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= HERA Humanities in the European Research Area =

WHAT IS HERA?
HERA is a network of 26 national research councils and agencies that fund humanities research across Europe, with additional support from the European Commission’s ERA-Net schemes, presently the ERA-NET Cofund scheme in the EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 2020.

HISTORY and MEMBERS
The origins of HERA go back to 2002. Initally, the network started with just three partner countries and developed into The European Network of Research Councils in the Humanities (ERCH). In 2004, the network was named HERA and had 14 partners already. In 2018, the membership of HERA comprises research-funding organisations in the following 25 countries: Austria, Belgium (two agencies), Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. The vision of HERA is to give visibility to the value of humanities research and strengthen the position of the humanities in the countries involved and the European Research Area. As stressed by the Expert Group on Humanities in regards to the 7th EU Framework Programme, the humanities research community was challenged by the interdisciplinarity of EU Research funding to "reflect on its role, ist relevance to, and its potential Impact on Society" (Report of the Expert Group, p. 7).

HERA's AIMS

 * To give a strong voice to the humanities in the European Research Area
 * To pool national and European funding in order to support innovative, collaborative humanities-focused research across borders
 * To enable investigation of humanities-focused research questions that require transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives to answer
 * To support knowledge exchange with wide range of stakeholders
 * To assist capacity-building for collaborative humanities research
 * To share knowledge and best practice in joint research programming

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES
HERA sets up Research Programmes for humanities-led collaborative research projects. These may bring together funders in variable constellations. In 2018, four research programmes have been published:
 * “Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity” and “Humanities as a Source for Creativity and Innovation” 2009-2012 (13 countries)
 * “Cultural Encounters” 2013-2016 (18 countries)
 * “Uses of the Past” 2016-2019 (23 countries)
 * “Culture, Integration and Public Space” 2018-2021 (24 countries)

POLICY PAPERS
"Living Together: Missions for Shaping the Future: An Agenda for the next European Research and Innovation Framework Programme from the Humanities and Social Sciences". A Joint Statement from ALLEA, HERA, ELI, ESA, EuroScience, GYA, Net4Society, NORFACE, YAE (2017)

Framework Programme 9: A first response to the European Parliament Resolution and to “LAB – FAB – APP” (2017)

"Research Beyond Borders: The value of European Networks in the social sciences and humanities", published by HERA and NORFACE (2017)

FURTHER INFORMATION
HERA Website: heranet.info

BMBF Website: https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Cultures_in_Dialogue.pdf

VIDEOS
HERA Conference September 2016, Prague