Sümeg Hosts the Second Mobility of the European Project UNDER: Training, Community, and Inclusion
Sümeg (Hungary), September 2025 – After the success of the first meeting in Orte, the European project UNDER (Underground Navigators Exploring and Revealing) moves to Hungary for its second mobility, scheduled from September 24 to 27, 2025. The initiative, funded by the Erasmus+ programme, aims to strengthen the skills of young cultural operators and to enhance Europe’s underground heritage through innovative training pathways, international cooperation, and social inclusion.
The journey will begin in Budapest, where participants will have the opportunity to visit Hospital in the Rock, a unique underground museum. Here, they will take part in a job shadowing experience that includes a guided tour and a dedicated presentation on the mentoring and training programmes for young guides – a valuable opportunity to closely observe how professionalism is developed in a complex and fascinating museum setting.
The mobility will then continue in Sümeg, where young participants from Malta, Italy, Hungary, and the Czech Republic will engage in cultural discovery and collaboration. A visit to the city’s medieval castle will be enriched with team-building activities designed to strengthen group spirit and intercultural exchange in an environment that blends history, local identity, and European openness.
The programme will culminate in an excursion to Tapolca and the spectacular Csodabogyós Cave in Balatonederics. Here, participants will directly explore the geological and archaeological aspects of the underground heritage, engaging with practices related to the management, interpretation, and promotion of a natural site of extraordinary appeal.
With this second event, UNDER reaffirms the importance of work-based learning and community development as tools for the professional growth of young people and for strengthening the connection between heritage, identity, and European citizenship. Sümeg thus becomes a laboratory of exchange, training, and experimentation, capable of blending tradition and innovation in a journey that will lead the project to its next stop in the Znojmo region of the Czech Republic in March 2026.
