16 projects

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MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Climate Changes and Scent Heritage: The Urgent Need for Capturing and Preserving Olfactory Landscapes in a Changing World

Scents and flavours are a powerful but often overlooked part of our cultural heritage. They are tied to natural environments, local festivities, or social customs in everyday life, and they play a unique role in shaping memory and identity. However, many of these meaningful aromas and flavours ar...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Multiscale approaches and scalability within climate change-heritage risk assessments

The SASCHA project, led by University College London (UCL), aims to develop practical tools and methods for assessing and managing climate change's risks to cultural heritage sites worldwide. The consortium includes academic partners such as the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research (NIKU), A...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation

Project AGREE, led by the University of Leeds in the UK, focuses on addressing climate change impacts on cultural heritage through interdisciplinary methodologies and societal collaboration. The project aims to understand and respond to the complex relationship between cultural heritage governan...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks

Cultural landscapes provide important ecosystem services, including experience-based knowledge on how to adapt to and limit negative effects of climate change. This is because the landscapes themselves are vulnerable to climate change and other negative impacts. By investigating transhumant pasto...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities: Resource for Climate Adaptation?

Climate change is a serious challenge everywhere, but nowhere more visible than in the Arctic. Temperatures here are rising at twice the global average. Ice is melting, landscapes are shifting, and communities that have long depended on the cold face profound changes. Yet alongside these challeng...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

ArcHeritage: Commodification, Identity, and Revitalisation in the Anthropocene

This project explores the commodity chains of three iconic heritage artefacts in the Arctic: reindeer antler, the conical tent, and mammoth and walrus ivory. It will trace the oral histories and new market and social entanglements of these artefacts across several sites in Sápmi, Canada, and Gree...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Destructive Exploitation and Care of Cultural Objects. Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management

DECOPE: Destructive Exploitation and Care of Cultural Objects – Professional/Public Education for Sustainable Heritage Management. In the DECOPE project, researchers from Norway, Scotland, and Spain have investigated how cultural heritage is cared for in areas of armed conflict, focusing on Russi...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development

CULTIVATE seeks to understand the role of cultural heritage in shaping sustainable landscapes and communities in rural areas in relation to societal challenges such as the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis, as well as the transformation required to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage

OsloMet participated in the project Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage (PICCH) with the professors Pia Borlund (PI), Nils Pharo, and senior researcher Ying-Hsang Liu. The project was funded under the call Cultural Heritage, Identities & Perspectives: Responding to Changing ...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

Curating Sustainable URBAn Transformations through HERItage

An overarching goal of the CURBATHERI project is to examine how heritage-led urban regeneration contribute to social sustainable and resilient cities by including participatory planning and environmental concerns related to sustainable living of communities. We have introduced the concept of 'dee...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

Extinction as cultural heritage? Exhibiting human-nature entanglements with extinct and threatened species

Extinction is a pressing problem in the world today. Increasing number of species are lost to extinction each year, a condition often labeled as the 'sixth mass extinction event'. Greater input is urgently needed from arts and humanities to work alongside, as well as to engage with, the scientifi...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Rogaland

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

PICH

The report summarizes the work and results of JPI CULTURE PICH "The impact of urban planning and governance reform on the historical built environment and intangible cultural heritage". The project group consisting of researchers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy and Norway conducte...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

JPI kulturarv - Ageing Study of Treated Composite Archaeological Waterlogged Artifacts

Wooden artifacts recovered from archaeological sites are threatened by various chemical, biological and physical degradation processes. Conservation measurements have to be taken to stop the decay and strengthen the objects. This requires a secure knowledge on the nature of the deterioration proc...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

JPI Kulturarv - JPI CH Cultural Heritage in Landscape

The CheriScape project 2014-2016 (Cultural Heritage in Landscape) is a three-year exploration of the cultural, social and environmental connections between landscape and heritage in research, policy and practice. CHeriScape starts from the twin idea that cultural heritage is a foundation of lands...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Akershus

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

JPI Kulturarv - JPI CH Heritage Values Network

The heritage values network aims to instigate a European, transnational research network comprised of academics, practitioners and policy-makers around the theme of heritage values. It is a collaborative project, coordinated by University College London (UK), and partnered by NIKU (Norway), Unive...

Awarded: NOK 0.37 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo

JPICULTURE-JPI Cultural Heritage

JPI kulturarv - Cultural Heritage in Landscape

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo