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The project''s main goal is the creation of an European network for the study and dissemination of the cultural heritage and memory of historical whaling. This is a new bilateral collaboration between Portugal and Iceland involving two museums dedicated to whales and whaling heritage and one university research unit, all committed to researching and disseminating history and culture about the Oceans and its animals.
Here are brought together distant regions with such different backgrounds but with common traditions such as Husavik and the Azores, where Lisbon acts as the agglutinating and
Summary of the results
The project had a distinct regional and local character in the targeted regions of the promoter and partners, specifically in Lisbon and the Azores (in Portugal), and in Húsavík (in Iceland), and it also had a broader impact encompassing other Portuguese regions and localities of the Atlantic Ocean. The initiative''s partners effectively conducted most of the activities of network and dissemination through the international participation in the inaugural "Islands, Whales and People" International Meeting (Faial, Azores). Leveraged by ongoing research networks including the UNESCO Chair "The Ocean''s Cultural Heritage" and the OPI - Oceans Past Platform, as also the projects RISE-Marie Curie Action CONCHA and ERC Synergy 4-OCEANS, assistance in promoting the initiative and outreaching to peers and the wider society was also accomplished. We would like to highlight a significant regional action (not included in timeline because it developed after the application) that was closely related to the initiative’s main goals and had a profound national and international impact: the exhibition "The Whale in Atouguia" (Atouguia da Baleia, Peniche, Portugal) . The NOVA FCSH team was invited to join the curators and introduced the concepts behind H-WHALE initiative . The Atouguia da Baleia Interpretation Centre has been revitalised with this new long-term exhibition, demonstrating the historical whaling connection between whales and the local community since medieval times until today.