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The power of the metaphor is such that it is often wrongly assumed that there is agreement on what it is and what needs to be done.</p>\n <h2>The problem-focussed knowledge industry of the 1990’s</h2>\n <p>Towards the end of the 20th century interdisciplinary, so called <a href="https://content.ub.hu-berlin.de/monographs/toc/hochschulwesen/BV009799040.pdf">“mode 2”</a> research emerged as a “problem focussed” knowledge industry, distinct from traditional disciplinary science. “Mode 2” research was a great success with politicians and science funding agencies, who fuelled its growth as an answer to <a href="https://www.vr.se/download/18.3936818b16e6f40bd3e5cd/1574173799722/Lund%20Declaration%202009.pdf">grand societal challenges</a>.</p>\n <p>The integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) was seen as an important element of this answer. Problem oriented project-funding programmes, including the SSH, have continued to grow, sometimes surpassing discipline-based institutional research funding.</p>\n <h2>Grand challenges and misplaced expectations</h2>\n <p>More than a quarter of a century later the grand challenges are growing and it is clear that some of the expectations around “mode 2” research were misplaced. That a problem cannot be solved without interdisciplinary cooperation, does not mean that interdisciplinary cooperation will necessarily solve it. Programmatic ambitions for grand designs to solve societal challenges would seem to be subject to Anderson’s (2014, p 379) warning:</p>\n <p>“The history of politics is littered with attempts to realize imagined utopias that turned out badly, not just because of unforeseen consequences, but because anticipated consequences that people imagined would be wonderful were experienced as horrible in real life” .</p>\n <p>And while interdisciplinary research projects offer a space to deliberate the nature of the problems associated with grand societal challenges, participants were often frustrated by how the deliberation and cooperation was conducted and how the rewards were distributed (Viseu 2015).</p>\n <h2>Towards appropriate integration of SSH</h2>\n <p>There have now been more than 30 years of experience with “mode 2” recipes at the European level, starting from the Key Actions of FP5. Yet, “<a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/horizon-europe/viewpoint-we-need-blueprint-integrating-social-sciences-and-humanities-eu">a blueprint for SSH integration</a>” is still looked for, to help with producing effective R&I programmes. There is more agreement that appropriate integration of SSH is an important aspect of this, than on what appropriate integration is and how to go about it.</p>\n <h2>Integration and discrimination</h2>\n <p>In the social sciences integration is often discussed in relation to discrimination. It is sometimes seen as a cure for discrimination problems and sometimes as a smoke-screen concealing such problems. This unresolved discussion, often involving important ethical questions about identity and individuality, is found across the social sciences, and has had considerable influence on the development of their institutions (see Manicas 2003).</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>The integration of SSH in EU R&I policy has been a longstanding demand of the research community, which has been gaining traction in European Framework Programmes. The power of the metaphor is such that it is often wrongly assumed that there is agreement on what it is and what needs to be done.</p>\n <h2>The problem-focussed knowledge industry of the 1990’s</h2>\n <p>Towards the end of the 20th century interdisciplinary, so called <a href="https://content.ub.hu-berlin.de/monographs/toc/hochschulwesen/BV009799040.pdf">“mode 2”</a> research emerged as a “problem focussed” knowledge industry, distinct from traditional disciplinary science. “Mode 2” research was a great success with politicians and science funding agencies, who fuelled its growth as an answer to <a href="https://www.vr.se/download/18.3936818b16e6f40bd3e5cd/1574173799722/Lund%20Declaration%202009.pdf">grand societal challenges</a>.</p>\n <p>The integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) was seen as an important element of this answer. Problem oriented project-funding programmes, including the SSH, have continued to grow, sometimes surpassing discipline-based institutional research funding.</p>\n <h2>Grand challenges and misplaced expectations</h2>\n <p>More than a quarter of a century later the grand challenges are growing and it is clear that some of the expectations around “mode 2” research were misplaced. That a problem cannot be solved without interdisciplinary cooperation, does not mean that interdisciplinary cooperation will necessarily solve it. Programmatic ambitions for grand designs to solve societal challenges would seem to be subject to Anderson’s (2014, p 379) warning:</p>\n <p>“The history of politics is littered with attempts to realize imagined utopias that turned out badly, not just because of unforeseen consequences, but because anticipated consequences that people imagined would be wonderful were experienced as horrible in real life” .</p>\n <p>And while interdisciplinary research projects offer a space to deliberate the nature of the problems associated with grand societal challenges, participants were often frustrated by how the deliberation and cooperation was conducted and how the rewards were distributed (Viseu 2015).</p>\n <h2>Towards appropriate integration of SSH</h2>\n <p>There have now been more than 30 years of experience with “mode 2” recipes at the European level, starting from the Key Actions of FP5. Yet, “<a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/horizon-europe/viewpoint-we-need-blueprint-integrating-social-sciences-and-humanities-eu">a blueprint for SSH integration</a>” is still looked for, to help with producing effective R&I programmes. There is more agreement that appropriate integration of SSH is an important aspect of this, than on what appropriate integration is and how to go about it.</p>\n <h2>Integration and discrimination</h2>\n <p>In the social sciences integration is often discussed in relation to discrimination. It is sometimes seen as a cure for discrimination problems and sometimes as a smoke-screen concealing such problems. This unresolved discussion, often involving important ethical questions about identity and individuality, is found across the social sciences, and has had considerable influence on the development of their institutions (see Manicas 2003).</p> """ } "body:10.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2265 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:10.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2>Making soup: chemical integrationmetaphors</h2>\n <p>In chemistry, elements integrate in new substances with different structures and functions. Integration involves energy.\u{A0} Think of making soup by placing different ingredients in boiling water. Some original\u{A0} components may be more discernible than others. Pieces of meat or vegetables could be visible while the presence of salt and spices may be discernible only through taste.</p>\n <p>The soup is an influential metaphor in social integration policies.\u{A0} Migrants are placed in\u{A0} communities, where they are expected to integrate with the help of external energy provided by social services.\u{A0} The success of such policies is analogous to the energy put into them.\u{A0} Canada, where governments put a lot of effort in migrant integration, is considered a success case: a relatively harmonious multicultural society with low incidence of racial and social discrimination (Ali et al 2021).</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:10.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2>Making soup: chemical integrationmetaphors</h2>\n <p>In chemistry, elements integrate in new substances with different structures and functions. Integration involves energy.\u{A0} Think of making soup by placing different ingredients in boiling water. Some original\u{A0} components may be more discernible than others. Pieces of meat or vegetables could be visible while the presence of salt and spices may be discernible only through taste.</p>\n <p>The soup is an influential metaphor in social integration policies.\u{A0} Migrants are placed in\u{A0} communities, where they are expected to integrate with the help of external energy provided by social services.\u{A0} The success of such policies is analogous to the energy put into them.\u{A0} Canada, where governments put a lot of effort in migrant integration, is considered a success case: a relatively harmonious multicultural society with low incidence of racial and social discrimination (Ali et al 2021).</p> """ } "body:11.caption" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Input {#2373 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:11.caption" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: "" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:11.caption" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: "" } "body:11.image" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Image {#2021 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:11.image" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #id: 736 #alt: "" #image: null #cropPercent: false #cropWidth: 0.0 #cropHeight: 0.0 #cropTop: 0.0 #cropLeft: 0.0 #hotspots: [] #marker: [] #thumbnail: "bodyMain" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:11.image" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null id: 736 alt: "" image: null cropPercent: false cropWidth: 0.0 cropHeight: 0.0 cropTop: 0.0 cropLeft: 0.0 hotspots: [] marker: [] thumbnail: "bodyMain" } "body:5.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2323 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:5.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2>Integration as puzzle-solving</h2>\n <p>Underestimating such ethical issues, integration of SSH in “problem-focussed research” is often portrayed as contributing to a puzzle, in which components fit neatly together in a coherent whole. Such is the conception of much of the project-based integration, including programmes on ethical, legal and social aspects of technology.</p>\n <p>For example, through carbon dating, chemistry becomes a tool in archaeology helping in debates about timing. Yet, SSH integration rarely offers closure in debates within STEM disciplines. SSH researchers often object to playing such service roles in the pursuits of engineers and demand important roles in the definition of the basic parameters of the solutions to be developed (Bruce et al 2004, Vienni Baptista et al 2020)</p>\n <h2>Biological integration metaphors</h2>\n <p>A wide array of fruitful processes of integration can be found in biology. Procreation – planting the seeds of new thinking – is a good metaphor for processes of interaction amongst SSH disciplines. Infection - a virus integrating into a cell, turning it into a virus producing factory – also has value. I am thinking about social innovation and social movements associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">Commons Based Peer production</a> where engineers adopt new, different ways of working towards important social and cultural purposes. Such ideas are at the heart of the post-growth movement’s view of how to pursue appropriate science and technology, exactly because it is focussed on the reproduction of social norms and values and not on the production of economic growth (Kerschner, et al (2018), Hickel et al (2022)).</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:5.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2>Integration as puzzle-solving</h2>\n <p>Underestimating such ethical issues, integration of SSH in “problem-focussed research” is often portrayed as contributing to a puzzle, in which components fit neatly together in a coherent whole. Such is the conception of much of the project-based integration, including programmes on ethical, legal and social aspects of technology.</p>\n <p>For example, through carbon dating, chemistry becomes a tool in archaeology helping in debates about timing. Yet, SSH integration rarely offers closure in debates within STEM disciplines. SSH researchers often object to playing such service roles in the pursuits of engineers and demand important roles in the definition of the basic parameters of the solutions to be developed (Bruce et al 2004, Vienni Baptista et al 2020)</p>\n <h2>Biological integration metaphors</h2>\n <p>A wide array of fruitful processes of integration can be found in biology. Procreation – planting the seeds of new thinking – is a good metaphor for processes of interaction amongst SSH disciplines. Infection - a virus integrating into a cell, turning it into a virus producing factory – also has value. I am thinking about social innovation and social movements associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">Commons Based Peer production</a> where engineers adopt new, different ways of working towards important social and cultural purposes. Such ideas are at the heart of the post-growth movement’s view of how to pursue appropriate science and technology, exactly because it is focussed on the reproduction of social norms and values and not on the production of economic growth (Kerschner, et al (2018), Hickel et al (2022)).</p> """ } "body:7.caption" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Input {#2324 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:7.caption" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: "" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:7.caption" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: "" } "body:7.image" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Image {#2339 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:7.image" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #id: 739 #alt: "Image of a tree by Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash" #image: null #cropPercent: false #cropWidth: 0.0 #cropHeight: 0.0 #cropTop: 0.0 #cropLeft: 0.0 #hotspots: [] #marker: [] #thumbnail: "bodyMain" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:7.image" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null id: 739 alt: "Image of a tree by Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash" image: null cropPercent: false cropWidth: 0.0 cropHeight: 0.0 cropTop: 0.0 cropLeft: 0.0 hotspots: [] marker: [] thumbnail: "bodyMain" } "body:8.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2341 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:8.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>SSH integration: from the tent to the kitchen</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">The quality of integration of SSH is often assessed through ingredients: the proportion of SSH partners,\u{A0} the level of the budget allocated to them and their work, and the number of SSH disciplines involved in projects (EC 2023).\u{A0}\u{A0} The process to which the ingredients are subjected is invisible. It is as if the ingredients are left in a tent for the duration of the project. At the end, integration is whatever took place in the tent.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Unlike boiling water, tents are passive.\u{A0} And unlike soup, what happens in them is ephemeral.\u{A0} Learnings are project-specific and dissipate when the project is over.\u{A0}\u{A0} Documenting experiences in projects can make important contributions to good research programme management practice, and there has been a lot of that over the years.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">However, SSH integration is about more than numbers in projects.\u{A0} Policy needs to seek to influence the institutions of research funding and performance that Pedersen (2016) calls integrative environments.\u{A0} It needs to deal with the process of integration with the attentiveness and dedication of a chef, who knows what they are making and how to make it. When they do not know, they experiment, they learn and change practices. As their learning evolves, the soup gets better.\u{A0} Tasting sessions (open deliberation on ex ante expectations and ex post achievements) and mechanisms for sharing learning on the integration process as part of research programme management, are critical. Because, the proof of the soup is in the eating.</p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>Further links</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376">https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.shapeid.eu/">https://www.shapeid.eu/</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0">https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en</a></p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>References</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Ali, M. A., S Zendo & S Somers (2021) Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 20(4), 473–485. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1938332">https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1938332</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Anderson, E (2014) Reply to critics of the imperative of integration. Political Studies Review, 12(3), pp 376-382 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12065">https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12065</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Bruce, A,\u{A0} C Lyall, J Tait, R Williams (2004) Interdisciplinary integration in Europe: the case of the Fifth Framework programme,, Futures, 36 (4) pp 457-470 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2003.10.003">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2003.10.003</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Pedersen, D. (2016) Integrating social sciences and humanities in interdisciplinary research. Palgrave Commun 2, 16036. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36">https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">EC (2023) Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budgets and Disciplines 2014 – 2020, OPOCE Luxembourg, <a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Hickel, J, G Kallis, T Jackson, D W O’neill, J B Schor, J K Steinberger, P A Victor, and D Ürge- Vorsatz. (2022) "Degrowth can work—here’s how science can help." Nature 612, no. 7940 pp\u{A0} 400-403 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Kerschner, C, P Wächter, L Nierling, M- Ehlers, (2018) Degrowth and Technology: Towards feasible, viable, appropriate and convivial imaginaries,\u{A0} Journal of Cleaner Production, 197 (2) pp 1619-1636, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.147">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.147</a>.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Manicas, P T (2003) The social sciences: who needs ‘em?, Futures 35 (6) pp 609-619, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(02)00102-7">https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(02)00102-7</a>.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Vienni Baptista, B, I Fletcher, M Maryl, Pi Wciślik, A Buchner, C Lyall, J Spaapen and C Pohl (2020)\u{A0}\u{A0} <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3824839">Final Report on Understandings of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research and Factors of Success and Failure</a>,\u{A0} <a href="https://www.shapeid.eu/">SHAPE-ID</a> project</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Viseu, A (2015) Integration of social science into research is crucial, Nature 525, 17 September 2015 p 291 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/525291a">https://www.nature.com/articles/525291a</a></p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>About the author</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><em>Nikos Kastrinos is the editor of the EASSH Lens, a senior fellow with the Global Governance Institute and the Millennium Project and serves on the board of the EU Staff Fund for a Fair and Sustainable Future.\u{A0} A former official of the\u{A0} European Commission he served as special advisor to the EU Presidencies of Cyprus and Ireland and to the Greek Minister of Education. He holds doctorate in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Manchester.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:8.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>SSH integration: from the tent to the kitchen</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">The quality of integration of SSH is often assessed through ingredients: the proportion of SSH partners,\u{A0} the level of the budget allocated to them and their work, and the number of SSH disciplines involved in projects (EC 2023).\u{A0}\u{A0} The process to which the ingredients are subjected is invisible. It is as if the ingredients are left in a tent for the duration of the project. At the end, integration is whatever took place in the tent.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Unlike boiling water, tents are passive.\u{A0} And unlike soup, what happens in them is ephemeral.\u{A0} Learnings are project-specific and dissipate when the project is over.\u{A0}\u{A0} Documenting experiences in projects can make important contributions to good research programme management practice, and there has been a lot of that over the years.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">However, SSH integration is about more than numbers in projects.\u{A0} Policy needs to seek to influence the institutions of research funding and performance that Pedersen (2016) calls integrative environments.\u{A0} It needs to deal with the process of integration with the attentiveness and dedication of a chef, who knows what they are making and how to make it. When they do not know, they experiment, they learn and change practices. As their learning evolves, the soup gets better.\u{A0} Tasting sessions (open deliberation on ex ante expectations and ex post achievements) and mechanisms for sharing learning on the integration process as part of research programme management, are critical. Because, the proof of the soup is in the eating.