Research projects
So far, 55 research projects have been funded in the context of the following research calls:
Calls and funded research projects
Within the international call 'Climate and Cultural Heritage (CCH): Collaborative research to address urgent challenges', the following projects will be carried out:
- Adaptation Traditions and Climate Change: Biocultural adaptation of resource management traditions under the effects of climate change (Switzerland, United Stated, United Kingdom)
- AGREE: Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation (Italy, Norway, United Kingdom)
- ARCA: Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities: Resource for Climate Adaptation? (Austria, France, Norway, United States)
- ATLAS: Studying symbiotic scenarios linking Heritage assets and green areas to prepare Historic Cities to face Climate Changes (France, Italy, Spain)
- Coastal TALES: Telling Adaptations; Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience (Ireland, United States, United Kingdom)
- CuHeMo: Cultural Heritage in Motion: Indigenous Knowledge and Mobile Livelihoods in Changing Climates (Austria, the Netherlands, Thailand)
- FIRECULT: Wildfire Resilient Cultural Heritage (Ireland, Turkey, United States, United Kingdom)
- Pasture Adaptation: Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks (France, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, United States)
- REFRESH: WateR cyclE For RESilient Heritage (Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom)
- RETRACE: ResilienceS to climate risks: lessons from arctic and pacific communities (France, Norway, United States)
- ReVerDi: Real Versus Digital: Sustainability optimization for cultural heritage preservation in national libraries (the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom)
- SASCHA: Multiscale approaches and scalability within climate change–heritage risk assessments (Italy, Norway, United States, United Kingdom)
- SCENTinel: Climate Changes and Scent Heritage: The Urgent Need for Capturing and Preserving Olfactory Landscapes in a Changing World (Czech Republic, Italy, Norway)
- SEA-CCHange: Socio-Ecological Archiving: Coastal Communities’ Heritage in times of climate change (Ireland, the Netherlands, United Kingdom)
- SUSTHERIT: Transformative urban heritage. Strategies for a sustainable European historic housing stoc (Austria, Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom)
- WRENCH: Whispers of Time: Heritage as Narratives of Climate-Change (Italy, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom)
In 2022, the call on Cultural Heritage, Society and Ethics was opened. The following projects were funded within this call:
- ArcHeritage: Arctic Heritage: Commodification, Identity, and Revitalisation in the Anthropocene (Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom)
- CUMET: Cultural Heritage in the Metropolitan Peripheries (France, Spain, United Kingdom)
- DECOPE: Destructive Exploitation and care of Cultural Objects and Professional/Public Education for Sustainable Heritage Management (Norway, Spain, United Kingdom)
- HerlnDep: Heritage in Depopulated European Areas (Czech Republic, Lithuania, United Kingdom)
- MalLHoC: Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration (France, Spain, United Kingdom)
- PERCOL: Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives (Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom)
See the website Heritage Research Hub for more information about this call.
In 2020, the Joint Call on Cultural Heritage, Identities and Perspectives: Responding to Societies was organized. The following projects were funded within this call:
- CULTIVATE - Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development
- DeCoSEAS - Decolonizing South-East Asian Sound Archives
- NuSPACES - Nuclear spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage
- OLIVE4ALL - Olive Heritage for Sustainable Development: Raising Community Awareness of Living Heritage
- PICCH - Polyvocal Interpretation of Contested Colonial Heritage
- RCL: ICH -Re-voicing cultural landscapes: narratives, perspectives and performances of marginalised intangible cultural heritage
See the website Heritage Research Hub for more information.
In 2019, the Joint Call on Conservation, protection and use was organized. The following projects were funded within this call:
- CRYSTINART - Crystallization damage at the interface of artworks.
- CURBATHERI - Curating sustainable URBAn Transformations through HERItage
- EHEM - Enhancement of Heritage Experiences: The Middle Age. Digital Layered Models of Architecture and Mural Painting over Times.
- F-ATLAS - Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal and Spain
- IRIS - Inspiring rural Heritage: sustainable practices to protect and conserve upland landscapes and memories.
- PHE - The Past has Ears
- PROCRAFT - PROtection and Conservation of Heritage AirCRAFT
- SHIELD - Safeguard Heritage in Endangered Looted Districts
- StAr - Development of Storage and Assessment of methods suited for organic Archaeological artefacts
- WOODPDLAKE - Archaeological Wooden Pile-Dwelling in Mediterranean European lakes: Strategies for the exploitation, monitoring and conservation.
See the website Heritage Research Hub for more information.
In 2018 the Joint Call on Heritage in Changing Environments was launched, involving the following research projects.
- CARE M-SOC: Community Archeological in Rural Environments – Meeting Societal Challenges.
- CONSECH20: CONSErvation of 20th century concrete Cultural Heritage in urban changing environments.
