LIVIND Research webinar
What does the work around UN Agenda 2030 and living heritage mean in practice in the state level or among heritage practitioners? Join the LIVIND webinar to find out what our research team found out using various methods. In the event we will also launch the Research paper and Policy brief related to it.
LIVIND Research webinar
17th December 2024 2-4 EET, 1-3 CET
LIVIND – Creative and Living Cultural Heritage as a Resource for the Northern Dimension Region (2021-2024), led by the Finnish Heritage Agency brought together actors of living cultural heritage from the Nordic and Baltic countries and Poland. Aimed at identifying and developing policies to strengthen the potential of creative and living cultural heritage to support sustainable development, the project gathered stakeholders from public administration, civil society, and the private sector from nine countries in the Northern Dimension Region, being the first of its kind in Northern Europe.
Since the very beginning of the project, LIVIND included a research team to look analytically at how living cultural heritage and sustainable development interlink, examining past experiences and best practices, and contributing to the planning and implementation of the project activities. The research team included the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage (University of Tartu, Estonia) and the UNESCO Chair on Intangible Cultural Heritage Policy and Law (Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia).
The research was conducted using various methods, such as desk research (including the analysis of project documentation, legal frameworks, national contexts, periodic reports submitted to the UNESCO by the States Parties), semi-structured interviews with project participants, participant observation during online and on-site events, and autoethnography. As a result, the now published Research report addresses the prevailing connection between living cultural heritage and sustainable development in the Northern Dimension Region on the policy level, in research, and through concrete actions on the ground.
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PROGRAMME (draft)
14.00 Welcome, Leena Marsio, Finnish Heritage Agency
14.05 Foreword, Maija Lummepuro, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
14.15 LIVIND project – short overview, Elisa Kraatari, project coordinator, PhD
14.25 Living Heritage and Sustainable Development – an emerging research area, Prof. Kristin Kuutma, University of Tartu, UNESCO Chair
14.50 Approaches at the state level – periodic reports to UNESCO, Assoc. Prof. Anita Vaivade/ Agnese Karlsone, Latvian Academy of Culture, UNESCO Chair
15.05 Challenges and Solutions at the local level – experiences from the LIVIND pilots, Siarhiej Makarevich/ Kristi Grünberg, University of Tartu
15.30 Commentary, Harriet Deacon, researcher, UNESCO facilitator
15.45 Questions and Discussion
16.00 End of the event