The GLAMMONS project (2022-2025), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation on Cultural Heritage and CCIs, aims to look at the ways that commoning practices work in GLAMs.

GLAMMONS ensures that all research outputs, methodologies, and techniques used during the project are made publicly accessible upon an open-access regime on the project’s website.

We are pleased to announce the release of the first working papers and invite you to explore these recent publications based on European case studies and the results of the survey conducted in April 2023:

-Learn more about the Financial Channels of Glams by reading Janet Merkel’s (Technische Universität Berlin) working paper, which discusses cultural policy changes post-pandemic, funding changes in GLAMs, and shifts in their financial structure.

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-Explore organisational and management practices in commons within the context of GLAMs through Bastian Lange and Ares Kalandides’ (Inpolis Urbanism GmbH) working paper.

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-Gain insights into how digital work and tools have been integrated into the operations of memory institutions and explore digital policy and digital management trends in European GLAMs with Stelios Lekakis (MAZOMOS Landscape and Heritage Consultants) and Mina Dragouni’s (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) paper titled “Pandemic-driven shifts of GLAMs finances and participatory practices: Digital policy and management trends in Europe”.

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-Read about the contribution of GLAMs to local and regional economies, as well as issues related to volunteering labour in GLAMs, in the research proposed by Vasilis Avdikos, Eleni Kostopoulou, Martha Michailidou, Dimitris Pettas, Mina Dragouni (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences).   

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-Examine five inspiring practices of GLAMs operating as commons that highlight community engagement, volunteerism, and the preservation of cultural and historical resources in the working paper proposed by Ares Kalandides and Bastian Lange (Inpolis Urbanism GmbH).

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-Discover a novel conceptual framework for studying GLAMs as commons proposed by Vasilis Avdikos, Martha Michailidou, Mina Dragouni, and Dimitris Pettas (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences), tailored to the unique characteristic of the sector. They explore how commoning practices can be developed to ensure the sustainability and resilience of GLAMs while meeting broader societal needs.

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-Gain insight into the current landscape, emerging needs, and future challenges of the European GLAM sector to inform future policy.  Stelios Lekakis (MAZOMOS Landscape and Heritage Consultants) and Mina Dragouni (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) map available copyright and open access options for cultural organisations, evaluate distribution policies, and reveal data sharing trends in the post-pandemic era. 

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