About COLUMN
“Colonial heritage cannot be studied from a European perspective alone”
The project COLUMN - Colonial legacies of Universities - New Materialities and New Collaborations runs from April 2025 to March 2029 and involves partner universities and institutions in Suriname (Anton de Kom University of Suriname), the Netherlands (Utrecht University and Studio Louter), Austria (University Museums, University of Graz), South Africa (University of Pretoria), Switzerland (University of Geneva), the Czech Republic (Charles University), Italy (University of Bologna), and Denmark (Aarhus University).
The project is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), with a total budget exceeding 4.4 million euros. At UU, it is supported by Institutions for Open Societies and the Coimbra Group partnership and focuses on the role of universities in terms of colonial entanglements.
The University Museums of the University of Graz lead the workpackage of dealing with colonial collections from a museological point of view.