Horizon Europe-funded project ARCHE (Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe) launched a consultation with the broad community on a new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for Cultural Heritage.
The event opened with introductory remarks from the Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italian Ministry of Culture and the Institute for Heritage Science of the National Research Council of Italy, as well as with presentations from the ARCHE project coordinator and the leaders of the team working on the SRIA, a roadmap with research priorities that will form the basis of calls for projects and other activities due to start in 2026, within the European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage (RCH).
The workshop then followed with four different panels approaching the different sections of the future SRIA: a more general panel on cross-cutting themes, with topics such as diversity, equity and inclusion, that will be attached in future activities to specific research themes from three priority areas: cultural heritage and society, cultural heritage and environment, cultural heritage and governance. Representatives of the European Commission from the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) delivered the concluding remarks.
The consultation for the future SRIA is being carried out until 15 November through a questionnaire available on the EUsurvey platform, in which the whole cultural heritage research and innovation community is invited to participate, as well members from other research and innovation communities, such as climate.
In parallel to the input via the questionnaire, people are invited to engage in further exchanges on the Heritage Research Forum, where they can share more detailed views on the SRIA and find possible partners for future activities, since the Forum also strives to act as a matchmaking platform.
The results of the consultation will be integrated into the final version of the SRIA, which will be published in early 2025.