Humanities
in the European Research Area
(HERA)
HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area - is a
partnership between
sixteen Humanities Research Councils across Europe, with the
objective of
firmly establishing the humanities in the European Research Area
and in the
Framework Programmes.
In light of the ongoing debate about the
structuring of the European Research Area, there is an urgent
need to underpin mutual interaction within the humanities and
to facilitate the contribution of the humanities to the debate
in the EU, in a dialogue with politicians, with the executive
of EU Commission and with national research administrations.
The European Network of Research Councils in the Humanities
HERA has been established with this objective in mind.
HERA has been designed to deliver new levels
of
co-operative research policy and practice in the humanities
by embarking on
an ambitious programme of communication, enquiry and sharing
of
expertise.Partners are dedicated to the establishment of
best practise in
funding mechanisms, research priorities, humanities infrastructure
and the
development of a transnational funding programme.
The main objective
of HERA is to ensure that the European Research Area can
fully benefit from key contributions consequent on humanities
research.
Because of the varied and yet essential nature of the field,
a Europe-wide
structuring initiative is particularly important for attaining
such
objectives. This aspiration will be accomplished through a
number of
supporting general objectives:
* to stimulate transnational research
cooperation within the humanities
* to enable the humanities to play an appropriate and dynamic
role in
the ERA and within EU Framework Programmes
* to overcome fragmentation of research in the humanities
* to advance new and innovative collaborative research agendas
* to improve cooperation between a large number of research
funding
agencies in Europe
* to attract more funding to research in the humanities by
raising the
profile of the humanities
HERA
Member Organisations
For
more information on the HERA network see www.heranet.info
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