RESEARCH PROJECTS
 | At the LAC, research activities are carried out both as individual initiatives and as thematically unified group projects, involving bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral students alongside senior researchers. According to LAC’s strategic specialization and study directions, programs, and sub-programs, research focuses on priority themes. The strategic specialization of research focuses on interdisciplinarity in the study of cultural and artistic phenomena. The IACS conducts both academic and applied studies (including projects commissioned by the sector and policy-makers) and participates in international research projects. |
State Research Programmes
Current research projects
Cultural and creative ecosystem of Latvia as a resource of resilience and sustainability”/CERS (2023-2026)
Preconditions of authentic youth participation in formal and non-formal education / UNFRAMED (2023-2026)
Completed research projects
Landscapes of Identities: History, Culture, and Environment (2021-2024)
Cultural capital as a resource for sustainable development of Latvia/CARD (2020-2022)
Digital Resources for Humanities: Integration and Development (2020-2022)
State Research Programme Habitus (2014-2017)
Fundamental and Applied Research Projects
Current research projects
Archaeological heritage in inland waters: islands and lake-settlements in lakes of Latvia (2025-2027)
Preparing for War: Meanings of War in Public Discourse and Youth Perception in Latvia (2025-2027)
Conversions and ruptures: epistemic strategies in Latvian philosophy during the Soviet period (1944-1991) (2025-2027)
Completed research projects
Meaning and Practice of Autonomy in Gig-Work (2022-2024)
Rethinking Creative Cities: Networks, Intermediaries, Development Prospects/ REPRINT (2022-2024)
Creative Industries in Small Towns: Potential and Contribution to Sustainability/CRISP (2020-2021)
The art of nationalism: Social solidarity and exclusion in contemporary Latvia (2020-2021)
Newly discovered hillforts in Latvia 2018-2021: cultural-historical significance (2018-2021)
Community Participation in Cultural Heritage Governance: Practices, Developments and Challenges (2018-2020)
The Vidzeme River Svētupe in the Mythical and Real Cultural Space (2013-2015)
Applied Studies
International Research Projects
Current research projects
War Through the Lens of New Media: Documentation Methods and Challenges in the Post-Digital Era (2025-2026)
EU Kids Online V: Quantitative Europe-wide study on children's online experiences (2025)
IN SITU: Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas (2022-2026)
Completed research projects
Mapping of Heritage NGOs in Central & Eastern Europe (2024)
LIVIND: Creative and living cultural heritage as a resource for the Northern Dimension region (2021-2024)
From Sea to Street (2023)
CoHERE: Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe (2016-2019)
A Comparative Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage Law in Europe (2016-2017)
Post-doctoral Research Aid
Bridging the Cultural Divide: Strategies for Rural Families to Curate Digital Cultural Consumption for Youth (2025-2028)
Culture and the arts as a source of social resilience in societal crises (2021-2023)
Internal Research Grants