HERA Cultural Encounters Information Session - Introduction Presentation

Introduction to HERA

Mark LlewellynAHRC Director of Research

And Chair of HERA JRP

UK Information Session

Why HERA?

Humanities research matters!

Culture matters!

What is HERA?• A partnership among Humanities research councils

across Europe (currently 22 partners, including the European Science Foundation)

• Functions as a Network and have joint calls between some partners

"Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) is a network of national funding agencies and the European Science Foundation (ESF) committed to leading and developing funding opportunities for humanities researchers in Europe, and sharing excellence in research management practices and outcomes."

Previous Joint Research Programme

• First HERA funding call launched in 2009 • It had 2 thematic areas ‘Cultural Dynamics’ and

‘Creativity & Innovation’• €16.4 M Budget and 13 countries (plus funding from the

European Commission• Funded 19 Projects• 11 led by UK and 18 have UK PI’s

Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation• Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe (CinBA) • Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement (CIM) • Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (SCIBE) • Fashioning the Early Modern: Innovation and Creativity in Europe, 1500-1800

(Fashioning the Early Modern) • ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice • Measuring the Societal Impacts of Universities’ Research into Arts and the

Humanities (HERAVALUE) • Of Authorship and Originality: Reclaiming Copyright in Support of Creative

Collaboration in the Digital Environment (OOR) • Technology, Exchange and Flow: Artistic Media Practices & Commercial

Application (TEF) • Copyrighting Creativity: Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems

of Intellectual Property (CULTIVATE)

Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity• Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums in Contemporary European Culture

(PhotoCLEC) • Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (MAW) • The Assembly Project - Meeting Places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 (TAP) • Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity: Localised Popular

Music Histories and their Significance for Music Audiences and Music Industries in Europe (POPID)

• Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past, 400-1000 AD (CMRP) • Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: Exploring the Tradition of Greek and Arabic Wisdom

Literatures (SAWS) • Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities (Rhythm Changes) • The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European

Perspective (DynamicsoftheMedievalManuscript) • Investigating Discourses of Inheritance and Identity in Four Multilingual European

Settings (IDII4MES) • The Role of Language in the Transnational Formation of Romani Identity

(ROMIDENT)

New Joint Research Programme‘Cultural Encounters’

• Launched in February 2012• €18.5 M Budget and 18 countries participating (plus

funding from the European Commission• 5 new countries – Germany, Belgium, Poland, Portugal

and Lithuania