Digital meets Culture

Complesso Monumentale San Micheletto di Lucca, 19 June 2024

San Pellegrino in Alpe: place of pilgrimages and innovation for cultural tourism

After three years of scientific research and activities in the area, the INCULTUM project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union and created with the aim of using sustainable tourism models to relaunch the social fabric of peripheral and marginal regions of Europe, has concluded.

In operation since 2021, the project has created ten pilot cases in nine states on the continent, among which the Emilia-Garfagna village of San Pellegrino in Alpe stands out.

This last case study, coordinated and managed by the University of Pisa in collaboration with the Campus Foundation of Lucca, was the subject of the conversation of the CISCuP (Centro Internazionale di Studi sulle Culture del Pellegrinaggio), which for the occasion organized a dedicated event with the staging of the theatrical show “A priest, two saints, a border and 4000 unique pieces”, represented by the actress Elisabetta Salvatori. The performance was created within INCULTUM: an accurate historical journey focused on the vicissitudes that led to the birth of the local museum and the characters from the village’s past, who still live today through the museumexhibition and its objects.

organized by Heritage Malta and the Norwegian Museum Stavanger, the conference centers on 3D digitization methods for documenting the impacts of climate change and ocean quality on maritime cultural heritage.

EUreka3D, TwinIt! and Lambousa boat presented at the “Clean Oceans and Mapping our Seas” conference

Human activity has irrevocably impacted our oceans, posing significant threats to both marine ecosystems and cultural heritage. The conference “Clean Oceans and Mapping our Seas” seeks to address these pressing issues by bringing together experts, stakeholders, and enthusiasts to explore innovative digital solutions and strategies that can be used to aid the documentation and interpretation of these issues on cultural heritage.

The conference aims are to:

Raise awareness about the interconnection between clean oceans and the preservation of maritime cultural heritage.
Showcase advancements in digitization technologies for documenting underwater cultural heritage.
Foster collaboration and knowledge exchange among stakeholders, including museums, research institutions, and government agencies

In addition, the conference examined the vital link between tourism and cultural heritage sustainability, demonstrating how digital preservation can drive tourism while ensuring the longevity and authenticity of cultural sites for future generations.

Full Programme: https://maltamaritimemuseum.mt/cleanoceans/

EUreka3D project was part in this hybrid conference event on 19 June 2024, in the context of the session “Traditional Boat Digitization: Case Studies from Cyprus, Malta, and Norway”, where Marinos Ioannides, Director of the Digital Heritage Research Lab at Cyprus University of Technology, presented outcomes and stories behind the 3D digitisation project that created a fully documented memory twin of the traditional Lambousa boat, a cultural monument of Cyprus heritage.

The Lambousa boat is one of the high quality records produced in the context of EUreka3D project, also offered as open access resource into Europeana as part of the TwinIt! campaign, successfully concluded and celebrated in Brussels in May 2024. This important effort on creating and promoting 3D digitization of European heritage was also presented in the conference by Valentine Charles, Data Services Director at Europeana Foundation.

Abu Dhabi, December 10-12, 2024

Heritage Middle East 2024

Heritage Middle East 2024

The 2nd Heritage Middle East International Exhibition and Conference for Museum and Librarianship Technologies, Restoration, Archaeology, and Cultural Tourism is going to arrive in Abu Dhabi.

The event will take place between December 10-12, 2024, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center.

Heritage Middle East will be an international meeting point aimed at being the market for actors in the global museology sector. It will bring fresh blood to the sector by organizing side events such as conferences where leading museologists, museum designers, architects, art historians, conservators, and other art professionals come together. It will be a destination where all artistic and cultural activities of the Arab world are planned and future projects are discussed.

It is an international project that plans to host more than 62 companies and institutions, and around 2,857 visitors. Heritage Middle East offers its exhibitors an unparalleled opportunity to showcase their expertise and products to a diverse global audience. Book your stand here.

by Guillaume Reich and Agathe Le Riche

Bibracte exploits the potential of 3D digitisation – new blogpost on Europeana

As part of the EUreka3D project, a blogpost authored by Guillaume Reich (Bibracte) was recently published on Europeana.

The blog focuses on the process of digitisation 400 archaeological artefacts in 3D as part of the Eureka3D project, exposing their objectives, challenges and their tools.

Read the blogpost here.

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

30th September - 4th October, Lecce (Italy)

EGI Annual Conference 2024

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.

For this edition of the conference, EGI is closely collaborating with Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), a leading research center focused on understanding the interaction between climate change and society.

EGI2024 will take place in the Hilton Garden Inn, Lecce (Italy), from the 30th of September to the 4th of October 2024.

Follow this link to learn more and register.

a collaboration was established for knowledge exchange and capacity building, reinforcing education in the field of the Humanities

EUreka3D and ARTEST project – coordination meeting

In the context of the third project plenary and demo event in Limassol on 29/5/2024, EUreka3D project and ARTEST Erasmus+ project established a collaboration in a coordination meeting, which was focused on knowledge exchange and capacity building about 3D digitization supporting education in Social Sciences and Humanities.