</p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>Further links</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376">https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.shapeid.eu/">https://www.shapeid.eu/</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0">https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en</a></p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>References</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Ali, M. A., S Zendo & S Somers (2021) Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 20(4), 473–485. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1938332">https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1938332</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Anderson, E (2014) Reply to critics of the imperative of integration. Political Studies Review, 12(3), pp 376-382 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12065">https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12065</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Bruce, A,\u{A0} C Lyall, J Tait, R Williams (2004) Interdisciplinary integration in Europe: the case of the Fifth Framework programme,, Futures, 36 (4) pp 457-470 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2003.10.003">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2003.10.003</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Pedersen, D. (2016) Integrating social sciences and humanities in interdisciplinary research. Palgrave Commun 2, 16036. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36">https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">EC (2023) Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budgets and Disciplines 2014 – 2020, OPOCE Luxembourg, <a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Hickel, J, G Kallis, T Jackson, D W O’neill, J B Schor, J K Steinberger, P A Victor, and D Ürge- Vorsatz. (2022) "Degrowth can work—here’s how science can help." 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Changing this situation – protecting and restoring soils – requires more than just scientific and technical solutions. The Horizon Europe Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>” (<em><strong>Mission Soil</strong></em>) is the largest funding programme for soil research in the EU today. It recognises that soil health is deeply intertwined with social, cultural, and political factors.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>Insights from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts</h2>\n <p>Achieving soil health demands not only changes in land management but also a transformation of social relations with soil. Soil science has long been dominated by natural and technical disciplines, but the role of social sciences, humanities, and the arts (SSHA) in soil research is gaining recognition.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Understanding and improving human-soil relationships requires insights into social structures, cultural values, governance systems, and historical land use—areas where SSHA excel. How can the SSHA disciplines better engage with the existing soil research landscape? This is the topic of the report Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in the EU Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-library/social-sciences-humanities-and-arts-eu-mission-soil-deal-europe">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>”, led by <a href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anna-krzywoszynska">Dr Anna Krzywoszynska</a> of the University of Oulu.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Mission Soil is one of the five Horizon Europe funding streams which aim to achieve not only scientific excellence, but also societal impact in key areas; in the case of Mission Soil, the focus is on soil health as the underpinning of food security and ecological and social resilience. The report, written by the Advisory Board to Mission Soil, argues that soil research needs to more strongly integrate knowledge from the SSHA. Recommendations for achieving that include a greater involvement of SSHA experts at all stages of development of research programmes and their evaluation. The report also reviews previous calls under Mission Soil from the perspective of SSHA incorporation.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSHA scholars explore how societies interact with their environment, including soil. Disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, geography, history, political science, artistic research, or ethics provide vital perspectives on soil use and conservation. For example, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308">Marchesi</a> (2020) explored how the particular scientific and institutional strategy pursued by the 19th century German chemist Justus von Liebig made it possible to establish chemical fertilization as the cornerstone of good land management.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>In their research in New Zealand, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x">Stronge et al. (2023)</a> found that people assign multiple, co-existing values to soil. The authors therefore proposed a multidimensional framework for valuing soils that can be used in policymaking. Their bi-cultural model incorporates both Māori and Western-centric knowledge and perspectives and can be used to develop shared goals to maintain and enhance the state of soils in order to ensure well-being for humans and other living beings. The authors also point out that the dialogue on values enriches our understanding of soils and soil health and our connections with nature.</p>\n <p>Diverse SSHA disciplines can help explain not just what is happening in soil use and soil health but also why certain patterns persist and how they might be transformed. These insights are crucial for designing policies and interventions that are both effective and socially just.</p>\n <h2>Living Labs that involve a range of partners for improving soil health</h2>\n <p>Soil research increasingly embraces transdisciplinary approaches, where scientists work directly with communities, policymakers, and industries to co-create knowledge and solutions. Traditional top-down science communication—where findings are simply shared with stakeholders—has reached its limits. Instead, it is increasingly argued that research must integrate social understanding to create new cultural narratives, economic models, and governance structures that support soil health.</p>\n <p>The Mission Soil funding programme aims at just such an approach, providing an excellent opening for SSHA expertise. Mission Soil promotes soil research through a Living Lab approach: <a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/living-labs/">Mission Soil Living Labs</a> are “user-centred, place-based and transdisciplinary research and innovation ecosystems that involve multiple partners (e.g., land managers, scientists, citizens, businesses, and local authorities) to co-design, test, monitor and evaluate solutions in real-life settings for improving soil health.”\u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>This approach presents an opportunity for social research to shape research questions, framings, and methods to ensure incorporation of societal perspectives and truly participatory research processes. SSHA scholars have been at the forefront of similar transdisciplinary research efforts, developing methods such as participatory action research, citizen dialogues, and co-production of knowledge. SSHA disciplines have therefore deep expertise in research methods which uncover perse perspectives, mediate conflicts, and develop practical solutions tailored to specific social and ecological contexts.</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 343 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>Soil is at the heart of life on Earth, and yet it is <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00323-3">facing profound degradation</a> with life-threatening consequences for humans and other species. Changing this situation – protecting and restoring soils – requires more than just scientific and technical solutions. The Horizon Europe Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>” (<em><strong>Mission Soil</strong></em>) is the largest funding programme for soil research in the EU today. It recognises that soil health is deeply intertwined with social, cultural, and political factors.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>Insights from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts</h2>\n <p>Achieving soil health demands not only changes in land management but also a transformation of social relations with soil. Soil science has long been dominated by natural and technical disciplines, but the role of social sciences, humanities, and the arts (SSHA) in soil research is gaining recognition.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Understanding and improving human-soil relationships requires insights into social structures, cultural values, governance systems, and historical land use—areas where SSHA excel. How can the SSHA disciplines better engage with the existing soil research landscape? This is the topic of the report Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in the EU Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-library/social-sciences-humanities-and-arts-eu-mission-soil-deal-europe">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>”, led by <a href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anna-krzywoszynska">Dr Anna Krzywoszynska</a> of the University of Oulu.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Mission Soil is one of the five Horizon Europe funding streams which aim to achieve not only scientific excellence, but also societal impact in key areas; in the case of Mission Soil, the focus is on soil health as the underpinning of food security and ecological and social resilience. The report, written by the Advisory Board to Mission Soil, argues that soil research needs to more strongly integrate knowledge from the SSHA. Recommendations for achieving that include a greater involvement of SSHA experts at all stages of development of research programmes and their evaluation. The report also reviews previous calls under Mission Soil from the perspective of SSHA incorporation.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSHA scholars explore how societies interact with their environment, including soil. Disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, geography, history, political science, artistic research, or ethics provide vital perspectives on soil use and conservation. For example, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308">Marchesi</a> (2020) explored how the particular scientific and institutional strategy pursued by the 19th century German chemist Justus von Liebig made it possible to establish chemical fertilization as the cornerstone of good land management.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>In their research in New Zealand, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x">Stronge et al. (2023)</a> found that people assign multiple, co-existing values to soil. The authors therefore proposed a multidimensional framework for valuing soils that can be used in policymaking. Their bi-cultural model incorporates both Māori and Western-centric knowledge and perspectives and can be used to develop shared goals to maintain and enhance the state of soils in order to ensure well-being for humans and other living beings. The authors also point out that the dialogue on values enriches our understanding of soils and soil health and our connections with nature.</p>\n <p>Diverse SSHA disciplines can help explain not just what is happening in soil use and soil health but also why certain patterns persist and how they might be transformed. These insights are crucial for designing policies and interventions that are both effective and socially just.</p>\n <h2>Living Labs that involve a range of partners for improving soil health</h2>\n <p>Soil research increasingly embraces transdisciplinary approaches, where scientists work directly with communities, policymakers, and industries to co-create knowledge and solutions. Traditional top-down science communication—where findings are simply shared with stakeholders—has reached its limits. Instead, it is increasingly argued that research must integrate social understanding to create new cultural narratives, economic models, and governance structures that support soil health.</p>\n <p>The Mission Soil funding programme aims at just such an approach, providing an excellent opening for SSHA expertise. Mission Soil promotes soil research through a Living Lab approach: <a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/living-labs/">Mission Soil Living Labs</a> are “user-centred, place-based and transdisciplinary research and innovation ecosystems that involve multiple partners (e.g., land managers, scientists, citizens, businesses, and local authorities) to co-design, test, monitor and evaluate solutions in real-life settings for improving soil health.”\u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>This approach presents an opportunity for social research to shape research questions, framings, and methods to ensure incorporation of societal perspectives and truly participatory research processes. SSHA scholars have been at the forefront of similar transdisciplinary research efforts, developing methods such as participatory action research, citizen dialogues, and co-production of knowledge. SSHA disciplines have therefore deep expertise in research methods which uncover perse perspectives, mediate conflicts, and develop practical solutions tailored to specific social and ecological contexts.</p> """ } "body:2.caption" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Input {#2232 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:2.caption" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 343 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: "" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:2.caption" realName: "" documentId: 343 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: "" } "body:2.image" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Image {#2220 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:2.image" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 343 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #id: 700 #alt: "Soil science" #image: null #cropPercent: false #cropWidth: 0.0 #cropHeight: 0.0 #cropTop: 0.0 #cropLeft: 0.0 #hotspots: [] #marker: [] #thumbnail: "bodyMain" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:2.image" realName: "" documentId: 343 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null id: 700 alt: "Soil science" image: null cropPercent: false cropWidth: 0.0 cropHeight: 0.0 cropTop: 0.0 cropLeft: 0.0 hotspots: [] marker: [] thumbnail: "bodyMain" } "body:3.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2218 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:3.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 343 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2>The path ahead for SSHA in soil research</h2>\n <p>SSHA disciplines remain underfunded in environmental research. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101349">Natural sciences receive nearly 770% more funding than social sciences and humanities in environmental studies</a> (Overland & Sovacool, 2019), leaving critical gaps in our understanding of human-soil relations.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Soil-focused SSHA research is still emerging, and greater investment is needed to support its growth. We need more studies on the social and economic forces driving soil use—like land ownership laws, financial systems, and cultural beliefs. We also need to understand how people’s relationships with soil have changed over time and what might encourage more sustainable practices today.</p>\n <p>To truly integrate SSHA into soil research, funding models should account for the time and expertise required for transdisciplinary collaboration. SSHA researchers must be seen not just as facilitators but as equal partners in shaping research questions and methodologies. By embracing SSHA perspectives, soil science can move beyond technical solutions and create meaningful, lasting change in how societies care for and interact with the land.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSHA researchers also need a seat at the table when decisions are made about soil research funding and policy. Without their insights, we risk missing the bigger picture—how people, power, and culture shape our land. If we want healthy soils by 2050, we need the SSHA on board.</p>\n <h2>Opportunities for strengthening SSHA in soil research</h2>\n <p>Engaging with the world of soil research is still challenging for SSHA scholars, however, opportunities exist. In addition to the growing number of soil research publications and panels at SSHA conferences, interdisciplinary and SSHA orientated soil research groups are emerging, such as the <a href="http://www.soilcarenetwork.com">Soil Care Network</a>.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>There is a growing presence of SSHA scholars within the natural science communities. The <a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a> annual conference features regular papers by SSHA researchers. By joining the national soil science organisations, or directly the <a href="https://www.iuss.org/">International Union of Soil Sciences</a>, SSHA scholars can participate in the IUSS conference to present their work and network with soil researchers.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>It is also crucial that SSHA is better represented in Horizon Europe programmes overall—something that EASSH is strong advocate for—to address this SSHA researchers should <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert">register as experts in the EU Expert Portal</a>. This way they will be invited to participate in research assessments and processes and thereby increase and professionalise the SSHA presence in European soil research. If you are interested in getting involved in soil research, please contact Anna Krzywoszynska directly.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Kraamwinkel, C.T., Beaulieu, A., Dias, T. et al. Planetary limits to soil degradation. Commun Earth Environ 2, 249 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00323-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00323-3</a></p>\n <p>Marchesi, G. Justus von Liebig Makes the World: Soil Properties and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century. Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308">https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308\u{A0}</a></p>\n <p>Stronge, D.C., Kannemeyer, R.L., Harmsworth, G.R. et al. Achieving soil health in Aotearoa New Zealand through a pluralistic values-based framework: mauri ora ki te whenua, mauri ora ki te tangata. Sustain Sci (2023). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x">https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>More information</h2>\n <p><a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-library/social-sciences-humanities-and-arts-eu-mission-soil-deal-europe">Social sciences, humanities, and the arts in the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe”</a> (publication).\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/">EU Mission Soil</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="http://www.soilcarenetwork.com">Soil Care Network</a></p>\n <p><a href="https://enoll.org/about-us/">ENoLL – European Network of Living Labs</a>: The European Network of Living Labs is the international, non-profit, independent association of certified Living Labs.\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a></p>\n <p><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert">EU Funding & Tenders Portal</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://www.iuss.org">International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)</a></p>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Anna Krzywoszynska is a <a href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anna-krzywoszynska">PhD Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Human-Environment Relations, Department of Anthropology, University of Oulu.</a></em></p>\n <p><em>She is also a <a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/about/mission-board">member of the Advisory Board for Mission Soil</a>, and Lead of the Working Group dedicated to SSHA in Mission Soil.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:3.content" realName: "" documentId: 343 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2>The path ahead for SSHA in soil research</h2>\n <p>SSHA disciplines remain underfunded in environmental research. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101349">Natural sciences receive nearly 770% more funding than social sciences and humanities in environmental studies</a> (Overland & Sovacool, 2019), leaving critical gaps in our understanding of human-soil relations.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Soil-focused SSHA research is still emerging, and greater investment is needed to support its growth. We need more studies on the social and economic forces driving soil use—like land ownership laws, financial systems, and cultural beliefs. We also need to understand how people’s relationships with soil have changed over time and what might encourage more sustainable practices today.</p>\n <p>To truly integrate SSHA into soil research, funding models should account for the time and expertise required for transdisciplinary collaboration. SSHA researchers must be seen not just as facilitators but as equal partners in shaping research questions and methodologies. By embracing SSHA perspectives, soil science can move beyond technical solutions and create meaningful, lasting change in how societies care for and interact with the land.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSHA researchers also need a seat at the table when decisions are made about soil research funding and policy. Without their insights, we risk missing the bigger picture—how people, power, and culture shape our land. If we want healthy soils by 2050, we need the SSHA on board.</p>\n <h2>Opportunities for strengthening SSHA in soil research</h2>\n <p>Engaging with the world of soil research is still challenging for SSHA scholars, however, opportunities exist. In addition to the growing number of soil research publications and panels at SSHA conferences, interdisciplinary and SSHA orientated soil research groups are emerging, such as the <a href="http://www.soilcarenetwork.com">Soil Care Network</a>.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>There is a growing presence of SSHA scholars within the natural science communities. The <a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a> annual conference features regular papers by SSHA researchers. By joining the national soil science organisations, or directly the <a href="https://www.iuss.org/">International Union of Soil Sciences</a>, SSHA scholars can participate in the IUSS conference to present their work and network with soil researchers.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>It is also crucial that SSHA is better represented in Horizon Europe programmes overall—something that EASSH is strong advocate for—to address this SSHA researchers should <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert">register as experts in the EU Expert Portal</a>. This way they will be invited to participate in research assessments and processes and thereby increase and professionalise the SSHA presence in European soil research. If you are interested in getting involved in soil research, please contact Anna Krzywoszynska directly.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Kraamwinkel, C.T., Beaulieu, A., Dias, T. et al. Planetary limits to soil degradation. Commun Earth Environ 2, 249 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00323-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00323-3</a></p>\n <p>Marchesi, G. Justus von Liebig Makes the World: Soil Properties and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century. Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308">https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308\u{A0}</a></p>\n <p>Stronge, D.C., Kannemeyer, R.L., Harmsworth, G.R. et al. Achieving soil health in Aotearoa New Zealand through a pluralistic values-based framework: mauri ora ki te whenua, mauri ora ki te tangata. Sustain Sci (2023). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x">https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>More information</h2>\n <p><a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-library/social-sciences-humanities-and-arts-eu-mission-soil-deal-europe">Social sciences, humanities, and the arts in the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe”</a> (publication).\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/">EU Mission Soil</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="http://www.soilcarenetwork.com">Soil Care Network</a></p>\n <p><a href="https://enoll.org/about-us/">ENoLL – European Network of Living Labs</a>: The European Network of Living Labs is the international, non-profit, independent association of certified Living Labs.\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a></p>\n <p><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert">EU Funding & Tenders Portal</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://www.iuss.org">International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)</a></p>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Anna Krzywoszynska is a <a href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anna-krzywoszynska">PhD Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Human-Environment Relations, Department of Anthropology, University of Oulu.</a></em></p>\n <p><em>She is also a <a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/about/mission-board">member of the Advisory Board for Mission Soil</a>, and Lead of the Working Group dedicated to SSHA in Mission Soil.</em></p> """ } "body:4.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2209 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:4.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 343 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: "<p><img 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#inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <p>But this is not the only reason for ASSH to be central. Business development is a core part of culture just as the cultural and creative industries are a core part of urban and national economic development. Cultural tourism as a component of mass tourism is an especially effective measure, since cultural tourists who stay overnight spend some 35% more than the average tourist. In this context, the fact that France has almost twice the proportion of cultural tourists of some jurisdictions and Austria more still brings a significant economic boost, in Austria’s case €30bn GVA as long ago as 2014, with tourism and leisure 10% of Viennese city region GVA (see Pillswatch, 2014). Austrian research into the economic impact of Mozart carried out twenty years ago has helped to make the country as a whole-and Salzburg and Vienna in particular-one of the most sophisticated historic branding operations in the world, creating-by 2019- 15% of the national economy for tourist-related activities (see Usner, 2011).</p>\n <p>But cultural, creative and economic research does not only create high-end tourism and the upmarket retail that goes with it and the heart of Europe’s major cities: it creates new industries.\u{A0}<a href="https://www.excurio.com/">Excurio</a> – responsible for ‘Tonight with the Impressionists’ at the Museé D’Orsay (2024), has very rapidly taken some €50M in ticket sales and associated revenue from 3 million visitors for its cultural heritage experiences – nor is it alone. The <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/museumsmetaverse/">MuseumsintheMetaverse</a> project, funded by Innovate UK with a total value of €7.5M is one of the selected projects for the Digital Cultural Heritage World Congress and Expo in Siena in September.\u{A0} The UK’s recently released industrial strategy- which includes €120M for research funding for the creative industries, with commercialization support-notes:</p>\n <blockquote>\n <p>The Creative Industries sector already acts as a dynamic growth engine for our economy across the UK’s nations and regions, contributing 2.4 million jobs and £124 billion GVA to the economy, generating knowledge spillovers that drive innovation.<br /><br />(See Rt Hon Lisa Nandy, Ministerial Foreword to UK Government, 2025 p. 4)</p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>Much of this comes through conventional industry routes, but some of it-as revealed by the 2018 Economic Value of Heritage study- makes better urban planning possible by undertaking research on the gravitational value of heritage, the financial benefits that can be leveraged through cathedrals, galleries and even less or intangible heritage such as food and festivals, bringing in income even through the humblest regional food and fruit, such as Calçotada’s January onion festival. While short festivals bring little net economic benefit, longer ones are important contributors. The development of the Hong Kong Creativity Index (<a href="https://www.cea.or.th/storage/app/media/creative%20economy%20review/CEA-OUTLOOK-03-EN.pdf">HKCI</a>) more than twenty years ago indicates the centrality of research, development and innovation in these areas in one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world (see Lawton et al, 2018).</p>\n <p>ASSH research also support European concerns on security and defence. Historical research is extremely important in predicting the cultural behaviours and framing of states and cultures. The very notion of Europe itself, the history and friability of its states and the causes and effects of migration are all central to historical study. From the study of comparative efficiencies in re-arming and procurement to understanding the cultural targets of cybersecurity-the British Library is a major recent victim of cyberattack-ASSH research is focused, effective and necessary in evaluating the competing stories of Europe inside Europe itself. The work of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs (<a href="https://scga.scot/">SCGA</a>) is illuminating in this regard.</p>\n <p>As the American urbanist Richard Florida points out in The Rise of the Creative Class, it is the ludic aspects of cities that support their growth (see Florida, 2019 [2002]). Culture and Creative Industry innovation is a central part of the most economically successful cities internationally. Of course we know this: Europe is – on one level – European culture. But it is possible to take this for granted, and to think it is not worth researching or understanding the stories we tell ourselves, because they will always be there. Yet they are always changing too, and they also stand in the way of change, whether that recommended by the Draghi Report or more broadly necessary to drive innovation and agility, and to perfect the European market in services to the same standard as that enjoyed by goods. In Design, in Digital, in Economics, in History, in Urban Studies and elsewhere, ASSH tells us what no other fields of study can, and tell us too why science and innovation can fail to prosper. In his classic Diffusion of Innovations, first published in 1961, Everett Rogers used as a case study the 150 years it took the Royal Navy to implement research on scurvy. People are part of every research question, and often culture stops the answers being heard. ASSH is a key part of changing that and making the world we want to see in Europe.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Pillswatch, M (2014), ‘Developing a Theoretical Model for the Functions of cultural anniversary years in city marketing: A grounded approach using two case studies from Vienna’, Newcastle: University of Northumbria.</p>\n <p>Usner E M (2011), ‘”The Condition of Mozart”’: Mozart Year 2006 and the New Vienna’, Ethnomusicology Forum 23: 413-42.</p>\n <p>Lawton R et al (2018), The Economic Value of Heritage, (London: Nesta).</p>\n <p>Florida, R (2019 [2002]), The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books).</p>\n <p>UK Government (2025), Industrial Strategy: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creative-industries-sector-plan">Creative Industries Sector Plan</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Professor Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is a board member of EASSH, co-chair of the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance and a board member and past chair of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs defence and foreign policy think tank. He is an institutional panellist for the People, Culture and Environment pilot in the UK Research Excellence Framework, authored the Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy report for the Scottish Government, and held the first Arts Industry Day in UK Higher Education in 2013, with 90 external industry partners. He is Pro Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 354 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1856} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>But this is not the only reason for ASSH to be central. Business development is a core part of culture just as the cultural and creative industries are a core part of urban and national economic development. Cultural tourism as a component of mass tourism is an especially effective measure, since cultural tourists who stay overnight spend some 35% more than the average tourist. In this context, the fact that France has almost twice the proportion of cultural tourists of some jurisdictions and Austria more still brings a significant economic boost, in Austria’s case €30bn GVA as long ago as 2014, with tourism and leisure 10% of Viennese city region GVA (see Pillswatch, 2014). Austrian research into the economic impact of Mozart carried out twenty years ago has helped to make the country as a whole-and Salzburg and Vienna in particular-one of the most sophisticated historic branding operations in the world, creating-by 2019- 15% of the national economy for tourist-related activities (see Usner, 2011).</p>\n <p>But cultural, creative and economic research does not only create high-end tourism and the upmarket retail that goes with it and the heart of Europe’s major cities: it creates new industries.\u{A0}<a href="https://www.excurio.com/">Excurio</a> – responsible for ‘Tonight with the Impressionists’ at the Museé D’Orsay (2024), has very rapidly taken some €50M in ticket sales and associated revenue from 3 million visitors for its cultural heritage experiences – nor is it alone. The <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/museumsmetaverse/">MuseumsintheMetaverse</a> project, funded by Innovate UK with a total value of €7.5M is one of the selected projects for the Digital Cultural Heritage World Congress and Expo in Siena in September.\u{A0} The UK’s recently released industrial strategy- which includes €120M for research funding for the creative industries, with commercialization support-notes:</p>\n <blockquote>\n <p>The Creative Industries sector already acts as a dynamic growth engine for our economy across the UK’s nations and regions, contributing 2.4 million jobs and £124 billion GVA to the economy, generating knowledge spillovers that drive innovation.<br /><br />(See Rt Hon Lisa Nandy, Ministerial Foreword to UK Government, 2025 p. 4)</p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>Much of this comes through conventional industry routes, but some of it-as revealed by the 2018 Economic Value of Heritage study- makes better urban planning possible by undertaking research on the gravitational value of heritage, the financial benefits that can be leveraged through cathedrals, galleries and even less or intangible heritage such as food and festivals, bringing in income even through the humblest regional food and fruit, such as Calçotada’s January onion festival. While short festivals bring little net economic benefit, longer ones are important contributors. The development of the Hong Kong Creativity Index (<a href="https://www.cea.or.th/storage/app/media/creative%20economy%20review/CEA-OUTLOOK-03-EN.pdf">HKCI</a>) more than twenty years ago indicates the centrality of research, development and innovation in these areas in one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world (see Lawton et al, 2018).</p>\n <p>ASSH research also support European concerns on security and defence. Historical research is extremely important in predicting the cultural behaviours and framing of states and cultures. The very notion of Europe itself, the history and friability of its states and the causes and effects of migration are all central to historical study. From the study of comparative efficiencies in re-arming and procurement to understanding the cultural targets of cybersecurity-the British Library is a major recent victim of cyberattack-ASSH research is focused, effective and necessary in evaluating the competing stories of Europe inside Europe itself. The work of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs (<a href="https://scga.scot/">SCGA</a>) is illuminating in this regard.</p>\n <p>As the American urbanist Richard Florida points out in The Rise of the Creative Class, it is the ludic aspects of cities that support their growth (see Florida, 2019 [2002]). Culture and Creative Industry innovation is a central part of the most economically successful cities internationally. Of course we know this: Europe is – on one level – European culture. But it is possible to take this for granted, and to think it is not worth researching or understanding the stories we tell ourselves, because they will always be there. Yet they are always changing too, and they also stand in the way of change, whether that recommended by the Draghi Report or more broadly necessary to drive innovation and agility, and to perfect the European market in services to the same standard as that enjoyed by goods. In Design, in Digital, in Economics, in History, in Urban Studies and elsewhere, ASSH tells us what no other fields of study can, and tell us too why science and innovation can fail to prosper. In his classic Diffusion of Innovations, first published in 1961, Everett Rogers used as a case study the 150 years it took the Royal Navy to implement research on scurvy. People are part of every research question, and often culture stops the answers being heard. ASSH is a key part of changing that and making the world we want to see in Europe.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Pillswatch, M (2014), ‘Developing a Theoretical Model for the Functions of cultural anniversary years in city marketing: A grounded approach using two case studies from Vienna’, Newcastle: University of Northumbria.</p>\n <p>Usner E M (2011), ‘”The Condition of Mozart”’: Mozart Year 2006 and the New Vienna’, Ethnomusicology Forum 23: 413-42.</p>\n <p>Lawton R et al (2018), The Economic Value of Heritage, (London: Nesta).</p>\n <p>Florida, R (2019 [2002]), The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books).</p>\n <p>UK Government (2025), Industrial Strategy: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creative-industries-sector-plan">Creative Industries Sector Plan</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Professor Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is a board member of EASSH, co-chair of the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance and a board member and past chair of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs defence and foreign policy think tank. He is an institutional panellist for the People, Culture and Environment pilot in the UK Research Excellence Framework, authored the Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy report for the Scottish Government, and held the first Arts Industry Day in UK Higher Education in 2013, with 90 external industry partners. 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And yet. The tenor of recent discussion and keynote reports such as Draghi is that aspects of culture have to change: greater flexibility, innovation and adaptation are needed. How does it make sense for culture to be a priority for change and to simultaneously marginalize research into culture ? People are part of every research question, and as is more than evident from the politics of the West today, their culture is not always to respond to evidence, but to sympathy and belief. To take only one example, how societies accept the need for action on climate change is a very important part of how the effectiveness of carbon reducing research is measured. A culture of disbelief or resistance is an obstacle.\u{A0}</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:3.content" realName: "" documentId: 354 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1856} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>There is a great deal of emphasis on mobility, flexibility, innovation and adaptation in the Framework principles of FP10, but much less security on how the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (ASSH) will be accommodated in the Programme, and whether their distinct contributions will be clearly highlighted.</p>\n <p>This is on one level understandable: the drive towards innovation, AI, scalable commercialization, improving comparative growth and developing defence technology are all areas in which ASSH fields of research appear marginal. And yet. The tenor of recent discussion and keynote reports such as Draghi is that aspects of culture have to change: greater flexibility, innovation and adaptation are needed. How does it make sense for culture to be a priority for change and to simultaneously marginalize research into culture ? People are part of every research question, and as is more than evident from the politics of the West today, their culture is not always to respond to evidence, but to sympathy and belief. To take only one example, how societies accept the need for action on climate change is a very important part of how the effectiveness of carbon reducing research is measured. 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attacks faced by SSH. And wrongly designed security policies can endanger academic freedom and the integrity and success of research. I argue for a new perspective on knowledge security, sensitive to SSH, that can inspire other fields. \u{A0}</p>\n <p>Europe should consider a charter for free and secure SSH research. This could provide the basis for a robust framework to ensure knowledge security, guaranteeing the freedom and positive societal impact of research across all disciplines.</p>\n <h2><strong>From openness to security – a shift in European research policy </strong></h2>\n <p>Ten years ago, Commissioner Moedas summarised his vision as: Open Innovation, Open Science and Openness to the World. These times feel long gone. The Commission’s 2025 <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">strategic foresight report</a> describes security as “a key vector for all EU policies”.\u{A0} \u{A0}President von der Leyen's <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/833e082a-0c39-4bc6-a119-e0760ebc7360_en?filename=mission-letter-zaharieva.pdf">mission letter to Commissioner Zaharieva</a>, instructs her “to work to strengthen our research security”:\u{A0} a profound policy shift that can affect the cultural foundations of research in Europe.</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 361 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>A narrow concept of security overlooks potential and real attacks faced by SSH. And wrongly designed security policies can endanger academic freedom and the integrity and success of research. I argue for a new perspective on knowledge security, sensitive to SSH, that can inspire other fields. \u{A0}</p>\n <p>Europe should consider a charter for free and secure SSH research. This could provide the basis for a robust framework to ensure knowledge security, guaranteeing the freedom and positive societal impact of research across all disciplines.</p>\n <h2><strong>From openness to security – a shift in European research policy </strong></h2>\n <p>Ten years ago, Commissioner Moedas summarised his vision as: Open Innovation, Open Science and Openness to the World. These times feel long gone. The Commission’s 2025 <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">strategic foresight report</a> describes security as “a key vector for all EU policies”.\u{A0} \u{A0}President von der Leyen's <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/833e082a-0c39-4bc6-a119-e0760ebc7360_en?filename=mission-letter-zaharieva.pdf">mission letter to Commissioner Zaharieva</a>, instructs her “to work to strengthen our research security”:\u{A0} a profound policy shift that can affect the cultural foundations of research in Europe.</p> """ } "body:2.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2376 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:2.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 361 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2><strong>Why knowledge security matters for SSH researchers</strong></h2>\n <p>According to the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">2024 EU Council recommendations</a>, knowledge security refers to protection against unauthorised knowledge transfer, foreign interference, and research that violates fundamental values.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSH researchers often encounter attempts to distort, exploit and suppress their work, including travel bans, withdrawal of funding, and exclusion from collaborations. Researchers and their families may even face threats to their freedom or personal and physical well-being. Scholars at Risk recently published the <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">Free To Think report</a> on attacks on Higher Education, which includes a significant proportion of SSH-related incidents. The <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/content_files/file/ar/25.pdf">Network of Concerned Historians</a> tracks <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/hb/introduction.pdf">worrying trends</a> in the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists worldwide.</p>\n <p>This is because SSH research often has a direct impact on politics. A <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/15/these-197-terms-may-trigger-reviews-of-your-nih-nsf-grant-proposals/">leaked list</a> of 197 “risky terms” in US NSF and NIH grant reviews – including “polarisation” or “trauma” – showed entire fields under threat. In Europe, too, we saw the <a href="https://www.ibanet.org/article/58bd55a0-243d-4fde-818d-1a300f2bd188">expulsion of the Central European University</a> as politically undesirable. There is a worrying <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">surge of transnational repression </a>\u{A0}threatening research even in Europe. At stake are fundamental values: academic freedom and human dignity – principles that are universal, non-negotiable and central to the European project.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2><strong>The double-edged sword of SSH knowledge</strong></h2>\n <p>Besides direct attempts to suppress research and researchers, the European Council text also considers the misuse of knowledge a security risk. This is particularly relevant in the SSH. Understanding an “opponent’s” culture can promote dialogue – or can be weaponised. Researching village dynamics can inform public health campaigns or identify military targets. Interpreting historical narratives can foster reconciliation – or justify war. None of this is new: anthropology evolved to serve the needs of colonial powers, theology justified the power of the church, and historiography reinforced the nation-state.</p>\n <p>This does not mean that SSH have failed ethically; the exploitation of their work by external actors can happen without their direct involvement or consent. Facing political manipulation, commercial capture, or transnational repression as a systemic problem is an old challenge for SSH. However, its response needs to be adapted to new technological, societal, and geopolitical dynamics.</p>\n <h2><strong>Learning from the Past: Developing ethical boundaries</strong></h2>\n <p>The 20<sup>th</sup> century saw an increased awareness of this grimmer side of research. The Project Camelot scandal in the mid-1960s, of anthropologists involved in counterinsurgency efforts, led the American Anthropological Association to establish guidelines prohibiting the military use of their research. Other fields, such as psychology or sociology, followed with their own codes, showing an increased sense of self-responsibility. Such guidelines cannot prevent all misuse – especially as technologies evolve and research becomes increasingly interdisciplinary. \u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>STEM disciplines have long faced this dilemma. Abuses in fields like nuclear research or biosecurity can pose existential threats to humanity and have led to robust frameworks to prevent abuse, while ensuring that the research endeavours are not needlessly hampered by the security environment. The considerations are relatively new in the SSH and offer new opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation – exchanging experiences and perspectives from STEM and SSH – and working together to, more effectively and holistically, address the knowledge security challenges.</p>\n <p>Across Europe, leading academic and university organisations have repeatedly stressed that research security must not come at the expense of academic freedom or institutional autonomy. Building on these shared principles, Europe should now take the next step: a Charter for free and secure SSH research.</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:2.content" realName: "" documentId: 361 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2><strong>Why knowledge security matters for SSH researchers</strong></h2>\n <p>According to the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">2024 EU Council recommendations</a>, knowledge security refers to protection against unauthorised knowledge transfer, foreign interference, and research that violates fundamental values.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSH researchers often encounter attempts to distort, exploit and suppress their work, including travel bans, withdrawal of funding, and exclusion from collaborations. Researchers and their families may even face threats to their freedom or personal and physical well-being. Scholars at Risk recently published the <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">Free To Think report</a> on attacks on Higher Education, which includes a significant proportion of SSH-related incidents. The <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/content_files/file/ar/25.pdf">Network of Concerned Historians</a> tracks <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/hb/introduction.pdf">worrying trends</a> in the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists worldwide.</p>\n <p>This is because SSH research often has a direct impact on politics. A <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/15/these-197-terms-may-trigger-reviews-of-your-nih-nsf-grant-proposals/">leaked list</a> of 197 “risky terms” in US NSF and NIH grant reviews – including “polarisation” or “trauma” – showed entire fields under threat. In Europe, too, we saw the <a href="https://www.ibanet.org/article/58bd55a0-243d-4fde-818d-1a300f2bd188">expulsion of the Central European University</a> as politically undesirable. There is a worrying <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">surge of transnational repression </a>\u{A0}threatening research even in Europe. At stake are fundamental values: academic freedom and human dignity – principles that are universal, non-negotiable and central to the European project.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2><strong>The double-edged sword of SSH knowledge</strong></h2>\n <p>Besides direct attempts to suppress research and researchers, the European Council text also considers the misuse of knowledge a security risk. This is particularly relevant in the SSH. Understanding an “opponent’s” culture can promote dialogue – or can be weaponised. Researching village dynamics can inform public health campaigns or identify military targets. Interpreting historical narratives can foster reconciliation – or justify war. None of this is new: anthropology evolved to serve the needs of colonial powers, theology justified the power of the church, and historiography reinforced the nation-state.</p>\n <p>This does not mean that SSH have failed ethically; the exploitation of their work by external actors can happen without their direct involvement or consent. Facing political manipulation, commercial capture, or transnational repression as a systemic problem is an old challenge for SSH. However, its response needs to be adapted to new technological, societal, and geopolitical dynamics.</p>\n <h2><strong>Learning from the Past: Developing ethical boundaries</strong></h2>\n <p>The 20<sup>th</sup> century saw an increased awareness of this grimmer side of research. The Project Camelot scandal in the mid-1960s, of anthropologists involved in counterinsurgency efforts, led the American Anthropological Association to establish guidelines prohibiting the military use of their research. Other fields, such as psychology or sociology, followed with their own codes, showing an increased sense of self-responsibility. Such guidelines cannot prevent all misuse – especially as technologies evolve and research becomes increasingly interdisciplinary. \u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>STEM disciplines have long faced this dilemma. Abuses in fields like nuclear research or biosecurity can pose existential threats to humanity and have led to robust frameworks to prevent abuse, while ensuring that the research endeavours are not needlessly hampered by the security environment. The considerations are relatively new in the SSH and offer new opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation – exchanging experiences and perspectives from STEM and SSH – and working together to, more effectively and holistically, address the knowledge security challenges.</p>\n <p>Across Europe, leading academic and university organisations have repeatedly stressed that research security must not come at the expense of academic freedom or institutional autonomy. Building on these shared principles, Europe should now take the next step: a Charter for free and secure SSH research.</p> """ } "body:3.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2283 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:3.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 361 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2><strong>Towards a European Charter for free and secure SSH research</strong></h2>\n <p>External pressures and misuse pose threats to both the security and value of research. \u{A0}Safeguards are needed but must not damage the very research they aim to protect. For historians, security means access to archives – even where these contradict dominant narratives. For political scientists, it means talking to colleagues across borders – particularly between nations in conflict. 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It could involve member states, the European Commission, funders, universities, and dedicated organisations already in place, such as Scholars at Risk and their <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/partner-networks">partner networks.</a></p>\n <p>Protection could include training modules to help researchers detect manipulation and subtle pressures, ombuds offices to advise in “red flag” cases, and legal safeguards protecting sources.</p>\n <h3>3. Clear limits against misuse</h3>\n <p>Using SSH for repression, disinformation, or surveillance is incompatible with academic integrity. The charter should encourage ethics committees, institutions, and funders to include this dimension in their <strong>risk assessments</strong>. Further safeguards should include <strong>legal protections</strong> e.g., against surveillance or censorship, for academic freedom, and institutional autonomy. Institutional funding mechanisms must consider the additional investment required.</p>\n <h3>4. Forward-looking governance and policymaking</h3>\n <p>Knowledge security policies can affect SSH, even if they are not explicitly targeted at it. <strong>SSH researchers and their representatives must be involved in the development of knowledge security policies across the board, </strong>including<strong> </strong>new political and technological developments, such as data access for AI. Current EU efforts, such as the European AI office, require a strong involvement of SSH researchers. \u{A0}</p>\n <h3>5. Research for peace and security</h3>\n <p>With its strong focus on culture and society, SSH are crucial for building trust and peace. To fully exploit the potential of SSH, Europe needs to invest in it. Currently, funding for peace-related research – such as in the context of development assistance or for dedicated institutes – is declining. To make the world and Europe more secure, this must be reversed, and future funding, including the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), must strengthen<strong> peace-related research</strong>.</p>\n <h3>6. A European observatory</h3>\n <p>To ensure these principles are not empty words and to coordinate efforts, an independent body should be established <strong>to monitor how security measures affect SSH and other research areas</strong>. Such an observatory could collect cases, issue early warnings, and provide advice to policymakers, universities, funders and other institutions. It could also serve as a central knowledge hub, providing data on issues such as ethical risk assessment and foreign influence.</p>\n <p>A European Charter could enhance knowledge security, promote peace and dialogue, and safeguard the quality and value of SSH.</p>\n <p><strong>By adopting such a Charter, Europe would not only strengthen its security but also reaffirm its commitment to democracy, freedom and the values that must serve as its foundation.\u{A0}</strong></p>\n <h2>Further reading and background information:</h2>\n <ul>\n <li>STIP Compass: OECD portal on research security. <a href="https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal">https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal</a></li>\n <li>Scholars at Risk: Free To Think Report 2025. <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/</a></li>\n <li>Network of Concerned Historians: 2025 Annual report. <a href="http://https/www.concernedhistorians.org">http://https://www.concernedhistorians.org</a></li>\n <li>Inspireurope+ Briefing on Transnational Repression and Academic Freedom. <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2025). Strategic Foresight Report 2025 – Securing Europe’s Future in a Changing World.<br /><a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en</a></li>\n <li>Deutscher Wissenschaftsrat (2025): Science and security in times of global political upheaval. <a href="https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en">https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2024). Council Recommendation on Enhancing Research Security. <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510</a></li>\n <li>ALLEA: Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States. <a href="https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/">https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/</a></li>\n <li>European University Association (2023). How universities can protect and promote academic freedom. <span>Brussels. </span><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"><span>https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html</span></a><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"></a></li>\n </ul>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Dr Alexander Hasgall is an independent expert in international research policy and higher education. He also acts as Senior Adviser to the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). Previously, he was Head of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education and led the International Funding Policy Unit at the Swiss National Science Foundation. He holds a doctorate in Latin American History from the University of Zurich.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:3.content" realName: "" documentId: 361 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2><strong>Towards a European Charter for free and secure SSH research</strong></h2>\n <p>External pressures and misuse pose threats to both the security and value of research. \u{A0}Safeguards are needed but must not damage the very research they aim to protect. For historians, security means access to archives – even where these contradict dominant narratives. For political scientists, it means talking to colleagues across borders – particularly between nations in conflict. For researchers investigating political and social dynamics, it means having access to social media platforms and other digital channels. Poorly designed knowledge security policies that hinder mobility and restrict free access to relevant resources become a security risk themselves.</p>\n <p>With knowledge security at the heart of European research policies, common principles and mechanisms should protect the roles and value of SSH. A first step could be the development of a European charter on SSH and knowledge security. Building such a Charter could bring stakeholders together around a shared approach. Developed through a deliberative process, it could include the following:</p>\n <h3>1. Openness as the foundation of knowledge itself</h3>\n <p>Cross-border exchange and thematic openness are at the heart of scholarship and must not be treated primarily as risk factors. All security-related measures – from visa policies to archival access – must be <strong>evaluated for their impact on research</strong>, with openness as a default. Any exceptions must be transparent and justified. Measures to strengthen research security must be designed so that they respect and uphold academic freedom and institutional autonomy.</p>\n <h3>2. Effective protection mechanisms</h3>\n <p>Scholars in sensitive areas need more than moral support. A <strong>European emergency mechanism</strong> could provide concrete and swift assistance: legal advice, safe mobility, psychological support, and the ability to continue research under threat. It could involve member states, the European Commission, funders, universities, and dedicated organisations already in place, such as Scholars at Risk and their <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/partner-networks">partner networks.</a></p>\n <p>Protection could include training modules to help researchers detect manipulation and subtle pressures, ombuds offices to advise in “red flag” cases, and legal safeguards protecting sources.</p>\n <h3>3. Clear limits against misuse</h3>\n <p>Using SSH for repression, disinformation, or surveillance is incompatible with academic integrity. The charter should encourage ethics committees, institutions, and funders to include this dimension in their <strong>risk assessments</strong>. Further safeguards should include <strong>legal protections</strong> e.g., against surveillance or censorship, for academic freedom, and institutional autonomy. Institutional funding mechanisms must consider the additional investment required.</p>\n <h3>4. Forward-looking governance and policymaking</h3>\n <p>Knowledge security policies can affect SSH, even if they are not explicitly targeted at it. <strong>SSH researchers and their representatives must be involved in the development of knowledge security policies across the board, </strong>including<strong> </strong>new political and technological developments, such as data access for AI. Current EU efforts, such as the European AI office, require a strong involvement of SSH researchers. \u{A0}</p>\n <h3>5. Research for peace and security</h3>\n <p>With its strong focus on culture and society, SSH are crucial for building trust and peace. To fully exploit the potential of SSH, Europe needs to invest in it. Currently, funding for peace-related research – such as in the context of development assistance or for dedicated institutes – is declining. To make the world and Europe more secure, this must be reversed, and future funding, including the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), must strengthen<strong> peace-related research</strong>.</p>\n <h3>6. A European observatory</h3>\n <p>To ensure these principles are not empty words and to coordinate efforts, an independent body should be established <strong>to monitor how security measures affect SSH and other research areas</strong>. Such an observatory could collect cases, issue early warnings, and provide advice to policymakers, universities, funders and other institutions. It could also serve as a central knowledge hub, providing data on issues such as ethical risk assessment and foreign influence.</p>\n <p>A European Charter could enhance knowledge security, promote peace and dialogue, and safeguard the quality and value of SSH.</p>\n <p><strong>By adopting such a Charter, Europe would not only strengthen its security but also reaffirm its commitment to democracy, freedom and the values that must serve as its foundation.\u{A0}</strong></p>\n <h2>Further reading and background information:</h2>\n <ul>\n <li>STIP Compass: OECD portal on research security. <a href="https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal">https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal</a></li>\n <li>Scholars at Risk: Free To Think Report 2025. <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/</a></li>\n <li>Network of Concerned Historians: 2025 Annual report. <a href="http://https/www.concernedhistorians.org">http://https://www.concernedhistorians.org</a></li>\n <li>Inspireurope+ Briefing on Transnational Repression and Academic Freedom. <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2025). Strategic Foresight Report 2025 – Securing Europe’s Future in a Changing World.<br /><a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en</a></li>\n <li>Deutscher Wissenschaftsrat (2025): Science and security in times of global political upheaval. <a href="https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en">https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2024). Council Recommendation on Enhancing Research Security. <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510</a></li>\n <li>ALLEA: Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States. <a href="https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/">https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/</a></li>\n <li>European University Association (2023). How universities can protect and promote academic freedom. <span>Brussels. </span><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"><span>https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html</span></a><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"></a></li>\n </ul>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Dr Alexander Hasgall is an independent expert in international research policy and higher education. He also acts as Senior Adviser to the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). Previously, he was Head of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education and led the International Funding Policy Unit at the Swiss National Science Foundation. 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The power of the metaphor is such that it is often wrongly assumed that there is agreement on what it is and what needs to be done.</p>\n <h2>The problem-focussed knowledge industry of the 1990’s</h2>\n <p>Towards the end of the 20th century interdisciplinary, so called <a href="https://content.ub.hu-berlin.de/monographs/toc/hochschulwesen/BV009799040.pdf">“mode 2”</a> research emerged as a “problem focussed” knowledge industry, distinct from traditional disciplinary science. “Mode 2” research was a great success with politicians and science funding agencies, who fuelled its growth as an answer to <a href="https://www.vr.se/download/18.3936818b16e6f40bd3e5cd/1574173799722/Lund%20Declaration%202009.pdf">grand societal challenges</a>.</p>\n <p>The integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) was seen as an important element of this answer. Problem oriented project-funding programmes, including the SSH, have continued to grow, sometimes surpassing discipline-based institutional research funding.</p>\n <h2>Grand challenges and misplaced expectations</h2>\n <p>More than a quarter of a century later the grand challenges are growing and it is clear that some of the expectations around “mode 2” research were misplaced. That a problem cannot be solved without interdisciplinary cooperation, does not mean that interdisciplinary cooperation will necessarily solve it. Programmatic ambitions for grand designs to solve societal challenges would seem to be subject to Anderson’s (2014, p 379) warning:</p>\n <p>“The history of politics is littered with attempts to realize imagined utopias that turned out badly, not just because of unforeseen consequences, but because anticipated consequences that people imagined would be wonderful were experienced as horrible in real life” .</p>\n <p>And while interdisciplinary research projects offer a space to deliberate the nature of the problems associated with grand societal challenges, participants were often frustrated by how the deliberation and cooperation was conducted and how the rewards were distributed (Viseu 2015).</p>\n <h2>Towards appropriate integration of SSH</h2>\n <p>There have now been more than 30 years of experience with “mode 2” recipes at the European level, starting from the Key Actions of FP5. Yet, “<a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/horizon-europe/viewpoint-we-need-blueprint-integrating-social-sciences-and-humanities-eu">a blueprint for SSH integration</a>” is still looked for, to help with producing effective R&I programmes. There is more agreement that appropriate integration of SSH is an important aspect of this, than on what appropriate integration is and how to go about it.</p>\n <h2>Integration and discrimination</h2>\n <p>In the social sciences integration is often discussed in relation to discrimination. It is sometimes seen as a cure for discrimination problems and sometimes as a smoke-screen concealing such problems. This unresolved discussion, often involving important ethical questions about identity and individuality, is found across the social sciences, and has had considerable influence on the development of their institutions (see Manicas 2003).</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>The integration of SSH in EU R&I policy has been a longstanding demand of the research community, which has been gaining traction in European Framework Programmes. The power of the metaphor is such that it is often wrongly assumed that there is agreement on what it is and what needs to be done.</p>\n <h2>The problem-focussed knowledge industry of the 1990’s</h2>\n <p>Towards the end of the 20th century interdisciplinary, so called <a href="https://content.ub.hu-berlin.de/monographs/toc/hochschulwesen/BV009799040.pdf">“mode 2”</a> research emerged as a “problem focussed” knowledge industry, distinct from traditional disciplinary science. “Mode 2” research was a great success with politicians and science funding agencies, who fuelled its growth as an answer to <a href="https://www.vr.se/download/18.3936818b16e6f40bd3e5cd/1574173799722/Lund%20Declaration%202009.pdf">grand societal challenges</a>.</p>\n <p>The integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) was seen as an important element of this answer. Problem oriented project-funding programmes, including the SSH, have continued to grow, sometimes surpassing discipline-based institutional research funding.</p>\n <h2>Grand challenges and misplaced expectations</h2>\n <p>More than a quarter of a century later the grand challenges are growing and it is clear that some of the expectations around “mode 2” research were misplaced. That a problem cannot be solved without interdisciplinary cooperation, does not mean that interdisciplinary cooperation will necessarily solve it. Programmatic ambitions for grand designs to solve societal challenges would seem to be subject to Anderson’s (2014, p 379) warning:</p>\n <p>“The history of politics is littered with attempts to realize imagined utopias that turned out badly, not just because of unforeseen consequences, but because anticipated consequences that people imagined would be wonderful were experienced as horrible in real life” .</p>\n <p>And while interdisciplinary research projects offer a space to deliberate the nature of the problems associated with grand societal challenges, participants were often frustrated by how the deliberation and cooperation was conducted and how the rewards were distributed (Viseu 2015).</p>\n <h2>Towards appropriate integration of SSH</h2>\n <p>There have now been more than 30 years of experience with “mode 2” recipes at the European level, starting from the Key Actions of FP5. Yet, “<a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/horizon-europe/viewpoint-we-need-blueprint-integrating-social-sciences-and-humanities-eu">a blueprint for SSH integration</a>” is still looked for, to help with producing effective R&I programmes. There is more agreement that appropriate integration of SSH is an important aspect of this, than on what appropriate integration is and how to go about it.</p>\n <h2>Integration and discrimination</h2>\n <p>In the social sciences integration is often discussed in relation to discrimination. It is sometimes seen as a cure for discrimination problems and sometimes as a smoke-screen concealing such problems. This unresolved discussion, often involving important ethical questions about identity and individuality, is found across the social sciences, and has had considerable influence on the development of their institutions (see Manicas 2003).</p> """ } "body:10.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2265 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:10.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2>Making soup: chemical integrationmetaphors</h2>\n <p>In chemistry, elements integrate in new substances with different structures and functions. Integration involves energy.\u{A0} Think of making soup by placing different ingredients in boiling water. Some original\u{A0} components may be more discernible than others. Pieces of meat or vegetables could be visible while the presence of salt and spices may be discernible only through taste.</p>\n <p>The soup is an influential metaphor in social integration policies.\u{A0} Migrants are placed in\u{A0} communities, where they are expected to integrate with the help of external energy provided by social services.\u{A0} The success of such policies is analogous to the energy put into them.\u{A0} Canada, where governments put a lot of effort in migrant integration, is considered a success case: a relatively harmonious multicultural society with low incidence of racial and social discrimination (Ali et al 2021).</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:10.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2>Making soup: chemical integrationmetaphors</h2>\n <p>In chemistry, elements integrate in new substances with different structures and functions. 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Pieces of meat or vegetables could be visible while the presence of salt and spices may be discernible only through taste.</p>\n <p>The soup is an influential metaphor in social integration policies.\u{A0} Migrants are placed in\u{A0} communities, where they are expected to integrate with the help of external energy provided by social services.\u{A0} The success of such policies is analogous to the energy put into them.\u{A0} Canada, where governments put a lot of effort in migrant integration, is considered a success case: a relatively harmonious multicultural society with low incidence of racial and social discrimination (Ali et al 2021).</p> """ } "body:11.caption" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Input {#2373 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:11.caption" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: "" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:11.caption" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: "" } "body:11.image" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Image {#2021 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:11.image" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #id: 736 #alt: "" #image: null #cropPercent: false #cropWidth: 0.0 #cropHeight: 0.0 #cropTop: 0.0 #cropLeft: 0.0 #hotspots: [] #marker: [] #thumbnail: "bodyMain" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:11.image" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null id: 736 alt: "" image: null cropPercent: false cropWidth: 0.0 cropHeight: 0.0 cropTop: 0.0 cropLeft: 0.0 hotspots: [] marker: [] thumbnail: "bodyMain" } "body:5.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2323 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:5.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2>Integration as puzzle-solving</h2>\n <p>Underestimating such ethical issues, integration of SSH in “problem-focussed research” is often portrayed as contributing to a puzzle, in which components fit neatly together in a coherent whole. Such is the conception of much of the project-based integration, including programmes on ethical, legal and social aspects of technology.</p>\n <p>For example, through carbon dating, chemistry becomes a tool in archaeology helping in debates about timing. Yet, SSH integration rarely offers closure in debates within STEM disciplines. SSH researchers often object to playing such service roles in the pursuits of engineers and demand important roles in the definition of the basic parameters of the solutions to be developed (Bruce et al 2004, Vienni Baptista et al 2020)</p>\n <h2>Biological integration metaphors</h2>\n <p>A wide array of fruitful processes of integration can be found in biology. Procreation – planting the seeds of new thinking – is a good metaphor for processes of interaction amongst SSH disciplines. Infection - a virus integrating into a cell, turning it into a virus producing factory – also has value. I am thinking about social innovation and social movements associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">Commons Based Peer production</a> where engineers adopt new, different ways of working towards important social and cultural purposes. Such ideas are at the heart of the post-growth movement’s view of how to pursue appropriate science and technology, exactly because it is focussed on the reproduction of social norms and values and not on the production of economic growth (Kerschner, et al (2018), Hickel et al (2022)).</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:5.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2>Integration as puzzle-solving</h2>\n <p>Underestimating such ethical issues, integration of SSH in “problem-focussed research” is often portrayed as contributing to a puzzle, in which components fit neatly together in a coherent whole. Such is the conception of much of the project-based integration, including programmes on ethical, legal and social aspects of technology.</p>\n <p>For example, through carbon dating, chemistry becomes a tool in archaeology helping in debates about timing. Yet, SSH integration rarely offers closure in debates within STEM disciplines. SSH researchers often object to playing such service roles in the pursuits of engineers and demand important roles in the definition of the basic parameters of the solutions to be developed (Bruce et al 2004, Vienni Baptista et al 2020)</p>\n <h2>Biological integration metaphors</h2>\n <p>A wide array of fruitful processes of integration can be found in biology. Procreation – planting the seeds of new thinking – is a good metaphor for processes of interaction amongst SSH disciplines. Infection - a virus integrating into a cell, turning it into a virus producing factory – also has value. I am thinking about social innovation and social movements associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">Commons Based Peer production</a> where engineers adopt new, different ways of working towards important social and cultural purposes. Such ideas are at the heart of the post-growth movement’s view of how to pursue appropriate science and technology, exactly because it is focussed on the reproduction of social norms and values and not on the production of economic growth (Kerschner, et al (2018), Hickel et al (2022)).</p> """ } "body:7.caption" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Input {#2324 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:7.caption" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: "" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:7.caption" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: "" } "body:7.image" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Image {#2339 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:7.image" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #id: 739 #alt: "Image of a tree by Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash" #image: null #cropPercent: false #cropWidth: 0.0 #cropHeight: 0.0 #cropTop: 0.0 #cropLeft: 0.0 #hotspots: [] #marker: [] #thumbnail: "bodyMain" config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:7.image" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null id: 739 alt: "Image of a tree by Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash" image: null cropPercent: false cropWidth: 0.0 cropHeight: 0.0 cropTop: 0.0 cropLeft: 0.0 hotspots: [] marker: [] thumbnail: "bodyMain" } "body:8.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2341 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:8.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 342 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>SSH integration: from the tent to the kitchen</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">The quality of integration of SSH is often assessed through ingredients: the proportion of SSH partners,\u{A0} the level of the budget allocated to them and their work, and the number of SSH disciplines involved in projects (EC 2023).\u{A0}\u{A0} The process to which the ingredients are subjected is invisible. It is as if the ingredients are left in a tent for the duration of the project. At the end, integration is whatever took place in the tent.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Unlike boiling water, tents are passive.\u{A0} And unlike soup, what happens in them is ephemeral.\u{A0} Learnings are project-specific and dissipate when the project is over.\u{A0}\u{A0} Documenting experiences in projects can make important contributions to good research programme management practice, and there has been a lot of that over the years.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">However, SSH integration is about more than numbers in projects.\u{A0} Policy needs to seek to influence the institutions of research funding and performance that Pedersen (2016) calls integrative environments.\u{A0} It needs to deal with the process of integration with the attentiveness and dedication of a chef, who knows what they are making and how to make it. When they do not know, they experiment, they learn and change practices. As their learning evolves, the soup gets better.\u{A0} Tasting sessions (open deliberation on ex ante expectations and ex post achievements) and mechanisms for sharing learning on the integration process as part of research programme management, are critical. Because, the proof of the soup is in the eating.</p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>Further links</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376">https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.shapeid.eu/">https://www.shapeid.eu/</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0">https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en</a></p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>References</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Ali, M. A., S Zendo & S Somers (2021) Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 20(4), 473–485. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1938332">https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1938332</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Anderson, E (2014) Reply to critics of the imperative of integration. Political Studies Review, 12(3), pp 376-382 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12065">https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12065</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Bruce, A,\u{A0} C Lyall, J Tait, R Williams (2004) Interdisciplinary integration in Europe: the case of the Fifth Framework programme,, Futures, 36 (4) pp 457-470 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2003.10.003">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2003.10.003</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Pedersen, D. (2016) Integrating social sciences and humanities in interdisciplinary research. Palgrave Commun 2, 16036. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36">https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">EC (2023) Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budgets and Disciplines 2014 – 2020, OPOCE Luxembourg, <a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Hickel, J, G Kallis, T Jackson, D W O’neill, J B Schor, J K Steinberger, P A Victor, and D Ürge- Vorsatz. (2022) "Degrowth can work—here’s how science can help." Nature 612, no. 7940 pp\u{A0} 400-403 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Kerschner, C, P Wächter, L Nierling, M- Ehlers, (2018) Degrowth and Technology: Towards feasible, viable, appropriate and convivial imaginaries,\u{A0} Journal of Cleaner Production, 197 (2) pp 1619-1636, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.147">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.147</a>.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Manicas, P T (2003) The social sciences: who needs ‘em?, Futures 35 (6) pp 609-619, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(02)00102-7">https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(02)00102-7</a>.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Vienni Baptista, B, I Fletcher, M Maryl, Pi Wciślik, A Buchner, C Lyall, J Spaapen and C Pohl (2020)\u{A0}\u{A0} <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3824839">Final Report on Understandings of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research and Factors of Success and Failure</a>,\u{A0} <a href="https://www.shapeid.eu/">SHAPE-ID</a> project</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Viseu, A (2015) Integration of social science into research is crucial, Nature 525, 17 September 2015 p 291 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/525291a">https://www.nature.com/articles/525291a</a></p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>About the author</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><em>Nikos Kastrinos is the editor of the EASSH Lens, a senior fellow with the Global Governance Institute and the Millennium Project and serves on the board of the EU Staff Fund for a Fair and Sustainable Future.\u{A0} A former official of the\u{A0} European Commission he served as special advisor to the EU Presidencies of Cyprus and Ireland and to the Greek Minister of Education. He holds doctorate in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Manchester.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:8.content" realName: "" documentId: 342 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1887} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>SSH integration: from the tent to the kitchen</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">The quality of integration of SSH is often assessed through ingredients: the proportion of SSH partners,\u{A0} the level of the budget allocated to them and their work, and the number of SSH disciplines involved in projects (EC 2023).\u{A0}\u{A0} The process to which the ingredients are subjected is invisible. It is as if the ingredients are left in a tent for the duration of the project. At the end, integration is whatever took place in the tent.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Unlike boiling water, tents are passive.\u{A0} And unlike soup, what happens in them is ephemeral.\u{A0} Learnings are project-specific and dissipate when the project is over.\u{A0}\u{A0} Documenting experiences in projects can make important contributions to good research programme management practice, and there has been a lot of that over the years.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">However, SSH integration is about more than numbers in projects.\u{A0} Policy needs to seek to influence the institutions of research funding and performance that Pedersen (2016) calls integrative environments.\u{A0} It needs to deal with the process of integration with the attentiveness and dedication of a chef, who knows what they are making and how to make it. When they do not know, they experiment, they learn and change practices. As their learning evolves, the soup gets better.\u{A0} Tasting sessions (open deliberation on ex ante expectations and ex post achievements) and mechanisms for sharing learning on the integration process as part of research programme management, are critical. Because, the proof of the soup is in the eating.</p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>Further links</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376">https://eassh.eu/Position-Papers/Monitoring-SSH-integration-still-matters~p1376</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.shapeid.eu/">https://www.shapeid.eu/</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0">https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/news/net4society-what-ssh-integration-horizon-europe-0</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en</a></p>\n <h2 class="MsoNormal"><strong>References</strong></h2>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Ali, M. 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Palgrave Commun 2, 16036. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36">https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.36</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">EC (2023) Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budgets and Disciplines 2014 – 2020, OPOCE Luxembourg, <a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en">https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/da853350-d9ab-492e-9320-35c04ebbe31b_en</a></p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">Hickel, J, G Kallis, T Jackson, D W O’neill, J B Schor, J K Steinberger, P A Victor, and D Ürge- Vorsatz. (2022) "Degrowth can work—here’s how science can help." 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Changing this situation – protecting and restoring soils – requires more than just scientific and technical solutions. The Horizon Europe Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>” (<em><strong>Mission Soil</strong></em>) is the largest funding programme for soil research in the EU today. It recognises that soil health is deeply intertwined with social, cultural, and political factors.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>Insights from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts</h2>\n <p>Achieving soil health demands not only changes in land management but also a transformation of social relations with soil. Soil science has long been dominated by natural and technical disciplines, but the role of social sciences, humanities, and the arts (SSHA) in soil research is gaining recognition.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Understanding and improving human-soil relationships requires insights into social structures, cultural values, governance systems, and historical land use—areas where SSHA excel. How can the SSHA disciplines better engage with the existing soil research landscape? This is the topic of the report Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in the EU Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-library/social-sciences-humanities-and-arts-eu-mission-soil-deal-europe">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>”, led by <a href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anna-krzywoszynska">Dr Anna Krzywoszynska</a> of the University of Oulu.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Mission Soil is one of the five Horizon Europe funding streams which aim to achieve not only scientific excellence, but also societal impact in key areas; in the case of Mission Soil, the focus is on soil health as the underpinning of food security and ecological and social resilience. The report, written by the Advisory Board to Mission Soil, argues that soil research needs to more strongly integrate knowledge from the SSHA. Recommendations for achieving that include a greater involvement of SSHA experts at all stages of development of research programmes and their evaluation. 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The authors therefore proposed a multidimensional framework for valuing soils that can be used in policymaking. Their bi-cultural model incorporates both Māori and Western-centric knowledge and perspectives and can be used to develop shared goals to maintain and enhance the state of soils in order to ensure well-being for humans and other living beings. The authors also point out that the dialogue on values enriches our understanding of soils and soil health and our connections with nature.</p>\n <p>Diverse SSHA disciplines can help explain not just what is happening in soil use and soil health but also why certain patterns persist and how they might be transformed. These insights are crucial for designing policies and interventions that are both effective and socially just.</p>\n <h2>Living Labs that involve a range of partners for improving soil health</h2>\n <p>Soil research increasingly embraces transdisciplinary approaches, where scientists work directly with communities, policymakers, and industries to co-create knowledge and solutions. Traditional top-down science communication—where findings are simply shared with stakeholders—has reached its limits. Instead, it is increasingly argued that research must integrate social understanding to create new cultural narratives, economic models, and governance structures that support soil health.</p>\n <p>The Mission Soil funding programme aims at just such an approach, providing an excellent opening for SSHA expertise. Mission Soil promotes soil research through a Living Lab approach: <a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/living-labs/">Mission Soil Living Labs</a> are “user-centred, place-based and transdisciplinary research and innovation ecosystems that involve multiple partners (e.g., land managers, scientists, citizens, businesses, and local authorities) to co-design, test, monitor and evaluate solutions in real-life settings for improving soil health.”\u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>This approach presents an opportunity for social research to shape research questions, framings, and methods to ensure incorporation of societal perspectives and truly participatory research processes. SSHA scholars have been at the forefront of similar transdisciplinary research efforts, developing methods such as participatory action research, citizen dialogues, and co-production of knowledge. SSHA disciplines have therefore deep expertise in research methods which uncover perse perspectives, mediate conflicts, and develop practical solutions tailored to specific social and ecological contexts.</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 343 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>Soil is at the heart of life on Earth, and yet it is <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00323-3">facing profound degradation</a> with life-threatening consequences for humans and other species. Changing this situation – protecting and restoring soils – requires more than just scientific and technical solutions. The Horizon Europe Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>” (<em><strong>Mission Soil</strong></em>) is the largest funding programme for soil research in the EU today. It recognises that soil health is deeply intertwined with social, cultural, and political factors.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>Insights from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts</h2>\n <p>Achieving soil health demands not only changes in land management but also a transformation of social relations with soil. Soil science has long been dominated by natural and technical disciplines, but the role of social sciences, humanities, and the arts (SSHA) in soil research is gaining recognition.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Understanding and improving human-soil relationships requires insights into social structures, cultural values, governance systems, and historical land use—areas where SSHA excel. How can the SSHA disciplines better engage with the existing soil research landscape? This is the topic of the report Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in the EU Mission “<a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-library/social-sciences-humanities-and-arts-eu-mission-soil-deal-europe">A Soil Deal for Europe</a>”, led by <a href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anna-krzywoszynska">Dr Anna Krzywoszynska</a> of the University of Oulu.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Mission Soil is one of the five Horizon Europe funding streams which aim to achieve not only scientific excellence, but also societal impact in key areas; in the case of Mission Soil, the focus is on soil health as the underpinning of food security and ecological and social resilience. The report, written by the Advisory Board to Mission Soil, argues that soil research needs to more strongly integrate knowledge from the SSHA. Recommendations for achieving that include a greater involvement of SSHA experts at all stages of development of research programmes and their evaluation. The report also reviews previous calls under Mission Soil from the perspective of SSHA incorporation.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSHA scholars explore how societies interact with their environment, including soil. Disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, geography, history, political science, artistic research, or ethics provide vital perspectives on soil use and conservation. For example, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308">Marchesi</a> (2020) explored how the particular scientific and institutional strategy pursued by the 19th century German chemist Justus von Liebig made it possible to establish chemical fertilization as the cornerstone of good land management.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>In their research in New Zealand, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x">Stronge et al. (2023)</a> found that people assign multiple, co-existing values to soil. The authors therefore proposed a multidimensional framework for valuing soils that can be used in policymaking. Their bi-cultural model incorporates both Māori and Western-centric knowledge and perspectives and can be used to develop shared goals to maintain and enhance the state of soils in order to ensure well-being for humans and other living beings. The authors also point out that the dialogue on values enriches our understanding of soils and soil health and our connections with nature.</p>\n <p>Diverse SSHA disciplines can help explain not just what is happening in soil use and soil health but also why certain patterns persist and how they might be transformed. These insights are crucial for designing policies and interventions that are both effective and socially just.</p>\n <h2>Living Labs that involve a range of partners for improving soil health</h2>\n <p>Soil research increasingly embraces transdisciplinary approaches, where scientists work directly with communities, policymakers, and industries to co-create knowledge and solutions. Traditional top-down science communication—where findings are simply shared with stakeholders—has reached its limits. Instead, it is increasingly argued that research must integrate social understanding to create new cultural narratives, economic models, and governance structures that support soil health.</p>\n <p>The Mission Soil funding programme aims at just such an approach, providing an excellent opening for SSHA expertise. Mission Soil promotes soil research through a Living Lab approach: <a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/living-labs/">Mission Soil Living Labs</a> are “user-centred, place-based and transdisciplinary research and innovation ecosystems that involve multiple partners (e.g., land managers, scientists, citizens, businesses, and local authorities) to co-design, test, monitor and evaluate solutions in real-life settings for improving soil health.”\u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>This approach presents an opportunity for social research to shape research questions, framings, and methods to ensure incorporation of societal perspectives and truly participatory research processes. SSHA scholars have been at the forefront of similar transdisciplinary research efforts, developing methods such as participatory action research, citizen dialogues, and co-production of knowledge. 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We need more studies on the social and economic forces driving soil use—like land ownership laws, financial systems, and cultural beliefs. We also need to understand how people’s relationships with soil have changed over time and what might encourage more sustainable practices today.</p>\n <p>To truly integrate SSHA into soil research, funding models should account for the time and expertise required for transdisciplinary collaboration. SSHA researchers must be seen not just as facilitators but as equal partners in shaping research questions and methodologies. By embracing SSHA perspectives, soil science can move beyond technical solutions and create meaningful, lasting change in how societies care for and interact with the land.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSHA researchers also need a seat at the table when decisions are made about soil research funding and policy. Without their insights, we risk missing the bigger picture—how people, power, and culture shape our land. If we want healthy soils by 2050, we need the SSHA on board.</p>\n <h2>Opportunities for strengthening SSHA in soil research</h2>\n <p>Engaging with the world of soil research is still challenging for SSHA scholars, however, opportunities exist. In addition to the growing number of soil research publications and panels at SSHA conferences, interdisciplinary and SSHA orientated soil research groups are emerging, such as the <a href="http://www.soilcarenetwork.com">Soil Care Network</a>.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>There is a growing presence of SSHA scholars within the natural science communities. The <a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a> annual conference features regular papers by SSHA researchers. By joining the national soil science organisations, or directly the <a href="https://www.iuss.org/">International Union of Soil Sciences</a>, SSHA scholars can participate in the IUSS conference to present their work and network with soil researchers.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>It is also crucial that SSHA is better represented in Horizon Europe programmes overall—something that EASSH is strong advocate for—to address this SSHA researchers should <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert">register as experts in the EU Expert Portal</a>. This way they will be invited to participate in research assessments and processes and thereby increase and professionalise the SSHA presence in European soil research. If you are interested in getting involved in soil research, please contact Anna Krzywoszynska directly.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Kraamwinkel, C.T., Beaulieu, A., Dias, T. et al. Planetary limits to soil degradation. Commun Earth Environ 2, 249 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00323-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00323-3</a></p>\n <p>Marchesi, G. Justus von Liebig Makes the World: Soil Properties and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century. Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308">https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142308\u{A0}</a></p>\n <p>Stronge, D.C., Kannemeyer, R.L., Harmsworth, G.R. et al. Achieving soil health in Aotearoa New Zealand through a pluralistic values-based framework: mauri ora ki te whenua, mauri ora ki te tangata. Sustain Sci (2023). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x">https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01269-x</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>More information</h2>\n <p><a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-library/social-sciences-humanities-and-arts-eu-mission-soil-deal-europe">Social sciences, humanities, and the arts in the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe”</a> (publication).\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/">EU Mission Soil</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="http://www.soilcarenetwork.com">Soil Care Network</a></p>\n <p><a href="https://enoll.org/about-us/">ENoLL – European Network of Living Labs</a>: The European Network of Living Labs is the international, non-profit, independent association of certified Living Labs.\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a></p>\n <p><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert">EU Funding & Tenders Portal</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <p><a href="https://www.iuss.org">International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)</a></p>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Anna Krzywoszynska is a <a href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anna-krzywoszynska">PhD Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Human-Environment Relations, Department of Anthropology, University of Oulu.</a></em></p>\n <p><em>She is also a <a href="https://mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/about/mission-board">member of the Advisory Board for Mission Soil</a>, and Lead of the Working Group dedicated to SSHA in Mission Soil.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:3.content" realName: "" documentId: 343 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1923} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2>The path ahead for SSHA in soil research</h2>\n <p>SSHA disciplines remain underfunded in environmental research. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101349">Natural sciences receive nearly 770% more funding than social sciences and humanities in environmental studies</a> (Overland & Sovacool, 2019), leaving critical gaps in our understanding of human-soil relations.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>Soil-focused SSHA research is still emerging, and greater investment is needed to support its growth. We need more studies on the social and economic forces driving soil use—like land ownership laws, financial systems, and cultural beliefs. We also need to understand how people’s relationships with soil have changed over time and what might encourage more sustainable practices today.</p>\n <p>To truly integrate SSHA into soil research, funding models should account for the time and expertise required for transdisciplinary collaboration. SSHA researchers must be seen not just as facilitators but as equal partners in shaping research questions and methodologies. By embracing SSHA perspectives, soil science can move beyond technical solutions and create meaningful, lasting change in how societies care for and interact with the land.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSHA researchers also need a seat at the table when decisions are made about soil research funding and policy. Without their insights, we risk missing the bigger picture—how people, power, and culture shape our land. If we want healthy soils by 2050, we need the SSHA on board.</p>\n <h2>Opportunities for strengthening SSHA in soil research</h2>\n <p>Engaging with the world of soil research is still challenging for SSHA scholars, however, opportunities exist. In addition to the growing number of soil research publications and panels at SSHA conferences, interdisciplinary and SSHA orientated soil research groups are emerging, such as the <a href="http://www.soilcarenetwork.com">Soil Care Network</a>.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>There is a growing presence of SSHA scholars within the natural science communities. The <a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a> annual conference features regular papers by SSHA researchers. By joining the national soil science organisations, or directly the <a href="https://www.iuss.org/">International Union of Soil Sciences</a>, SSHA scholars can participate in the IUSS conference to present their work and network with soil researchers.