UNESCO Chair in Cultural Landscapes and Heritage. From the Basque Country to the Atlantic World

The UNESCO Chair in Cultural Landscapes and Heritage promotes comprehensive approaches for the management and conservation of cultural landscapes, combining research, training, and international collaboration. In this presentation, their leaders will introduce their most relevant projects, highlighting those centered on the Atlantic axis and emphasizing their key contributions and impact.

Speakers: Sergio Escribano (presenting author), Agustin Azkarate, Ander de la Fuente

UPV/EHU-Guggenheim cooperation programme

The UPV/EHU-Guggenheim Museum programme promotes the cooperation   around the conservation and restoration of contemporary art, carrying out research and training activities on state-of-the-art issues and challenges related to this subject. In this session, we will learn about two collaborative projects carried out by students from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU.

Gustavianum – The interface between the academic world and the surrounding society

Gustavianum is a place where the University´s unique historical collections, together with the University´s research and knowledge-gathering, can be discussed with the surrounding society. For a university museum public engagement is important and the benefits are many. With widening participation in the activities where new groups, with different backgrounds, are included the museum becomes a gathering point for the entire university where students and researchers meet a wider audience for discussions about pressing issues of our time – and about the role of science in the present and future.

Åsa Sundelin
Deputy Museum Director at Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum

Since 2001, Åsa Sundelin has worked with educational and public activities at museums, but has also been involved in exhibition production. Åsa Sundelin has extensive experience and a commitment to developing activities and collaborations that are linked to the museum's role in communicating science and research to a broad public.

Cecilia Ödman
Head of Public Engagement and Collaboration at Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum

Since 2018, she has been part of the project team for SciFest, one of Sweden’s largest science festivals, organized by Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. In 2024, together with colleagues, she initiated a network for Nordic university museums. Cecilia Ödman is the chair of the Swedish section of the Nordic Museum Association and serves on the board of the Uppsala Museums Association.

Panel discussion

Moderator: Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon

Researcher in sociology of religion with particular interest in civil society and issues of religion, collaboration and welfare. Director of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, CRS (www.crs.uu.se). Also previously collaboration coordinator developing support structures for knowledge transfer and collaboration in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University.

Actively involved in the European University Alliance ENLIGHT as Academic Coordinator from the disciplinary domain of Humanities and Social Sciences.