projects: modality 1

THE USES OF HERITAGE IN THE VILLAGES OF THE MUDÉJAR TERRITORY

AMOUNT: €7,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Interreg Europe Project. REliHE Religious heritage in rural areas.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a minimum justified stay in two member towns of Territorio Mudéjar. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

Research and projects: modality 2

MODELS FOR MANAGING THE MONUMENT AND ITS PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AUTHENTICITY AND PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION

AMOUNT: €7,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Collaboration with the parish of La Seo in Zaragoza. The Archbishopric of Zaragoza has been an honorary member of Territorio Mudéjar since 2018.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a justified minimum stay in at least two member towns of Territorio Mudéjar and work with a minimum of three monuments. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

Research and projects: modality 3

STUDY OF ALABASTER PLASTER AND ITS IMPACT ON THE TERRITORY: INNOVATION AND QUALITY FROM ITS HISTORICAL STUDY

AMOUNT: €7,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Collaboration with CIDA, the Alabaster Development Center.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a justified minimum stay in at least four member locations of Territorio Mudéjar and CIDA. In addition, work must be carried out on at least two monuments and two landscapes. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

Artistic residencies

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: ARTISTIC STUDY OF THE WINE LANDSCAPE

AMOUNT: €4,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Cariñena European City of Wine 2025.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a justified minimum stay in Cariñena and in at least two member towns of Territorio Mudéjar. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

Activities and promotional events related to the call for applications

If you are interested, please contact us at: convocatoria@territoriomudejar.es

Schedule to be determined

Visits to heritage sites in the towns of the Mudéjar Territory for evaluation as case studies.

September 30 [10:00 am - 11:00 a.m]

Albalate del Arzobispo Castle. Integral Center for Alabaster Development.


Webinar: Key points for applying for the call for proposals.

Open to the public in person

7 October - Webinar 2 from La Seo Parish Church (Zaragoza)

La SEO parakeet (Zaragoza)


Webinar 2

For in-person assistance and technical visits, prior registration and allocation of places will be mandatory.

14 October - Webinar 3 from Ariza

Webinar 3

Zoom meeting

21 October - Webinar 4 from Maluenda

Webinar 4

Zoom meeting

27 October – Webinar 5 from Tobed

Webinar 4

Final doubts. From the headquarters of Territorio Mudéjar in Tobed

Artistic residencies – Terms and conditions for the 2nd call for applications 2025–2026

1/ Subject matter and scope

The purpose of this call for proposals is to continue the project of Creative Laboratory, a programme supporting creation through the awarding of AN ARTISTIC RESIDENCY for creators, researchers, artists and professionals from any artistic and creative discipline who can draw on historical, artistic, cultural and natural heritage as a reference, particularly in this call for proposals. concept of cultural landscape, from the member towns of Territorio Mudéjar for the development of an idea, artistic research or a highly innovative project that generates new data and new ways of understanding the territory and its towns.

The proposals must include as a fundamental part of their development a stay or justified time of residence in one or more of the localities of Territorio Mudéjar.

In general, we seek projects with an inspiring and innovative outlook that link the transformative potential of the local sphere to a global and networked vision, that devote time to thinking about the challenges of today’s society, and that rely on technology to evolve the social fabric and artistic languages.

The procedure for awarding grants will be processed on a competitive basis according to the assessment criteria established in the call for applications and, in accordance with Article 22.1 of Law 38/2003, of 17 November, General Law on Subsidies.

2/ Context

The Cultural Landscape, if defined in its most orthodox sense as “the result of the interaction over time between people and the natural environment, expressed as a territory perceived and valued for its cultural qualities, the product of a process and the foundation of a community’s identity”, in the area covered by the Territorio Mudéjar association of villages, we could talk about a monumental, historical-artistic, tangible or intangible heritage, the understanding of which requires knowledge of the urban or natural environment in which it is located and the history of the villages through the economic activities of their inhabitants, which in most cases is directly linked to the uses of the landscape that have historically sustained the communities.

Wine landscape, cultural landscape

Twenty of the forty-nine member towns of the Territorio Mudéjar network are part of a protected designation of origin for wine. Specifically, the PDOs of Cariñena, Calatayud and Campo de Borja.

The vineyard landscape and the historical wine production process form part of the idiosyncrasy of the towns belonging to Territorio Mudéjar, bearing in mind that the use of natural resources, historical economic processes and the history of the towns have been fundamental in understanding the current locations and their heritage identity. Occasionally, this has generated significant economic prosperity, which may have been the origin of many of the monumental, urban or landscape heritage sites that we preserve today. A landscape, shaped as a wine landscape since the 2nd century AD, has been a key feature and determining factor to this day.

In this regard, the year 2025 is indisputably linked to the selection of the city of Cariñena as European Wine City 2025, an award promoted by RECEVIN, the European Network of Wine Cities.

To support the work programme developed by the city of Cariñena during 2025, the Territorio Mudéjar association has designed a special call for applications within the Artistic Residency category to investigate, from the methodology of art practice, the framework for proposals on heritage, art and cultural landscape.

General objectives:

  • Promote awareness of rural areas based on their heritage identity through innovative approaches whose main purpose is to have a positive impact on villages.
  • To encourage work with a high territorial impact developed from the experience of the habitability of the peoples.
  • Assist in the creation and implementation of a network with a shared vision of the potential of heritage, cultural and natural resources, helping to strengthen other sectors through interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
  • To create mechanisms for social participation in the generation of ideas based on heritage resources from an artistic thinking perspective.

Specific objectives:

  • To promote knowledge about heritage resources and their impact on the environment from an artistic point of view, in order to encourage the implementation of projects, contribute to better protection and promote the conservation of the Mudejar heritage of the villages.
  • Contribute to a better understanding of the concept of Cultural Landscape and to a transdisciplinary view of the heritage elements that comprise it.
  • To support a framework for the emergence of ideas based on life in the villages of the Mudejar Territory.
  • To support the possibility of experiencing the village in a real way, without artifice, its environment and its dynamics in order to facilitate the creative process of artists whose work helps to make rural heritage spaces known as places of avant-garde and creative innovation.

Areas of strategic knowledge addressed in Territorio Mudéjar:

  • New perspectives on Mudejar art
    • Updating data and knowledge on Mudejar heritage in all its diversity: monumental, urban, ethnographic, linguistic, agricultural, hydraulic, geographical, materials, processes, etc.
    • Technical languages applied to the Mudejar: planimetry, photogrammetry and Mudejar 3D.
    • Geolocation, cartographies and maps.
    • Any subject that will broaden the scientific base on Mudejar art.
  • Strategic management of Mudejar heritage. Heritage, cultural landscape and urban landscape
    • New models of use beyond the classical classic concept of ” tourist or leisureuse “.
    • Methodologies applied based on “Authenticity Criticism” and “Preventive Conservation”
    • Physical, economic and intellectual accessibility studies
    • Future models for conservation or intervention.
    • Property resources and the actions of individuals
    • Natural and socialcontexts
    • Interactions between landscape and monumentality
  • Mudejar heritage: Communication, dissemination and social function as key elements of territorial development
    • Mudejar heritage and the media
    • New media discourses
    • Interpretation and ways of accessibility to knowledge of the Mudejar heritage
    • The emotional bond as a key element for the care, protection and management of heritage.
    • Population Contexts: The Value of Intergenerational Experience
    • Social participation in the valorisation, exchange and collective construction of knowledge and new forms of learning.
  • Creative Laboratory through artistic practice and the creation of new data derived from the physical creative residency in the villages of Territorio Mudéjar to highlight them as spaces for thought where new paths can be explored through artistic practice.

NEW CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2025-2026: Support for the designation of Cariñena as European Wine City 2025

The new call for artistic residencies and stays for 2025-2026 incorporates strategic alliances with various collaborating entities and national and international projects that will enable issues of interest for the management and conservation of Mudejar heritage resources and their short-, medium- and long-term impact on the partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar to be addressed.

This scholarship is part of the Laboratory Project for “Artistic Residencies” that works in the villages of the Mudéjar Territory to raise their profile as spaces for thought where new paths can be explored through artistic thinking.

Proposals may be integrated into any of the artistic disciplines or present a combination of disciplines: visual arts, music, dance, theatre, audiovisual and transmedia languages, design and technological languages, etc.

Proposals must include plans for a STAY in a selection of villages in the Mudéjar Territory in order to measure the impact of the actual residence or stay in the territory by proposing a dialogue with the environment and local communities in which it is located.

To this end, projects submitted must include a proposed residency schedule in at least three partner locations within the Territorio Mudéjar network, one of which must be Cariñena, in its capacity as European Wine City 2025. At least two other locations within the network must also be chosen in order to demonstrate the impact on the rest of the territory.

Proposed themes and artistic languages

Although the general theme is Cultural Landscape and its development in the Wine Landscape, the artistic practice proposals are open and offer the possibility of interaction with some of the areas we consider to be of interest, such as the following:

  • Artistic creation and research based on intellectual concepts and their reflection in the material, form or processes that characterise heritage in its broadest definition.
  • Crafts as a living space past, present and future. New considerations from creative thinking or from historical use linked to the establishment and maintenance of historical and current communities.
  • Sound, acoustics, speech, looking and listening.
  • The real or imagined movement. The heritage space as a space for emotional learning of contents.
  • The exploration of an “other place”, real or imaginary, specific or heterogeneous, natural or artificial, temporary or timeless in the heritage space.
  • The construction of virtual space or metaverse based on the need for physical heritage space to exist, or as a connecting thread. Thoughts, proposals and possibilities.

3/ Applicants

Participation is open to national or international creators without legal status who meet all the requirements of this call for proposals.

The applicant may be at an early or intermediate stage of his/her research career or creative activity and must provide proof of the following:

  • Training related to the areas covered by the call.
  • Documentary evidence of at least two years of creative or professional experience – paid or unpaid.
  • Professional experience shall be understood to mean the completion of specialised studies related to the arts or to one of the proposed fields of work, totalling a minimum of two years of effective training and involving work using “artistic project” methodologies.

The call is not open to legal entities of any kind: companies, partnerships, associations, communities of property or groups under any other type of legal associative formula.

When the project is submitted by two or more persons, the formula is called “team” and each member of the team must be accredited individually.

If the project submitted is part of a research project linked to a university, public research centre or private (non-profit) centre, this must be indicated in the project report.

The acceptance of the project and the development of the stay is compatible with other professional activities as long as the compatibility mode is specified and justified in the project report.

The project submitted may have other sources of funding as long as they are complementary and are specified in the report.

Total income may never exceed the development costs of the projects.

4/ Requirements

  • Hold an intermediate or higher degree, university degree, Bachelor’s degree, Architect’s degree or equivalent.
  • Master’s degree specialising in the arts and/or in the different areas related to the subject of the proposal or accredit a minimum of two years of experience and/or artistic career in the field in which the proposal is developed (whether paid or unpaid).
  • Be up to date with their tax and social security obligations, as well as accrediting compliance with obligations for the reimbursement of subsidies.
  • Not be affected by any of the causes established in art. 13 of the LGS.

5/ Submission deadline

The deadline for submitting applications will be until MONDAY, 3rd NOVEMBER 2025.

Proposals sent by e-mail will be accepted until 23.59 hours (Spanish peninsular time) on the day indicated.

If the application contains errors that can be rectified, the applicant will be informed by the organising body so that, within a non-extendable period of three days from the date of communication, they may rectify them as an essential condition for the application to be taken into account in the evaluation process.

6/ Features and conditions

Duration: Proposals for PROJECTS AND ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES must be carried out within a minimum period of THIRTY days and a maximum of THREE months from the date of notification of the project’s selection.

Timetable: Projects and placements can be carried out according to the following timetable:

  • Work phase 1: Analysis, presentation and monitoring of results in the initial stage. A graphic report and a sample of materials or artistic samples in progress with initial progress will be submitted, as well as a justification of the objectives that were decisive in the selection of the proposals. Until 24 December 2025.
  • Phase 2: Delivery of provisional results. Until 30 March 2026.
  • Phase 3: Delivery of final results and presentation through an artistic transfer activity. Until 30 June 2026.

Funding: Projects will receive a maximum financial allocation of €4,500.00, which must be justified in the project report according to the expenses indicated in the following section.

Accommodation: The Territorio Mudéjar association will finance the cost of accommodation in the town or towns where the artistic residency takes place. Accommodation will be assessed according to the needs of the proposal and the availability of suitable residency spaces with the organisation.

Expenditure chargeable to the grant: In all proposals, the budget must identify the concepts subject to and deriving directly from the needs of the project – for example: expenses derived from the development of the work, materials, travel, maintenance, others – including, if any, the corresponding taxes, as well as the payment for reproduction, exhibition and public communication rights, if the project requires it.

Due to their creative nature, proposals must also include, if required by the project, all the elements necessary for the complete execution of the artistic work: materials, permits, auxiliary resources, etc.

If the project has other sources of funding , it must be specified: Entity, duration, actions financed (object and content) and to which part of the project it is addressed.

