Civic Epistemologies- EU Funded

The CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES project is about the participation of citizens in research on cultural heritage and humanities.

ICT are powerful drivers of creativity, but specific technical know-how is still generally lacking in the creative industries sectors. In addition, humanities scholarship is not yet taking full advantage of ICT to engage with wider audiences. New skills are needed to enable the cultural sector to grasp employment and commercial opportunities.

The project aims to develop and validate a Roadmap for the use of e-Infrastructures to support the participation of European citizens in research on cultural heritage and digital humanities. Critically, the Roadmap will offer support for improved social cohesion arising from the sharing of knowledge and understanding of Europe’s citizens common and individual cultures.

The partners are committed to the values of open data, open source and open innovation.


Objectives


  • Analyze the needs of researchers, citizens, cultural institutions and creative enterprises
  • Develop a new Roadmap based on key findings
  • Validate the Roadmap through one Pilot in Ireland and two case studies in the UK
  • Encourage Research institutions to establish clear protocols for citizen engagement and shared research goals where achievable
  • Ensure widespread impact of the project findings with a strong communication and dissemination plan
  • Establish a durable network of common interest to connect cultural institutions, research bodies, creative industries, e-infrastructures and citizen associations.

CE Consortium

The project has the ambition to concentrate in a rapid and compact action a wide number of partners who are expected to contribute each with complementary tasks and expertise to the common goal of designing and validating the CIVIC EPISTMOLOGIES Roadmap. The participants collectively constitute a verymultidisciplinary consortium which is at the basis of the achievement of the project objectives.

Also, the 11 European countries represented in the consortium (the map above illustrates the geographic provenience of the partners), which range from Northern to Southern countries, including a relevant participation of Eastern-European partners, offer a wide perspective for the development of the CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES Roadmap, taking different points of view that should be all taken into account when planning the implementation of new e-Infrastructures in Europe.

More info can be found here:

Activities

A rich programme of activities is planned in the project to establish factual exchanges with the target groups and to get them involved in the validation of the CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES Roadmap.

The following face-to-face events are foreseen throughout the project:

  • 3 Focus Groups, in Valletta, Stockholm and Barcelona, hosted by University of Malta, Riksarchivet and University of Coventry – respectively WP2, WP3 and WP4 Leaders -, following the same protocol, under the coordination of WP2 Leader;
  • 3 Workshops, one in Valletta (Workshop on User needs), one in Leuven (Workshop on the Roadmap), one in Budapest (Workshop on Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions);
  • the Final Conference in Berlin.

    More info can be found here.

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT’S RESULTS

CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES has a series of expected outcomes, which include:

  1. Roadmap for the Citizen Science (download the final version here);
  2. Strategic research agenda;
  3. Registry of Resources to support the involvement of citizens in the scientific development process;
  4. Requirements to be investigates through three Focus Groups;
  5. Pilot and Case studies.
The project will support Horizon2020, in which cultural heritage and social sciences and humanities are embedded across the programme, the Digital Agenda for Europe and the European Agenda for Skills and Jobs.Critically, the Roadmap will offer support for improved social cohesion arising from the sharing by Europe’s citizens of their knowledge and understanding of their common and individual cultures.

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