Nearly 50 teachers participate in the course “Rural school in motion” (Circular desde la escuela rural) to promote Mudejar identity and rural rootedness

    Nearly 50 teachers participate in the course “Rural school in motion” (Circular desde la escuela rural) to promote Mudejar identity and rural rootedness. Most of those enrolled are active teachers in rural schools in some 20 towns.

    This is the first training action of a cooperation project between rural development groups coordinated by the ADRI Calatayud-Aranda; CEDEMAR Ribera Baja del Ebro and Bajo Aragón-Caspe; ADEFO Cinco Villas; ASOMO Moncayo; ADRAE Ribera Alta del Ebro; FEDIVALCA Valdejalón and Campo de Cariñena; and ADRI Jiloca-Gallocanta, with the participation of Territorio Mudéjar as a collaborating private entity responsible for the implementation of the project.

    The project, which lasts 18 months, is financed by the Leader programme of the Government of Aragon and the Council of Zaragoza through the association Territorio Mudéjar.

    The first session of this course – which links education, heritage and innovation – was held on 15 February and will continue on 22 February and 1, 8 and 15 March. In these sessions, participants will learn how to take the first steps in the development of educational materials around the Mudejar identity of the villages, placing the rural schools and the educational community of the villages at the centre of the project.

    The initiative has received a good response from the public and includes teachers from towns of Territorio Mudéjar such as Quinto (CEIP Fernando el Católico) Calatayud (CEIP Salvador Minguijón), Ateca (CEIP Virgen de la Peana), Villarreal de Huerva and Romanos (CRA Fernando el Católico), Mainar (CEIP Santa Ana), Ricla (CRA Maestro Monreal); Aniñón, Cervera de la Cañada and Torralba de Ribota (CRA Río Ribota), Magallón (CRA La Huecha), San Mateo de Gállego (CEIP Galo Ponte), Alagón, Tobed and Mesones de Isuela (CRA Vicort Isuela). It has also been very well received throughout Aragon with teachers from the schools of Utrillas, Escucha, Híjar, Zaidín, Villarroya de la Sierra and Zaragoza. People linked to education who are interested in the project have also signed up.

    At a global level, this initiative has a triple purpose: to work on the introduction of the Mudejar heritage identity in the work programmes of schools beyond the artistic or complementary areas; to involve the educational community in the valuation of the Mudejar heritage as part of their personal history, which favours the knowledge, conservation and dissemination of the identity of the towns; and to use the work carried out in schools as material for dissemination and tourist use on the Mudejar heritage of the villages for family and children audiences.

    The starting point for this course is the working methodology and the results of the pilot project that was carried out in the CRA Vicort Isuela during the 2018-2019 academic year and which is the starting point for the implementation of the project in the schools of the villages of Territorio Mudéjar.

    The course will be taught by Laura Castejón and Víctor Gumiel, teachers who carried out the design and testing of the pilot project, and Victoria E. Trasobares, director of Territorio Mudéjar who has extensive experience in the management and implementation of Mudéjar heritage management projects in rural areas.

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    Second MOMAr meeting: Territorio Mudéjar as a hub for rural innovation

    Territorio Mudéjar has participated this Thursday in the second meeting of the European project MOMAr, a pioneering meeting with entities of the province linked to cultural heritage.

    The event, with the aim of being a meeting point and a space to create new synergies within the sector, was held in an on-line format open to the public, with the participation of more than 50 professionals linked to heritage management and a streaming audience of more than 200 interested people.

    In the session, we explained how we work to be a hub of rural innovation and follow strategies of:

    • Research: with stays and professional internships in rural areas.
    • Communication, dissemination and knowledge: with the inhabitants as protagonists, working to attract national and international entities to the territory, taking advantage of the World Heritage brand; and working carefully with the media.
    • Investment and future projects: Working with specialised teams in calls for funding and building virtual workspaces to strengthen collaboration strategies.

    In addition, we have explained our role based on:

    • Use the heritage space from a disruptive point of view and directly linked to the local development of the communities.
    • The strengthening of historical-artistic heritage management thinking as a strategy, which affects multiple actions, and cultural management as a tool.
    • Attraction of professionals to the rural environment on a permanent basis, facilitating its implementation.
    • The evidence that the only way to have more significant results is through the strengthening of networking and the acquisition of roles within the network.
    • The need to exchange good practices without losing sight of the fact that it is not enough to replicate but to think about how it works in your territory and the assets on which your management is based.

    And we talked about our commitment to professionalization understood as quality, projects and results.

    Territorio Mudéjar Routes: The beauty of a genuine art form

      In 2021, Mudejar architecture celebrates a double anniversary in its declaration as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO: 35 years since the recognition of Mudejar architecture of Teruel in 1986, and 20 years since the extension of the international brand to the entire Aragonese territory, with the incorporation of six buildings from the province of Zaragoza in 2001. This extension was key in order to understand the true dimension and significance of Mudejar art in Aragon.

      With this in mind, we have started a series of printed trips, with the help of Prames and the magazine La Magia de Viajar por Aragón (The Magic of travelling in Aragón), in which every two months we will travel around the Mudejar heritage in the province of Zaragoza.

      The trips will lead us to the month of December, when we will commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the declaration as World Heritage of some of its most outstanding examples.

      The first of the articles, available in the January issue of the magazine La Magia de Viajar (The Magic of Travelling), allows us to explain the beauty of a genuine art form. That is to say, why Mudejar art, exclusive to the Iberian Peninsula and an enclave between Islamic and Christian art derived from the conditions of coexistence in medieval Spain, is the most genuine artistic manifestation of Spain and has its greatest exponent in Aragon, a land of frontiers and a melting pot of cultures.

      Read the article.

      Territorio Mudéjar, a breeding ground for new professionals in the management of historical-artistic heritage

      At Territorio Mudéjar we make the most of our resources to generate professional fields of excellence, in which each area we develop is specialised and works to find solutions of innovative use for the “heritage space” as a space for professional development and learning.

      These days we are finalising the different actions that are part of the practical study for the definition of a specialised professional profile for cultural heritage located in rural territories and that in our case coincides with the work that we actively carry out with the localities that hold the UNESCO World Heritage declaration.

      This project, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport through its 2019 call of grants for projects for the conservation, protection and dissemination of World Heritage Sites, as well as by the Council of Zaragoza through its direct aid to Territorio Mudéjar, aims to make our entity a benchmark in terms of the quality applied to the development of projects linked to management and accessibility strategies, understanding that the quality and achievement of objectives of our projects must begin by strengthening the skills and abilities of the people who work on them on a daily basis.

      In this line, we have developed different actions throughout the year 2020 through which we are working on the creation of synergies with entities of recognised prestige in our territory such as the Tarazona Monumental Foundation, the Santa Mª de Albarracín Foundation, the Association of Municipalities of the Camino de Santiago or the Sobrarbe-Pyrenees Geopark, among others.

      In addition, we are in continuous contact with national and international entities that work to ensure that professionalization is the key to the future of our heritage as an economic agent and from different points of view, such as Icomos España or Aproha.

      The richest and most stimulating actions are found in the incorporation of students, recent graduates and emerging professionals in the different projects that we carry out through the University of Zaragoza, for the Challenge Programme, for entities such as Cepyme that train for professionalization, or through the introduction of students in training period for the development of their Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree Final Project.

      For this reason, students of Art History, History and other humanistic fields are training in Territorio Mudéjar to be able to build a learning process that takes into account the contexts: Mudejar art, Aragonese art and the general context, because no art is free of influences.

      As an example of some of the initiatives we are working on:

      -We have been in San Mateo de Gállego making a technical visit so that Sarai Salvo -student of the #ChallengeProgramme2020- gets to know the town and can start working on her Master’s Degree Final Project on the parish museum of San Mateo de Gállego, using the knowledge learned in the creation of focal points of heritage and cultural action for the town.During the visit we also visited the Mudejar pottery workshop Siglo XXI of Fernando Malo, a ceramics workshop specialising in the reproduction of Mudejar tiles for restorations, which will form an active part of our student’s project.

      -We have also done technical visits to Magallón (town council) and Tarazona (Tarazona Monumental Foundation) with Derry Holgado and Alfredo Notivol, as part of the internships they are doing through the programme for recent graduates in the first case and through CEPYME in the second.

      -With Derry Holgado we visited the Tarazona Monumental Foundation, the Santa María de Albarracín Foundation, the UNESCO Sobrarbe-Pyrenees World Geopark and the church of San Pablo in Zaragoza, one of the buildings declared UNESCO Mudejar World Heritage.

      -Eugenia Gallego, another of our students, is working on her Final Master’s Degree Project on the management plan for towers in Villarreal de Huerva, Mainar and Romanos.

      -María Foradada is studying different options within Territorio Mudéjar that allow her to develop her Bachelor’s Degree Final Project and finish her degree studies with a clear focus on Mudejar heritage and its practical application in rural areas.

      With this project we contribute to training professionals with specific skills through the real application of the contents of the training programmes, who know how to detect what is essential in order for a project to be carried out and have a chance of success.

      Likewise, with this work we are making progress in the project to define a professional profile for the management of historical-artistic heritage located in rural areas, financed by the Ministry of Culture and Sport and by the Council of Zaragoza through its direct aid to our organisation.

      International Day of Education: how to introduce the methodology of heritage studies into curricula

        Territorio Mudéjar joins the International Day of Education, a celebration proclaimed by UNESCO which this year is dedicated to “Recovering and revitalising education for the COVID-19 generation”

        At Territorio Mudéjar we work to link education, heritage and innovation; to introduce the methodology of heritage studies into curricula; to achieve a rural and identity-based rootedness beginning in the classroom; to train university and postgraduate students in methodology and heritage (Challenge Programme); and to create knowledge through our research stays.

        We are convinced that everything starts at school and that school is a passport to the future that helps to shape what we will be tomorrow.

        In this task, teachers are essential, compasses that activate the magnets of curiosity and knowledge.Our latest initiative “Rural school in motion” is aimed at them.

        Students, families, teachers, administrative and service staff and the educational community in general: Happy Education Day!

        2021 Stays: Scenic Mudejar

        Scenic Mudejar.
        Exploring performing arts culture in the medieval period: music, dance, and minstrelsy

        This study has focused on developing strategies in the region that promote Mudejar identity and strengthen professional networks through research, creation, and artistic dissemination in the fields of musical and performance art. It has also designed initiatives to facilitate the programming of future performances in the region. The project is based on a concept of heritage that encompasses traditions, customs, and other artistic expressions that are part of the collective memory.

        The project is based on the idea that the performing arts—arts of time and space, of memory and celebration—have the potential to connect the past with the present, develop the contemporary imagination of a territory, and, at the same time, nourish myths, figures, and motifs of local tradition.

        Its contribution to local, economic and sustainable development has been studied in the following areas:

        • Economic benefits derived from greater territorial attractiveness (the entire cultural sector) and innovative drive (creative industries);
        • Strengthening social cohesion through expressive forms in keeping with the cultural diversity of the population;
        • Education and awareness-raising of the population on social and environmental issues (e.g., sustainability and nature preservation) through the performing arts in all their creative forms;
        • Control and reduction of your own environmental footprint.