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>It is also crucial that SSHA is better represented in Horizon Europe programmes overall—something that EASSH is strong advocate for—to address this SSHA researchers should <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert">register as experts in the EU Expert Portal</a>. This way they will be invited to participate in research assessments and processes and thereby increase and professionalise the SSHA presence in European soil research. If you are interested in getting involved in soil research, please contact Anna Krzywoszynska directly.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Kraamwinkel, C.T., Beaulieu, A., Dias, T. et al. Planetary limits to soil degradation. 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Business development is a core part of culture just as the cultural and creative industries are a core part of urban and national economic development. Cultural tourism as a component of mass tourism is an especially effective measure, since cultural tourists who stay overnight spend some 35% more than the average tourist. In this context, the fact that France has almost twice the proportion of cultural tourists of some jurisdictions and Austria more still brings a significant economic boost, in Austria’s case €30bn GVA as long ago as 2014, with tourism and leisure 10% of Viennese city region GVA (see Pillswatch, 2014). Austrian research into the economic impact of Mozart carried out twenty years ago has helped to make the country as a whole-and Salzburg and Vienna in particular-one of the most sophisticated historic branding operations in the world, creating-by 2019- 15% of the national economy for tourist-related activities (see Usner, 2011).</p>\n <p>But cultural, creative and economic research does not only create high-end tourism and the upmarket retail that goes with it and the heart of Europe’s major cities: it creates new industries.\u{A0}<a href="https://www.excurio.com/">Excurio</a> – responsible for ‘Tonight with the Impressionists’ at the Museé D’Orsay (2024), has very rapidly taken some €50M in ticket sales and associated revenue from 3 million visitors for its cultural heritage experiences – nor is it alone. The <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/museumsmetaverse/">MuseumsintheMetaverse</a> project, funded by Innovate UK with a total value of €7.5M is one of the selected projects for the Digital Cultural Heritage World Congress and Expo in Siena in September.\u{A0} The UK’s recently released industrial strategy- which includes €120M for research funding for the creative industries, with commercialization support-notes:</p>\n <blockquote>\n <p>The Creative Industries sector already acts as a dynamic growth engine for our economy across the UK’s nations and regions, contributing 2.4 million jobs and £124 billion GVA to the economy, generating knowledge spillovers that drive innovation.<br /><br />(See Rt Hon Lisa Nandy, Ministerial Foreword to UK Government, 2025 p. 4)</p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>Much of this comes through conventional industry routes, but some of it-as revealed by the 2018 Economic Value of Heritage study- makes better urban planning possible by undertaking research on the gravitational value of heritage, the financial benefits that can be leveraged through cathedrals, galleries and even less or intangible heritage such as food and festivals, bringing in income even through the humblest regional food and fruit, such as Calçotada’s January onion festival. While short festivals bring little net economic benefit, longer ones are important contributors. The development of the Hong Kong Creativity Index (<a href="https://www.cea.or.th/storage/app/media/creative%20economy%20review/CEA-OUTLOOK-03-EN.pdf">HKCI</a>) more than twenty years ago indicates the centrality of research, development and innovation in these areas in one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world (see Lawton et al, 2018).</p>\n <p>ASSH research also support European concerns on security and defence. Historical research is extremely important in predicting the cultural behaviours and framing of states and cultures. The very notion of Europe itself, the history and friability of its states and the causes and effects of migration are all central to historical study. From the study of comparative efficiencies in re-arming and procurement to understanding the cultural targets of cybersecurity-the British Library is a major recent victim of cyberattack-ASSH research is focused, effective and necessary in evaluating the competing stories of Europe inside Europe itself. The work of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs (<a href="https://scga.scot/">SCGA</a>) is illuminating in this regard.</p>\n <p>As the American urbanist Richard Florida points out in The Rise of the Creative Class, it is the ludic aspects of cities that support their growth (see Florida, 2019 [2002]). Culture and Creative Industry innovation is a central part of the most economically successful cities internationally. Of course we know this: Europe is – on one level – European culture. But it is possible to take this for granted, and to think it is not worth researching or understanding the stories we tell ourselves, because they will always be there. Yet they are always changing too, and they also stand in the way of change, whether that recommended by the Draghi Report or more broadly necessary to drive innovation and agility, and to perfect the European market in services to the same standard as that enjoyed by goods. In Design, in Digital, in Economics, in History, in Urban Studies and elsewhere, ASSH tells us what no other fields of study can, and tell us too why science and innovation can fail to prosper. In his classic Diffusion of Innovations, first published in 1961, Everett Rogers used as a case study the 150 years it took the Royal Navy to implement research on scurvy. People are part of every research question, and often culture stops the answers being heard. ASSH is a key part of changing that and making the world we want to see in Europe.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Pillswatch, M (2014), ‘Developing a Theoretical Model for the Functions of cultural anniversary years in city marketing: A grounded approach using two case studies from Vienna’, Newcastle: University of Northumbria.</p>\n <p>Usner E M (2011), ‘”The Condition of Mozart”’: Mozart Year 2006 and the New Vienna’, Ethnomusicology Forum 23: 413-42.</p>\n <p>Lawton R et al (2018), The Economic Value of Heritage, (London: Nesta).</p>\n <p>Florida, R (2019 [2002]), The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books).</p>\n <p>UK Government (2025), Industrial Strategy: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creative-industries-sector-plan">Creative Industries Sector Plan</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Professor Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is a board member of EASSH, co-chair of the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance and a board member and past chair of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs defence and foreign policy think tank. He is an institutional panellist for the People, Culture and Environment pilot in the UK Research Excellence Framework, authored the Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy report for the Scottish Government, and held the first Arts Industry Day in UK Higher Education in 2013, with 90 external industry partners. He is Pro Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 354 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1856} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>But this is not the only reason for ASSH to be central. Business development is a core part of culture just as the cultural and creative industries are a core part of urban and national economic development. Cultural tourism as a component of mass tourism is an especially effective measure, since cultural tourists who stay overnight spend some 35% more than the average tourist. In this context, the fact that France has almost twice the proportion of cultural tourists of some jurisdictions and Austria more still brings a significant economic boost, in Austria’s case €30bn GVA as long ago as 2014, with tourism and leisure 10% of Viennese city region GVA (see Pillswatch, 2014). Austrian research into the economic impact of Mozart carried out twenty years ago has helped to make the country as a whole-and Salzburg and Vienna in particular-one of the most sophisticated historic branding operations in the world, creating-by 2019- 15% of the national economy for tourist-related activities (see Usner, 2011).</p>\n <p>But cultural, creative and economic research does not only create high-end tourism and the upmarket retail that goes with it and the heart of Europe’s major cities: it creates new industries.\u{A0}<a href="https://www.excurio.com/">Excurio</a> – responsible for ‘Tonight with the Impressionists’ at the Museé D’Orsay (2024), has very rapidly taken some €50M in ticket sales and associated revenue from 3 million visitors for its cultural heritage experiences – nor is it alone. The <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/museumsmetaverse/">MuseumsintheMetaverse</a> project, funded by Innovate UK with a total value of €7.5M is one of the selected projects for the Digital Cultural Heritage World Congress and Expo in Siena in September.\u{A0} The UK’s recently released industrial strategy- which includes €120M for research funding for the creative industries, with commercialization support-notes:</p>\n <blockquote>\n <p>The Creative Industries sector already acts as a dynamic growth engine for our economy across the UK’s nations and regions, contributing 2.4 million jobs and £124 billion GVA to the economy, generating knowledge spillovers that drive innovation.<br /><br />(See Rt Hon Lisa Nandy, Ministerial Foreword to UK Government, 2025 p. 4)</p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>Much of this comes through conventional industry routes, but some of it-as revealed by the 2018 Economic Value of Heritage study- makes better urban planning possible by undertaking research on the gravitational value of heritage, the financial benefits that can be leveraged through cathedrals, galleries and even less or intangible heritage such as food and festivals, bringing in income even through the humblest regional food and fruit, such as Calçotada’s January onion festival. While short festivals bring little net economic benefit, longer ones are important contributors. The development of the Hong Kong Creativity Index (<a href="https://www.cea.or.th/storage/app/media/creative%20economy%20review/CEA-OUTLOOK-03-EN.pdf">HKCI</a>) more than twenty years ago indicates the centrality of research, development and innovation in these areas in one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world (see Lawton et al, 2018).</p>\n <p>ASSH research also support European concerns on security and defence. Historical research is extremely important in predicting the cultural behaviours and framing of states and cultures. The very notion of Europe itself, the history and friability of its states and the causes and effects of migration are all central to historical study. From the study of comparative efficiencies in re-arming and procurement to understanding the cultural targets of cybersecurity-the British Library is a major recent victim of cyberattack-ASSH research is focused, effective and necessary in evaluating the competing stories of Europe inside Europe itself. The work of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs (<a href="https://scga.scot/">SCGA</a>) is illuminating in this regard.</p>\n <p>As the American urbanist Richard Florida points out in The Rise of the Creative Class, it is the ludic aspects of cities that support their growth (see Florida, 2019 [2002]). Culture and Creative Industry innovation is a central part of the most economically successful cities internationally. Of course we know this: Europe is – on one level – European culture. But it is possible to take this for granted, and to think it is not worth researching or understanding the stories we tell ourselves, because they will always be there. Yet they are always changing too, and they also stand in the way of change, whether that recommended by the Draghi Report or more broadly necessary to drive innovation and agility, and to perfect the European market in services to the same standard as that enjoyed by goods. In Design, in Digital, in Economics, in History, in Urban Studies and elsewhere, ASSH tells us what no other fields of study can, and tell us too why science and innovation can fail to prosper. In his classic Diffusion of Innovations, first published in 1961, Everett Rogers used as a case study the 150 years it took the Royal Navy to implement research on scurvy. People are part of every research question, and often culture stops the answers being heard. ASSH is a key part of changing that and making the world we want to see in Europe.</p>\n <h2>References</h2>\n <p>Pillswatch, M (2014), ‘Developing a Theoretical Model for the Functions of cultural anniversary years in city marketing: A grounded approach using two case studies from Vienna’, Newcastle: University of Northumbria.</p>\n <p>Usner E M (2011), ‘”The Condition of Mozart”’: Mozart Year 2006 and the New Vienna’, Ethnomusicology Forum 23: 413-42.</p>\n <p>Lawton R et al (2018), The Economic Value of Heritage, (London: Nesta).</p>\n <p>Florida, R (2019 [2002]), The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books).</p>\n <p>UK Government (2025), Industrial Strategy: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creative-industries-sector-plan">Creative Industries Sector Plan</a>\u{A0}</p>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Professor Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is a board member of EASSH, co-chair of the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance and a board member and past chair of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs defence and foreign policy think tank. He is an institutional panellist for the People, Culture and Environment pilot in the UK Research Excellence Framework, authored the Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy report for the Scottish Government, and held the first Arts Industry Day in UK Higher Education in 2013, with 90 external industry partners. 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And yet. The tenor of recent discussion and keynote reports such as Draghi is that aspects of culture have to change: greater flexibility, innovation and adaptation are needed. How does it make sense for culture to be a priority for change and to simultaneously marginalize research into culture ? People are part of every research question, and as is more than evident from the politics of the West today, their culture is not always to respond to evidence, but to sympathy and belief. To take only one example, how societies accept the need for action on climate change is a very important part of how the effectiveness of carbon reducing research is measured. A culture of disbelief or resistance is an obstacle.\u{A0}</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:3.content" realName: "" documentId: 354 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1856} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>There is a great deal of emphasis on mobility, flexibility, innovation and adaptation in the Framework principles of FP10, but much less security on how the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (ASSH) will be accommodated in the Programme, and whether their distinct contributions will be clearly highlighted.</p>\n <p>This is on one level understandable: the drive towards innovation, AI, scalable commercialization, improving comparative growth and developing defence technology are all areas in which ASSH fields of research appear marginal. And yet. The tenor of recent discussion and keynote reports such as Draghi is that aspects of culture have to change: greater flexibility, innovation and adaptation are needed. How does it make sense for culture to be a priority for change and to simultaneously marginalize research into culture ? People are part of every research question, and as is more than evident from the politics of the West today, their culture is not always to respond to evidence, but to sympathy and belief. To take only one example, how societies accept the need for action on climate change is a very important part of how the effectiveness of carbon reducing research is measured. 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attacks faced by SSH. And wrongly designed security policies can endanger academic freedom and the integrity and success of research. I argue for a new perspective on knowledge security, sensitive to SSH, that can inspire other fields. \u{A0}</p>\n <p>Europe should consider a charter for free and secure SSH research. This could provide the basis for a robust framework to ensure knowledge security, guaranteeing the freedom and positive societal impact of research across all disciplines.</p>\n <h2><strong>From openness to security – a shift in European research policy </strong></h2>\n <p>Ten years ago, Commissioner Moedas summarised his vision as: Open Innovation, Open Science and Openness to the World. These times feel long gone. The Commission’s 2025 <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">strategic foresight report</a> describes security as “a key vector for all EU policies”.\u{A0} \u{A0}President von der Leyen's <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/833e082a-0c39-4bc6-a119-e0760ebc7360_en?filename=mission-letter-zaharieva.pdf">mission letter to Commissioner Zaharieva</a>, instructs her “to work to strengthen our research security”:\u{A0} a profound policy shift that can affect the cultural foundations of research in Europe.</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:1.content" realName: "" documentId: 361 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <p>A narrow concept of security overlooks potential and real attacks faced by SSH. And wrongly designed security policies can endanger academic freedom and the integrity and success of research. I argue for a new perspective on knowledge security, sensitive to SSH, that can inspire other fields. \u{A0}</p>\n <p>Europe should consider a charter for free and secure SSH research. This could provide the basis for a robust framework to ensure knowledge security, guaranteeing the freedom and positive societal impact of research across all disciplines.</p>\n <h2><strong>From openness to security – a shift in European research policy </strong></h2>\n <p>Ten years ago, Commissioner Moedas summarised his vision as: Open Innovation, Open Science and Openness to the World. These times feel long gone. The Commission’s 2025 <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">strategic foresight report</a> describes security as “a key vector for all EU policies”.\u{A0} \u{A0}President von der Leyen's <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/833e082a-0c39-4bc6-a119-e0760ebc7360_en?filename=mission-letter-zaharieva.pdf">mission letter to Commissioner Zaharieva</a>, instructs her “to work to strengthen our research security”:\u{A0} a profound policy shift that can affect the cultural foundations of research in Europe.</p> """ } "body:2.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2376 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:2.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 361 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2><strong>Why knowledge security matters for SSH researchers</strong></h2>\n <p>According to the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">2024 EU Council recommendations</a>, knowledge security refers to protection against unauthorised knowledge transfer, foreign interference, and research that violates fundamental values.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSH researchers often encounter attempts to distort, exploit and suppress their work, including travel bans, withdrawal of funding, and exclusion from collaborations. Researchers and their families may even face threats to their freedom or personal and physical well-being. Scholars at Risk recently published the <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">Free To Think report</a> on attacks on Higher Education, which includes a significant proportion of SSH-related incidents. The <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/content_files/file/ar/25.pdf">Network of Concerned Historians</a> tracks <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/hb/introduction.pdf">worrying trends</a> in the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists worldwide.</p>\n <p>This is because SSH research often has a direct impact on politics. A <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/15/these-197-terms-may-trigger-reviews-of-your-nih-nsf-grant-proposals/">leaked list</a> of 197 “risky terms” in US NSF and NIH grant reviews – including “polarisation” or “trauma” – showed entire fields under threat. In Europe, too, we saw the <a href="https://www.ibanet.org/article/58bd55a0-243d-4fde-818d-1a300f2bd188">expulsion of the Central European University</a> as politically undesirable. There is a worrying <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">surge of transnational repression </a>\u{A0}threatening research even in Europe. At stake are fundamental values: academic freedom and human dignity – principles that are universal, non-negotiable and central to the European project.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2><strong>The double-edged sword of SSH knowledge</strong></h2>\n <p>Besides direct attempts to suppress research and researchers, the European Council text also considers the misuse of knowledge a security risk. This is particularly relevant in the SSH. Understanding an “opponent’s” culture can promote dialogue – or can be weaponised. Researching village dynamics can inform public health campaigns or identify military targets. Interpreting historical narratives can foster reconciliation – or justify war. None of this is new: anthropology evolved to serve the needs of colonial powers, theology justified the power of the church, and historiography reinforced the nation-state.</p>\n <p>This does not mean that SSH have failed ethically; the exploitation of their work by external actors can happen without their direct involvement or consent. Facing political manipulation, commercial capture, or transnational repression as a systemic problem is an old challenge for SSH. However, its response needs to be adapted to new technological, societal, and geopolitical dynamics.</p>\n <h2><strong>Learning from the Past: Developing ethical boundaries</strong></h2>\n <p>The 20<sup>th</sup> century saw an increased awareness of this grimmer side of research. The Project Camelot scandal in the mid-1960s, of anthropologists involved in counterinsurgency efforts, led the American Anthropological Association to establish guidelines prohibiting the military use of their research. Other fields, such as psychology or sociology, followed with their own codes, showing an increased sense of self-responsibility. Such guidelines cannot prevent all misuse – especially as technologies evolve and research becomes increasingly interdisciplinary. \u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>STEM disciplines have long faced this dilemma. Abuses in fields like nuclear research or biosecurity can pose existential threats to humanity and have led to robust frameworks to prevent abuse, while ensuring that the research endeavours are not needlessly hampered by the security environment. The considerations are relatively new in the SSH and offer new opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation – exchanging experiences and perspectives from STEM and SSH – and working together to, more effectively and holistically, address the knowledge security challenges.</p>\n <p>Across Europe, leading academic and university organisations have repeatedly stressed that research security must not come at the expense of academic freedom or institutional autonomy. Building on these shared principles, Europe should now take the next step: a Charter for free and secure SSH research.</p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:2.content" realName: "" documentId: 361 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2><strong>Why knowledge security matters for SSH researchers</strong></h2>\n <p>According to the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">2024 EU Council recommendations</a>, knowledge security refers to protection against unauthorised knowledge transfer, foreign interference, and research that violates fundamental values.\u{A0}</p>\n <p>SSH researchers often encounter attempts to distort, exploit and suppress their work, including travel bans, withdrawal of funding, and exclusion from collaborations. Researchers and their families may even face threats to their freedom or personal and physical well-being. Scholars at Risk recently published the <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">Free To Think report</a> on attacks on Higher Education, which includes a significant proportion of SSH-related incidents. The <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/content_files/file/ar/25.pdf">Network of Concerned Historians</a> tracks <a href="https://www.concernedhistorians.org/hb/introduction.pdf">worrying trends</a> in the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists worldwide.</p>\n <p>This is because SSH research often has a direct impact on politics. A <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/15/these-197-terms-may-trigger-reviews-of-your-nih-nsf-grant-proposals/">leaked list</a> of 197 “risky terms” in US NSF and NIH grant reviews – including “polarisation” or “trauma” – showed entire fields under threat. In Europe, too, we saw the <a href="https://www.ibanet.org/article/58bd55a0-243d-4fde-818d-1a300f2bd188">expulsion of the Central European University</a> as politically undesirable. There is a worrying <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">surge of transnational repression </a>\u{A0}threatening research even in Europe. At stake are fundamental values: academic freedom and human dignity – principles that are universal, non-negotiable and central to the European project.\u{A0}</p>\n <h2><strong>The double-edged sword of SSH knowledge</strong></h2>\n <p>Besides direct attempts to suppress research and researchers, the European Council text also considers the misuse of knowledge a security risk. This is particularly relevant in the SSH. Understanding an “opponent’s” culture can promote dialogue – or can be weaponised. Researching village dynamics can inform public health campaigns or identify military targets. Interpreting historical narratives can foster reconciliation – or justify war. None of this is new: anthropology evolved to serve the needs of colonial powers, theology justified the power of the church, and historiography reinforced the nation-state.</p>\n <p>This does not mean that SSH have failed ethically; the exploitation of their work by external actors can happen without their direct involvement or consent. Facing political manipulation, commercial capture, or transnational repression as a systemic problem is an old challenge for SSH. However, its response needs to be adapted to new technological, societal, and geopolitical dynamics.</p>\n <h2><strong>Learning from the Past: Developing ethical boundaries</strong></h2>\n <p>The 20<sup>th</sup> century saw an increased awareness of this grimmer side of research. The Project Camelot scandal in the mid-1960s, of anthropologists involved in counterinsurgency efforts, led the American Anthropological Association to establish guidelines prohibiting the military use of their research. Other fields, such as psychology or sociology, followed with their own codes, showing an increased sense of self-responsibility. Such guidelines cannot prevent all misuse – especially as technologies evolve and research becomes increasingly interdisciplinary. \u{A0}\u{A0}</p>\n <p>STEM disciplines have long faced this dilemma. Abuses in fields like nuclear research or biosecurity can pose existential threats to humanity and have led to robust frameworks to prevent abuse, while ensuring that the research endeavours are not needlessly hampered by the security environment. The considerations are relatively new in the SSH and offer new opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation – exchanging experiences and perspectives from STEM and SSH – and working together to, more effectively and holistically, address the knowledge security challenges.</p>\n <p>Across Europe, leading academic and university organisations have repeatedly stressed that research security must not come at the expense of academic freedom or institutional autonomy. Building on these shared principles, Europe should now take the next step: a Charter for free and secure SSH research.</p> """ } "body:3.content" => Pimcore\Model\Document\Editable\Wysiwyg {#2283 #dao: null #config: [] #label: null #dialogDescription: null #name: "body:3.content" #realName: "" -parentBlockNames: [] #documentId: 361 #document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} #editmode: false #inherited: false #inDialogBox: null -editableDefinitionCollector: null #text: """ <h2><strong>Towards a European Charter for free and secure SSH research</strong></h2>\n <p>External pressures and misuse pose threats to both the security and value of research. \u{A0}Safeguards are needed but must not damage the very research they aim to protect. For historians, security means access to archives – even where these contradict dominant narratives. For political scientists, it means talking to colleagues across borders – particularly between nations in conflict. For researchers investigating political and social dynamics, it means having access to social media platforms and other digital channels. Poorly designed knowledge security policies that hinder mobility and restrict free access to relevant resources become a security risk themselves.</p>\n <p>With knowledge security at the heart of European research policies, common principles and mechanisms should protect the roles and value of SSH. A first step could be the development of a European charter on SSH and knowledge security. Building such a Charter could bring stakeholders together around a shared approach. Developed through a deliberative process, it could include the following:</p>\n <h3>1. Openness as the foundation of knowledge itself</h3>\n <p>Cross-border exchange and thematic openness are at the heart of scholarship and must not be treated primarily as risk factors. All security-related measures – from visa policies to archival access – must be <strong>evaluated for their impact on research</strong>, with openness as a default. Any exceptions must be transparent and justified. Measures to strengthen research security must be designed so that they respect and uphold academic freedom and institutional autonomy.</p>\n <h3>2. Effective protection mechanisms</h3>\n <p>Scholars in sensitive areas need more than moral support. A <strong>European emergency mechanism</strong> could provide concrete and swift assistance: legal advice, safe mobility, psychological support, and the ability to continue research under threat. It could involve member states, the European Commission, funders, universities, and dedicated organisations already in place, such as Scholars at Risk and their <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/partner-networks">partner networks.</a></p>\n <p>Protection could include training modules to help researchers detect manipulation and subtle pressures, ombuds offices to advise in “red flag” cases, and legal safeguards protecting sources.</p>\n <h3>3. Clear limits against misuse</h3>\n <p>Using SSH for repression, disinformation, or surveillance is incompatible with academic integrity. The charter should encourage ethics committees, institutions, and funders to include this dimension in their <strong>risk assessments</strong>. Further safeguards should include <strong>legal protections</strong> e.g., against surveillance or censorship, for academic freedom, and institutional autonomy. Institutional funding mechanisms must consider the additional investment required.</p>\n <h3>4. Forward-looking governance and policymaking</h3>\n <p>Knowledge security policies can affect SSH, even if they are not explicitly targeted at it. <strong>SSH researchers and their representatives must be involved in the development of knowledge security policies across the board, </strong>including<strong> </strong>new political and technological developments, such as data access for AI. Current EU efforts, such as the European AI office, require a strong involvement of SSH researchers. \u{A0}</p>\n <h3>5. Research for peace and security</h3>\n <p>With its strong focus on culture and society, SSH are crucial for building trust and peace. To fully exploit the potential of SSH, Europe needs to invest in it. Currently, funding for peace-related research – such as in the context of development assistance or for dedicated institutes – is declining. To make the world and Europe more secure, this must be reversed, and future funding, including the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), must strengthen<strong> peace-related research</strong>.</p>\n <h3>6. A European observatory</h3>\n <p>To ensure these principles are not empty words and to coordinate efforts, an independent body should be established <strong>to monitor how security measures affect SSH and other research areas</strong>. Such an observatory could collect cases, issue early warnings, and provide advice to policymakers, universities, funders and other institutions. It could also serve as a central knowledge hub, providing data on issues such as ethical risk assessment and foreign influence.</p>\n <p>A European Charter could enhance knowledge security, promote peace and dialogue, and safeguard the quality and value of SSH.</p>\n <p><strong>By adopting such a Charter, Europe would not only strengthen its security but also reaffirm its commitment to democracy, freedom and the values that must serve as its foundation.\u{A0}</strong></p>\n <h2>Further reading and background information:</h2>\n <ul>\n <li>STIP Compass: OECD portal on research security. <a href="https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal">https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal</a></li>\n <li>Scholars at Risk: Free To Think Report 2025. <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/</a></li>\n <li>Network of Concerned Historians: 2025 Annual report. <a href="http://https/www.concernedhistorians.org">http://https://www.concernedhistorians.org</a></li>\n <li>Inspireurope+ Briefing on Transnational Repression and Academic Freedom. <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2025). Strategic Foresight Report 2025 – Securing Europe’s Future in a Changing World.<br /><a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en</a></li>\n <li>Deutscher Wissenschaftsrat (2025): Science and security in times of global political upheaval. <a href="https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en">https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2024). Council Recommendation on Enhancing Research Security. <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510</a></li>\n <li>ALLEA: Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States. <a href="https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/">https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/</a></li>\n <li>European University Association (2023). How universities can protect and promote academic freedom. <span>Brussels. </span><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"><span>https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html</span></a><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"></a></li>\n </ul>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Dr Alexander Hasgall is an independent expert in international research policy and higher education. He also acts as Senior Adviser to the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). Previously, he was Head of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education and led the International Funding Policy Unit at the Swiss National Science Foundation. He holds a doctorate in Latin American History from the University of Zurich.</em></p> """ config: [] label: null dialogDescription: null name: "body:3.content" realName: "" documentId: 361 document: Pimcore\Model\Document\Page {#1861} editmode: false inherited: false inDialogBox: null text: """ <h2><strong>Towards a European Charter for free and secure SSH research</strong></h2>\n <p>External pressures and misuse pose threats to both the security and value of research. \u{A0}Safeguards are needed but must not damage the very research they aim to protect. For historians, security means access to archives – even where these contradict dominant narratives. For political scientists, it means talking to colleagues across borders – particularly between nations in conflict. For researchers investigating political and social dynamics, it means having access to social media platforms and other digital channels. Poorly designed knowledge security policies that hinder mobility and restrict free access to relevant resources become a security risk themselves.</p>\n <p>With knowledge security at the heart of European research policies, common principles and mechanisms should protect the roles and value of SSH. A first step could be the development of a European charter on SSH and knowledge security. Building such a Charter could bring stakeholders together around a shared approach. Developed through a deliberative process, it could include the following:</p>\n <h3>1. Openness as the foundation of knowledge itself</h3>\n <p>Cross-border exchange and thematic openness are at the heart of scholarship and must not be treated primarily as risk factors. All security-related measures – from visa policies to archival access – must be <strong>evaluated for their impact on research</strong>, with openness as a default. Any exceptions must be transparent and justified. Measures to strengthen research security must be designed so that they respect and uphold academic freedom and institutional autonomy.</p>\n <h3>2. Effective protection mechanisms</h3>\n <p>Scholars in sensitive areas need more than moral support. A <strong>European emergency mechanism</strong> could provide concrete and swift assistance: legal advice, safe mobility, psychological support, and the ability to continue research under threat. It could involve member states, the European Commission, funders, universities, and dedicated organisations already in place, such as Scholars at Risk and their <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/partner-networks">partner networks.</a></p>\n <p>Protection could include training modules to help researchers detect manipulation and subtle pressures, ombuds offices to advise in “red flag” cases, and legal safeguards protecting sources.</p>\n <h3>3. Clear limits against misuse</h3>\n <p>Using SSH for repression, disinformation, or surveillance is incompatible with academic integrity. The charter should encourage ethics committees, institutions, and funders to include this dimension in their <strong>risk assessments</strong>. Further safeguards should include <strong>legal protections</strong> e.g., against surveillance or censorship, for academic freedom, and institutional autonomy. Institutional funding mechanisms must consider the additional investment required.</p>\n <h3>4. Forward-looking governance and policymaking</h3>\n <p>Knowledge security policies can affect SSH, even if they are not explicitly targeted at it. <strong>SSH researchers and their representatives must be involved in the development of knowledge security policies across the board, </strong>including<strong> </strong>new political and technological developments, such as data access for AI. Current EU efforts, such as the European AI office, require a strong involvement of SSH researchers. \u{A0}</p>\n <h3>5. Research for peace and security</h3>\n <p>With its strong focus on culture and society, SSH are crucial for building trust and peace. To fully exploit the potential of SSH, Europe needs to invest in it. Currently, funding for peace-related research – such as in the context of development assistance or for dedicated institutes – is declining. To make the world and Europe more secure, this must be reversed, and future funding, including the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), must strengthen<strong> peace-related research</strong>.</p>\n <h3>6. A European observatory</h3>\n <p>To ensure these principles are not empty words and to coordinate efforts, an independent body should be established <strong>to monitor how security measures affect SSH and other research areas</strong>. Such an observatory could collect cases, issue early warnings, and provide advice to policymakers, universities, funders and other institutions. It could also serve as a central knowledge hub, providing data on issues such as ethical risk assessment and foreign influence.</p>\n <p>A European Charter could enhance knowledge security, promote peace and dialogue, and safeguard the quality and value of SSH.</p>\n <p><strong>By adopting such a Charter, Europe would not only strengthen its security but also reaffirm its commitment to democracy, freedom and the values that must serve as its foundation.\u{A0}</strong></p>\n <h2>Further reading and background information:</h2>\n <ul>\n <li>STIP Compass: OECD portal on research security. <a href="https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal">https://stip.oecd.org/stip/research-security-portal</a></li>\n <li>Scholars at Risk: Free To Think Report 2025. <a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/">https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/</a></li>\n <li>Network of Concerned Historians: 2025 Annual report. <a href="http://https/www.concernedhistorians.org">http://https://www.concernedhistorians.org</a></li>\n <li>Inspireurope+ Briefing on Transnational Repression and Academic Freedom. <a href="https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf">https://sareurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Inspireurope-Briefing-Transnational-Repression.pdf</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2025). Strategic Foresight Report 2025 – Securing Europe’s Future in a Changing World.<br /><a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en">https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategic-foresight/2025-strategic-foresight-report_en</a></li>\n <li>Deutscher Wissenschaftsrat (2025): Science and security in times of global political upheaval. <a href="https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en">https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/2025/2485-25_en</a></li>\n <li>European Commission (2024). Council Recommendation on Enhancing Research Security. <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202403510</a></li>\n <li>ALLEA: Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States. <a href="https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/">https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-threats-to-academic-freedom-and-international-research-collaboration-in-the-united-states/</a></li>\n <li>European University Association (2023). How universities can protect and promote academic freedom. <span>Brussels. </span><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"><span>https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html</span></a><a href="https://www.eua.eu/publications/positions/how-universities-can-protect-and-promote-academic-freedom.html"></a></li>\n </ul>\n <h2>About the author</h2>\n <p><em>Dr Alexander Hasgall is an independent expert in international research policy and higher education. He also acts as Senior Adviser to the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). Previously, he was Head of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education and led the International Funding Policy Unit at the Swiss National Science Foundation. 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