The Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change is an initiative on EU-level. In the current era of rapidly evolving global and social change, the initiative addresses the issues that affect Europe’s cultural heritage resources. It is aimed at the greater coordination of research resources across Member States and Associated Countries and recently published its freely available Strategic Research Agenda for Cultural Heritage in Europe.
The Strategic Research Agenda is the first of its kind for European heritage. It is the result of an extensive consultation and development process that saw national consultation panels convene in sixteen European member states. These panels provided feedback on what they saw as heritage research priorities, both nationally and internationally.
The report identifies four key priority areas: Developing a Reflective Society; Connecting People with Heritage; Creating Knowledge and Safeguarding our Cultural Heritage Resource. It was published last February. In addition to identifying key priorities for cultural heritage research, the Strategic Research Agenda lists specific research areas and topics for development and looks at potential future requirements for the field.
The Strategic Research Agenda document is free to download here. All related documentation - including an extensive foresight study and details of each individual National Consultation Panel’s input - is available at the same link.
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- More information about the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Changeis available here and at www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu.