Reclaiming urban spaces: how cities are welcoming nature back

In an industrial quarter outside Buenos Aires, a hummingbird hovers over a vibrant bed of plants and flowers. Two years ago, the area was a stretch of grey streets and factory units. Today, EU-funded researchers are bringing nature to urban Argentina, in a collaboration between European and Latin American cities. The pavements of San Martín, […]

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Science lifts the curtain on the history of European puppet theatre

Professor Didier Plassard is a leading scholar in theatre studies and puppetry at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University in France. He has spent the last five years exploring the rich history of puppet theatre in Europe and its contribution to the development of a common European cultural identity. “Puppets have helped to build a shared cultural […]

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Digital digs: Technology preserving Europe’s cultural heritage

The common perception is that archaeologists spend their time crawling around a dusty dig on all fours, but Serbian researcher Nenad Jončić could not be more different. He uses drones and digital technology to document archaeological sites at risk of disappearing. In January 2016, Jončić, then a postgraduate archaeology student at the University of Belgrade, […]

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Europe’s musical and cultural heritage at your fingertips

With all the fanfare of the Eurovision Song Contest in May this year, it is possible that many missed another European song contest that was taking place at around the same time – the Polifonia Song Contest.  Organised by Polifonia, an EU-funded research initiative aimed at protecting and promoting Europe’s musical heritage, the competition sought to […]

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