Associated Research and Projects

  • The UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime has contributed to research, education, advisory, and consultation projects. We open to collaboration opportunities. 
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  • Current Projects

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    Revitaliser

    This HORIZION WIDERA-funded project is dedicated to enhancing capabilities to protect archaeological sites from illegal excavations and looting across the EMMENA region.

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    Cultural Property Protection 4 All

    CPP4ALL is a 4-year action funded by The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Association). 

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    PRICELESS

    The PRICELESS Project, funded by the Dutch National Research Council (NVO) studies financial crime and the valuation of unique goods, particularly art and watches, under the banner of subversive crime. 

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  • Affiliations

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    Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage

    MACCH is an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together economic, legal, (art) historical, philosophical, sociological and practical expertise to the context of arts and heritage.

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    Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences

    The Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences (MICS) brings together scholars from all over the world with different academic and professional backgrounds such as law, forensic psychology, criminalistics, and criminology.

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  • Past Projects

    Word based logo: Transform, Trafficking Transformations, Exploring the Relationships between objects and Crime

    Trafficking Transformations

    The European Research Council (ERC)-funded TRANSFORM Project studied the complex relationships between people and special objects (around antiquities, wildlife, and fossils) and how those relationships can lead to crime.  

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    Improving Knowledge on Illicit Trade in Cultural Goods

    This European Commission study contributed to a better understanding of the illicit trade in cultural goods in Europe by providing insights into its various aspects, such as source, transit and destination of illicitly traded goods. 

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    Criminogenic Collectables

    This Scottish Funding Council Global Challenges Research Fund project allowed a team of criminologists from institutions in the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, and Fiji to study “criminogenic collectables”: rare objects that inspire crime.

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    Text based logo: Trafficking Culture Researching the Global traffic in Looted Cultural Objects

    Trafficking Culture

    Trafficking Culture, funded by the European Research Council, conducted globally significant evidence-based research into the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects.

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