        The study has focused on fieldwork and the study of a vast amount of archival material and bibliography on scenic Mudejar to outline four operational objectives:

        1. To examine, in the local history of three towns in the Mudejar Territory, the events that could give rise to a commemorative project of a scenic nature;
        2. To highlight, within the tangible local heritage of these three towns, the material elements that can serve as a stage for a musical, theatrical, choreographic or hybrid program with reference to Andalusian and Mudejar culture;
        3. To examine, within the intangible local heritage of these three peoples, the material elements that can be related to the surviving Andalusian culture, with a view to proposing their recovery or revitalization;
        4. To identify, within the local political, educational, and cultural fabric, the dynamics and difficulties that must be taken into account when proposing performing arts projects related to the “Mudejar identity” of these three communities.

        From the analysis carried out, a series of conclusions have been drawn about the aspects of Andalusian art that are manifested in the Mudejar scene, taking as a reference the data obtained from Islamic and Andalusian sources and those obtained later within the framework of the Mudejar and Moorish minority.

        The research proposes that Mudejar performing arts be recognized as a category within the history of the performing arts, and that there will be no differences between the performing arts carried out by Mudejars and Moriscos.

        The visit concludes with a comprehensive bibliography and iconography of the performing arts associated with the Mudéjar Territory, as well as a proposal for several solutions that involve a tangential and mixed repertoire, a symbiosis between the medieval and the contemporary as a way of highlighting this lost but not irretrievable tradition and of investing in new techniques to develop new Mudéjar performing arts projects. The aim is to enhance the possibilities for managing the use of heritage spaces in the Mudéjar Territory.

        LINE OF RESEARCH: Social function

        AUTHORS: María Amor Borque and Serge Dambrine

        2021 Stays: Mudejar and Euclidean geometry or plane geometry.

        The Mudejar and Euclidean geometry or plane geometry

        This stay addresses the visual study of Aragonese Mudejar architecture in the Mudejar Territory and, by extension, in the province of Zaragoza. The project has allowed us to collect and study Mudejar architecture, studying it in depth and with geometric rigor. It has also established parallels between them and with others developed outside the scope of the project.

        In total, around 50 graphic works were created, combining technical exercises in gramophones, ribbons, lacework, and oculi with interior and exterior architectural views. The result is a graphic archive never before developed, allowing Territorio Mudéjar to possess a collection of Mudejar images for future publication.

        The Mudejar and Euclidean Geometry or Plane Geometry project is essential for compiling all the artistic wealth present in this artistic manifestation, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and unique in the world.

        The working methodology was based on the analysis of photographs, from which measurements and execution systems were extracted. Connecting points, centers, parallel lines, and layouts were deduced. An attempt was made to recover the geometric solutions used by the Mudejar masters and their sources of inspiration.

        The objectives of the project have been the following:

        • To study the use of plane geometry in Aragonese Mudejar solutions.
        • Interrelate these solutions between different architectural buildings.
        • To address the gap in the constructive and compilation study of the various ties, latticework, plasterwork, oculi, etc.
        • To promote awareness of the richness of Mudejar art.
        • To bring together a collection of artistic creations that will serve as Territorio Mudéjar’s own artistic archive.

        The rich graphic work produced during this stay studies geometric motifs from the church of Santa María de Tobed, the church of Saints Justa and Rufina and the church of Santa María de Maluenda, the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Utebo, the church of San Martín de Tours in Morata de Jiloca, the church of Santa Tecla in Cervera de la Cañada, the church of San Félix in Torralba de Ribota, the collegiate church of Santa María and the churches of San Andrés and San Benito in Calatayud, the Luna palace in Daroca, and the church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo in Aniñón, and relates them to others in the province, the peninsula and the Near East.

        The results, plastic objects in themselves, will be the subject of various exhibition projects and special editions over the coming months.

        LINE OF RESEARCH: New perspectives on Mudejar art.

        AUTHOR: Chema Agustín.

        2021 Stays: The Didactic Mudejar, the guide.

        Educational Mudejar, the guide.

