Digital meets Culture

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.

Berlin (Germany) and online streaming, 21-23 October 2024

EOSC Symposium 2024

The EOSC Symposium 2024 will be a critical event on the path to EOSC post-2027. It is a key event to network and exchange ideas with policy makers, funders, and representatives of research institutions, research communities, and data- and e-Infrastructures active in the EOSC ecosystem.
The EOSC Symposium 2024 will take place on 21-23 October 2024 at the H4 Hotel Alexanderplatz in Berlin, under the patronage of the German Minister for Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger.

It is divided into twenty-six sessions that address, among other things, the ambitions of the EOSC Tripartite Partnership, the EOSC Federation, the launch of the EOSC EU Node, the EOSC landscape, including the European Common Data Spaces and the Artificial Intelligence trends, and the impact and contributions of stakeholders.

Online streaming will be available, registration required.

Programme: https://eosc.eu/symposium2024/#programme

More information and registration: https://eosc.eu/symposium2024/

online, 27 September 2024

Shaping the Future of Cultural Heritage

Shaping the Future of Cultural Heritage: Connecting the Cultural Heritage Cloud with the common European data space for cultural heritage and the European Open Science Cloud.

The Cultural Heritage Cloud – or European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) – is a European Union initiative to create a digital infrastructure that will connect cultural heritage researchers and professionals across the EU. It will develop specific digital collaborative tools for the sector while removing barriers for smaller and remote institutions. The goal is to help cultural heritage institutions, research organisations and other professional organisations of all kinds and sizes to work with their digital objects in a more visible, interconnected, harmonised, and informed way, to successfully cope with the challenges the digital transition poses to the sector and seize its opportunities. 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 has now begun with the EU-funded project ECHOES – European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science, which started on the 1 of June 2024.

Two other initiatives are currently running at European level:

funded by the Digital Europe programme, the common European data space for cultural heritage is an EU flagship initiative to accelerate the digital transformation of the sector and foster creation, access and reuse of heritage data.
The vision for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is to put in place a system for researchers in Europe to store, share, process, analyse, and reuse data within and across disciplines and borders.

In this webinar, we’ll learn more about the Cloud and two other European initiatives, and how they are interconnected and complementary, how these initiatives interact with the Cloud, and what the added value of such connections is for the cultural heritage community.

More information and registration HERE