‘Europe for Culture, Culture for Europe’
For the first time in EU history, the three EU institutions signed a joint declaration reaffirming the EU’s role in protecting cultural and linguistic diversity and integrating cultural considerations across all EU policies, while respecting national competencies. The institutions set out their commitment to placing culture at the heart of the European project by protecting and promoting artistic freedom, cultural diversity, inclusion and fair conditions for artists. Furthermore, they ple...

MetaHeritage Pitching Showcase - Call for Investment Ideas in Digital Heritage, Immersive Technologi...
MetaHeritage is inviting innovators from across Europe and beyond to apply for its Pitching Showcase: Call for Investment Ideas in Digital Heritage, Immersive Technologies and Cultural Tourism. The initiative aims to identify and highlight promising solutions at the intersection of culture, technology, and creativity. It supports selected ideas by increasing their visibility, strengthening their investment readiness, and connecting them with relevant stakeholders across Europe. The cal...

From Roman Castulo to the Alhambra
Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation, a not-for-profit organisation based in Madrid, collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini (Factum Foundation). The research was defended on 30 January 2026 and focuses on the study, digitisation, and virtual reconstruction of three groups of decorative architectural surfaces from different contexts and p...

Call for Proposals open for 2026 IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase
For the 2026 IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) Annual Conference and Showcase, that will be held in the Netherlands June 1–4, 2026, The IIIF Conference Program Committee invites proposals through Call for Proposals has been made available. Proposals for presentation are to be presented in the following formats: 5-minute lightning talks 15-minute presentations (plus 5 minutes for Q&A) Posters (plus a 1-minute introduction) Workshops (1–3 hours) ...