Social platform on endangered cultural heritage and on illicit trafficking of cultural goods

Date:17 Nov, 2017

Social platform on endangered cultural heritage and on illicit trafficking of cultural goods

Data di apertura: 07/11/17 Data di Chiusura:  13/03/18
Programma: Societal Challenges Topic: SU-TRANSFORMATIONS-09-2018
Tipologia: CSA Coordination and support action Modello: single stage
Ambito: Initiatives to protect endangered cultural heritage and to stop their illicit trade are multiplying, with international bodies, the EU, national governments and other institutions developing useful, though mainly uncoordinated, initiatives. The challenge is to take stock of ongoing initiatives, promote mutual learning and coordination, and identify knowledge and intervention gaps.
The platform should bring together the research community, public and private actors, and policy makers at national and international levels working on issues related to the illicit trafficking of cultural goods and on the protection, preservation or reconstruction of cultural heritage in danger. Traffic routes, provenance research (including satellite imagery), economic aspects (including links to terrorism), heritage memory preservation (including safe heavens and 3D reconstruction), return and restitution, and other responses such as legislation, training, and awareness raising programmes for specialised communities (art curators, galleries, collectors and dealers) and the general public should be considered. The platform should map past and ongoing research, collect, analyse and promote best practices from Europe and beyond, and become a major European reference for transnational and interdisciplinary networking in this policy area.
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