Foundations for Climate-Resilient Cultural Heritage: Impact and Risk Assessment and Analysis, Damage and Loss Prevention – EU RCH Partnership Grant
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This is a transnational collaborative research call funding projects that strengthen cultural heritage resilience in the face of climate change through interdisciplinary approaches linking humanities, heritage sciences, and climate science. Eligible applicants include research institutions, universities, and heritage organizations across 30 European and partner countries participating in the EU Horizon Europe Resilient Cultural Heritage Partnership.
About this grant
The European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage (RCH), co-funded under Horizon Europe and bringing together 34 funding organisations from 30 countries, announces its first joint transnational call (JTC 2027) for collaborative research and innovation projects. The call aims to strengthen societal resilience through cultural heritage in Europe and beyond, and to reconceive cultural heritage in the face of climate change through an interdisciplinary approach linking human and social sciences, heritage sciences and climate sciences. Projects should produce knowledge and tools useful to decision-makers implementing heritage and climate policy. The indicative total public funding is over 27 million euros. The ANR, the French funder, plans to open the call in October 2026 with a pre-proposal deadline indicated as 11 January 2027, and projects are expected to start from December 2027. The call is organised around four sub-themes: (1) assessment and impact of risks, and risk prevention and management for cultural heritage; (2) loss and damage management for cultural heritage exposed to climate-related natural hazards; (3) traditional, local and indigenous knowledge systems and frameworks for societal resilience to climate change; and (4) sustainable governance of the cultural heritage sector. Only transnational projects are funded. Projects run 24 to 36 months and must include a minimum of three independent eligible partners from at least three countries, requesting funding from at least three participating funders, with a maximum of seven eligible funded partners and at most two funded partners from the same country. Self-funded partners are not limited in number. The process is two-stage: pre-proposals followed by full proposals invited by the call secretariat, submitted through the EPSS platform, with a parallel IRIS registration for ANR-funded partners. Proposals must be in English. The ANR funds only the French partners of selected projects, up to 250,000 euros per partner, or 350,000 euros if the partner is the coordinator.
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Eligibility
Eligible applicants are non-profit organisations and entities with a public research mission (research organisations, higher education institutions, scientific cooperation foundations), other non-profit entities (public bodies, NGOs, private non-profit associations), and companies. Eligibility of partners may vary under national or regional rules. Projects must be transnational with at least three independent eligible partners from three countries funded by three different funders. Public and higher education bodies from Member States and associated countries must hold a gender equality plan at signature and throughout the grant. Participating countries include Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Turkey. For ANR, only French partners are funded.
Key requirements
- ✓Collaborative, transnational research projects addressing climate resilience of cultural heritage
- ✓Interdisciplinary approach linking humanities, social sciences, heritage sciences, and climate science
- ✓Focus on one of four sub-themes: risk assessment and prevention; damage and loss management; traditional/local/indigenous knowledge systems; or sustainable heritage governance
- ✓Two-stage submission process: pre-proposal (11 January 2027) followed by detailed proposal
- ✓Projects must produce knowledge and tools for policymakers implementing heritage and climate policy
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Frequently asked questions
- How much funding does Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) offer?
- Foundations for Climate-Resilient Cultural Heritage: Impact and Risk Assessment and Analysis, Damage and Loss Prevention – EU RCH Partnership offers $438K.
- Who can apply for Foundations for Climate-Resilient Cultural Heritage: Impact and Risk Assessment and Analysis, Damage and Loss Prevention – EU RCH Partnership?
- Eligibility covers organisations in EU, EUROPE; university, research-institution, nonprofit, consortium. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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