HUMANITIES IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA NETWORK
The Hera Network has awarded more than EUR16 million to 19 transnational collaborative research projects across Europe. Co-funded by the European Commission and 13 humanities research councils across Europe (including the UK), the network's first joint research programme seeks insight from humanities into current challenges. Funding has been allocated in two key areas. Listed below are 14 grant winners, with five to follow in next week's issue.
CULTURAL DYNAMICS: INHERITANCE AND IDENTITY
Project leader: Bart Besamusca
Institution: Utrecht University
Value: €949,620
The dynamics of the medieval manuscript: text collections from a European perspective
Project leader: Adrian Blackledge
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: €883,775
Investigating discourses of inheritance and identity in four multilingual European settings
Project leader: Elizabeth Edwards
Institution: University of the Arts London
Value: €463,250
Photographs, colonial legacy and museums in contemporary European culture
Project leader: Alexander Etkind
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: €951,326
Memory at war: cultural dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
Project leader: Frode Iversen
Institution: University of Oslo
Value: €953,742
The Assembly Project: meeting places in northern Europe, AD400-1500
Project leader: Susanne Janssen
Institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Value: €885,260
Popular music heritage, cultural memory and cultural identity: localised popular music histories and their significance for music audiences and music industries in Europe
Project leader: Yaron Matras
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: €342,290
The role of language in the transnational formation of Romani identity
Project leader: Walter Pohl
Institution: University of Vienna
Value: €955,235
Cultural memory and the resources of the past, AD400-1000
Project leader: Charlotte Roueche
Institution: King's College London
Value: €773,291
Sharing ancient wisdoms: exploring the tradition of Greek and Arabic wisdom literatures
Project leader: Tony Whyton
Institution: University of Salford
Value: €996,318
Rhythm changes: jazz cultures and European identities
HUMANITIES AS A SOURCE OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
Project leader: Helle Porsdam
Institution: University of Copenhagen
Value: €999,951
Copyrighting creativity: creative values, cultural heritage institutions and systems of intellectual property
Project leader: Michael Punt
Institution: University of Plymouth
Value: €935,434
Technology, exchange and flow: artistic media practices and commercial application
Project leader: Scott Rettberg
Institution: University of Bergen
Value: €999,179
Developing a network-based creative community: electronic literature as a model of creativity and innovation in practice
IN DETAIL
Project leader: Paul Benneworth
Institution: University of Twente
Value: €509,073
Measuring the societal impacts of universities' research into arts and the humanities
Examining the failure by governments, universities, learned societies and societal stakeholders to develop an effective measure of the impact of arts and humanities research on society, this project will explore what is of importance to these diverse groups. Bringing together experts in the fields of knowledge exchange, university performance management and institutional management, the investigation aims to uncover how key values can be expressed through knowledge-exchange projects, performance measures and indicators, as well as university knowledge-transfer infrastructure.