COURAGE
Connecting Collections
Cultural Opposition – Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries
Launching press release
Budapest 1 February, 2016
On 1 February, 2016 an international consortium coordinated by the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences launched a new research project entitled COURAGE.
COURAGE is a three-year international research project financed by the European Union through the Horizon2020 Framework Programme. The total value of the grant is 2.5 million Euros. The project aims to create the first digital database of both online and offline private and public collections in Europe which testify to the survival of various forms of cultural opposition in the former socialist countries of East-Central Europe from the rise of communist regimes in the region to the fall of the Iron Curtain. This project breaks new ground in two primary ways. First, it will create a comprehensive electronic registry of existing but scattered collections on the histories and forms of cultural opposition in the former socialist countries. Second, it will analyse these collections in their broader social, political, and cultural contexts.