Projet SciCoMove (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SciCoMove promotes international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations between historians of science, scientists and museum professionals from 9 countries in Latin America and Europe with a view to trace the history of scientific collections in paleontology, anthropology, botany and related applied sciences. Its ambition is to reassess their significance and to develop new historical knowledge applicable to their curatorship, utilization by researchers and communication to the public. Drawing on the most recent historiography of science and scientific collections, SciCoMove focuses on the past, but it addresses current issues faced by science museums regarding repatriation demands and the dialogue with “source communities”. Its originality is based: 1 – on the shift of focus from major to smaller museums in the “provinces” or “peripheries” in order to outline a more complex, less centralized and less hierarchical vision of scientific exchanges; 2 – on a conception of collections as nodes in networks of circulation and as structures producing knowledge, rather than as heritage and conservation institutions. Accordingly, SciCoMove focuses on objects “on the move” and on the scholarly practices and sociability of the agents who made these moves possible. In line with its objective to better account for the multiple dimensions of science collections and for multilateral interchange between Europe and Latin America, SciCoMove promotes collaborations on equal terms between Latin American and European teams, in a multilateral and multilingual context of mutual training and sharing. The team has a majority of women. The research combining the material study of objects and investigations in archives will be carried out through case studies and workshops on crosscutting themes. It will feed into training seminars. A digital exhibition will communicate research results, in line with EU policy promoting the public understanding of science and citizen science.

Mots clés : museums, collections, history of science, archives, anthropology, natural history, provincial science, multilateral exchange, circulation of knowledge

Participants :
- University of Bonn (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 73600.0 €
- National University of La Plata (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexique) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Meise Botanic Garden (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 50600.0 €
- Le Mans Université (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 156400.0 €
- Université d'Angers (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 41400.0 €
- Commune du mans (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Heidelberg University (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 50600.0 €
- University of Turin (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 82800.0 €
- Natural Science Museum of Barcelona (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 55200.0 €
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174800.0 €
- University of the Republic (Uruguay) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 23000.0 €
- Republique et canton de neuchatel (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 18400.0 €
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexique) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €