The Cultural Heritage hub covers a wide range of disciplines and research domains, from the Humanities in the traditional and strictest sense to Social Sciences.
Initially, the hub topics were divided according to the UNESCO standards so as to follow rigorous methodology and think across disciplines.
The areas of application cover development and dissemination of tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage and Natural Heritage.
Study and preservation of tangible Cultural Heritage
Visual arts, monuments and buildings, archaeological sites, palaeontology, industrial archaeology, places of memory, museums and collections, art conservation and restoration, legislation for the protection of cultural and natural heritage.
Intangible Cultural Heritage and identity narratives
Oral traditions, romance languages and literature, performing arts (music, dance, drama), rituals, travels, cultural identity, religion, collective and individual memory, migrations, vulnerable communities, gender studies, transnational history, values, human rights.
Enhancement and dissemination of cultural and natural heritage
Tourism and valorisation, education, communication, heritage management, digitisation/digital tools, storytelling, institutions and heritage.
Innovation policies for the development of marginalised areas
Natural heritage and cultural landscapes, climate impact on mountain/rural areas, flora, agriculture, and landscape, culture and food, fauna, livestock farming and biodiversity.
Leadership
Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA)
Università di Torino (UNITO)
Number of people participating
in hub activities
Cultural heritage Task Force mailing list: 47 members
CHORAL co-supervisors: 48
Cartography : 177 projects
Core competence
Humanities to Social Sciences
Main project for 2025-2026
Tourism and cultural heritage in a digital world
8 projects funded
- MULTI-PLAY Common heritage in multilingual play to overcome diversity barriers.
- Conflicts of Memory, Memories of Conflicts : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Heritage.
- Places Where We Remember: Cultural Tourism in the Memorial Places of Religious Traditions in Mountain Areas.
- MountainScape: Exploring cultural heritage in mountain areas through augmented and virtual reality.
- Cultural Heritage Animation: Tales in Motion.
- Digital Cultural Heritage Twins Connections: Bridging Documentation, Analysis and Education from Satellite to Ground (HerOn).
- CON.NE.C.T. W.O.N.D.E.R.S.: CONnecting NEw Cultural Tourism WAys Open to Networking Digital Experience in Representing Sites.
- Decolonizing Women’s History: Collecting Archives and Oral Histories.
Green Heritage: Rethinking Rural Areas in the 21st Century
9 projects funded
- Mountain sports tourism: development and challenges of reconversion and diversification.
- Literature about/in the village: Plurilingualism, Identities, Heritage.
- Creative Mountains : Cultural Heritage as Creativity to Revitalize Mountain Communities.
- EARTH – Earth And fire in Rural contexts: Towards a Holistic approach to investigate the traces of ancient human fires.
- Establishment of an Observatory on Tourism in Mountain Refuges.
- Sharing historical interpretations of rural heritage through a participatory digital methodology, with reference to conflict and peace times.
- Water heritage: Traditional irrigation systems and uses of water in the mountains.
- Rethinking Rural Heritage: UNITA Collaborative Network for Researching Cultural Events and Traditions (CONNECT).
- GRACE – Green Rural Areas and Cultural Environment. Creating New Policies for the Integrated Management of Cultural Heritage with Green Spaces.
- Smart Rural Heritage: Digital Tools for Sustainable Revitalization.