Compatibility: The development of the stay is compatible with other work, professional or research activities justified to the organisation. The project must indicate the degree of compatibility and the method of work to be carried out in order to avoid overlapping and non-compliance with the conditions indicated in this call.

Number of calls: Beneficiaries may not obtain full support in more than two consecutive calls for the same project. Therefore, resident researchers who have been beneficiaries in the last two calls will not be eligible to apply for the call and will be excluded if they do so.

** Exceptionally, applicants who have not exceeded the amount of €9,000.00 in two consecutive calls may be considered beneficiaries if they have been runners-up in previous years’ calls.

Others:

The beneficiaries will have full advice on the choice of the place to live during the artistic residency, choosing the places that best suit the proposal submitted.

The beneficiaries shall be included in the entity’ s liability insurance.

Beneficiaries shall not enter into any kind of employment relationship with the entity.

All aid will be subject to the withholding and taxes stipulated by the legislation in force, which will be deducted from the corresponding financial endowment.

7/ Applications

Applications must be sent to the Territorio Mudéjar Association in digital format to the following email address: convocatoria@territoriomudejar.es

  1. Application – Basic identification details of the applicant and the project. Project title, applicant’s name, national identity card number, address, email address and telephone number.
  2. Copy of ID card.
  3. Summary of the applicant/s professional career (maximum 2,000 characters)
  4. Project/proposal summary (max. 2,000 characters)
  5. Abbreviated academic and professional CV (max. 5 pages)
  6. Portfolio with a minimum of five developed works that, according to the applicant’s criteria, are relevant as a starting point for the proposal (Summary of each project of a maximum of 2,000 characters).
  7. Report on the project to be carried out, including (max. 5 pages): Title; Background and current status of the subject; Hypothesis, methodology, work plan and timetable; Description of the specific objectives of the project; Locations directly and indirectly affected by the proposal; Location or locations proposed for the stay and expected length of stay; Detailed budget for the research, which will refer to the amount requested.
  8. Optionally, a letter of recommendation from a relevant person in the field of the proposed work may be provided.
  9. In the case of teams, both the application and the award decision must expressly state the implementation commitments undertaken by each member of the team, as well as the amount of subsidy to be applied by each of them, who will also be considered as beneficiaries. A sole representative or proxy of the grouping must be appointed, with sufficient powers to fulfil the obligations which, as beneficiary, correspond to the grouping. The team must undertake not to dissolve the grouping until the limitation period provided for in Articles 39 and 65 of Law 38/2003 of 17 November 2003 has elapsed.

8/ Selection process and criteria

The project selection process will be carried out based on evaluations by the Scientific Committee and the organisation’s management team, who will draw up a ranking according to the following criteria:

  • Curriculum vitae, education and previous achievements of the applicant: 10%.
    The focus of the applicant’s academic background in relation to their chosen field of work will be taken into consideration.
  • Project quality and innovative nature of the proposal: 30%.
    The project will be assessed on the basis of its sound design and rigorous, detailed presentation. The framework of objectives/actions/resources/budget must be properly planned. The timetable must be realistic. The project must include provisions for its evaluation and future viability.
  • Impact area / number of localities involved: 25%.
    The way in which the project operates in the territory will be assessed. This may be a direct present or future impact, but in any case it will be an essential requirement.
    It will be highly valued to predict a realistic impact without falling into bias and media hype.
  • Assessment of activities within the framework of Cariñena European City of Wine 2025: 10%. Special consideration will be given to proposals for activities in the town of Cariñena based on the number of days spent in the town, the number of activities proposed in urban and natural environments, the quality of the proposals, and other factors.
  • Complementary activities involving the local population: 15%.
    The assessment of any activity that involves the population in the development of the project shall be assessed. Involvement does not necessarily have to be through a cultural activity. The introduction of activities that have an impact on the culture of a non-conventional mode will be valued.
  • Digitisation strategy for the Mudéjar Territory: 10%.
    Adaptation of the expected results to the criteria published for the “Common European Space for Cultural Heritage”. Contribution of ideas and proposals for integrating the results in digital format into the platforms enabled by Territorio Mudéjar.

9/ Assessment and resolution

The decision on the grants will be announced on 17 November 2025.

The call may be declared totally or partially void and the decision of the commissions shall be final.

Once the call for applications has been resolved, the list of beneficiaries and the composition of the evaluation committee will be published on the Territorio Mudéjar Association website www.territoriomudejar.es.

In no case will individualised information on the applications received or on the deliberation of the evaluation committee be provided.

10/ Formalisation, justification and payment of grants

Formalisation: Beneficiaries must sign the acceptance agreement before the start date of their project, according to the calendar, and no later than 21 November 2025. This agreement will serve as an essential document for receiving the grant.

Once the acceptance document has been signed, they must join the project on the date indicated in the schedule.

Payment: Payment of the grant will be made in two instalments: 50% at the outset, once the acceptance agreement has been signed; 50% upon delivery of the final project report. These conditions shall be general to all beneficiaries unless , exceptionally, the project report justifies the need for a different financial distribution over time.

Justification and presentation of results:

Beneficiaries will be obliged to justify compliance with the requirements and conditions established in this call for proposals by means of: An intermediate report halfway through the stay that allows the progress of the project to be evaluated. A final report on digital support of the project describing objectives, fulfilment of aims and results; and a financial report justifying the cost of the activities carried out.

Beneficiaries must deliver to Territorio Mudéjar all the results derived from the project financed according to the proposal presented in the application, it being understood that this proposal will act as a contractual document for the grants.

In the case of works subject to intellectual property, current legislation will be applied with regard to authorship and the transfer of rights of use and reproduction will be assigned to Territorio Mudéjar.

Financial control:

The initial report shall include a review of the estimated budget, either confirming its continuity or proposing the necessary adjustments, provided they are justified.

The final report shall include a detailed financial report as follows:

  • A list of expenses incurred indicating creditor, amount, date of issue and payment. As the project includes an estimated budget , the list of expenses will be classified according to the items of the project or subsidised activity. Where applicable, any deviations that may have occurred in the development of the project must be justified.
  • Proof of payment: Invoices, tickets or supporting documents and proof of payment. If the payment has been made in cash, this must be indicated on the expense document with the concept correctly specified.
  • The financial justification for hours worked and project development will be provided by means of a sworn statement and detailed in the report based on the results achieved, specifying the hours worked assigned to the actions carried out.
  • The financial justification for hours worked and project development will be provided by means of a sworn statement and detailed in the report based on the results achieved, specifying the hours worked assigned to the actions carried out.

Non-compliance:

The aid will be cancelled and the amounts received will be reimbursed if the conditions established in these rules are not met, and in general in the cases established in article 37 of the General Law on Subsidies.

11/ Authorship, intellectual property and dissemination of project results

The rights of the work/s produced during the residencies will belong entirely to the authors. The association Territorio Mudéjar will be able to use the results for a limited period of time for exhibition purposes or in terms of dissemination and image for whatever use it deems appropriate.

The Territorio Mudéjar Association may request the collaboration of grant recipients in activities to promote the projects. To this end, the recipient shall provide the Territorio Mudéjar Association with all the information and documentation required and shall grant the Association, free of charge, the appropriate rights to disseminate the results: brochures, posters, promotional videos, websites, social networks and other audiovisual media, always related to the organisation’s purposes.

For its part, the association Territorio Mudéjar will always identify the authorship of the projects

Beneficiaries must mention the source of the grant in materials or results using the phrase “Project carried out with funding from Territorio Mudéjar through the Territorio Mudéjar Creative Laboratory Artistic Residencies 2025-2026 call for proposals” and include the organisation’s logo whenever possible.

Participants in the call assure that the proposal submitted is unpublished. If the proposal includes third party rights, participants guarantee that they have obtained the necessary rights, authorisations and/or licences.

12/ Acceptance of the terms and conditions

Participation in this call for applications implies acceptance of its rules and its decision, which shall be final, as well as the waiver of any type of claim.

Exceptionally and for duly justified reasons, the Asociación Territorio Mudéjar reserves the right to interpret and modify the wording of the rules in order to clarify or specify their content, without this implying a substantial or arbitrary alteration of the same.

For any queries, applicants may contact the Territorio Mudéjar Association by email at convocatoria@territoriomudejar.es.

Grants for internship and projects – Terms and conditions for the 6th call for applications 2025–2026

1/ Subject matter and scope

The purpose of this call is the award of THREE RESEARCH STAYS to researchers and professionals in the field of cultural and natural heritage management for the development of a research or territorial project with a high innovative character within one of the fields of activity or area of work specified below.

Proposals may address zero or preparatory phases, development phases or piloting and testing phases of ongoing projects.

Proposals must include as a fundamental part of their development a justified physical stay in one or more of the localities of Territorio Mudéjar. The projects presented must demonstrate a direct impact on at least three partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar and provide evidence of the influence of this impact on the rest of the territory.

Objectives:

  • To promote the knowledge of the rural territory from its Mudejar identity through innovative approaches innovative approaches whose main aim is to have a positive impact on the villages.
  • To encourage work with a high territorial impact developed from the experience of the habitability of the peoples. Assist in the creation and implementation of a network with a shared vision of the potential of heritage, cultural and natural resources, helping to strengthen other sectors through interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
  • Create mechanisms for social participation in the management of heritage resources from a territorial perspective. of heritage resources from a territorial perspective.

Specific objectives:

  • To promote knowledge of heritage resources in order to encourage the implementation of projects, contribute to a better protection and favour the conservation of the Mudejar heritage of the villages.
  • To contribute to a better knowledge of UNESCO World Heritage and the benefits it brings to the territory as an international brand. the benefits it brings to the territory as an international brand.
  • To give special support to projects that refer to the previous sections and that include two or more localities of the above and which include two or more localities of the Mudejar Territory.
  • Support projects that serve as a framework for action for a wide range of sites or assets, or that propose solutions and formulas that contribute to improving the sustainability and management capabilities of Mudejar heritage in general.
  • Support projects that help to promote the social function of cultural heritage.

Areas of strategic knowledge addressed in Territorio Mudéjar:

  • New perspectives on Mudejar art
    • Updating data and knowledge on Mudejar heritage in all its diversity: monumental, urban, ethnographic, linguistic, agricultural, hydraulic, geographical, materials, processes, etc.
    • Technical languages applied to the Mudejar: planimetry, photogrammetry and Mudejar 3D.
    • Geolocation, cartographies and maps.
    • Any subject that will broaden the scientific base on Mudejar art.
  • Strategic management of Mudejar heritage. Heritage, cultural landscape and urban landscape
    • New models of use beyond the classical classic concept of ” tourist or leisureuse “.
    • Methodologies applied based on “Authenticity Criticism” and “Preventive Conservation”
    • Physical, economic and intellectual accessibility studies
    • Future models for conservation or intervention.
    • Property resources and the actions of individuals
    • Natural and socialcontexts
    • Interactions between landscape and monumentality
  • Mudejar heritage: Communication, dissemination and social function as key elements of territorial development
    • Mudejar heritage and the media
    • New media discourses
    • Interpretation and ways of accessibility to knowledge of the Mudejar heritage
    • The emotional bond as a key element for the care, protection and management of heritage.
    • Population Contexts: The Value of Intergenerational Experience
    • Social participation in the valorisation, exchange and collective construction of knowledge and new forms of learning.
  • Creative Laboratory through artistic practice and the creation of new data derived from the physical creative residency in the villages of Territorio Mudéjar to highlight them as spaces for thought where new paths can be explored through artistic practice.

NEW 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The 6th call for proposals presents partnerships with various collaborating entities and links to national and international projects that will enable us to address issues of interest for the management and conservation of Mudejar heritage resources and their short-, medium- and long-term impact on the partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar.

2/ Modalities and collaborating entities

This research stay and pilot projects are part of the Interreg Europe REliHE (Religious Heritage in Rural Areas) project, in which Territorio Mudéjar is a stakeholder through the Provincial Council of Zaragoza as a partner in the project.

Religious heritage is a key part of the European cultural landscape, but in rural contexts it is at risk due to the progressive loss of its original use, physical deterioration and disconnection from local communities when these are undergoing population decline.

The scholarship aims to select a proposal that studies and diagnoses the historical uses of religious heritage in general and its current state in order to delve deeper into the strategic role of religious heritage in rural environments, particularly in terms of its territorial, architectural and community dimensions.

Through our work processes and results, we seek to generate applied knowledge to reverse this situation, integrating these assets into current territorial policies through proposals for uses, in a pilot stage, that maintain the original spirit for which the spaces were conceived, but proposing solutions that are compatible, sustainable, viable and socially significant for the heritage and partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

  1. Conduct a territorial and typological diagnosis of religious buildings in Mudéjar Territory.
  2. Analyse the identity and community ties associated with these buildings.
  3. Propose models of co-functionalisation, compatible uses and, exceptionally, reuse with material and immaterial values.
  4. Establish territorial networks that connect buildings with other local resources.
  5. Develop a methodology to assess the impact of new uses on territorial development.
  6. Translate the results into useful criteria for public policy.

RELATED AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE:

  1. New perspectives on Mudejar art
  2. Strategic management of Mudejar heritage. Heritage, cultural landscape and urban landscape
  3. Mudejar heritage: Communication, dissemination and social function as key elements of territorial development

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH: A combination of fieldwork, documentary analysis, digital tools (such as GIS) and participatory processes with local actors should be proposed.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • Preparation of a technical report and thematic maps
  • Development of a methodological guide for sustainable reuse, including at least two pilot cases that serve as a methodological model for the continuity of the project in subsequent phases.
  • Writing an article summarising scientific results and contributions
  • A minimum of two transfer actions at community and institutional level.

PILOT CASES: At least two historic buildings will need to be selected from those listed in the villages of the Mudéjar Territory for the application of results and their subsequent use as a methodological model for the continuity of the project in later phases.

POSSIBLE SOCIAL TRANSFER PROPOSALS:

  • For local communities: participatory workshops, travelling exhibitions and possible synergies with the routes project based on the project.
  • For public decision-makers and managers: guide to best practices, technical dissemination workshop, and applicable planning tools.

Within the general framework of European policies for sustainable territorial development and cultural regeneration, this call for research grants has the dual objective of studying and analysing the state of conservation through the application of methods of authenticity criticism and preventive conservation, as well as reinterpreting and activating actions on the potential of unique heritage spaces and their surroundings, in rural, peri-urban and intermediate city contexts, focusing on their territorial integration and functional activation through hybrid management and usage models.

  • Authenticity critique: Formulated precisely and rigorously by art historian and professor Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis, this method consists of studying and identifying the various phases, states and modifications that a work of art may have undergone, whether it be a building, a painting, a sculpture or any other historical or artistic object.
    This process is crucial because it serves not only to unravel which elements are original and which have been transformed into a work of art, but also to carry out a scientific historical-critical assessment based on this identification, which is carried out through a meticulous on-site study of the work, contrasted with the documentary sources preserved about it.
    As art historian Ascensión Hernández points out, authenticity criticism is essential when considering interventions in historical monuments, since the professionals who design these projects must understand not only the overall value of the monument, but also the value of each of its parts, which must be identified as original, transformed and added at different times, or restored in the contemporary era, in order to consider their value and therefore the need or otherwise to conserve, restore or remove them.
  • Preventive conservation: This is a working method that allows deterioration processes to be detected and controlled through constant comprehensive management, which translates into a substantial improvement in the state of conservation of cultural assets in the medium and long term, both for current and future use. This method not only includes a physical risk analysis scheme, but also determines a project for the use and enhancement of cultural property under the concept of compatible use that facilitates society’s access to such property. The result of this systematic work also leads to a reduction in the need for costly and complex interventions in both immovable heritage and the restoration of movable heritage objects and collections, implying a rationalisation of investments and the possibility of planning based on an objective scheme of priorities.

Unique heritage sites – whether isolated buildings, minor complexes, historic enclaves or territorial objects with symbolic or identity value – represent a strategic opportunity to rethink the relationship between heritage, landscape and community. Their marginal, abandoned or specific status within broader systems calls for innovative and holistic approaches to intervention.

The research grant is part of an initial stage of study and diagnosis which, through the combination of the methodologies indicated, will enable us to study the current state of the property and propose any preventive conservation measures necessary for the material and environmental conservation of the defined property and its protected surroundings, as well as actions aimed at preventing alterations that could lead to the eventual degradation of its historical character and material conditions.

The results of the study will provide the methodological and operational basis and initial steps to ensure the proper implementation of all intervention, restoration, maintenance and conservation processes in accordance with the various factors contributing to deterioration and the risks identified in the study.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

  1. Identify and characterise unique heritage sites that are in use, underused or at risk of losing their functional purpose, in both rural and intermediate urban areas.
  2. Delimit the functional, symbolic and spatial areas of influence of these assets, recognising the ecological, social, productive and cultural networks in which they are or could be integrated.
  3. Analyse opportunities for territorial integration and collaborative work between entities, with a focus on multi-level governance, public-private cooperation and the efficient use of available resources.
  4. Propose models for repurposing and co-functionalisation, with a special focus on hybrid indoor-outdoor uses, which reconnect heritage assets with their surroundings, generate eco-social services and articulate flows of activity compatible with their identity.
  5. Design replicable diagnostic and activation methodologies that can be applied to other cases with similar characteristics at regional or European level.
  6. Translate lessons learned into strategic tools for owners, relevant authorities, heritage managers, citizen groups and cultural agents.

RELATED AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE:

  1. New perspectives on Mudejar art
  2. Strategic management of Mudejar heritage. Heritage, cultural landscape and urban landscape
  3. Mudejar heritage: Communication, dissemination and social function as key elements of territorial development

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH: The methodological proposal should include:

  • Morphological and functional analysis of spaces: connectivity, accessibility, visibility, current and potential uses.
  • Study of precedents and types of intervention at European level, with an emphasis on reversible, mixed, cultural, social and productive uses.
  • Preventive conservation diagnosis
  • Participatory processes, co-design workshops, and interviews with local stakeholders.
  • Think about and prepare the conditions for new ideas, solutions or projects to emerge, creating the right environment for them to be implemented, from minimal viable actions to long-term projects, with impact indicators.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • Technical report with diagnosis and strategic proposals tailored to pilot cases.
  • Atlas of unique spaces with maps of territorial and functional relationships.
  • Prototypes of hybrid indoor-outdoor interventions, studies and tests, etc.: with applicability guidelines: pilot cases,
  • Replicable methodological guide for heritage institutions and technicians.
  • Scientific publications and transfer materials for diverse audiences.

PILOT CASES: The development of studies and diagnoses must have a real application in at least THREE PILOT CASES:

  • Pilot cases 1 and 2: It will be necessary to choose, in a justified manner, at least TWO historic buildings and their surroundings from among those listed in the partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar for the application of results and their subsequent use as a methodological model for the continuity of the project in later phases.
  • Pilot case 3: Collaboration with the parish of La Seo, Cathedral of El Salvador in Zaragoza, focuses on a specific study of the Parroquieta de La Seo or Cathedral of San Salvador (UNESCO World Heritage Site 2001), as well as an analysis of the relationship between the monument and its protected surroundings. Of particular interest are the analysis and proposals for the Patio del Archivo Capitular (Calle Pabostría).

POSSIBLE SOCIAL TRANSFER PROPOSALS:

  • For local communities:
    • Citizen laboratories and collaborative residences in the selected spaces.
    • Activation of heritage narratives and prototyping of temporary uses (festivals, workshops, temporary installations).
    • Participatory documentation (oral archives, collective mapping).
  • Para decisores públicos, propietarios y gestores:
    • Technical conference on integrated heritage management and territorial regeneration.
    • Document containing recommendations for public policies on heritage sites that are “outside the system”.
    • Repository of best practices and framework for assessing cultural and territorial impact.
  • Expected impact
    • Reactivation of the links between heritage, territory and community.
    • Implementation of open, resilient and adaptive management models.
    • Contribution to the European debate on new forms of heritage enhancement with an eco-social approach.

Since the first studies carried out by Professor Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis, knowledge of plaster has been fundamental to understanding different aspects of Mudejar architecture in general, and Mudejar architecture in Aragon in particular.

In the first call for these Research and Project Stays, in 2019, the proposal by the team of architect and researcher Pedro Bel, “Mudejar plaster, its current use: a search through the memory of artisans. The keys to traditional manufacturing.” The research residency, which was part of the work involved in writing a doctoral thesis that was defended in 2024 at the University of Granada, confirmed that the technique used to manufacture this material did not change until the mid-20th century.

Based on the premise that the process has remained unchanged over time, the research delved into traditional plaster manufacturing methods, locating former plaster craftsmen to document their techniques and study current variables. quarries and old kilns were catalogued, and the first steps were taken to revitalise the craft through local plaster production companies for possible current manufacture in some of the historic manufacturing sites, as well as for its reintroduction not only in the restoration and rehabilitation of historic buildings but also for use in contemporary architecture.

The plaster kilns and historical material studied were located in 17 villages belonging to Territorio Mudéjar and in wider areas such as the Ebro Valley, revealing immediate connections between the history of the places, territorial links and historical economic networks.

FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT:

Since its establishment in 2018, the Territorio Mudéjar association has been building a framework for collaboration between entities and institutions that promotes the study and potential of its partner towns as places of innovation based on the uniqueness of their heritage resources. Within this framework, it collaborates with CIDA, the Alabaster Development Centre, which is part of the Albalate del Arzobispo Town Council, and a centre that has been promoting the use of alabaster in the town since 1998. which coordinates various actions with the aim of promoting alabaster, in agreement with the entities collaborating on the project (public entities, companies and research centres) which, since 2023, has been known as Alabaster Spain (www.alabasterspain.es).

Since its inception, the CIDA-linked project has sought to bring together different actions linked to varied but interconnected objectives through the common thread of alabaster, a genuine and versatile material, and its derivatives (alabaster plaster, anhydrite, etc.). Alabaster is a material with exceptional and distinctive mineralogical properties that make it a true endogenous resource of the territory, with 85-90% of its global extraction and production located in Aragon, particularly in the Bajo Martín region, the Ribera Baja del Ebro and the final section of the Jiloca river valley before it flows into the Jalón river.

With a multidimensional approach to the material, CIDA aims to strengthen and expand the economic, social and cultural dynamics that can arise from this natural resource and its by-products, with the promotion of collaborations being the main objective in order to join forces, creating synergies that generate mutual benefits and contribute to strengthening the development of alabaster in all its dimensions and its vision of strengthening the territory.

Links with companies that extract and process the product, located in or very close to the partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar, are particularly important. These companies’ R&D&I work seeks to make full use of the material.

In this regard, CIDA has launched a flagship project called “Laboratorio de formas” (Laboratory of Forms) to provide solutions for the use of production surpluses through the creation of new uses and products.

At this point, the collaboration between Territorio Mudéjar and CIDA has been considered essential. Firstly, due to the geographical relationship with the location of historical and current alabaster deposits in towns such as Gelsa, Velilla de Ebro, Quinto, Fuentes de Ebro, in the Ebro Valley, or the partner towns in the Jalón and Jiloca valleys; and secondly, taking as a starting point the background of applied research, due to the possibilities that historical knowledge of the use of the material, especially in Mudejar buildings and their historical technical-constructive and aesthetic-ornamental processes, may lead to the creation of new products, particularly given the significant professional and economic impact on the villages.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

  1. To study the possibilities of alabaster plaster from its optimal use as a craft market product, taking into account its historical uses in both construction and ornamentation.
  2. Identify and highlight Mudejar heritage sites where alabaster plaster is predominantly used to give the construction of the new products’ brand a unique character.
  3. Study the actual implementation of traditional kilns, taking into account new products, their real development potential, opportunities for territorial integration and collaborative management with current extraction and production companies, with a focus on multi-level governance, public-community cooperation and the efficient use of available resources.
  4. Study, through applied pilot cases, the widespread introduction of material derived from processes.
  5. Study the implementation of training and professionalisation actions related to historical processes.
  6. Study the enhancement of the alabaster gypsum landscape.

RELATED AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE:

  1. New perspectives on Mudejar art
  2. Strategic management of Mudejar heritage. Heritage, cultural landscape and urban landscape
  3. Mudejar heritage: Communication, dissemination and social function as key elements of territorial development

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH: A combination of theoretical work and fieldwork should be proposed, both in the partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar that are proposed and at the CIDA headquarters in Albalate del Arzobispo, including documentary and background analysis, scientific analysis processes, the use of digital tools, and participatory processes with local actors.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • Technical report with diagnosis and strategic proposals tailored to the research objectives
  • Map of unique monumental sites, plaster production sites (historic kilns), ancient and current quarries, and production sites, indicating territorial and functional relationships.
  • Proposals for technical-construction, aesthetic-ornamental and object-based products, with applicability guidelines: pilot locations
  • Replicable methodological guide for companies, institutions, and heritage technicians.
  • Publications and transfer materials for diverse audiences.

PILOT CASES: The development of studies and diagnoses must have real application in at least FIVE PILOT LOCATIONS:

  • Pilot sites PARTNER TOWNS IN THE MUDÉJAR TERRITORY: It will be necessary to select, with justification, at least two historic buildings and two gypsum landscapes from those listed in the partner towns of the Mudéjar Territory for the application of results and their subsequent use as a methodological model for the continuity of the project in later phases.
  • CIDA pilot site: Collaboration with the Alabaster Development Centre will take the form of a working stay at CIDA headquarters (a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 20 days, as proposed by the professional researcher(s)), as well as a visit (minimum) to each collaborating company and to the sites where alabaster gypsum is extracted and produced.