        2021 Internships: The internship focused on producing educational material for primary and secondary school students that helps them interpret Mudejar art through a combination of illustrations and real images, and helps them learn to appreciate this rich legacy. This educational resource will be available on the Territorio Mudéjar website, will be accessible through all types of devices, and will have an attractive, visual, and dynamic presentation. The online publication will be complemented by routes through maps and games adapted to the students’ level and linked to the work carried out by the “Circular desde la escuela rural” project. This tool can be used in the classroom and with the family. Educational guide.

        The development of the online teaching guide that summarizes the results of the research stay has been carried out in the following phases:

        Script development and documentation: “The didactic Mudejar”

        • Documentation, idea development, script writing, copywriting, creativity with historical and artistic introductions.
        • Design and production of various resources and teaching materials to adapt them to editorial production.
        • Structure and planning of illustrations as well as trips to create the map/route with photographs and illustrations.

        Selection of locations to contextualize the educational guide as a map for exploring the towns of the Mudéjar Territory.

        • Taking photographs to combine illustrations and real images to help children better visualize and understand the content. The combination of reality and illustration is a key resource for this.
        • Photographs for map/route.

        Illustrations: DAVID GUIRAO:

        • Illustrations and storyboarding.
        • Digital retouching and adaptation of illustrations to the appropriate size and format for production.

        Production and realization of the online publication:

        • Search and selection of still images. Includes photo retouching and photomontages.
        • Design and layout of an interactive PDF with a map/plan showing routes for families and educational purposes.
        • Motion graphics. Creation of moving graphics (maps, layered photographs, titles, text).

        The result can be consulted through the following button:

        SEE DIDACTIC GUIDE

        LINE OF RESEARCH: Communication and dissemination.

        AUTHORS: Myriam Monterde, Elisa Plana, José Manuel Herráiz and David Guirao.

        2021 Internships: Preventive Urban Planning

        Preventive urbanism: Guidelines and tools for the protection of
        traditional architecture in Mudejar towns from the perspective of urban planning.

        This research internship proposes an analysis and comparative study of the urban planning regulations governing architectural interventions in various locations in the Mudéjar Territory. It does so by generating an overview of the level of protection afforded to traditional architecture through planning, identifying areas for improvement, and proposing a framework document that can be used by both private developers and municipal technicians to improve the compatibility of interventions in traditional buildings. This project continues the research on vernacular architecture initiated during the previous internships.

        The work developed is based on general objectives that have been:

        1. To promote appreciation for traditional architecture within the sphere of influence of Aragonese Mudejar art, fostering the perception of construction techniques as a valuable cultural heritage that must be preserved and protected.
        2. To promote the compatible conservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of traditional architecture, offering tools tailored to the specific circumstances of the Aragonese Mudejar influence.
        3. Promote coordination between municipal administrations and private sector initiatives to develop flexible and conservative interventions.
        4. Promote the regeneration of rural areas through their heritage, proposing alternative uses beyond the tourism sector and offering tools that enable the development of interventions that are compatible with and respectful of local cultural identity.

        Based on these general objectives, a series of specific objectives have been proposed:

        1. To analyze the state of urban planning and its influence on traditional architecture in the towns that make up the Mudéjar Territory.
        2. Generate reference documentation, in the form of guidelines and conservation objectives, that can be used by local councils to promote and encourage compatible intervention and preventive conservation of local traditional architecture.
        3. Promote social involvement with preventive conservation tools and their appropriation by the community through citizen participation actions.
        4. Raise awareness about the value of traditional architecture through outreach activities that emphasize the irreplaceable nature of this architecture and the importance of its preservation.
        5. Encourage the supply and demand for traditional trades, highlighting the virtues and real costs of these techniques and contributing to the formation of a regional professional network.

        The visit concludes with conclusions and guidelines for compatible interventions in the area’s traditional architecture, which will be disseminated among the various interested communities.

