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Girona and online, December 13, 2024

EUreka3D Final Conference: registrations are now open

EUreka3D Final Conference

Registrations are now open for the EUreka3D Final Conference, which will take place in Girona on 13 December 2024.

The event will consist of a hybrid public conference by project partners and invited contributors, and a public onsite workshop mainly focused on 3D digitisation and cultural heritage for local cultural heritage and museum professionals.

The event will focus on sharing the project outcomes to cultural heritage professionals, digital culture professionals and researchers, and 3D digitisation and service providers. The main topics will be the methodology for 3D digitisation, the EUreka3D Data Hub, authenticity and standardisation for 3D, and the project’s four use cases.

During the final conference and the following weeks, an onsite exhibition with posters and screens will display the four 3D digitisation cases and the main project’s outcomes. The EUreka3D Final Booklet and 3D Digitisation Guidelines will be distributed to partners and attendees.

For more information, please contact info@eureka3d.eu.

Free of charge, registration required:

ONLINE REGISTRATION – CONFERENCE

ONSITE REGISTRATION – CONFERENCE

ONSITE REGISTRATION – WORKSHOP

DRAFT AGENDA

Morning: Public conference 9.30 – 14 h CET (hybrid event)

9.30h Welcome by Lluc Salellas (Mayor of Girona) TBC, Diego López del Río (Project Officer at HaDEA – Health and Digital Executive Agency), and Lluís-Esteve Casellas (Head of Department of Records Management, Archives and Publications at Girona City Council)
9.50h Presentation about EUreka3D: scope of the project and main outcomes (Antonella Fresa – Photoconsortium)
10.10h A methodology for a 3D digitisation project (Marinos Ioannides – Cyprus University of Technology)
10.40h Coffee break
11h The EUreka3D Data Hub, and integration of services and tools (Ignacio Lamata Martínez – EGI Foundation)
11.30h Authenticity and 3D standardisation (Frederik Temmermans – imec)
11.50h Q&A about previous presentations
12.00h The EUreka3D case studies (by Bibracte, CUT, CRDI, Museo della Carta). Moderated by Valentina Bachi – Photoconsortium
Impact and sustainability (John Balean – Photoconsortium)
Reuse of 3D assets in Europeana (Jolan Wuyts – Europeana Foundation)
13.20h A Raw Art 3D digitisation experience (by Generalitat de Catalunya)
13.40h 3D Digitisation in Cultural Heritage: dissemination, reuse and engagement (by José Antonio Muñiz and Jordi Tura – DIGIVISION)
14.00h End of the conference

Afternoon: Public Workshop 15.30 – 17.30h CET

Short presentation of the 3D Digitisation Guidelines and the EUreka3D Final Booklet (by David Iglésias – CRDI)
Public workshop on strategies for the dissemination of 3D digitisation projects. Audience: local Cultural Heritage Museums professionals. In Catalan/Spanish.
Speakers: José Antonio Muñiz and Jordi Tura – DIGIVISION

Venue: El Modern -Audiovisual and Digital Center (Girona)

this high profile event, taking place in Bucharest and online, addressed various themes and challenges on digital technologies to enhance sustainability, inclusion, and diversity in the heritage sector.

EUreka3D at European Heritage Hub Forum in Bucharest

Championing a responsible digital transition for and with cultural heritage

Bucharest and online

7th October 2024

Building on the outcomes of the first European Heritage Hub Forum held in 2023 in Venice, which explored the role and impact of cultural heritage in Europe’s green transformation, this second Forum delved into the challenges and opportunities presented by digital transition.

The Forum was organised in the frame of the European Heritage Hub EU-funded pilot project, with the vital input of all Hub partners and powered by Europeana. It was a key component of the European Cultural Heritage Summit organised by Europa Nostra under the High Patronage of the President of Romania and in cooperation with and support from the European Commission.

The event included an interactive exploration and fair to showcase a diverse array of projects, initiatives, and best practices that harness digital technologies to enhance sustainability, inclusion, and diversity in the heritage sector.

Final programme of talks and exhibitions (PDF link)

EUreka3D project was showcased at the fair by partner Europeana, with a roll up banner, poster and sharing informative materials and disseminating about the project’s upcoming events (the second webinar series “Transforming Heritage” organized in collaboration with ICA, and the final conference).

30 September – 1 October 2024, City Library Juraj Šižgorić, Šibenik, Croatia and online (via Zoom)

IN SITU Collaborative Interactive Workshop | Cooperation for sustainability: Strengthening capacities of local actors

The IN SITU Collaborative Interactive Workshop Cooperation for sustainability: Strengthening capacities of local actors will take place on September 30th and October 1st, 2024, at City Library Juraj Šižgorić, Šibenik, Croatia and online (via Zoom).

The Zaklada Kultura Nova (KNF) invites artists, arts managers and entrepreneurs, cultural professionals, researchers, educators, students, cultural policy-makers and anyone interested to join the collaborative interactive workshop, hosted in partnership with the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov” (NATFIZ).

The workshop is taking place as part of the Horizon Europe IN SITU project that supports the work of creative and cultural industries in non-urban areas of Europe.

Four collaborative sessions will be held, starting in the morning of Monday, 30th September and throughout Tuesday, 1st October 2024. They are designed to empower participants in driving change, securing funding, mastering cooperation, and networking as well as work with the communities in non-urban areas. The sessions’ topics range from strategic management and leadership, networking and partnerships building on a local and regional level, community building and audience participation to financial and fundraising opportunities for individual artists and entrepreneurs. All sessions are completely free of charge.

You can join the six sessions below (or some of them upon your choice) online or in person. The time zone is Central European Summer Time (CEST):

Session 1: 30th September 2024, Monday, 10.00 – 12.00: Strategic management and leadership: Sustainability aspects. (Facilitators/presenters: Lidia Varbanova – NATFIZ, Bulgaria & Antonija Letinić – KNF, Croatia)
Session 2: 30th September 2024, Monday, 13.00 – 15.00: Networking and partnerships building on a local and regional level: A sustainable approach (Facilitators/presenters: Igor Bajok – SMART, Croatia)
Session 3: 30th September 2024, Monday 15.15 – 16.15: Perspectives of local collaboration: Open discussion and summary of the day (Facilitators/presenters: Lidia Varbanova – NATFIZ, Bulgaria & Antonija Letinić – KNF, Croatia)
Session 4: 1st October 2024, Tuesday, 10.00 – 12.00: Community building and audience participation (Facilitator/presenter: Tanja Kalčić – consultant, Croatia)
Session 5: 1st October 2024, Tuesday, 13.00 – 15.00: Financial and fundraising opportunities for individual artists and entrepreneurs. EU funding: tips and lessons learned (Facilitator/presenter: Lidia Varbanova – NATFIZ, Bulgaria)
Session 6: 1st October 2024, Tuesday, 15.15 – 16.15: Broadening the horizon: Open discussion and summary of the seminar (Facilitators/presenters: Lidia Varbanova – NATFIZ, Bulgaria & Antonija Letinić – KNF, Croatia)

Lidia Varbanova, Professor and Program Director at NATFIZ, states: “The upcoming seminar in Šibenik promises to be a transformative event, focusing on strengthening the capacities of local cultural actors in Croatia- a stunning country nested along the Adriatic Sea, with a vibrant and diverse art scene. We expect that participants will engage in interactive collaborative sessions that will not only enhance their practical skills but will also craft a resilient ecosystem that supports artistic expression and entrepreneurial ventures within Croatia’s vibrant cultural tapestry.”

To register for any of the seminar sessions, please follow this link.

You will receive a Certificate of attendance upon successful completion of the seminar.

Online

Europeana Academy: the training programme for professionals working with, in and around cultural heritage

We are delighted to announce the launch of Europeana Academy, the Europeana Foundation training programme for professionals working with, in and around cultural heritage. The Academy will support professionals in the sector to develop new skills and knowledge through a comprehensive and enriching learning experience.

The Academy combines two aspects. The first is a digital training platform through which you can follow online, self-paced training on topics from copyright in cultural heritage collections, to using Europeana’s APIs, to IIIF, to data statistics and aggregation. The second is live, instructor-led training sessions which offer you the chance to follow these courses in real time with the support of an expert instructor.

Find out more about the academy and register!

Webinar Supporting Communities through Digital Cultural Tourism, 19 September 2024 h. 10 CET

SECreTour and EUreka3D presented at the TEXTOUR webinar on digital cultural tourism

Organized by the UNESCO Chair Digital Cultural Heritage Lab at Cyprus University of Technology, this event features experts from around the world discussing the latest advancements in digital cultural heritage and tourism.

Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024

Time: 10 AM – 12:30 PM

Location: Online

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE AGENDA

Keynote Presentations: Explore the impact of 3D and cloud technologies on digital cultural tourism, digital transformation in cultural tourism, and much more!
Case Studies: Discover fascinating examples of digital documentation in cultural heritage from Malta, Cyprus, and beyond.

The event introduces the potential use of digitised cultural heritage resources to boost cultural tourism, raise awareness about sustainability, and how to prepare for digitisation with the involvement of communities in the management and socio-economic development of places.

SECreTour and EUreka3D projects are presented by Antonella Fresa, in a keynote presentation about 3D digitization of cultural heritage and its expected reuse and impact in the tourism.

Link to the presentation

More information about the event: https://digitalheritagelab.eu/event/textour-joint-action-anfeh-fikardou/

webinar Supporting Communities through Digital Cultural Tourism, 19 September 2024 h. 10 CET

EUreka3D and SECreTour presented at the TEXTOUR webinar on digital cultural tourism

Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024

Time: 10 AM – 12:30 PM

Location: Online

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE AGENDA

Keynote Presentations: Explore the impact of 3D and cloud technologies on digital cultural tourism, digital transformation in cultural tourism, and much more!
Case Studies: Discover fascinating examples of digital documentation in cultural heritage from Malta, Cyprus, and beyond.

EUreka3D and SECreTour projects are presented by Antonella Fresa, in a keynote presentation about 3D digitization of cultural heritage and its expected reuse and impact in the tourism.

