HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative

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Heritage and global challenges

Heritage is engagement with the past in the present. Heritage is, therefore, entangled in, and crucial for a deeper understanding of some of the most important contemporary global challenges: Migration, integration, conflict and cultural destruction, climate change and adaptation to rapid and major technological changes.

HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative develope critical heritage research in close cooperation with the heritage sector and experiment with new teaching and learning models.

Research

HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative is a multi-disciplinary and theoretically informed project with the aim to create deeper insights into what heritage is and the significance of heritage today.

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Studies

HEI aims at an integration of teaching and research, where learning is enriched through project-based, work-life anchored experiences and research is driven by teaching.

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News

Guest Researcher With HEI May 16, 2024
"When it comes to understanding the past, there are as many different people in the past as there are different people today and I think we gain a lot in terms of research when we look at the past through different lenses."
Erasmus intern at IAKH May 16, 2024
Theofano Moraiti is an Erasmus intern at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History. She just finished her master's degree on Field Archaeology and Material Culture with a focus on Maritime Archaeology, at the University of Thessaly in Greece. She has an internship at IAKH from March 14th to June 14th 2024.
Archaeology students at Gjellestad Jan. 17, 2023
Archaeology students joined the ship excavation at Gjellestad, and made exciting discoveries in the sieve.