D7.3 IPERION HS User Forum and Organisation structure and strategy

The IPERION HS (IPHS) User Forum represents a supportive learning and engagement environment called Heritage Science Academy. The HS Academy (#HSAcademy) is an online environment designed to support a global community of users and potential users of IPHS facilities, through online seminars and training videos, as well as through social media. The aim of the HS Academy is to promote the IPHS facilities and excellent science carried out through Transnational Access projects and joint research activities, and also to engage the wider heritage science community in current issues related to heritage science policy and the wider societal issues that impact on the development of heritage science, from climate to social change. The HS Academy promotes interdisciplinarity through a holistic engagement with topics across STEM and SSH disciplines. The HS Academy webinar series has run monthly since April 2021 and plans are currently in place to develop a programme of webinars for 2022. It is also planned for an edition of webinars to be made available that is aimed at a more junior audience, and delivered by early-stage researchers - with the aim to support and engage researchers at the start of their interdisciplinary heritage science careers. All of these activities have a high online visibility, both through the IPHS website and through related social media, and a truly global engagement is visible. An HS Academy anchor has been established on the professional social networking platform LinkedIn, with the aim to develop it more strongly in the future. In addition, plans are in place to survey professional organisations that are currently available to heritage scientists at national levels with the goal to analyse the potential and the need to offer more structured support in the future.