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Over the last 25 years, archaeology and cultural heritage management have undergone significant scientific and professional developments.
Conducted by the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), the NEARCH project, supported by the European Commission (2013-2018) within the framework of the Culture programme, was a European-wide cooperation network of 14 partners from 11 countries to explore these changes and their consequences. The partners included Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the Jan van Eyck Academie (JVE), the Department of Archaeology, Leiden University (LU), Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg (UGOT), the Institute of Prehistory, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), University of York, Culture Lab, the Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage (IBC), of the Region Emilia Romagna, le CENTQUATRE, the Archaeological Unit of Saint-Denis (UASD) and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford (UOXF).
NEARCH aimed to explore the various dimensions of public participation in contemporary archaeology and bring to the field (which is strongly influenced by economic and social developments in society), new ways of working and collaborating.
More precisely, NEARCH’s main objectives were:
These objectives were carried-out through a large-scale action plan structured around five main themes, each with a corresponding set of activities: