Digital Humanities: Strategic Partnership

Date: 2015-05-29

“Athena” Research Center, as part of a consortium of seven universities and research centers across Europe, recently received an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership grant to develop an open-source, high quality, multilingual reference curriculum for the digital arts and humanities. The DARIAH Reference Curriculum (DARIAH-RC) will strengthen alliances and foster innovative teaching and learning practices among members of the ESFRI-roadmap Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH).

The Strategic Partnership grant started on 1 January 2015 and will run for a duration of two and a half years. The DARIAH-RC will feature flexible, localized curriculum materials as well as a central, modular portal that will host, deliver and maintain those materials. The portal will also support the development of new curricula materials and the sustainability of the project after the grant period has ended. The DARIAH-RC represents the first openly accessible Digital Humanities curriculum of its kind and will serve as a model for creating and delivering open-source asynchronous online educational materials, from which other communities can benefit.

Maynooth University in Ireland will coordinate the Strategic Partnership, which also includes Aarhus University’s DIGHUMLAB (Denmark), “Athena” Research Center (Greece), the Austrian Academy of Science (Austria), Belgrade Centre for Digital Humanities (Serbia), Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and University of Lausanne (Switzerland). The partners represent countries that are either founding DARIAH countries or are working towards Cooperative Partner status, and exemplify a depth of experience within the digital arts and humanities field.

Erasmus+ is the European Union’s programme for education, training, youth and sport, which aims to boost and improve the skills and employability of Europe’s citizens. Throughout the seven-year program, more than four million Europeans will benefit from projects and programmes funded by Erasmus+.