EUCOR Funding for New Project on Human Remains Approved

Good news for the new research project “Human Remains in University Collections - Comparison and Entanglements” - a first grant in the form of seed money from the “Research, Innovation and Transfer” funding stream has been approved as part of the EUCOR Campus start-up funding program.

The project aims to help the three Upper Rhine universities of Strasbourg, Basel and Freiburg to process their respective human remains collections, each of which reflects global and colonial origins and knowledge production. All three have been involved in the collection of human remains since the 19th century and today face similar challenges in re-evaluating and reorganizing these ethically sensitive collections, even if their origins, scope and historical development differ.

The University of Freiburg and the ACT are represented with Andreas Mehler and Anika Becher.

The University of Freiburg reported on the project on their homepage: Seed Money: Eucor funds four cross-border research projects at the University of Freiburg

More information about the project can be found on the project page.

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