Presentation

Europe’s rich cultural heritage, with its common values, its wealth of monuments and sites and its creative diversity of traditions, crafts, arts, architecture, literature, languages, theatre, films and music, not only reflects our past but also shapes our present and builds our future. It is a creative way of cultivating independent thinking and dialogue, while promoting our interests across the world. Access to experience with cultural heritage contributes to social cohesion and inclusion, by strengthening resilience and the sense of belonging, bringing people together and improving well-being.

In the Pillar II Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness of the Horizon Europe, among the Cluster 2 Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society, the Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries – Building Our Future from the Past adresses calls on the cultural heritage research and science.

These are the calls for 2024:

Call – Research and Innovation on Cultural Heritage and CCIs – 2024

GREEN

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-01: New European Bauhaus – Innovative solutions for greener and fairer ways of life through arts and culture, architecture and design for all

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-02: Cultural and creative industries for a sustainable climate transition

DIGITAL

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-03: Leverage the digital transition for competitive European cultural and creative industries

INNOVATIVE

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04: Europe’s cultural heritage and arts – promoting our values at home and abroad

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-05: Strategies to strengthen the European linguistic capital in a globalised world

Call – A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – 2024

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for digitisation and analysis of dynamic processes, objects and complex combined data

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-02: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for documenting, interlinking and organising data

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-03: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for advanced data enrichment

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-04: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for high-value interactions with visitors and heritage objects

  • HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-05: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for the study, conservation and restoration of heritage objects

For details, please refer the Horizon Europe Work programme (2023-25) – Cluster 2.

Background

Horizon Europe is structured into three main pillars, Pillar I Excellent Science covers fundamental research funded by the European Research Council and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, while Pillar III Innovative Europe is dedicated to improving Europe’s innovation ecosystem and to commercialising innovation. Under Pillar II, EU funding is provided to tackle global challenges and to boost Europe’s industrial competitiveness. That’s where the clusters come in. The structure of Horizon Europe lists a total of six clusters that are broken down into individual expected impacts around overarching themes. The six clusters are

  • Cluster 1: Health
  • Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society
  • Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society
  • Cluster 4: Digital, Industry & Space
  • Cluster 5: Climate, Energy & Mobility
  • Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment

The clusters are subdivide into different Destinations where the specific directions and ultimate points of arrival Horizon Europe aims to achieve through the new impact-driven approach.