HERA JRP CE

HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE) consortium will establish a single joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into the causes and consequences of cultural encounters. To understand cultural encounters is to understand the history and meaning of Europe itself, from the earliest periods of human settlement to the present day. Its effects impact on the activities of everyday life to the broader arenas of ideology and societal institutions.

The proposed JRP will invite transnational project proposals that address general historical and theoretical issues, as well as those that investigate more focused aspects of cultural encounters. The programme will investigate the phenomenon of cultural encounters in spatial terms as well as temporal terms. The new knowledge generated by the HERA JRP Cultural Encounters will be disseminated to inform and develop effective European policies in all these areas.

Research Funding Organisations from 18 countries have pooled a substantial amount of their national funding (€ 13.955.935) for this transnational funding scheme thus increasing the efficiency and impact of public research funding. EC support is requested to the level of 33% of the total contribution to the joint call budget. Commission support will be used to top-up research funding alone. All other costs will be carried by the HERA JRP CE partners.

The selection phase for the HERA JRP CE involves the final preparatory activities for the Call for Proposals, capacity building activities to inform researchers in all participating countries and a commonly-agreed two-stage evaluation process involving an independent, international Review Panel and remote assessments by experts. In the research phase, the HERA JRP CE also supports scientific networking activities in order to foster new innovative research and implement knowledge transfer activities to stimulate wider public awareness about the important contributions of new humanities research.

Introduzione (Teaser)

Cultural encounters impact us in everyday life and also shape our ideologies and societal institutions. European researchers are conducting multidisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of such encounters.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Comprising 19 national and regional funding organisations, the 'HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters' (HERA JRP CE)) project has called for multilateral and transnational project proposals addressing general historical and theoretical issues. The focus is on in-depth investigations of aspects of cultural encounters. The initiative supports the creation of collaborative transnational research opportunities that provide insights from humanities research, with a view to addressing the critical social, cultural and political challenges facing Europe.

Building on the success of the first HERA JRP programme, partners defined and developed a common research priority, launched a transnational funding mechanism and amassed a significant amount of their funding in one virtual pot. The board is responsible for decisions related to financing of HERA JRP CE projects, knowledge transfer strategy and implementation, and monitoring of the selected projects.

The call attracted almost 600 pre-proposals from scholars throughout the participating countries. In the end an independent international Review Panel ranked 88 Full Proposals, the top 18 of which was funded in total almost 18 million EURO. A description of all the proposals funded under this ERANET Plus project can be found on the HERA website (http://www.heranet.info).

to date, HERA JRP CE has achieved all its planned objectives. At organisational level, these include the website launch, organising a big match making event, running the selection process, finalising the contract negotiations, organising the HERA JRP Cultural Encounters launch conference and formulating a knowledge transfer strategy.

Future project work will involve evaluation and analysis of funded projects with regard to specific planned impacts. The knowledge generated by the funded projects will be used to inform and develop more effective European policies in critical areas, continuing the work carried out so far.