ARCHE 2nd Stakeholders’ Workshop

The ARCHE 2nd Stakeholders’ Workshop in Florence to present the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda to the Stakeholders’ Community.

The ARCHE coordination team is pleased to announce and invite you to the 2nd Stakeholders’ Workshop, organised by the Institute for Heritage Science of the National Research Council of Italy, which will take place on September 25th, 2024, in Florence at the Innovation Center di Fondazione CR Firenze. This workshop will serve as a platform to present the preliminary indings of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). Therefore, it represents a key milestone within the Horizon Europe-funded ARCHE project (Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe), paving the way to the future European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage (RCH), expected to start in 2026.

The SRIA is the result of an extensive collaborative work among European institutions within the ARCHE consortium, outlining strategic research priorities. that will guide future joint activities within the RCH Partnership. These will address significant global challenges, including resilience in the face of the climate crisis and sustainable development.

Participants and stakeholders at the Florence workshop will have the opportunity to engage directly with the preliminary outcomes of the SRIA drafting process. The feedback of the stakeholders’ community will be crucial in refining the agenda, ensuring it reflects the diverse perspectives and priorities of research and innovation communities in the heritage sector and related fields.

In addition, the workshop will mark the beginning of an extensive consultation phase that will run from September to November 2024, via a survey on the European Commission portal. This will gather insights from the broad heritage research and innovation community, including from Member States and Associated Countries, public and private stakeholders, policymakers, experts and citizens from multiple domains.

Following the event, stakeholders can engage in further discussions via the Heritage Research Forum. This is an interactive online platform that will act as a matchmaking and co-design space throughout ARCHE’s and RCH’s lifespan in which users will be able to directly consult intermediary outputs of the SRIA drafting process and provide their feedback on them. The access to the platform is free and all interested users need to do is register on the Heritage Research Hub website.

The Florence workshop is designed to accommodate both on-site and online participation, offering flexibility for stakeholders to engage according to their preferences and availability.  

Please note that the event will take place in hybrid format. Should you want to attend the event on-site, we highly encourage you to register as soon as possible, due to the limited capacity of the venue. To secure your participation in the event, please register here until 8 September 2024.