POSSIBLE PROPOSALS FOR SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFER:

  • For local communities:
    • Citizen laboratories and collaborative residences in the selected spaces.
    • Activation of heritage narratives and prototyping of temporary uses (festivals, workshops, temporary installations).
    • Participatory documentation (oral archives, collective mapping).
  • Para decisores públicos, propietarios y gestores:
    • Technical conference on integrated heritage management and territorial regeneration.
    • Document containing recommendations for public policies on heritage sites that are “outside the system”.
    • Repository of best practices and framework for assessing cultural and territorial impact.
  • Expected impact
    • Reactivation of the links between heritage, territory and community.
    • Implementation of open, resilient and adaptive management models.
    • Contribution to the European debate on new forms of heritage enhancement with an eco-social approach.

3/ Procedure

The procedure for awarding grants will be processed on a competitive basis in accordance with the assessment criteria established in the call for applications. in accordance with the assessment criteria established in the call for applications and, in accordance with Article 22.1 of the Ley 38/2003, de 17 de noviembre, Ley General de Subvenciones (Law 38/2003, of 17 November, General Law on Subsidies)

4/ Applicants

Proposals may be submitted by natural persons and groups of natural persons without legal personality who fulfil all the requirements of this call for proposals.

The applicant (or group of applicants) may be at an early or intermediate stage of their research career or professional activity and must be able to demonstrate:

  • Higher education related to the areas covered by the call.
  • Documentary evidence of at least two years of research or professional experience -remunerated or not-.
  • Professional experience shall be understood to mean the completion of specialised studies related to the management of cultural and historical-artistic heritage, or to any of the proposed areas of work, totalling a minimum of two years of effective training and in which work has been carried out using “project” methodologies.

The call is not open to legal entities of any kind: companies, partnerships, associations, communities of property or groups under any other type of legal associative formula.

When the project is submitted by two or more persons, the formula is called “team” and each member of the team must be accredited individually.

If the project submitted is part of a research project linked to a university, public research centre or private (non-profit) centre, this must be indicated in the project report.

Acceptance of the project and completion of the stay is compatible with other professional activities, provided that the manner in which they are to be combined (working hours) is specified and justified in the project report.

The project submitted may have other sources of funding as long as they are complementary and are specified in the report.

Total income may never exceed the development costs of the projects.

5/ Requirements

  • Hold a Bachelor’s, Graduate’s or Architect’s degree or equivalent.
  • Master’s degree specialising in heritage and/or any of the various areas related to heritage, or proof of a minimum of two years’ research experience and/or professional career in the field in which the proposal is developed (whether remunerated or not).
  • Be up to date with their tax and social security obligations, as well as accrediting compliance with obligations for the reimbursement of subsidies.
  • Not be affected by any of the causes established in art. 13 of the LGS.

6/ Submission deadline

The deadline for submitting applications will be until MONDAY, 3 of NOVEMBER of 2025.

Proposals sent by e-mail will be accepted until 23.59 hours (Spanish time).

If the application contains errors that can be corrected, the organising body will inform the applicant so that the corrections can be made within a non-extendable period of two days from the date of notification, as an essential condition for the application to be taken into account in the evaluation process.

7/ Features and conditions

Duration: Proposals for PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS must be carried out within a minimum period of FOUR months and a maximum period of SEVEN months from the date of notification of project selection.

Timetable: Projects and placements can be carried out according to the following timetable:

  • Work phase 1: Until 24 December 2025.
  • Phase 2: Analysis, presentation, and delivery of interim results. Until 30 March 2026.
  • Phase 3: Presentation and delivery of final results. Until 30 June 2026.

Funding: Projects will receive a maximum financial allocation of €7,500.00, which must be justified in the project report according to the expenses indicated in the following section.

Types of funding by modality:

  • Modalidad 1. Estudio y diagnóstico de los usos del patrimonio de los pueblos de Territorio Mudéjar. Marco de trabajo proyecto Interreg Europe REliHE.
    • The maximum cash prize will be €7,500.00, financed entirely by the Territorio Mudéjar association.
  • Modalidad 2. Estudio y diagnóstico desde la crítica de autenticidad y la conservación preventiva como método para la gestión, conservación y restauración de la arquitectura mudéjar y su entorno de protección.Marco de colaboración y desarrollo: parroquia de La Seo, Catedral del Salvador de Zaragoza.
    • The maximum cash prize will be €7,500.00, 66% of which (€4,950.00) will be funded by the Territorio Mudéjar association and 34% (€2,550.00) by the Parish of La Seo, Cathedral of El Salvador in Zaragoza.
  • Modalidad 3. Estudio del yeso alabastrino y su impacto en el territorio: innovación y calidad desde su estudio histórico. Marco de colaboración y desarrollo: CIDA. Centro Integral de Desarrollo del Alabastro.
    • The maximum cash prize will be €7,500.00, financed entirely by the Territorio Mudéjar association.
    • This modality includes an in-kind grant, which varies depending on the proposal submitted, financed 100% by the Alabaster Development Centre: Costs for use of facilities, work and study materials, tools and machinery for prototypes or possible laboratory sampling, logistics, tutoring, mentoring and support, accommodation in Albalate del Arzobispo during the proposed physical stay for up to a maximum of 20 days.

Expenditure chargeable to the grant: In all proposals, the budget must identify the concepts subject to and deriving directly from the needs of the project – for example: expenses arising from the development of the work, materials, travel, meals, accommodation, others – including, if any, the corresponding taxes, as well as payment for reproduction, exhibition and public communication rights, if the project requires it.

If the project has other sources of funding , it must be specified: Entity, duration, actions financed (object and content) and to which part of the project it is addressed.

Compatibility: The development of the stay is compatible with other work, professional or research activities justified to the organisation. The project must indicate the degree of compatibility and the method of work to be carried out in order to avoid overlapping and non-compliance with the conditions indicated in this call.

Number of calls: Beneficiaries may not obtain full support in more than two consecutive calls for the same project. Therefore, resident researchers who have been beneficiaries in the last two calls will not be eligible to apply for the call and will be excluded if they do so.

** Exceptionally, researchers who have not exceeded the amount of €12,000.00 in two consecutive calls may be considered as beneficiaries if they have been runners-up in previous years’ calls.

Others:

The beneficiaries shall be included in the entity’ s liability insurance.

Beneficiaries shall not establish any type of employment relationship with the organising entity or with the collaborating entities.

All aid shall be subject to deductions and taxes as stipulated in the legislation in force, which shall be deducted from the corresponding financial envelope.

