Digital meets Culture

June 4, 10-11AM

Metaheritage Webinar #5: Exploring EIT Culture & Creativity Support for European SMEs

The MetaHeritage Webinar Series continues with its fifth session, focusing on the opportunities offered by EIT Culture & Creativity for European SMEs and organisations working across cultural heritage, tourism, and the creative industries. MetaHeritage aims to strengthen collaboration between cultural heritage, technology, tourism, and business ecosystems by supporting knowledge exchange and interregional cooperation across Europe.

The webinar will introduce participants to the programmes, funding instruments, and support structures developed by EIT Culture & Creativity to strengthen innovation, entrepreneurship, and business creation within Europe’s cultural and creative sectors.

As part of the broader MetaHeritage Webinar Series: Unlocking EU Networks for Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Digital Innovation, the session continues the project’s effort to connect stakeholders with European ecosystems, funding opportunities, and innovation networks relevant to heritage-driven digital transformation.

Participants will gain insights into:

Business creation and acceleration opportunities for SMEs
European innovation ecosystems for culture and creativity
Support programmes for scaling ideas and international collaboration
Funding pathways linked to heritage innovation and digital transformation
How cultural heritage organisations and SMEs can engage with European support structures

The webinar is open to SMEs, clusters, cultural institutions, researchers, startups, public authorities, and all organisations interested in innovation in cultural heritage and tourism.

More information and registration at this link.

12 May 2026, Brussels - invitation only event

Twin it! Part II: high-level political Closing Event marking a Milestone for Europe’s 3D Cultural Heritage Strategy

The Twin it! Part II – 3D for Europe’s culture campaign, invited the Ministries of Culture of the 27 EU Member States to submit at least one 3D digitised heritage asset to the common European data space for cultural heritage, stewarded by the Europeana Foundation.

Twin it! Part II aims to further support EU Member States in their 3D digitisation and preservation efforts — now with a sharper focus on how the digitised assets will be used: as a supporter of the Campaign, EUreka3D-XR enabled publication of 3D models from various Member States plus UK through the EUreka3D Data Hub. View them at this link.

On 12 May 2026, the Twin it! Part II campaign will reach a key political milestone with a high-level ministerial closing event, organised by the Europeana Foundation and the European Commission and under the auspices of the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU. The event is by invitation only and will bring together Ministers of Culture from EU Member States to reflect on their national contributions to the campaign and present their vision for the future reuse of 3D-digitised cultural heritage assets across Europe.

The event will highlight how Twin it! Part II campaign is promoting:

The integration of 3D heritage into national strategies
The support of innovation ecosystems
The strengthening collaboration with cultural institutions and tech providers

EUreka3D-XR Project is also taking part in the event with a dedicated booth and materials for participants.

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EUreka3D-XR project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

SECreTOUR Networking activities

Cross-Fertilisation process on the topic of Regenerative Tourism Concept

Regenera4MED is a project co-funded by the Interreg Euro-MED Programme of the European Commission to help Mediterranean regions shifting from sustainable to regenerative tourism, including restoring ecosystems, culture and community well-being.

The Regenera4MED project launched an interesting cross-fertilisation initiative with the aim to connect projects and initiatives interested on the topic of Regenerative Tourism Concept.

SECreTOUR participates in the cross-fertilisation initiative.

In this framework, a survey was launched to review and contribute with feedback to the creation of the Regenerative Tourism Manifesto, which seeks to:

Establish common principles and a shared vision
Build alignment across projects and stakeholders
Support the scaling and transferability of regenerative tourism approaches

Dealine for responding to the survey: Friday 15 May 2026

More information about Regenera4MED are available on the project’s brochure.

Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.

7–8 May 2026, Hybrid (Ferrara and online)

Heritage at Risk Summer School 2026 – 3D Documentation of Cultural Heritage at Risk: Methods, Tools and Practice.

The Heritage at Risk Summer School 2026, organised in collaboration with the 3D-4CH Project and in the framework of 3DBigDataSpace, brough together experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore this question through advanced 3D documentation methods.

Participants gained insights into:

European and international frameworks for heritage protection
Case studies from earthquake zones and war-affected regions
3D reconstruction and modelling approaches
Practical workflows in photogrammetry, laser scanning, and mobile mapping
Data processing techniques for heritage documentation

The Summer School relied on a heavily relevant practical component. Participants attending in Ferrara worked directly with:

Static laser scanners
Photogrammetry tools
Mobile mapping systems (NavVis)

The Summer School was aimed at cultural heritage professionals, researchers and students, architects and urban planners, digital heritage and 3D specialists.

You can learn more about the Summer School and view the programme at this link<<<<.