        LINE OF RESEARCH: New perspectives on Mudejar art; cultural heritage management

        AUTHOR: Laura Villacampa Crespo

        CONTRIBUTORS: F. Javier Gómez Patrocinio, Ignacio Pérez Bailón.

        CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Research stays and projects 2022

        4th Call for Research Stays and Projects Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis.

        4th Call for Research Stays
        Submission deadline: July 20.

        Territorio Mudéjar is hosting the fourth edition of the Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis Research and Project Internships, designed to directly support the work of researchers and project promoters who want to contribute to the development of communities through the responsible and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage resources.

        Territorio Mudéjar is an association of town councils, currently thirty-six member town councils and one collaborating partner, whose objective is to consolidate a unified and collaborative management network for the use of the historical and artistic resources linked to the important Mudejarartistic resources linked to the important Mudejar heritage , understanding them as a driving force for the development of the villages and as an and as an element of identity for the maintenance of the communities that make up our territory.

        Our programme of actions for the coming years has been designed in accordance with the strategic lines defined by the defined by the ” Roadmap of the Council of the European Union 2019- 2022″, which2022″ which, aligned with the goals of the 2030 Agenda, have as a guiding principle that “the cultural identity of territories will contribute to territories will contribute to sustainable social and economic development by differentiating markets and in turn allowing their integration into a diversified a diversified economy that can ensure their future success.

        The projects carried out in 2021, and the implementation of actions derived from projects in previous calls for proposals, have consolidated this initiative as one of our most important lines of work, based on the development of actions that enhance the retention and attraction of talent, actions aimed at building highly qualified professional networks linked to the use of historical, artistic, and cultural resources, contributing to medium- and long-term territorial development.

        Dedicated to Professor Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis, a staunch defender of the management of Aragonese heritage and of the territory, as an action of the people and as an innovative field of work full of 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.

        FOCUS
        Transdisciplinary thinking as a tool for innovation.

        The Mudéjar Territory digitalization strategy

        The management of historical, artistic, and cultural heritage is evolving rapidly thanks to digital technologies. The current challenge is to apply a strategic vision to these unprecedented processes and opportunities offered by new technologies and utilize them as efficiently as possible, ensuring that the efforts made during this boom are sustainable and allow for the development of future projects.

        Digitalization should not be an end in itself, but rather a driving force for improving heritage management efforts, taking into account the different possibilities that digitalization offers as a tool for conservation, dissemination, knowledge, and recognition of value. It should also take into account that new opportunities can arise from it in the form of projects that, without the use of these tools, would have a lower degree of scope, relevance, or specialization.

        Therefore, at Territorio Mudéjar we are working on a clear strategy, still in the development phase in some of its aspects, which serves as a guide prior to carrying out any action in future projects and which is also inclusive of the actions already carried out in its different municipalities and in previous calls, applying the principle of reusing and improving all initiatives already carried out or underway. This strategy is adapted to 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 or Google Arts.

        The 4th call for Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis Research Fellowships reaffirms our vision of applied research in heritage management that seeks real impact on localities by fostering networking. Once the various experiences and projects derived from them are underway, we aim to work with all the resources already created to establish quality and strategic parameters that will contribute to a dynamic digitalization strategy focused on improving heritage management.

        For this reason, one of the criteria introduced this year in the call for stays is that all deliverables in digital version (photographs, videos, digital models, audio files, etc.) comply with the provisions of the recently published Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage: mapping parameters, formats, standards, benchmarks, methodologies, and guidelines 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 established in the Mudejar Territory Digitisation Strategy.

        All the beneficiaries of the aid will receive information and training on the the DigitisationStrategy of Territorio Mudéjar during the first phase of their the first phase of their project and they will have a specific continuous specific ongoing monitoring during its development to help them comply with it.

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        DISRUPTIVE THINKING FROM ARTISTIC PRACTICE

        Territorio Mudéjar is emerging as a place of action and creativity from areas often place of action and creativity from areas that are often ordered and differentiated and differentiated areas that often dissolve boundaries and take us to places that are complex to manage.

