This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612789

WP4, ROLE OF CH IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
LED BY WAAG SOCIETY.

This research area aims to:

research the role of digital CH in the development of a European identity based on diversity;

understand how CH engagement can be facilitated by digital communication and contribute to forging a sense of European belonging among people of diverse origins;

research how networks of people and organisations, enabled by digital communications, facilitate the transmission of CH within and across territories and communities;

propose, design and share methodologies for engaging younger generations in CH practice.

Its main tasks are:

Task 1: digital CH practices for identity and belonging.
The research in this task will explore the potential of digital interactions and its limits, when other means of exchange between citizens, young people, students, researchers and CH institutions may be necessary;

Task 2: co-creation and living heritage for social cohesion.
This task will explore what we can learn from and how we can capture and document living heritage, through co-creation methods, with a focus on media and museums.
A community of young people with an intercultural background will be involved in the research;

Task 3: structures for community and territorial cohesion.
This task will examine rural and urban places, the ways in which they may be connected by networks of multiple dimensions, the role of digital technologies in facilitating these connections and the benefits of this digital form of CH transmission.