- EXINCT: Extinction as cultural heritage? Exhibiting human-nature entanglements with extinct and threatened species.
- HOMEE: Changing environments, new challenges and possible solutions for preservation in mega-events embedded in heritage-rich European cities.
- WETFUTURES: Wetland Futures in Contested Environments: an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to wetland heritage in The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ireland.
See the website Heritage Research Hub for more information.
In 2017 the Joint Call on Digital Heritage was held, involving the following research projects.
- ARCH : Ancient Coinage as Related Cultural Heritage.
- CADEAH: European History Reloaded: Curation and Appropriation of Digital Audiovisual Heritage.
- DigiCONFLICT: Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts.
- DigiDogon: Digitizing Dogon heritage. The legacy of Abirè, the Dogon prophet.
- DReaM: The Dictionary/Grammar Machine: Computational Tools for Accessing the World’s Linguistic Heritage.
- HOME: History of Medieval Europe.
- READ IT: Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool.
- SCHEDAR: Safeguarding the Cultural HEritage of Dance through Augmented Reality.
More information can be found on the Heritage Research Hub.
In 2014 the Heritage Plus Joint Call was held, involving the following research projects.
- CHANGES: Changes in cultural Heritage Activities: New Goals and benefits for Economy and Society. Italië, België, Nederland, Zweden.
- Chime Musica: Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals. Verenigd Koninkrijk, Zweden, Nederland.
- CHT2: Cultural Heritage Through Time. Italië, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Spanje, Polen.
- CLIMA: Cultural Landscape risk Identification, Management and Assessment. Italië, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Cyprus, Denemarken.
- CMOP: Cleaning of Modern Oil Paintings. Nederland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Italië.
- Euro Magic: A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning. Nederland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Belgie, Spanje.
- Euwather: European Waterways Heritage: Re-evaluating European Minor Rivers and Canals as Cultural Landscapes. Italië, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Nederland, Spanje.
- ENDOW: Enhancing access to 20th Century cultural heritage through Distributed Orphan Work. Verenigd Koninkrijk, Nederland, Italië.
- HEAT: Heritage and Threat. Denemarken, Roemenië, Polen, Italië.
- Heritamus: (In)Tangible: a research on the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage. Portugal, Spanje, Frankrijk.
- Heuright: The Right to Cultural Heritage – Its Protection and Enforcement through Cooperation in the European Union. Polen, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Italië.
- HIMANIS: HIstorical MANuscript Indexing for user-controlled Search. Frankrijk, Spanje, Nederland.
- Gastrocert: Gastronomy and Creative Entrepreneurship in Rural Tourism. Zweden, Italië, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Spanje.
- PICH: The impact of urban planning and governance reform on the historic built environment and intangible cultural heritage. Nederland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Italië, Noorwegen.
- Prothego: PROTection of European Cultural HEritage from GeO – hazards. Italië, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Cyprus, Spanje.
- REFIT: Resituating Europe’s first towns: A case study in enhancing knowledge transfer and developing sustainable management of cultural landscapes. Verenigd Koninkrijk, Frankrijk, Spanje.
More information on this can be found on Heritage Research Hub.
In 2013 the first funding round, entitled Pilot Call, resulted in the following research projects which have now been completed.
- CHERISCAPE: Cultural Heritage in Landscape. Verenigd Koninkrijk, Spanje, Nederland, België, Noorwegen.
- EMERISDA: Effectiveness of methods against rising damp in buildings: European practice and perspective. België, Nederland, Italië.
- H@V: Heritage Values Network. Verenigd Koninkrijk, Nederland, Noorwegen, Spanje.
- KISADAMA: Kinetic of Salt Crystallization and Mechanical Damage in Historic Masonry. Italië, België, Nederland.
- LeadART: Induced decay and ageing mechanisms in paintings: focus on interactions between pigments and organic binders. Frankrijk, Nederland, Italië, Cyprus.
- SMART-Value: Scientific modern analysis of research topic; Values and valuation as key factors in protection, conservation and contemporary use of heritage – a collaborative research of European cultural heritage. Polen, Nederland, Litouwen, Denemarken, Italië, Slovenië.
- SHUC: A Sustainable Future for the Historic Urban Core. Nederland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Ierland.
- ArCo: Ageing Study of Treated Composite Archaeological Waterlogged Artifacts. Noorwegen, Denemarken, Frankrijk, Italië.
- REDMONEST: Monitoring dynamic network for existing structures of concrete Cultural Patrimony. Spanje, Frankrijk, België, Italië.
- TANGIBLE: Technologies and tools for the beneficial diagnosis and preservation of TANGIBLE cultural heritage. Cyprus, Frankrijk, Italië, Spanje.
More information on this First Pilot Call can be found on the JPICH website.