        In this sense, the new call offers renewed areas of work and introduces a new area of ​​knowledge linked to artistic creation projects with a strong connection to the territory, landscape, and/or heritage sites.

        This new workspace allows us to take the first steps in our “artist residency” model, with the goal of understanding the heritage space and its context as a multifaceted space.

        This area is oriented towards research, experimentation, exchange, learning, critical reflection and the dissemination of local practices and knowledge, through dialogue between artisticresearch, communities, territory, places and non-places.

        The heritage we call “Mudejar” presents itself to us as a disruption in medieval art, an enclave between Western art and Hispano-Muslim art that still raises questions and captivates all who experience and study it.

        This new area of ​​work and knowledge aims to explore emotion and foster creative thinking by generating spaces for dialogue and points of departure between art, science, and technology.

        It’s about opening up new processes and directions of knowledge, which are often difficult to channel, to explore new paths through artistic practice with an eye toward the development and preservation of communities and their inhabitants.

        BASES

        1/ Subject matter and scope

        The purpose of this call is to award four research stays and two runner-up prizes to researchers and professionals in the management of cultural and natural heritage for the development of a highly innovative territorial research project within one of the fields of activity or 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 whose main purpose is to have a positive impact on the villages.
        • To incentivise work with a high territorial impact developed from the experience of people’s habitability.
        • To help the creation and implementation of a working network under a common vision of the possibilities of heritage, cultural and natural resources that helps to strengthen the rest of the sectors through interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
        • To create mechanisms for social participation in the field of heritage resource management from a territorial perspective.

        Specific objectives:

        • To promote knowledge of heritage resources 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 UNESCO World Heritage and 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 in the Mudejar Territory.
        • To 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 capacities of Mudejar Heritage at a general level.
        • Support projects that help to promote the social function of cultural heritage.

        The areas covered by the call are the following:

        AREA 1. 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 Mudejar: planimetry, photogrammetry and 3D Mudejar.
        • Geolocation, cartography and maps.
        • Any topic that allows us to expand the scientific basis on Mudejar art.

        AREA 2. Strategic management of Mudejar heritage. Cultural Landscape and Urban Landscape

        • New models of use beyond the classic concept of “tourist or recreational use”
        • Studies of physical, economic and intellectual accessibility
        • Future models for conservation or intervention.
        • Heritage resources and people’s actions
        • Natural and social contexts
        • Interactions between landscape and monumentality

        AREA 3. Mudejar heritage: Communication, dissemination and social function as a key element of territorial development

        • Mudejar heritage and media
        • New media discourses
        • Interpretation and accessibility methods for knowledge of Mudejar heritage
        • Emotional bonding as a key element for the care, protection, and management of assets.
        • Population contexts: The value of intergenerational experience
        • Social participation in the valorization, exchange, and collective construction of knowledge and new forms of learning.

        AREA 4. Laboratory for “Artist Residencies.” Mudejar Territory as a space for exploring new avenues through artistic thought.

        • Artistic creation and research from the intellectual concept and its reflection in the material, form or processes that characterise Mudejar heritage.
        • 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 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 the virtual space or metaverse from the need for the existence of the physical heritage space as a connecting thread. Thoughts, proposals and possibilities.

        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/ 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 accreditation of a minimum of two years of research or professional experience – paid or unpaid –
        • A professional career will be considered equivalent to the completion of specialized studies related to the management of cultural, historical, and artistic heritage, or to any of the proposed work areas, which add up to a minimum of two effective years of 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.

        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.

        3/ Requirements

        • Hold a Bachelor’s degree, Graduate or Architect’s degree or equivalent.
        • Master’s degree specializing in heritage and/or in the various areas related to heritage, or proof of a minimum of two years of research experience and/or professional career in the field in which the proposal is developed (whether paid 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 subject to any of the causes established in art. 13 of the LGS.

