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The project HER-UKR: Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine will address the role of cultural heritage in the work of the EU’s European External Action Service. A consortium of 15 universities will bring together interdisciplinary expertise on EU foreign policy, Eastern European memory politics and heritage practices.

HER-UKR aims to explore the potential of the EU as a values based actor in heritage policies by focusing on three subtopics:

1. EU cultural heritage diplomacy for promoting democracy and European values;
2. conflict prevention with focus on contested heritage;
3. 3protection and reconstruction of heritage.

The Project Coordinator: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

2024