A new blogpost on the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage

Use the EUreka3D-XR Toolbox to transform 2D and 3D digital collections into XR storytelling

A new blogpost was produced and published on the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage to disseminate and promote the five open-source digital tools developed by EUreka3D-XR.

In the blogpost, the AR Tour Builder, the AR Tour Experience, the AI 3D Builder, the 3D XR Studio and the Avatar Builder will be explored, focusing on how they enable the reuse of 3D and digital cultural content and transform these resources into engaging visitor experiences.

Read the blogpost at this link<<<<

EUreka3D-XR project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

Open source booklet available on Zenodo

EUreka3D-XR: 3D and XR in the European Digital Cultural Heritage

EUreka3D-XR has finalised its booklet “EUreka3D-XR: 3D and XR in the European Digital Cultural Heritage“: the publication describes the EUreka3D competence centre, including the EUreka3D Data Hub, their training and capacity building work, its impact, sustainability and future plans, and finally the 5 innovative open-source tools implemented to create three extended reality experience scenarios based on the reuse of existing digital cultural collection.

The scenarios:

The first scenario utilises the findings and collections of the Girona Municipal Archive, Catalonia, Spain, to reconstruct the missing portions of the city’s historical walls, employing AI technologies. The second scenario maps points of interest for the archaeological centre of Bibracte, France, offering an enriched AR experience for visitors: this experience places 3D representations of museum artefacts and virtual reconstructions of lost buildings back into the landscape context. The third scenario mixes the 3D digitisation of the historic hermitage (Enkleistra) of St Neophytos in Paphos, Cyprus, and its Byzantine frescoes together with historical documents, to deliver a range of VR experiences that make it possible for the visitor to interact with a virtual avatar of the saint and listen to the story of his life in the Enkleistra.

The booklet is available on Zenodo: follow this link to download the PDF.

EUreka3D-XR project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

Explore the newly aggregated objects!

New EUreka3D-XR galleries published on Europeana

“Fouille archéologique”, provided by Bibracted EPCC. CC-BY-SA

Following the most recent (and still ongoing) aggregation of new objects digitized in the context of the EUreka3D-XR projects, four new galleries on Europeana were created by Bibracte.

Start your journey:

All galleries include both 2D and 3D objects, and will be enriched with additional objects and videos as soon as they will be available on Europeana.

EUreka3D-XR project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

May 25, 2026 (14:30-17.30), Limassol (Cyprus)

Building Cultural Bridges, Shaping Shared Futures: The Power of the Europeana Network Association Community

On May 25, 2026 the Europeana Network Association (ENA) event will bring together more than 6,000 multi- and interdisciplinary professionals to expand, enrich, and democratise access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage.

This event is targeted at the full spectrum of professionals and knowledge-makers who shape, preserve, and transmit cultural heritage: librarians, museologists, archivists, archaeologists, historians, scholars, and educators across all levels, as well as researchers from all disciplines, with particular emphasis on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The event will be a catalyst for a real networking, connection and activation. It will take place in the framework of the Digital Heritage Summit, organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage / Research Center MNEMOSYNE in cooperation with ENA and Europeana under the auspices of the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is open invitation and free of charge participation to all those who safeguard memory, generate knowledge, and educate future generations. Read the full press release.

Registration to the event are open: follow this link<<<<.

Submit yours!

By MetaHeritage: Knowledge Hub and Good Practices call

MetaHeritage is building a shared knowledge ecosystem to showcase innovation at the intersection of cultural heritage, technology, and business models: it now invites to innovators, cultural heritage professionals, and SMEs to contribute to its growing Knowledge Hub, a compendium of good practices born from interregional collaboration, including examples to promote the unique strengths, assets, and resources of different regions, especially the less developed ones, focusing on cultural heritage, digital competences and local expertise. Anyone can contribute through a quick questionaire: Metaheritage will review and showcase inspiring projects and innovative approaches at the intersection of heritage, technology, and tourism. Join the Hub at this link<<<<

If you want to learn more about the Call for Good Practices, click here<<<<

22 April 2026, Mannheim, Germany - Hybrid event

REMOTE WORK IN EUROPE: Evidence, Impacts, Policy

The R.Map project, member of the SECreTOUR Network of Common Interest, is organising a Joint research symposium in collaboration with WinWin4WorkLife and REMAKING projects.

The event will take place in hybrid format accessible online and onsite at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany.

The Symposium will be the occasion to know about the mid-term insights from the three
Horizon Europe projects and their proposed policy recommendations.

The programme of the event is available for download here.

Those interested to participate can join either in person in Mannheim, Germany, or online, following the registration link.

Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.