        4/ Deadline for submission

        The deadline for submitting applications is Wednesday, July 20, 2022.

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

        If the application contains errors that can be rectified, the organisation will inform the applicant so that, within a period of three days from the date of communication, they can proceed to rectify them as an essential condition for the application to be taken into account in the evaluation process.

        5/ Characteristics and conditions

        Period: The project and internship schedule can be completed until December 24, 2022. The project completion report must be submitted by December 29, 2022.

        Duration: Proposals must be developed within a minimum of THREE months and a maximum of FIVE months.

        Allocation: Projects will have a maximum financial allocation of €6,000.00 (STAYS) and €4,000.00 (ACCESIT) which must be justified in the project report according to the expenses indicated in the following section.

        Expenses attributable to the grant: In all proposals, the budget must identify the concepts subject to and directly derived from the needs of the project—for example: expenses derived from the development of the work, materials, travel, maintenance, accommodation, etc.—including, if applicable, the corresponding taxes, as well as payment for reproduction, exhibition, and public communication rights, if the project requires it.

        Proposals included in Area 4 must also include, if the project requires it, all the elements necessary for the complete execution of the artistic work: materials, permits, auxiliary means, etc.

        In the event that the project has other sources of funding, the following 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 awarded an accesit in previous years’ calls.

        Others:

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

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

        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.

        6/ Applications

        Applications should be sent to the Asociación Territorio Mudéjar in digital format to the following e-mail address: info@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 developed works that, in the applicant’s opinion, are relevant as a starting point for the proposal (Summary of each project of 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 will 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.

        7/ Selection process and criteria

        The project selection process will be carried out on the basis of the evaluations of the Scientific Committee and the entity’s management team, which will draw up a ranking according to the following criteria:

        • Curricular profile, training and previous achievements of the applicant: 10%. The orientation of the curricular profile in relation to the area of work chosen by the applicant will be assessed.
        • Quality of the project and innovative nature of the proposal: 30%. The project must be well thought out and presented in a rigorous and detailed manner. The framework of objectives/actions/resources/budget must be well planned. The timetable must be realistic. The project should provide for its evaluation and future viability.
        • Territory of impact / number of localities involved: 35%. The way in which the project acts on the territory will be assessed. It may be a direct present or future impact, but in any case it will be an essential requirement. It will be highly valued to foresee a realistic impact without falling into the tendentious and mediatic.
        • Complementary activities involving the local population: 15%. An activity involving the local population in the development of the project will be assessed. Involvement does not necessarily have to be through a cultural activity. The introduction of activities that have an unconventional cultural impact will be valued.
        • Digitisation strategy Mudejar Territory: 10%. Adaptation of the expected results to the criteria published for the “Common European Space for Cultural Heritage”. Contribution of ideas and perspectives.

        8/ Evaluation and resolution

        The decision on the grants will be announced starting Wednesday, July 20, 2022.

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

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

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

        9/ Formalisation, justification and payment of aid

        Formalization: Beneficiaries must sign the acceptance agreement, which will serve as an essential document for receiving the grant, before the project start date, according to the schedule, and no later than August 1, 2022. Once the acceptance agreement has been signed, they must join the project on the date indicated on the schedule.

        Payment: The grant will be paid in three instalments: 40% at the start, once the acceptance commitment has been signed; 40% halfway through the project; and the remaining 20% on delivery of the final project report. These conditions will 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 the 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 subsidised project or 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 fees shall be made by sworn declaration and shall be detailed in the report according to 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 when the conditions established in these rules are not fulfilled and in general in the cases established in article 37 of the General Law on Subsidies.

        10/ 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 aid on their materials or results using the phrase “Project carried out with funding from Territorio Mudéjar through the Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis 2022 Estancias call” and include the entity’s logo whenever possible.

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

        11/ Acceptance of the rules

        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 Asociación Territorio Mudéjar by e-mail at info@territoriomudejar.es