Activate: The Activist, the Archivist and the Researcher

Activate: The Activist, the Archivist and the Researcher: Novel Collaborative Strategies of Transnational Research, Archiving and Exhibiting Social and Political Dissent in Europe (19th-21st centuries)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges project

ACTIVATE’s objective is to develop innovative methodologies and new knowledge as well as share best practice based on the principles of diversity, inclusiveness and open science between researchers, archivists, curators and public educators through a reflective approach on social and political dissent in a long-term, transnational and comparative perspective. ACTIVATE strives for new synergies between academic research and heritage institutions, fostering better knowledge, integration and promotion of dispersed cultural heritage, which European democracies need to preserve with care.

ACTIVATE is implemented by a consortium of sixteen academic and non-academic partners including universities, archives, museums, and cultural institutions from seven different countries around Europe: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. We will share our skills, knowledge and practices through the more than 200 secondments planned involving researchers specializing in history, art history, literature, languages and culture, regional studies, political science, digital humanities, archiving and film and visual studies, as well as research support staff, archivists and cultural heritage institutions’ professionals.

This project has recieved funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2023 research and innovating programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101182859.