Alina Kalachova is a researcher with formal education in Critical Urbanism and Architecture, currently studying European Heritage and focusing on how cultural heritage interplays with migration studies, human rights and civic engagement. In 2022, she had been coordinating the Summer School “Cultural Heritage and Future” at European Humanities University and 1-year Study Circle “Creative Tools to Interpret Heritage” at Nordic Summer University (NSU), which was developed into a new 3-year Study Program “Place of Heritage in Interdisciplinarity”.