The SECreTour Network of Common Interest is enriched by the participation of the Municipality of Morcote.
As historic monumental medieval capital of the lake of Lugano, Morcote is part of the Amphitheatre of the San Giorgio and Arbostora cultural landscape studied in the SECreTour pilot coordinated by Università della Svizzera Italiana.
Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.
Studio Macaco has joined the SECreTour Network of Common Interest.
Studio MACACO (Ludens Sagl) is a Swiss-based creative software company focused on developing interactive digital experiences for the tourism and cultural sectors.
Through the use of storytelling, gamification, and emerging technologies, they design tools that enhance local heritage and foster meaningful exploration of rural and remote territories.
Its work includes a series of mobile applications and interactive trails that transform tourism into playful, educational, and emotionally engaging journeys.
Key projects include Tesori del Ticino, Tesori delle Vette del Ceresio, and Caccia alla Macchia, all of which blend physical exploration with digital narratives.
Studio MACACO is committed to creating sustainable, inclusive, and innovative solutions that make cultural and natural heritage accessible to all. In this light, it aims to contribute to the SECreTour pilot of Monte San Giorgio.
Further information about Studio Macaco are available at its website: studiomacaco.ch
Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.
We are very glad to announce that Omnis Vision SA has joined the SECreTour Network of Common Interest.
Omnis Vision SA is a strategic partner for the enhancement, management, and development of real estate assets and the territory. Its expertise and commitment to innovation of built and natural heritage is much relevant for the scope of SECreTour, when it comes to look for new opportunities and new perspectives of socio-economic and territorial development.
Through the newly established collaboration, Ominis Vision will participate in the SECreTour pilot of Monte San Giorgio, contributing to discover novel ways for unlocking the potential of such a wonderful rural destination.
Further information about Omins Vision SA are available at its website: https://www.omnis.swiss/
Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.
On 29 May 2025 the conference “Photography and archives: discovery, technology and innovation” was organized as an event of project EUreka3D-XR by coordinator Photoconsortium and the Historical Archives of the European Union, hosted at the beautiful premises of Villa Salviati (Florence).
The conference was articulated in three panels on Heritage, Technology, and Innovation, and aimed to explore the landscape of technology and innovation in the sector of cultural heritage and promote collaboration across institutions, research and private sector through the presentations of important cultural institutions, archives, universities and enterprises involved in the research in the field of new technologies, digital infrastructures and digitisation. The conference was a great opportunity for both private and public stakeholders to broaden their network even further and discuss the evolving technologies and how they impact the workflow of heritage professionals.
The event was a great success, with a peak of over 80 people attending online and around 30 attending in Firenze: many interesting discussions between the stakeholders and attendees sparked.
WELCOME AND PANEL 1: HERITAGE
Chair: Antonella Fresa, Vice-President of Photoconsortium
PANEL 2: TECHNOLOGY
Chair: Matthias Goetzelmann, European University Institute
PANEL 3: INNOVATION, AND FINAL REMARKS
Chair: Louise Arizzoli, I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
EUreka3D-XR is focused on transforming cultural contents such 2D or 3D into extended reality scenarios. At the same time, the European cultural heritage sector is facing the 3D digitisation and the reuse of 3D models.
On 26 September 2025, the EUreka3D-XR capacity building event explored these questions and offered a closer look at use case scenarios and possibilities of XR, as well as share practical insights and future reusable tools. The event was attended by over 40 participants onsite and over 70 online.
The event Reimagining cultural heritage in 3D and XR is organised by the EUreka3D-XR project, led by partner meemoo and in collaboration with Cultuurconnect. It took place on-site (TRACK Brussels) and online, and was built up in two parts:
All presentations are recordings are available as open access resources at: https://eureka3d.eu/reimagining-cultural-heritage/
In the morning, the focus was on the EUreka3D-XR project. After a welcome message from Mrs Katerina Moutogianni of DG CNECT and a general presentation by project coordinator Antonella Fresa (Photoconsortium), there was a demonstration – for the first time – of the XR tools beta versions that project partners are developing, together with the XR scenarios led by project partners and created with these tools, with talks by David Iglesias Franch (CRDI), Gianpaolo Donnarumma, Marco Falciglia (both Swing.it), Eirini Kadeli (NTUA), Agathe Le Riches – Maugis (Bibracte), Nedjma Cadi (MIRALab).
With the demo, the public was presented with the open source digital tools that will be available for reuse at the end of the project. The morning programme included sessions on high quality digitisation practices by prof. Marinos Ioannides (CUT) and a demo of the EUreka3D Data Hub by Ignacio Lamata Martinez (EGI).
In the afternoon, organised fully on-site in Brussels, the focus was on the XR scenarios and experiences in Flanders: How did they start creating their scenario? What were the challenges, lessons and results? What impact did the XR experience have on their own target audience? The day concluded by summarising results from research: guidelines, templates, and insights that participants can take away to shape their XR story.
EUreka3D-XR project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.
A new collaboration has started between the SECreTour project and the UNESCO Chair in Anthropology of Health: Biosphere and Healing Systems.
The UNESCO Chair at University of Genoa is dedicated to exploring the interconnections between health, culture, and the environment. Established to foster interdisciplinary research and education, the Chair focuses on how diverse healing practices and cultural perceptions of health interact with ecological systems. The UNESCO chair of La Habana, in collaboration with sister chair of Genoa, fosters expertise in promoting, designing and implementing medicinal gardens and orchards with the endemisms of World Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio, to disseminate Heritage knowledge in rural tourism
The themes addressed by the UNESCO Chair are relevant for the SECreTour action, in particular within the implementation of the pilot about Monte San Giorgio, coordinated by Università della Svizzera Italiana.
Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.
EUreka3D-XR takes part in the Europeana Conference 2025, a hybrid event held under the patronage of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Europeana 2025 – preserve, protect, reuse will explore critical questions facing the digital heritage sector and society at large, and how the data space for cultural heritage can contribute to addressing them.
On the first day, Wednesday 11 June, the project participates in the moderated panel discussion Telling stories with tech: XR, 3D and AI for cultural heritage, together with experts representing EU-funded projects whose very diverse use cases and demonstrators show how content from Europeana and other online resources have been reused in impressive 3D and XR experiences.
On the second day, Thursday 12 June, Valentina Bachi, EUreka3D-XR project manager, delivers the ignite talk A question of competence, quality and infrastructure: the EUreka3D initiative, as part of the session 3D in practice: innovating, reimagining, protecting.
EUreka3D-XR is also featured at the conference through a video that offers an overview to the project. Other dissemination materials, such as the EUreka3D final booklet and a postcard promoting upcoming capacity building events, will be distributed to attendees.
EUreka3D-XR at the Europeana Conference 2025:
Day – 1 : Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Time: 04:30 PM
Moderated panel discussion: Telling stories with tech: XR, 3D and AI for cultural heritage
Auditorium & Foyer
Day – 2 : Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM
Ignite talk by Valentina Bachi: A question of competence, quality and infrastructure: the EUreka3D initiative
Session: 3D in practice: innovating, reimagining, protecting
Auditorium & Foyer
EUreka3D-XR project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.
The EUreka3D inititiave is presented in the EGI Conference, which takes place at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander, Spain from June 2nd to June 6th, 2025.
The project coordinator, Antonella Fresa, will deliver the speech Transforming the digital cultural heritage with 3D and XR: the EUreka3D initiative. The talk will focus on how both projects (EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR) aim to support the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector, with a focus on 3D digitisation and management, and XR scenarios development for compelling narrative and reuse of cultural assets in digital format.
EUreka3D-XR is also featured at the conference through a video that offers an overview to the project. Other dissemination materials, such as a postcard promoting upcoming capacity building events, will be distributed to attendees.
At the annual EGI conference, international scientific communities, computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policymakers gather to advance research and innovation in data-intensive processing and analytics in a safe and open environment with room for in-depth discussion, new insights, and networking.
EUreka3D participation at the EGI Conference 2025:
Thursday, 5 June 2025
Session: Infrastructures for Scientific Collaboration: National & Thematic Perspectives 2, moderated by Smitesh Jain, EGI Foundation, Senior Innovation Management Specialist
Subsession: Transforming the digital cultural heritage with 3D and XR: the EUreka3D initiative, speech by Antonella Fresa, EUreka3D-XR project coordinator
The presentation starts from EUreka3D project’s achievements with the developing of the EUreka3D Data Hub powered by partner EGI, the digitization and aggregation of heritage collections on Europeana, the learning resources and capacity building programme and more. The continuation project EUreka3D-XR is then presented, highlighting its aim, its tools, scenarios and future plans.
EUreka3D-XR project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.
The TownsWeb Archiving Digitisation Grant is back for 2025, with grants of £3,000 ready to be awarded to three lucky winners.
Since launching the grant, TWA have awarded over £150,000 to support the digitisation of more than 120 collections. Now entering its eighth year, the grant continues to support organisations across the UK in safeguarding their invaluable heritage materials.
Applications open on 16th June 2025. To be among the first to receive the application form and other grant-related news, simply sign up for the TWA newsletter here.
Watch the official launch video featuring TownsWeb CEO, Paul Sugden, to learn more about this year’s grant:
More information at this link.
Complementing the Cluster 2 Information Day webinar on 15 May and the online brokerage event on 16 May, a specialised webinar is organized for all stakeholders, focused on how the future projects funded under the Cultural Heritage Cloud call topic of Horizon Europe’s Cluster 2 Work Programme 2025 will interact with the other Cloud projects and be integrated in the Cultural Heritage Cloud initiative.
This webinar is co-organised with ECHOES, the project coordinating the Cultural Heritage Cloud initiative and developing the basic cloud platform, and the three sister Cloud projects selected under the 2023 call.
You will receive the latest information about the Cultural Heritage Cloud implementation and be able to ask live questions to the ECHOES consortium.
The event will take place online on 30 June from 14.00 to15.30h.
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