The delegation of the ARTEST project included representatives from five EU members state institutions and five universities from Mongolia:

University of Catania (UNICT) IT
University of Cologne (UoC) DE
University of the Peloponnese (UOP) GR
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, musée des Arts et Métiers FR
International Hellenic University (IHU) GR
Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) MN
National University of Mongolia (NUM) MN
University of the Humanities (UH) MN
Mongolian National University of Arts and Culture (MNUAC) MN
Otgontenger University (OTU) MN

Among the presentations during the coordination meeting, after the welcome and introduction to the event by Marinos Ioannides (Cyprus University of Technology), an overview of EUreka3D was provided by Antonella Fresa, project coordinator, (Photoconsortium), following by a presentation of the Europeana initiative and the data space for cultural heritage by Jolan Wuytz (Europeana Foundation) and Sofie Taes (Europeana Network Association). Interesting overviews and discussions about the work ongoing in ARTEST and a brainstorm discussion about future collaborations complemented the coordination meeting.

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the project was part in panel session “Innovative media”, with presentation by Marinos Ioannides (CUT)

EUreka3D at the Europeana Digital Storytelling Festival 2024

Every year, the Europeana Digital Storytelling Festival is the international event that encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring culture.

EUreka3D project was part in this online event on 22 May 2024, in the context of the panel session “Innovative media”, where Marinos Ioannides, Director of the Digital Heritage Research Lab at Cyprus University of Technology, presented outcomes and stories behind the 3D digitised objects and sites within the context of EUreka3D.

a presentation delivered by project coordinator Antonella Fresa discussed the work being done in EUreka3D to support cultural institutions in the effort of implementing high quality and reusable 3D digitization

EUreka3D at the Seminar on Archives and Tourism in LLoret de Mar

The “Archives and Tourism” seminar, which included presentations, round tables and several communications sessions, was held in Lloret de Mar on 24 May 2024. The objective of the “Archives and Tourism” Seminar is to publicize the public and private documentary funds generated around tourism and encourage their recovery, conservation and organization among the tourism sector as part of the documentary heritage of contemporary society.

MAIN TOPICS

Preservation of documentary heritage, and the diffusion of documentation related to tourism.
Research and study of data, documents and archives linked to tourism.
Current data and information management in tourism activities and future challenges.

As invited speaker, Antonella Fresa, vice president of Photoconsortium and project coordinator of EUreka3D, delivered a presentation entitled Tourism, archives and culture: a digitally mediated relationship between preservation and experience, also presenting the work being done in EUreka3D to support cultural institutions in the effort of implementing high quality and reusable 3D digitization processes to share their cultural collections.

Download the presentation (PDF, 900 Kb)

Programme of the conference: https://www.lloret.cat/seccions/i-seminari-arxius-i-turisme

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Hosted by Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia in June 2024

3D Digitisation Guidelines by EUreka3D presented during SECreTOUR kick-off meeting

SECreTOUR is an Horizon Europe project about cultural tourism, to drive sustainable cultural tourism by empowering local communities, shaping a Fair, Creative, and Sustainable Tourism approach, and testing diverse European pilot cases to foster fair development, community engagement, and policy insights.

During the kick-off meeting of SECreTOUR project, that took place in Slovakia hosted by Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, the work of EUreka3D in supporting advanced digitization of heritage assets for reuse in various domains, including tourism, was presented by project coordinator Antonella Fresa, along with a speech on the 3D Digitisation Guidelines produced by the project.

The Summer School will be held in Zlarin, Croatia, on September 20-24, 2024

IN SITU Summer School: Place-based creative solutions for cultivating caring and sustainable communities

IN SITU Project Summer School: Place-based creative solutions for cultivating caring and sustainable communities

We are pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the IN SITU project Summer School “Place-based creative solutions for cultivating caring and sustainable communities”, to be held in the island of Zlarin, Croatia, on 20-24 September 2024.

IN SITU is a four-year project that combines research and experimental actions to advance the innovation-related practices, capacities, and potential of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) based in non-urban areas of the EU countries.

Students, scholars, cultural and creative practitioners, cultural professionals and activists who work with and within smaller communities in rural and non-urban areas worldwide are invited to participate in the Summer School.

The working language will be English.

The deadline for submissions is 24 June 2024.

Programme

Aiming to create two-way relations with the context in which it takes place, the Summer School programme is designed to address issues that IN SITU considers crucial for their sustainability: community building and engagement, tourism and its adjustments to the needs of the local communities and, finally, care as an organizing principle intertwining all the elements necessary for the growth and well-being of the community.

The programme addresses themes of “communities as centres of sustainability” with Avril Joffe and Mark Rainey; “regenerative tourism, culture, and sustainability of non-urban areas” with Patrick Brouder; and “stewardship of place, care and local communities” with Sylvia Amann. The programme is structured to provide insights into these topics through a dialogical format with the international experts in the field, followed by workshops by trainers and local actors. The programme structure offers an incremental and comprehensive approach to acquiring knowledge and skills while applying them to a concrete situation and designing innovative and creative solutions.

You can find more information, the detailed programme, the teaching team and the application form here.

And there’s more to come: the IN SITU Conference “Horizons of Sustainability: the power of creative innovation for transformation of rural and non-urban futures” will be held right after the Summer School, on 25-27 September (Šibenik, Croatia), and the Call for Proposals will open very soon.

The Summer School and Conference are organised by Kultura Nova Foundation from Zagreb in cooperation with the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and the partners of the IN SITU project.