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Challenges and Opportunities for EU Heritage Diplomacy in Ukraine

27 August 2024

This project will address the role of cultural heritage in the EU’s external action. Learn more.

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Project Description
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The project HER-UKR: Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine addresses the role of cultural heritage in the EU’s external action

 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) protection and reconstruction of heritage.

HER-UKR will use the principles of engagement of the 2021 EU concept on cultural heritage in conflicts as a framework for the case of Ukraine, where cultural heritage remains highly contested. The project’s objectives are to 1) stimulate research on EU heritage diplomacy; 2) promote excellence in teaching on EU heritage diplomacy; 3) pool expertise on heritage policies in East Central Europe; 4) provide European policymakers with solid research expertise for engaging constructively with Ukraine’s cultural heritage field; 5) monitor new tendencies in cultural heritage policies; 6) develop dissemination tools that increase the impact of the project. The objectives will be implemented through 8 work packages.

PD-PCF UC team, led by Professor Natalia Chaban, in collaboration with Professor Paul Millar (the School of Humanities and Creative Arts) and Dr Christopher Thomson and Dr Geoffrey Ford (UC Arts Digital Lab) and colleagues from the Cherkasy National University (Ukraine), is responsible for Work Package 5 Strategic Communication.
HER-UKR Website hosted by KU Leuven (HER-UKR PI)

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partners
PARTNERS
2023-2026 Jean Monnet Network (Policy Debate) Supported by Erasmus+, European Commission
 
  • KU Leuven (Belgium) – Project Lead (PI)
  • Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Ukraine)
  • Uniwersytet Jagielloński (Poland)
  • Universität Regensburg (Germany)
  • Ilia State University (Georgia)
  • Université de Lille (France)
  • University of Tartu (Estonia)
  • University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
  • University of Kent (United Kingdom)
  • Tufts University (United States)
  • University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
  • University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
  • Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy (Ukraine)
  • Univerzita Karlova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
  • Södertörns Högskola (Sweden)
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WP5 MAIN OUTPUTS
WP5 MAIN OUTPUTS AND DISSEMINATION EVENTS

Year 1: 

HER-UKR WPS5 YEAR 1 REPORT: 

Strategic communication of Ukraine’s heritage Year 1 Report: Key findings and policy recommendations By N. Chaban, S. Zhabotynska, and D. Kuznetsova (eds.)

YEAR 1 DISSEMINATION EVENTS

 

 

YEAR 2:

HER-UKR WP5 YEAR 2 REPORT: Digital heritage diplomacy: Findings and Recommendations

By N. N. Chaban, S. Zhabotynska, D. Kuznetsova, N. Zemzyulina,  E. Bond, and S. Hill (eds.)

YEAR 2 DISSEMINATION EVENTS:

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HER-UKR
WP5 HER-UKR results presented at the Annual Europe Lecture at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), University of Vienna (Austria), and at the TU Darmstadt (Germany)

Professor Natalia Chaban, Leader of Package 5 “Strategic Communication” in HER-UKR Jean Monnet Policy Network, presented results of Year 1 of the WP5 at The Vienna Lecture on the European Union at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), Vienna, Austria, on June 17, 2025. Professor Chaban was invited to present an annual Vienna Lecture on the EU “EU heritage diplomacy towards Ukraine: The battle of narratives in global media in the context of heritage securitization”.  She also delivered a guest lecture on this topic to Masters Students at the TU Darmstadt, Germany, on June 22, 2025 (following the invitation of Professor Dr Michele Knodt, the chair for “Comparative politics and European Integration” at the Institute for Political Science at TU Darmstadt).

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HER-UKR
WP5 HER-UKR results reported to the EU and Ukrainian policy-and decision-makers, diplomats and academics in Brussels

Professor Natalia Chaban, Leader of Package 5 “Strategic Communication” in HER-UKR Jean Monnet Policy Network, presented results of Year 1 of the WP5 at an academia-stakeholder event Academic & Policymakers Dialogue: Strategic Communication of Ukraine’s Heritage,  on June 4, 2025, , at KU Leuven Campus Brussels, Belgium. Prof Chaban presented results of WP5  to a group of stakeholders and decision-makers, including representative of the European Commission (Directorate General of Education, Culture and Sports, Creative Europe Unit, and Directorate General NEAR responsible for EU enlargement); UNESCO representatives (UNESCO Centre for Living Heritage, HERE&Well project, Ukraine Commission to UNESCO, UNESCO Liaison Office in Brussels), Deputy Ambassadors of Ukraine to the EU, representatives of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Government of Flanders.  Prof Chaban delivered this stakeholder event together with Prof Lien Verpoest (the Network Leader) and Daryna Zhyvohliadova (the Network Manager)

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HER-UKR
WP5 HER-UKR results presented at the 15th Sakharov Readings, Vilnius, Lithuania

Professor Natalia Chaban, Leader of Package 5 “Strategic Communication” in HER-UKR Jean Monnet Policy Network, presented results of Year 1 of the WP5 at the 15th Sakharov Readings “Pulling Back from the Abyss. The global consequences of the war in Ukraine”. The Readings tool place at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania on May 21-22, 2025. The Readings brought together academics and stakeholders from different sectors and countries (see the Readings recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrL0C3Fy5JA).

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University of Canterbury (UC) Research Team:

UC Research Leaders:

·         Professor Natalia Chaban, PI, UC Media and Communication

·         Professor Paul Millar, UC English/Arts Digital Lab

·         Dr Daria Kuznetsova, UC Media and Communication

·         Dr Christopher Thomson, UC Arts Digital Lab

·         Dr Geoffrey Ford, UC Digital Lab

UC Researchers:

·         Andrii Chernousov (Senior Researcher), PhD candidate, UC Media and Communication, UC Media and Communication

·         Dr Daniela Grimberg, Brazil Lead Researcher)

·         Shalabh Chopra (India Lead Researcher), PhD candidate, UC Media and Communication

·         Mia Angeline (Indonesia Lead Researcher), PhD candidate, UC Media and Communication

·         Dmitry Romanenko (China Lead Researcher), PhD candidate, UC Media and Communication

·         Francesca Harrison (South Africa Lead Researcher), Master of Strategic Communication, UC Media and Communication

·         Sophie Hill (Traditional and Digital Media Lead Researcher), Master of Arts in Media and Communication, UC Media and Communication

·         Margaret Vernygora (Media Lead Researcher), Master of International Relations and Diplomacy, UC Political Science and International Relations

·         Konrad Szatters (China, Germany, France, Poland Lead Researcher), PhD Candidate, University of Vienna, Austria

·         Ella Bond (Digital Media Lead Researcher, Master of Strategic Communication, UC Media and Communication

Cherkasy National University (ChNU) Team

ChNU Research Leaders:

·         Prof Svitlana Zhabotynska, ChNU PI

·         Prof Natalia Zemzyulina

·         Prof Anatoliy Chaban

ChNU researchers:

·         Dr. Oksana Pietsukh

·         Dr Tetiana McGowan

·         Lesia  Nechyporenko

·         Yevhen Datsenko

·         Inna Chernenko

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