The Right to Cultural Heritage - Its Protection and Enforcement through Cooperation in the European Union (HEURIGHT14)

该项目调查欧盟内部以及欧盟作为其对外行动的一部分如何理解和执行与文化遗产有关的人权保障。它侧重于波兰、联合王国和意大利-代表不同文化、政治和法律的传统的国家-及其与其他国家和非国家文化社区的关系。该项目认识到文化遗产权的性质不断变化，将绘制这一权利不断演变的内容如何影响文化遗产的保护、获取和管理形式的地图。该项目的附加价值在于结合对相关法律及其实施和执行的分析，首先，该项目将从理论上重新界定文化遗产权的概念，不仅侧重于实在法和判例，而且侧重于软法律规则、外交和文化合作，作为促进文化间对话和理解的可能替代手段。第二，从实践的角度来看，该项目分析了用于管理和保护文化遗产的技术工具，特别是随着数据库、虚拟博物馆等的发展而进行的数字化进程，因此，该项目将有助于制定保护和管理文化遗产的可持续战略，作为促进欧洲地区国家间和文化间对话的一种手段。其成果将有两个方面：i）通过各种出版物（文章、报告、讲习班和专著）传播，为该领域的跨学科学术研究做出了开创性贡献;ii）制定了关于利用文化遗产的最佳做法的建议和指导方针，这些建议和指导方针可通过一个新的在线平台公开获取，以造福于对保护和享有文化遗产具有内在利益的国家和社区。

This project investigates how human rights guarantees in relation to cultural heritage are being understood and implemented within the EU and by the EU as part of its external action. It focuses on Poland, the United Kingdom and Italy - countries representing different cultural, political and legal traditions - and their relations with other states and non-state cultural communities. Acknowledging the changing nature of the right to cultural heritage, the project will map how this right's evolving content affects the forms of protection, access to and governance of cultural heritage. The added value of the project consists in combining an analysis of the relevant laws, their implementation and enforcement.Firstly, the project will provide a theoretical re-conceptualization of the right to cultural heritage, focusing not only on positive law and jurisprudence, but also on soft-law rules, diplomacy, and cultural cooperation, as possible alternative devices for fostering inter-cultural dialogue and understanding. Secondly, in its practical perspective, the project analyses how the technical tools used to manage and protect cultural heritage, in particular digitization processes with the development of databases, virtual museums, etc., are currently considered and how they could be further developed to strengthen the enforcement of the right to cultural heritage throughout the EU, including its external action.Thus, the project will contribute to the development of sustainable strategies for protecting and managing cultural heritage as a means to foster inter-national and inter-cultural dialogue within the European region. Its outcomes will be twofold:i) a ground-breaking contribution to an interdisciplinary scholarship in this area, disseminated through various publications (articles, reports, workshops and a monograph);ii) the elaboration of recommendations and guidelines - openly accessible via a new online platform - concerning best practices on the use of cultural heritage for the benefit of states and communities which all have an intrinsic interest in its protection and enjoyment.