Definitions of heritage have been subject to extensive institutionalized discussions from the mid-20th century onwards, resulting in the concept being amended and reframed, to fit changing understandings of representation, authority, and resistance. Taking multiperspectivity seriously, we want to engender discussions that go beyond the set categories promoted by international organizations such as UNESCO. We are particularly interested in the ways in which research interlocutors experience and shape such processes. Among the questions we will address are the following: When does an object, a space, an activity, or a song, to give just a few examples, become valued as heritage? How is such a conceptualisation alluded to, by people who for one or another reason do not connect to a formal heritage discourse? The well known category ‘Authorised Heritage Discourse’, typically juxtaposed by a subaltern ‘Heritage from Below’, somehow seems to presume that heritage as a category operates across societal contexts. What about traditions, skills, objects, and stories that are not objectified as such, which remain ‘in the shadow’? This roundtable has societal stakeholders and academics active, who as practitioners are actively involved in the reframing of heritage. Participants will discuss how we can understand heritage from the perspectives of different stakeholders and how this can in future lead to a more grounded and diverse understanding of heritage from a global perspective. The roundtable will focus on diverse appreciations, interpretations, and operationalizations of what may (or may not) constitute heritage for a broad range of societal stakeholders. This discussion is an initiative of a committee on cultural heritage of the cooperative university network Una Europa. This network encompasses eleven leading European research universities, which are particularly strong in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.