AHM fosters a dynamic, interdisciplinary and transnational research of heritage, memory and material culture and stimulates scholarly cooperation in an international setting, organises PhD training, seminars, reading groups, workshops, public debates, and international conferences.

The school brings together researchers working in diverse areas and fields heritage and memory studies, cultural studies, museum studies, archaeology and material culture, art history, media, conservation and restoration, archival studies, digital humanities, postcolonial and performative studies, religious studies, music and theatre studies, conflict and identity studies, Slavonic languages and cultures, Holocaust and genocide studies, European memory studies, Middle Eastern studies, and cultural, public and oral history.