The Common Place project aims to develop the Casa de Mateus Foundation's human capital through an integrated vision of its role, values and opportunities and the empowerment of its teams through the acquisition of new knowledge and methodologies, enabling them to face the demands of contemporary management and the challenges of agility, quality and transparency that characterise a 21st century organisation.

It involves the entire Casa de Mateus Foundation team and a number of the Foundation's employees and partners in a series of training-action workshops aimed at: building a transversal vision of the complexity of its mission and structure; understanding oneself as a singular and decisive point in the structure; developing personal skills (in terms of language skills or digital literacy) and professional skills (related to each of the sectors of activity but designed to be shared by workers from other areas).

It pays particular attention to heritage management and its mediation with plural audiences. It seeks an agile model, anchored in autonomous teams, capable of generating responses in real time, adaptable to change, orientated towards sustainable development and simple solutions, with technical excellence and the incorporation of design, capable of continuous monitoring and transformation.

It invests in relational skills and in valuing consolidated knowledge, by taking into account the distance between the personal backgrounds of each of its employees and looking for participatory methods that make everyone not a passive recipient of information, but a source of shareable knowledge. Each person must acquire specialised knowledge in their field of action and a general knowledge of all other areas of intervention. The transformation should take place: in individual qualifications, through the acquisition and strengthening of professional and cultural skills; in relational qualifications, through teamwork and strengthening the capacity for initiative and accountability; in systemic qualifications, through greater transparency in the individual's reading of the institution and its forms of action, also producing an effect of greater transparency with the Casa de Mateus Foundation's various external partners.

To date, 81 actions have been carried out, divided into 17 training modules, two seminars and five conferences. The total number of Foundation employees involved in the training was 56 people, totalling 2,569 hours of training, the total number of employees from organisations linked to the Foundation was 13 people, totalling 303 hours of training and the total number of community members involved in the training was 214 people, totalling 1,102 hours of training.

The trainings were given by 39 employees who contributed a total of 900 hours of training.

The Common Place Project totalled 1,444 training participants, with more than one person taking part in more than one training course, making a total of 4,874 hours of training participation.