Humanities in the European Research Area
HERA - Humanities in the European Research Area - is an EU 6th Framework Programme ERA-NET project aiming at strengthening the European voice in the Humanities. HERA brings together one pan-European and 13 national research funding agencies across
Aim
The main objective of HERA is to ensure that the European Research Area can fully benefit from key contributions consequent on humanities research. Because of the varied and yet essential nature of the field, a Europe-wide structuring initiative is particularly important for attaining such objectives. This aspiration will be accomplished through a number of supporting general objectives:
- to stimulate transnational research cooperation within the humanities
- to enable the humanities to play an appropriate and dynamic role in the ERA and within EU Framework Programmes
- to overcome fragmentation of research in the humanities
- to advance new and innovative collaborative research agendas
- to improve cooperation between a large number of research funding agencies in
- to attract more funding to research in the humanities by raising the profile of the humanities
- to serve as a forum for the exchange of operational expertise and policy initiatives between research councils for the humanities, leading to a systematic exchange of information on research policies, procedures, best practice, infrastructures, etc.
- to initiate activities aimed at developing efficient and accessible research infrastructure initiatives in the humanities by making full use of ICT developments
- to coordinate existing national research activities 1) through closer cooperation between existing nationally funded research programmes, 2) by topping-up funds for parallel programmes that add a comparative or European dimension to nationally focused programmes, 3) through preparation of joint calls for transnational research programmes
About HERA - a leaflet
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