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Complementing the Cultural Heritage Cloud call 2025 webinar on 30 June, we would like to invite you to a new webinar focused on presenting the 10 new tools projects for the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage.

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cultural heritage | cloud computing | social sciences
Monday 1 December 2025, 14:30 - 16:30 (CET)
Online only
Live streaming available

Practical information

When: Monday 1 December 2025, 14:30 - 16:30 (CET)
Where: Online only
Languages: English
Part of: The Cultural Heritage Cloud

Description

Why participate in the event?

Discover the latest updates and exciting developments in the Cultural Heritage Cloud initiative. This event is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the different consortiums and meet representatives from ECHOES and the newly selected tools, fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration. Don’t miss the chance to gain insights, ask questions, and connect with the community shaping the future of research on European cultural heritage.

Webinar agenda

Webinar presentations

Background

The Cultural Heritage Cloud - or European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) - is an ambitious European Union initiative, supported with around € 110 million from Horizon Europe, to create a digital infrastructure that will connect cultural heritage researchers and professionals across the EU and enable advanced collaboration and co-creation. It is developing specific digital collaborative tools for the sector and will remove barriers for smaller and remote institutions to benefit from the opportunities offered by advanced digital technologies.

The Cultural Heritage Cloud will add a new digital dimension to cultural heritage preservation, conservation, restoration and enhancement by providing cutting-edge technologies, for instance for the digitization of artefacts or for researching artworks.

The implementation of this initiative is now in process with the EU-funded project ECHOES - European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science building the Cloud infrastructure. The project started on the 1st of June 2024. Three sister projects were selected under the 2023 call:

AUTOMATA - AUTOMated enriched digitisation of Archaeological liThics and cerAmics
TEXTaiLES - TEXTile digitisAtIon tooLs and mEthodS for cultural heritage
HERITALISE - Heritage buildings and objects' digitisation & visualisation within the cloud

From the 2024 ECCCH call on creating innovative tools, 10 new projects were selected, for a total of 48 million euro. The projects will be presented during the webinar:

Digitalisation and analysis of dynamic processes, objects and complex combined data

KINETIKA - Advancing the Digitization and Analysis of Dynamic Cultural Heritage Objects
MusicSphere - A Multimodal Approach for Digitizing, Analyzing, and Simulating Traditional Musical Organs Through 3D Technologies, Acoustic Analysis and Interactive Experiences

Advanced data enrichment

INFINITY - Multidimensional knowledge-based annotation for ethical context-aware heritage data life cycles
ECHOLOT - European Cultural Heritage Optimised Linked Open Tools

Documenting, interlinking and organising data

ARXIVE - Advanced Research and eXploration for Interoperable Value in European Heritage
StratiGraph - Knowledge Graphs for Stratigraphy

High-value interactions with visitors and heritage objects

UNICHE - Unified No-Code platform for Interactive Cultural Heritage Experiences
PlaceMUS XR - Digital Journey across Musical Places in Europe and Extended Realities

Study, conservation and restoration of heritage objects

EXCALIBUR - Advanced toolkits for interdisciplinary and enhanced study, conservation, and restoration in burial excavations and findings
COLOURS - Collaborative On-cloud Lab for the conservation and digital restoration of ColOUred heritage collectionS