Division

AUSTRIA,

BELGIUM,

CROATIA,

CYPRUS,

DENMARK,

FRANCE,

GERMANY,

GREECE,

IRELAND,

ITALY,

LUXEMBOURG,

MALTA,

THE NETHERLANDS,

SERBIA,

SLOVENIA,

Hereinafter referred to as ‘The Founding Members’

RECOGNISING the important role for Observers and Cooperating Partners of DARIAH ERIC;

WISHING to support the arts and humanities in Europe;

WISHING to create a state of the art infrastructure for digitally enabled research across the arts and humanities;

HAVING IN MIND the results of the DARIAH Preparatory Phase Project, funded by the European Commission under the Grant Agreement No 211583;

REQUESTING the European Commission to establish the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (DARIAH ERIC);

HAVE THEREFORE AGREED ON THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS: