Cultural Heritage, Society & Ethics

The ‘Cultural Heritage, Society and Ethics’ research call (JPICH CHSE) aims at furthering the understanding of the relationship between cultural heritage – tangible, intangible, digital and natural – and major societal issues through transnational research projects.

Research proposals must address at least one, and if possible both, of the two following themes:

• Cultural heritage and economic development. This theme explores the tensions between how heritage can contribute to the development of sustainable experience-based economies without being put at risk and, concomitantly, how the non-utilitarian value of heritage can be promoted in the context of its growing commercialisation.
• Cultural heritage and sustainable strategies. This theme explores the relationship between heritage, democratic values and politics in a historical perspective, with a particular emphasis on the proliferation of conflicting narratives resulting from the use and misuse of heritage, and the contribution of heritage to sustainable and ethical behaviours and policies.

You can submit your project until May 23, 2022.

Read more about this scheme here.