Centre for the Digital and Green Transformation in Cities and Communities

As European research moves towards new mission-based partnerships addressing complex, global challenges, higher education institutions and programmes must also help create challenge-based impact and future solutions. The insight is growing that in future Arts and Humanities will contribute even more strongly towards development based on human-centeredness: Creating stronger focus on users, citizens, audiences and customers, consequently strengthening socio-economic impact, connectedness, and inclusion across Europe. This also implies negotiating our common digital transition, further contributing to long-term digital capacity building within Arts and Humanities and fostering this into knowledge and competence for telling new stories for Europe. 

DiMPAH as the Digital Methods Platform for Arts and Humanities has three objectives for Open Education Resources, in short OER:

1. Create novel OERs on digital methods and associated tools for the construction of new knowledge on Arts and Humanities research questions and for audience engagement in a suite across the complementary areas of qualitative and quantitative digital research tools and methods and providing access to Arts and Humanities resources.

2. The DiMPAH-selected methods are to be applied and tested via case studies in the three European digital heritage contexts of digitised newspaper collections, building heritage environments and their digital twins as well as performing arts collections.

3. DiMPAH will move this ‘towards new stories for Europe’: Selected new methods and technologies, and cultural heritage case studies, will be deployed in learning scenarios to localise and show possible solutions and potential impact on social equity, transnational and cultural diversity, gender equality, good health and well-being.

DiMPAH aims to aggregate, connect and make widely available novel OERs on selected digital methods in, applying these to interdisciplinary contexts and fostering novel creative learning experiences by taking data from the past into future stories.

DiMPAH is part of the Erasmus+ programme, running from September 2020 to August 2023. It will encompass training participating partners on creating OERs for #dariahTeach, creation and iterative testing of OERs, interactive book writing, and multiplier events, including one final Hackathon. By this, cooperation serves and the exchange of good practices. 

If you wish to know more about DiMPAH, take a look at the website of Linnæus University as our leading initiative partner, or contact Marianne Ping Huang.