Projects
Phygital Heritage: Communicating Built Heritage Information through the Integration of Digital Technology into Physical Reality KU Leuven
Built heritage forms a unique asset by expressing the richness and diversity of our history, possessing vast amounts of information that varies from factual and explicit, to more tacit and embedded. Tacit knowledge of built heritage is typically more challenging to communicate to visitors in understandable and engaging ways due to its implicit and abstract character. Therefore, we investigate how built heritage information can be disclosed ...
Research on the field of tension between heritage and retail in historic cities in Europe. Valorisation for retail and heritage sector through case study research. Hasselt University
Dialogue for Cinema as Cultural Heritage: Identification, recognition and community-based inventory of cinemas as the intangible cultural heritage in Adana via cross-border dialogue Ghent University
The overall objective: to promote civil society dialogue and networking between the CSOs and stakeholders in Adana and the EU, by focusing on the field of historic cinema places and cinemagoing experiences as intangible cultural heritage values in Adana. Specific objectives: (1) to raise awareness, especially amongst youth and European civil society, on the cultural heritage value of historical cinema places and experiences in Adana, (2) to ...
From Charter to Tools. A qualitative research to the application of the ICOMOS Ename Charter on maritime heritage Ghent University
The focus of this project is on how the U+2018ICOMOS Ename Charter principlesU+2019 can be used to develop 'interpretation and presentation'-instruments that are part of an integral and sustainable heritage policy and that aims to the specific context of maritime and naval heritage.
Heritage Practice Communities in a Digitized World. University of Antwerp
Discourse markers in Italian L2 and heritage language Ghent University
The project analyses discourse markers in Italian, by comparing the acquisition of discourse markers by Belgian-Dutch speakers who study Italian as second language with that by Belgian- Dutch speakers who have learnt Italian as their heritage language. The project produces an analysis of the linguistic and sociolinguistic factors involved.
Challenges and opportunities for heritage diplomacy in Ukraine (HER-UKR) KU Leuven
The project HER-UKR: Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine will address the role of cultural heritage in the EU’s external action. A consortium of 15 universities will bring together interdisciplinary expertise on EU foreign policy, Eastern European memory politics and heritage practices. HER-UKR aims to explore the potential of the EU as a values based actor in heritage policies by focusing on three subtopics: 1) ...
Restitution of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Education. Ghent University
Education in the DR-Congo continues to bear a colonial imprint felt both in content and in medium of instruction which is predominantly French. The TETELA project wishes to restitute an important body of multilingual oral traditions collected in the colonial period and explore its potential for sustainable education that is more culturally and historically anchored.
Preserving and promoting Europe's cultural and linguistic heritage through empowerment of bilingual children and families Ghent University
PEaCH aims to (1) strengthen the language learning of the 24 EU languages among children living in bilingual families in a country or geographical area where these languages are not spoken; (2) develop a methodology for the acquisition of languages through user-friendly bilingual upbringing for children between 0 and 12; (3) raise awareness about the benefits of bilingual upbringing among the teachers in kindergartens and elementary schools ...