European UnionDeadline PassedNon-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience
HORIZON-CL 2-2025-02-HERITAGE-02
Funding Amount
€3.0M - €4.0M
Deadline
16/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience Call?
Grant Description
Support research to analyze and enhance the role of intangible cultural heritage in addressing contemporary societal challenges. Fund activities including multi-dimensional assessments of heritage for societal resilience and climate adaptation, development of innovative safeguarding practices and digital tools, participatory community engagement, policy strategy development, and sustainable use of heritage for creative practices and local development.
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
1. Policymakers receive a multi-dimensional overview and assessment of ICH’s role in contemporary societal challenges and European socio-economic-cultural dynamics. 2. A comprehensive analysis of ICH’s potential for societal resilience and its contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation is made available. 3. (At least two of the following)
• Policymakers, public authorities and stakeholders access innovative practices, strategies and tools to integrate ICH in community resilience planning, safeguarding and communication, with gender-aware approaches.
• Data-supported, innovative policies preserve ICH amid disasters, conflicts, migration and displacement.
• New digital methodologies and tools for documenting, communicating and transmitting ICH are developed.
• Community engagement with ICH, especially among youth, is broadened to ensure sustainable, intergenerational transmission.
• Alliances between communities and researchers are strengthened.
• Involvement of education and heritage preservation institutions and agencies is enhanced.
• Sustainable use of ICH as inspiration for creative design, sustainable development and cultural tourism is increased, with measures to prevent overuse and depletion.
• A future research agenda is devised for sustainable, diversity- and rights-respecting ICH practices, addressing gender equality and cultural aspects of societal resilience.
• Policymakers, public authorities and stakeholders access innovative practices, strategies and tools to integrate ICH in community resilience planning, safeguarding and communication, with gender-aware approaches.
• Data-supported, innovative policies preserve ICH amid disasters, conflicts, migration and displacement.
• New digital methodologies and tools for documenting, communicating and transmitting ICH are developed.
• Community engagement with ICH, especially among youth, is broadened to ensure sustainable, intergenerational transmission.
• Alliances between communities and researchers are strengthened.
• Involvement of education and heritage preservation institutions and agencies is enhanced.
• Sustainable use of ICH as inspiration for creative design, sustainable development and cultural tourism is increased, with measures to prevent overuse and depletion.
• A future research agenda is devised for sustainable, diversity- and rights-respecting ICH practices, addressing gender equality and cultural aspects of societal resilience.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Proposals must focus on ICH (as per UNESCO definition or broader scientifically grounded definitions).
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments of societal and climate threats to ICH.
• Investigate traditional knowledge systems embedded in ICH for resilience, adaptation and sustainable resource management.
• Co-create with practicing communities, ensuring active participation of youth and attention to gender dynamics and women’s roles in safeguarding ICH.
• Strengthen research-community collaboration and involve education and heritage institutions for co-creation of socially impactful knowledge.
• Develop and validate innovative tools, methods and policies (including data-driven, digital and AI-based approaches) for ICH documentation, transmission, safeguarding and community engagement.
• Consider preservation of audiovisual collections and immersive/digital experiences.
• Explore sustainable ICH-inspired practices in architecture, agriculture, crafts, design, tourism, ensuring integrity and equitable benefit distribution.
• Proposals must liaise with and complement ongoing EU projects, notably the European Partnership on Resilient Cultural Heritage and HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01, and coordinate regularly with relevant Cluster 2 projects.
• Ensure all project-generated data are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) and, where relevant, use ESFRI/EOSC and Data Spaces services.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments of societal and climate threats to ICH.
• Investigate traditional knowledge systems embedded in ICH for resilience, adaptation and sustainable resource management.
• Co-create with practicing communities, ensuring active participation of youth and attention to gender dynamics and women’s roles in safeguarding ICH.
• Strengthen research-community collaboration and involve education and heritage institutions for co-creation of socially impactful knowledge.
• Develop and validate innovative tools, methods and policies (including data-driven, digital and AI-based approaches) for ICH documentation, transmission, safeguarding and community engagement.
• Consider preservation of audiovisual collections and immersive/digital experiences.
• Explore sustainable ICH-inspired practices in architecture, agriculture, crafts, design, tourism, ensuring integrity and equitable benefit distribution.
• Proposals must liaise with and complement ongoing EU projects, notably the European Partnership on Resilient Cultural Heritage and HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01, and coordinate regularly with relevant Cluster 2 projects.
• Ensure all project-generated data are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) and, where relevant, use ESFRI/EOSC and Data Spaces services.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Funding: Lump-sum grants under the Horizon Europe RIA model, two-stage call (Stage 1 deadline 16 Sep 2025, Stage 2 deadline 17 Mar 2026).
• Page limit for Stage 1 Part B: 10 pages.
• Eligible participants: legal entities from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries (exclusions apply; Chinese entities ineligible).
• Software: all developed software must be open-source (CC0 or OSI-approved) or, if impractical, proprietary libraries with perpetual, royalty-free licenses granted to the ECCCH consortium and users.
• Compliance: software and deliverables must adhere to the data model and development guidelines of the project under HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01.
• Collaboration: all funded projects must participate in concertation activities with the above ECCCH project and coordinate with the European Partnership on Resilient Cultural Heritage and other Cluster 2 initiatives.
• Data management: ensure generated data are FAIR, leveraging European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, ESFRI/EOSC and relevant Data Spaces.
• Intellectual property: record and trace all IPR in digital objects; follow rights-statement guidelines.
• Page limit for Stage 1 Part B: 10 pages.
• Eligible participants: legal entities from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries (exclusions apply; Chinese entities ineligible).
• Software: all developed software must be open-source (CC0 or OSI-approved) or, if impractical, proprietary libraries with perpetual, royalty-free licenses granted to the ECCCH consortium and users.
• Compliance: software and deliverables must adhere to the data model and development guidelines of the project under HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01.
• Collaboration: all funded projects must participate in concertation activities with the above ECCCH project and coordinate with the European Partnership on Resilient Cultural Heritage and other Cluster 2 initiatives.
• Data management: ensure generated data are FAIR, leveraging European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, ESFRI/EOSC and relevant Data Spaces.
• Intellectual property: record and trace all IPR in digital objects; follow rights-statement guidelines.
Important dates
Open from: 15/05/2025
Deadline:16/09/2025
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