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CRIES at the Danish State Visit to Latvia 🇩🇰🇱🇻 This week, during the Danish Royal Couple’s official visit to Latvia, Katrine Laigaard Baunvig delivered together with Rūta Muktupāvela and Aleida Bertran a speech on behalf of The CRIES Project - a transnational research collaboration exploring how collective singing emerges and transforms in times of crisis. Speaking at the Latvijas Kultūras akadēmija / Latvian Academy of Culture, 💭 Baunvig reflected on a powerful cultural constant: “In every case, the impulse is the same: the use of song to stay human when circumstances are inhuman.” 🔹From the Alsang movements of WWII to the Singing Revolution of the Baltic states - and today, in Ukraine - collective singing has served as both a language of solidarity and a quiet form of resistance. 🔹The timing of this visit is of course not accidental: It marks a moment where Nordic–Baltic cultural ties, research cooperation, and shared histories of resilience meet - in a region that has, time and again, turned to song in the face of crisis. CRIES, supported by HERA- Humanities in the European Research Area andCHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (EU), unites researchers from Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, and Lithuania. The project uses computational and ethnographic methods to explore how singing reflects and shapes communal life - from the 19th century to the present. 💭 And as Baunvig concluded: “Singing is, at its heart, a state of being - of fellowship, of trust. A reminder that harmony can still be found when words fail.” 🔗 Learn more about CRIES: https://lnkd.in/dD64Zv_u #CRIES #CollectiveSinging #CulturalResilience #Denmark #Latvia #HERA #CHANSE

Good to see new EASSH – European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities website today in the run up to the next phase of decision-making on FP10. Splendid work from Gabi Lombardo PhD and her team. A key element missing in proposed Society research is a clear understanding not only of the connectivity of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to every research question-because all our research questions are about people-but also their centrality to economic growth and development, from the 'psychic income' culture gives to civic desirability and well-being to the hard cash of cultural tourism and the Cultural and Creative Industries- short blog here: https://lnkd.in/eETwdNgD Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) Museums in the Metaverse Sam Alberti Angus Robertson Fergus Bruce Joe O'Hara

Funding opportunity for humanities and social sciences in marine and coastal research: The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership has launched its third Joint Transnational Call: “Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems, Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy’s Competitiveness.” This call actively seeks contributions from sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, human geography, psychology, behavioural studies, and law to address social, cultural, and governance dimensions of the blue economy. Key focus areas: Digital Twins of the Ocean at sub-basin scale Transitioning blue economy sectors and shared marine infrastructures Climate-smart sea-use planning at regional level Blue bioresources: fisheries, aquaculture, and bio-based products Resilient coastal communities and businesses Deadlines: Pre-proposal: 17 November 2025 (15:00 CET) Full proposal: 17 June 2026 (15:00 CEST) Eligible countries include: Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain, Türkiye, Ukraine, and more. Full details here: https://lnkd.in/ebngh65F

Building Capacity in the Ukrainian R&I Research Ecosystem: Registration Now Open for a Series of Webinars by the NRFU and Science Europe 💻 Since the first days of the full-scale war, Science Europe and its member organisations have supported the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU) and the Ukrainian research community. As part of this partnership, the NRFU and Science Europe are organising a series of online webinars to be held from September 2025 to February 2026. The event will combine international expertise and Ukrainian needs 🇺🇦 to foster the development of a modern research ecosystem. 📚 About the Webinars The goal of the SE–NRFU webinar series is to provide Ukrainian researchers with the tools and knowledge to manage research projects more effectively and to implement best international practices. 🗓️ Webinars Schedule ⚖️ 19 September 2025 – Balancing bottom-up and top-down research funding 📊 25 November 2025 – Developing and implementing monitoring tools for R&D projects 🔓 20 February 2026 – Open Science policies and practices of research funding organisations 📲 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Feel free to sign up for one, several, or all webinars in the series via the link: https://cutt.ly/LrGy9oTP ⏰ All webinars are scheduled to take place from 10:00–11:30 CET (11:00–12:30 EET). 🗣 The event will be held in English, with simultaneous translation into Ukrainian. Follow official NRFU and Science Europe channels for the latest news and updates.

The Driving Urban Transitions 2025 Call invites transnational research including SSH expertise to help cities become climate-neutral and resilient. Pre-proposals due 17 November 2025. Read more ⤵️

Thank you to everyone who participated in the CHANSE Final Conference #WeAreCHANSE, which took place in Kraków on 8–9 September 2025! The event was a great success – full of inspiring discussions, engaging workshops, and thought-provoking presentations from CHANSE-funded projects. Your active participation and collaboration truly made this gathering special. 🙌 📸 We’re excited to share that the photo gallery from the conference is now available on the event website 👉 https://lnkd.in/drZRvxj9 ✨ Stay tuned – more highlights coming soon! 🚀 #EUCHANSE

Congratulations to our CHANSE partners on their Final Conference! Discover the event programme: https://lnkd.in/dyjQugRQ We are delighted to have collaborated with CHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe to support 10 projects on “Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities”: https://lnkd.in/eqh4euNi

🎶Computing Collective Singing in Scandinavian and Baltic Public Spheres (1800–2025) 🎶 In The CRIES Project, we explore how collective singing shapes societies during times of crisis.    Work Package 1 (WP1) focuses on the language of singing itself across Scandinavia and the Baltics to decode the complex discourses surrounding the cultural phenomenon.   🔹Using one of the largest nordic cultural heritage datasets assembled to date – newspapers, periodicals, and novels spanning 200 years – WP1 applies neural word embedding models to trace the shifting meanings of key song terms such as sang, sång, dainuoti, laulis, and dziedāt.   This computational approach allows us to detect subtle semantic shifts: how words for “singing” connect to ideas of community, conflict, or resistance.    🔹A semantic network (see illustration below) reveals not only synonymic and antonymic relations, but also the fine relational structure between the “agents” of singing. In this example exploring the verb "Sjunge" in the works of the Danish priest, author and hymnwriter N.F.S Grundtvig, it reveals agents from angels and birds to skalds and the phoenix - each embedding singing within broader frameworks of meaning.   💡 But CRIES does not replace traditional humanities scholarship with computation. On the contrary, as PL of CRIES Katrine Laigaard Baunvig says: "our aim is to combine the strengths of large-scale algorithmic analysis with close, interpretive readings of texts".  By weaving together these approaches, WP1 provides a new lens on how collective singing has influenced public opinion, cultural identity, and social cohesion from 1800 to today.   👉 Stay tuned as we continue to unfold how singing in the past and present resonate in times of crisis: https://lnkd.in/dD64Zv_u   #CRIESproject #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #CollectiveSinging #BalticStudies #ScandinavianStudies   The CRIES Project is a transnational research project supported by CHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe // HERA- Humanities in the European Research Area.

Embedding Social Sciences and Humanities expertise is key to tackling today’s and tomorrow’s complex challenges. Great to see this essential role recognised in #HorizonEurope!