Link to the presentation

More information about the event: https://digitalheritagelab.eu/event/textour-joint-action-anfeh-fikardou/

TEXTOUR Webinar, 19 September 2024

Supporting communities though digital cultural tourism

SECreTour project and its associated EUreka3D project participated in the Part 2 of the Webinar promoted by the TExTOUR Project and organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage Lab at Cyprus University of Technology.

The webinar explored the potential use of digitised cultural heritage resources to boost cultural tourism, raise awareness about sustainability, and how to prepare for digitisation with the involvement of communities in the management and socio-economic development of places.

The presentation of SECreTour focused on the liaison and the articulation between digitisation of cultural heritage and the use and re-use of digital content in the domain of cultural tourism promotion, with a special focus on peripheral destinations and the 3D digitisation of cultural heritage recommended by the European Commission to the Member States in the Recommendation on a common European data space for cultural heritage of November 2021.

Culture and cultural heritage have a primary role to strengthen relationships and cohesion between European communities, building on similarities and differences, and promoting common roots and values. Cultural tourism together with cultural heritage offer a vehicle for promoting territories, generating benefits for local destinations to share about their history and culture. Cultural tourism is also a valuable economic driver for local communities and local territories that are able to offer visibility to their cultural and tourism assets, attracting an interested, respectful and competent tourist. Unprecedented opportunities brought by technologies, such as digitisation, AI, 3D, and XR bring cultural heritage sites back to a new life, where virtual museums and XR scenarios offer visitors the possibility of seeing art works in context and experiencing objects and sites that are difficult to be accessed by the public.

The presentation was delivered by Antonella Fresa, project coordinator of EUreka3D and SECreTour networking coordinator. The PDF of the presentation is available here for free download.

Girona and online, September 30, 2024

IV International Seminar on Sports Archives: open registrations

Registrations are now open for the IV International Seminar on Sports Archives. The event will take place on September 30, 2024, both online and on-site at EspaiCaixa Girona – “la Caixa” Obra Social, Plaça Poeta Marquina, 10 (Girona).

The biennial Seminar on Sports Archives aims to bring the history of sport closer to society from multiple perspectives, highlighting the importance of preserving and making this documentation accessible in both public and private entities around the world.

The event is aimed at sportsmen and sportswomen, clubs, organisations, sports federations, historians, journalists, researchers, doctors, physiotherapists, archivists, companies and universities (staff and students) managing documents linked to health, sport, history, sociology, etc.

The International Council on Archives (ICA), through the Section on Sport Archives (SPO), aims to make governments and the public aware of the need to preserve and conserve archives belonging to all the individuals, public and private institutions, associations and other organisations linked to the world of sport. To achieve these aims, the ICA / SPO, the Diputació de Girona, the Girona City Council, and the Generalitat de Catalunya are promoting a biennial seminar on sports archives in Girona.

Visit the website to explore the program, learn about the speakers and register.

the project presentation is part of the session dedicated to the Data Spaces and data sharing

EUreka3D at EGI annual conference

At the annual EGI conference, international scientific communities, computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policy makers gather to take research and innovation in data-intensive processing and analytics forward, in a safe and open environment with room for in-depth discussion, new insights, and networking. EGI Foundation is one of the technical partners in EUreka3D, with the task of developing a data hub and new services dedicated to cultural heritage institutions, to support digital cultural heritage collections management and sharing. EGI is an expert federation of computing and storage resource providers united by a mission of offering advanced computing and data analytics services for research and innovation.

EUreka3D project was presented at the conference with a keynote speech by Marinos Ioannides from Cyprus University of Technology, one of EUreka3D partners. The talk, titled “The oldest traditional Trawler of Cyprus on its way to the Data Cloud and Memory Twin”, is delivered within the session Inside Data Spaces: Enabling data sharing paradigms. This contribution discusses the boat’s characteristics, its restoration procedures, its 3D digitisation, and the positive impact for the preservation of the local Maritime Cultural Heritage by creating the exact Memory Twin and make all information and data available under open-access to the entire world.

Download presentation (PDF, 8 Mb)

A postcard promoting the upcoming EUreka3D public events was distributed during the conference.

More information: https://eureka3d.eu/egi-conference-2024/

Collaboration agreement has started between Digital Humanities Lab at University of Basel and Virtual Culture GmbH in September 2024

New collaborations of SECreTour in Basel

The SECreTour project has established new collaborations with the University of Basel and Virtual Culture GmbH.

The Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary institution of the University of Basel. Its task is to coordinate and promote research, teaching and infrastructure for digitisation in the humanities and social sciences. It is also a central institution in Switzerland for the theory and practice of the digital humanities and offers a Master’s programme and a Doctorate in Digital Humanities.

Virtual Culture GmbH offers digital sustainable strategies, capturing, FAIR and interoperable database, and much more.
It provides a network of experts and institutions and promotes young talents.

SECreTour is seeking collaborations also with individual experts.

Prof. Dr. Peter Fornaro has joined the SECreTour Network of Common Interest. Peter is expert in Imaging and Digital Preservation and Head of Research Projects and Digital Humanities Lab at University of Basel.