Climate and Cultural Heritage

  • Action type: Collaborative Research Action (CRA)
  • Opening date: 26 April 2023
  • Closing time: 8 September 2023 20:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 15 000 000
  • Project duration: 3 years
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Scope

This Call is jointly organised between the Joint Programming Initiatives Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH) and Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (JPI Climate) and the Belmont Forum. The Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level.

Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) were established to pool national research efforts and foster the implementation of the European Research Area (ERA) to address grand societal challenges. JPIs are flexible intergovernmental partnerships with the aim of better aligning the research and innovation investments spent at the national level. They involve countries that voluntarily agree to work in partnership towards common visions encapsulated in Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas and implemented through joint activities.

Applicants are invited to submit research proposals that address at least one of the three call themes:

  1. The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage;
  2. Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation;
  3. Sustainable Solutions for Heritage.

Researchers are invited to explore questions such as:

  • What is the role of heritage in global strategies tackling climate change? How should we deal with “non sustainable heritage”?
  • How can new knowledge about restoration of natural and cultural heritage contribute to strengthening the linkages between different fields of heritage and enable a holistic approach to developing sustainable solutions?
  • How can interventions and solutions of the past be re-innovated for sustainable practices today (e.g. the use of historical materials and techniques adapted to local conditions)?
  • How can heritage be made ‘future proof’ given inevitable change? How do we manage conflicting interests, such as the preservation of historic features with the need to implement climate adaptation measures (e.g. water drainage in cities, reusing historic features such as filled canals)?
  • How could the field of cultural heritage learn from other disciplines with regard to climate adaptation solutions? And what are the preconditions for re-applying and upscaling such insights and strategies?
  • How can knowledge among indigenous peoples and local populations contribute to new solutions about the use and safeguarding of cultural environments in the face of climate- related challenges?
  • To what extent can co-development and co-production of research among regions that are already adapting to climate change and others that predict they will face similar challenges in the future, co-create novel solutions? What methods would work best?
  • How can the use of digital technologies for modelling and prediction enable researchers and communities to understand the levels of resilience provided by different sustainable solutions?

Remarks

  • Proposals must address at least one of the three call themes, with cross-cutting linkages across all three themes encouraged.
  • Proposals must be submitted by a Consortium of minimum three Principal Investigators (PIs) from three different countries, which also involves at least one Societal Partner (SP).
  • LPIs and PIs must request funding from a Funding Organization, on behalf of their host institutions, and cannot participate in a self-funded or in-kind capacity. Please note that a researcher may be involved in a maximum of two proposals as PI (except for research applicants based in Lithuania who can only be involved in one proposal as PI or other primary project implementer) and cannot be involved in more than one proposal as LPI.
  • Additional consortium members may participate in a self-funded capacity if the minimum requirement of participants from three countries requesting funding from three Funding Organizations is met. They can join the Consortium as Associate Principal Investigators (API) or Societal Partners (SP), depending on their expected roles in the project.
  • Consortia must be transnational and transdisciplinary.

In the context of this call, transdisciplinary research is considered as research involving:

  • researchers from more than one of the following research fields: social sciences, humanities, natural sciences (physical and biological sciences), technology, including all sub-disciplines therein4.
  • And at least one Societal Partner (i.e. policymakers, citizens, industry, civil society organizations etc.). Transdisciplinary projects should use participatory, co-design, co- development and co-implementation approaches.

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