Preannouncement of JPI Cultural Heritage: Cultural Heritage, Society and Ethics Joint Call

Research

What?

JPI CH has announced that it will shortly launch the Cultural Heritage, Society and Ethics joint call (JPI CH  CHSE) to support transnational research projects that will improve understanding of the relationship between cultural heritage - tangible, intangible, digital and natural - and major societal issues.

The Call will launch with an online information session on 8 March and prospective applicants are invited to sign up here. In addition, an online Matchmaking Platform has been established to help prospective applicants find partners. Further details of how to use the platform will be outlined during the information session.

It is anticipated that the submission platform for pre-proposals for the Call will be open between 1 March and 23 May 2022.

Projects should explore the relationship between cultural heritage, society and ethics from a social sciences and humanities viewpoint in order to address current conceptual frameworks and facilitate the emergence of new ones. Projects should create conditions for new ways of engagement and dialogue between disciplines and stakeholders and study the impact of these new ways in varied cultural contexts. Applicants are encouraged to adopt multi- and trans-disciplinary methodologies and approaches.

Research proposals must address at least one, and ideally both, of the two following themes:

   - Cultural Heritage and economic development - This theme explores the tensions between how cultural heritage can contribute to the development of sustainable experience-based economies without being put at risk, as well as how the non-utilitarian value of cultural heritage can be promoted in the context of its growing commercialisation.
   - Cultural Heritage and sustainable strategies - This theme explores the relationship between cultural heritage, democratic values and politics in a historical perspective, with a particular emphasis on the proliferation of conflicting narratives resulting from the use and misuse of cultural heritage, and the contribution of cultural heritage to sustainable and ethical behaviours and policies.

Each consortium must involve at least three scientific partners from three different countries participating in the call and at least one Associate Partner (policymakers, NGOs, communities, etc).

Deadline

23.05.2022

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail helen.cheng@uhasselt.be