8/ Applications

Applications must be sent to the Territorio Mudéjar Association in digital format to the following email address: convocatoria@territoriomudejar.es

  1. Application-Basic identification data of the applicant and the project.
  2. Copy of ID card.
  3. Summary of the applicant/s professional career (maximum 2,000 characters)
  4. Project/proposal summary (max. 2,000 characters)
  5. Abbreviated academic and professional CV (max. 5 pages)
  6. Five completed projects that, in the applicant’s opinion, are relevant as a starting point for the proposal (summary of each project, max. 2,000 characters)
  7. Report on the project to be carried out, including (max. 5 pages): Title; Background and current status of the subject; Hypothesis, methodology, work plan and timetable; Description of the specific objectives of the project; Locations directly and indirectly affected by the proposal; Location or locations proposed for the stay and expected length of stay; Detailed budget for the research, which will refer to the amount requested.
  8. Optionally, a letter of recommendation from a relevant person in the field of the proposed work may be provided.
  9. In the case of teams, both the application and the award decision must expressly state the implementation commitments undertaken by each member of the team, as well as the amount of subsidy to be applied by each of them, who will also be considered as beneficiaries. A sole representative or proxy of the grouping must be appointed, with sufficient powers to fulfil the obligations which, as beneficiary, correspond to the grouping. The team must undertake not to dissolve the grouping until the limitation period provided for in Articles 39 and 65 of Law 38/2003 of 17 November 2003 has elapsed.

9/ Selection process and criteria

The project selection process will be carried out based on evaluations by the Scientific Committee and the organisation’s management team, who will draw up a ranking according to the following criteria:

  • Curriculum vitae, education and previous achievements of the applicant: 10%. The focus of the applicant’s academic background in relation to their chosen field of work will be taken into consideration.
  • Impact area / number of locations involved: 35%. The way in which the project acts in the area will be assessed. This may be a direct present or future impact, but in any case it will be an essential requirement. It will be highly valued to predict a realistic impact without falling into bias and media hype.
  • Project quality and innovative nature of the proposal: 20%. Projects that are well planned and presented in a rigorous and detailed manner will be valued. The framework of objectives/actions/resources/budget must be correctly planned. The timetable must be realistic. The project must consider its evaluation and future viability.
  • Assessment of proposed results: 10%. Proposals that propose a greater number of deliverable results in accordance with the objectives described will be valued. Each result added to those specified will be valued at 5 points, up to a maximum of 10 points. Proposals for innovative deliverables that facilitate the effective management of the results of the proposed studies, contribute to the transfer of knowledge to local communities and public decision-makers, and integrate with the various European heritage strategies, supporting sustainability, project continuity and the incorporation of these assets into territorial and cultural policies, will be valued.
  • Complementary activities involving the local population: 15%. The inclusion of activities that involve the local population in the development of the project will be valued. Involvement does not necessarily have to be through cultural activities. The introduction of activities that have an impact on culture in an unconventional way will be valued.
  • Digitisation strategy for the Mudéjar Territory: 10%.
  • Alignment of expected results with the published criteria for the ‘European Common Space for Cultural Heritage’. Contribution of ideas and proposals for integrating the results in digital format into the platforms enabled by Territorio Mudéjar.

10/ Assessment and resolution

The decision on the grants will be announced on 17 November 2025.

The call may be declared totally or partially void and the decision of the commissions shall be final.

Once the call for applications has been resolved, the list of beneficiaries and the composition of the evaluation committee will be published on the Territorio Mudéjar Association website www.territoriomudejar.es .

In no case will individualised information on the applications received or on the deliberation of the evaluation committee be provided.

11/ Formalisation, justification and payment of grants

Formalisation: Beneficiaries must sign the acceptance agreement before the start date of their project, according to the calendar, and no later than 21 November 2025. This agreement will serve as an essential document for receiving the grant. Once the acceptance document has been signed, they must join the project on the date indicated in the proposed schedule.

Payment: Payment of the grant will be made in accordance with the following stages:

  • Phase 1. 50% upon signing the acceptance agreement. 30 November 2025.
  • Phase 2. 30% halfway through project development. 1 April 2026.
  • Phase 3. Remaining 20% upon delivery of the final project report. 15 July 2026

These conditions shall be general to all beneficiaries unless , exceptionally, the project report justifies the need for a different financial distribution over time.

Justification and presentation of results:

Beneficiaries will be obliged to justify compliance with the requirements and conditions established in this call for proposals by means of: An intermediate report halfway through the stay that allows the progress of the project to be evaluated. A final report on digital support of the project describing objectives, fulfilment of aims and results; and a financial report justifying the cost of the activities carried out.

Beneficiaries must deliver to Territorio Mudéjar all the results derived from the project financed according to the proposal presented in the application, it being understood that this proposal will act as a contractual document for the grants.

In the case of works subject to intellectual property, current legislation will be applied with regard to authorship and the transfer of rights of use and reproduction will be assigned to Territorio Mudéjar.

Financial control:

The interim report shall include a revision of the estimated budget either confirming its continuity or proposing necessary adjustments where justified.

The final report shall include a detailed financial report as follows:

  • A list of expenses incurred indicating creditor, amount, date of issue and payment. As the project includes an estimated budget , the list of expenses will be classified according to the items of the project or subsidised activity. Where applicable, any deviations that may have occurred in the development of the project must be justified.
  • Proof of payment: Invoices, tickets or supporting documents and proof of payment. If the payment has been made in cash, this must be indicated on the expense document with the concept correctly specified.
  • The justification of nominative hours devoted to the project will be detailed in the report in terms of the results developed, specifying the working hours assigned to the actions carried out.
  • The justification of mileage expenses shall be made by means of a sworn statement and a detail shall be included in the report according to the results developed, specifying the journeys made and assigned to specific actions.

Non-compliance:

The aid will be cancelled and the amounts received will be reimbursed if the conditions established in these rules are not met, and in general in the cases established in article 37 of the General Law on Subsidies.

12/ Dissemination of project results

The Asociación Territorio Mudéjar may request the collaboration of the beneficiaries of the grants in activities to disseminate the projects. To this end, the beneficiary will provide the Asociación Territorio Mudéjar with all the information and documentation required and will grant the latter, free of charge, the appropriate rights for the dissemination of the results.

Beneficiaries must mention the source of the grant in materials or results using the phrase “Project carried out with funding from Territorio Mudéjar through the Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis 2025 Grants for Internship and Projects call for proposals” and include the organisation’s logo whenever possible.

For its part, the association Territorio Mudéjar will always identify the authorship of the projects.

13/ Acceptance of the terms and conditions

Participation in this call for applications implies acceptance of its rules and its decision, which shall be final, as well as the waiver of any type of claim.

Exceptionally and for duly justified reasons, the Asociación Territorio Mudéjar reserves the right to interpret and modify the wording of the rules in order to clarify or specify their content, without this implying a substantial or arbitrary alteration of the same.

For any queries, applicants may contact the Association Territorio Mudéjar via the email address: convocatoria@territoriomudejar.es