Project description
Bridging the research-practice gap in cultural heritage
In a world where cultural heritage is overshadowed by other academic disciplines and disconnected from professional practice, gaining recognition is crucial. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the CHEurope project will integrate theoretical and methodological frameworks. As a collaborative effort, it will enhance academic training, open job opportunities, and foster a critical approach that situates cultural heritage within social, economic and political contexts. Through research seminars, summer schools and secondments, students will gain transnational and interdisciplinary knowledge, enabling them to facilitate democratic dialogues and promote entrepreneurship and innovation in the expanding heritage industry. CHEurope seeks to unveil the hidden potential of cultural heritage and reshape its future. It will provide transnational and interdisciplinary knowledge.
Objective
CHEurope focuses on developing a new integrated theoretical and methodological framework to enhance the academic and professional training and open future job opportunities in cultural heritage preservation, management and promotion. Heritage has commonly been perceived through its contingent relationship to other areas, preventing it to be considered as a ‘legitimate’ scientific discipline. Moreover, research and practice in this field are still too often seen as separate dimensions. Thus, there is an increasing need to address these diverging trends in the expanding heritage industry with a critical approach that situates cultural heritage in its social, economic and political frameworks, as well as in professional practice.
Bringing together a network of key European academic and non-academic organisations, the project will explore the processes by which heritage is ‘assembled’ through practice-based research in partner institutions that connect students to their future job markets and publics. Our aim is to inform more conventional aspects of cultural heritage designation, care and management with a strong focus on present and future consumers. We propose an advanced learning strategy based on the emerging field of Critical Heritage Studies, which combines theoretical and instrumental knowledge at a transnational and interdisciplinary level, in a series of research seminars, summer schools and secondments. The program is based on themes where cultural heritage is undergoing profound change, such as Heritage Futures, Curating the City, Digital Heritage, Heritage and Wellbeing and Management and Citizen Participation. In so doing, this research will have a direct impact on future heritage policies and be linked explicitly to new modes of training. These will enable future practitioners to facilitate a more democratic and informed dialogue between and across various heritage industries and their users, promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in this field.
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405 30 Goeteborg
Sweden
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WC1E 6BT London
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1012WX Amsterdam
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1649 026 Lisboa
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28006 Madrid
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3500 Hasselt
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3584 CS Utrecht
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40121 Bologna
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402 27 Goteborg
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Göteborg
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1011 PL Amsterdam
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London
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London
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LA CORUÑA
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20123 Milano
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1200 BB Hilversum
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WC1E 6BT LONDON
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75685 Paris
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00185 Roma
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AMSTERDAM
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1001 AC Amsterdam
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