CHeriScape (Cultural Heritage in Landscape) is a project that belongs to the European international research program “Cultural Heritage- A Challenge for Europe”, part of the JPI-JHEP (Joint Programming Initiative- Joint Heritage European Programme).
CHeriScape´s team is composed of seven institutions belonging to five different countries: Newcastke University (UK) (to whom the Lead Researcher, Graham Fairclough, belongs to), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES), Wageningen University (NL), Cultural Heritage Agency (NL), Ghent University (BE), Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage (NIKU), and the Bioforsk-Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research. 
Each member has organized an international and interdisciplinary conference between 2014 and 2016, who´s summaries can be found on the project´s web page. By means of these conferences and other work reunions, CHeriScape has had the participation of over one hundred researchers form all around Europe, as well as different agents related with landscape organization and heritage management.
To achieve the objectives of the project an international consortium that united difference disciplines was established, due to the fact that the study of landscapes is one of the most interdisciplinary scientific fields. Landscapes enter simultaneously in to three categories of heritage established by the JPI; it is both tangible and intangible at the same time, and, in the meanwhile,e there has been an increase in its use by a large sector of the public by means of digital media. Therefore, CHeriScape, also makes use of an enrichening concept of landscape as a laboratory for the observation of nature and the potential value of its heritage.
The CHeriScape network is based on the idea that landscapes are not only a category within the concept general heritage, but rather a global frame that, within the concept of heritage, which can be understood form an alternative point of view, while also being preserved and protected. Landscapes also offer opportunities for enhancing social, economic and environmental benefits for heritage. CHeriScape delves into the existing connection between landscape and heritage, as occurs both in research and public politics. Viewing heritage through the lens of landscape allows us to address environmental and social challenges.
The network explores the common spaces among two treaties of the European Council, the European Landscape Convention and the Convention of Faro on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society. Both texts are complementary and respond to a renewed and deeply socially implicated notion of cultural heritage. The point of view of CheriScape is also based on the ESF/COSY Science Policy Briefing “Landscapes in a Changing World”.
CHeriScape proposes new messages based on “Cultural Solutions for Cultural Problems” that insist on the capacity of landscapes as a heritage that can give coherent solutions to environmental and social politics, both at a local and global level.
Spanish participation has been enabled thanks to the State Program I+D+I Oriented to Social Challenges. Combined International Programming Actions 2013 (PCIN2013-028). The Lead Researcher is Alumdena Orejas, from the Institute of History (CSIC), who is also related to the research team Estructura Social y Territorio. Arqueología del Paisaje (Social Structure and Territory. Landscape Archaeology), of the HI, CSIC.
One of the objectives of CHeriScape is the application in certain cases of the concepts, strategies and solutions that were debated within the network as well as with other specialists. For this end, one of the bases of the project is the establishment of a continuous dialogue with all different local agents. Continuing this line, the Spanish team postulated that both the SHeriScape team and MINECO work together in the developing the IVGA project as a study case for the application of the proposals established by CHeriScape.