Objective
SciCoMove promotes international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations between historians of science, scientists and museum professionals from 9 countries in Latin America and Europe with a view to trace the history of scientific collections in paleontology, anthropology, botany and related applied sciences. Its ambition is to reassess their significance and to develop new historical knowledge applicable to their curatorship, utilization by researchers and communication to the public. Drawing on the most recent historiography of science and scientific collections, SciCoMove focuses on the past, but it addresses current issues faced by science museums regarding repatriation demands and the dialogue with “source communities”. Its originality is based: 1 – on the shift of focus from major to smaller museums in the “provinces” or “peripheries” in order to outline a more complex, less centralized and less hierarchical vision of scientific exchanges; 2 – on a conception of collections as nodes in networks of circulation and as structures producing knowledge, rather than as heritage and conservation institutions. Accordingly, SciCoMove focuses on objects “on the move” and on the scholarly practices and sociability of the agents who made these moves possible. In line with its objective to better account for the multiple dimensions of science collections and for multilateral interchange between Europe and Latin America, SciCoMove promotes collaborations on equal terms between Latin American and European teams, in a multilateral and multilingual context of mutual training and sharing. The team has a majority of women. The research combining the material study of objects and investigations in archives will be carried out through case studies and workshops on crosscutting themes. It will feed into training seminars. A digital exhibition will communicate research results, in line with EU policy promoting the public understanding of science and citizen science.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/palaeontology
- /social sciences/media and communications/library science/archives
- /natural sciences/biological sciences/botany
Call for proposal
H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)Coordinator
72085 Le Mans
France
Participants (10)
1860 Meise
49035 Angers Cedex 01
75005 Paris
69117 Heidelberg
53113 Bonn
10124 Torino
28006 Madrid
72039 Mans
08019 Barcelona
2000 Neuchatel
Partners (5)
1900 La Plata
C1425FQB Buenos Aires
14387 Mexico City
07360 Mexico
11200 Montevideo
