Cultural Heritage in EU Research and Innovation

Domna Paschalidou

DG Research & Innovation

Fair Societies & Cultural

Heritage Unit

Cultural Heritage in H2020

• European Cultural Heritage, both tangible and intangible,

is the connective tissue between artistic and creative

production, culture, ethics and values, business and

technology.

• Access to CH and cultural experiences promotes social

inclusion, improves well-being and shapes landscapes

(urban, regional).

• CCI contribute to economic development, boost

innovation and generate growth at regional and national

level.

• Need to preserve CH, facilitate and increase access and

rise awareness.

Cultural Heritage in H2020

• CH facing challenges:

• R&I activities in H2020 tackle these challenges in an

innovative approach

ClimatechangeDisasters

Massivetourism

Conservation

Digitisation

Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation (€0.8 b)

Science with and for Society (€0.5 b)

EIT (€2.7 b) JRC (€1.9 b)

HORIZONCultural Heritage in H20202020

EXCELLENT SCIENCE

INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP

SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

European Research Council

Future and Emergent Technologies

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Research Infrastructures

Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies

- ICT- NMBP- Space

Access to Risk Finance

Innovation in SMEs

1. Health, demographic change and wellbeing

2. Food security, agriculture (…) and bioeconomy

3. Secure, clean and efficient energy

4. Smart, green and integrated transport

5. Climate action (…) and raw materials

6. Inclusive, innovative & reflective societies

7. Secure societies

Cultural Heritage in H2020

EUR 495 M

Cultural Heritage in H2020

• Research on CH in H2020 is anchored in three main

axes:

• Understanding

• Remediating

• Preventing

1. Protecting CH from climate threats

• Beliefs, traditions, music, dances, stories

• Understand, study, recreate in a sustainable way

• Translate the local into European

2. Understanding the past

• Need for new skills and tools (digital)• Recreate skills that don’t exist anymore

3. Shaping the future through creativity

Cultural Heritage in H2020

- Material-based solutions for the protection or

preservation of European cultural Heritage.

- Mitigating impacts of climate change and natural hazards

on cultural heritage sites, structures and artefacts.

- Innovative solutions for the conservation of 20th century

cultural heritage.

- Resilience and sustainable reconstruction of historic

areas to cope with climate change and hazard event.

- Innovative and affordable solutions for the preventive

conservation of cultural heritage.

Cultural Heritage in H2020

- Museums and Community: Concepts, Experiences and

Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the

Carribean.

- Virutal museums and social platform on European digital

heritage, memory, identity and cultural interaction.

- European Cultural Heritage, access and analysis for

richer interpretation of the past.

- The significance of cultural and core values for the

migration challenge.

2. Understanding the past

Cultural Heritage in H2020

- Cultural heritage as a driver for sustainable growth

- Innovative financing, business grovernance models for adaptive

reuse of cultural heritage

- Participatroy apporaches and social innovation in culture

- Cultural Heritage of European coastal and maritime regions

- Culture, integration and European public space

- Inclusive and sustainable growth through cultural and creative

industries and arts

- Innovative approaches to urban and regional development

through cultural tourism

- Collaborative approaches to cultural heritage for social cohesion

- Transforming historic urban areas and/or cultural landscapes

into hubs of entrepreneurship and social and cultural

integration (upcoming)

Cultural Heritage in Horizon Europe

The ambitious EU research and innovation framework

programme (2021-2027)

• to strengthen the EU's scientific and technological

bases and the European Research Area (ERA)

• to boost Europe's innovation capacity,

competitiveness and jobs

• to deliver on citizens' priorities and sustain our socio-

economic model and values

Horizon Europe: Preliminary structure

Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area

Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I systemWidening participation and spreading excellence

Pillar 1Excellent Science

European Research Council

Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Actions

Research Infrastructures

Pillar 3Innovative Europe

European Innovation Council

European innovation

ecosystems

European Institute of

Innovation

and Technology

Pillar 2Global Challenges and

European Industrial

Competitiveness

• Health

• Culture, Creativity and

Inclusive Society

• Civil Security for Society

• Digital, Industry and Space

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

• Food, Bioeconomy, Natural

Resources, Agriculture and

Environment

Joint Research Centre

Clu

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Pillar 2 - Clusters

Global Challenges & European Industrial

Competitiveness: boosting key technologies and

solutions underpinning EU policies & Sustainable

Development Goals Commission proposal for budget: € 52.7 billion

Digital,

Industry &

Space

Culture,

Creativity

and

Inclusive

Societies

Civil

Security

for Society

Health

Food,

Bioeconomy,

Natural

Resources,

Agriculture&

Environment

Climate,

Energy

and

Mobility

Clusters in 'Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness‘

Clusters Areas of intervention

Health

• Health throughout the life course

• Non-communicable and rare diseases

• Tools, technologies and digital solutions for

health and care, including personalised

medicine

• Environmental and social health determinants

• Infectious diseases, including poverty-related and

neglected disease

• Health care systems

Culture, creativity

and inclusive

society

• Democracy and Governance

• Social and economic transformations• Culture, cultural heritage and creativity

Civil security for

society

• Disaster-resilient societies

• Protection and Security• Cybersecurity

Digital, Industry

and space

• Manufacturing technologies

• Advanced materials

• Next generation internet

• Circular industries

• Space, including Earth Observation

• Emerging enabling technologies

• Key digital technologies, including quantum

technologies

• Artificial Intelligence and robotics

• Advanced computing and Big Data

• Low-carbon and clean industry

• Emerging enabling technologies

Climate, Energy and

Mobility

• Climate science and solutions

• Energy systems and grids

• Communities and cities

• Industrial competitiveness in transport

• Smart mobility

• Energy supply

• Buildings and industrial facilities in energy

transition

• Clean, safe and accessible transport and mobility

• Energy storage

Food, bioeconomy,

natural resources,

agriculture and

environment

• Environmental observation

• Agriculture, forestry and rural areas

• Circular systems

• Food systems

• Biodiversity and natural resources

• Seas, oceans and inland waters

• Bio-based innovation systems in the EU

Bioeconomy

Conclusions

SUSTAINABILITY and GROWTH of

Regions and Cities

Sustainable cultural tourism

Conservation and

safeguarding of CH

Better understanding

of CH

Better access

to and engagement

with CHConnect CH

with CCI

Collaboration with local

authorities/ relevant

stakeholders

Synergies with other

EU programmes

Thank you!#H2020

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