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/
A successful conference held in Florence, hosted at the Historical Archives of the European Union, to discuss the landscape of technology and innovation in the sector of cultural heritage
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.
Recordings are available, shared by EUreka3D-XR project; the images contained in the speakers’ presentations may be covered by copyright and thus cannot be reused without permission, all rights reserved to the respective owners.
RECORDINGS
WELCOME AND PANEL 1: HERITAGE
Chair: Antonella Fresa, Vice-President of Photoconsortium
Chair: Matthias Goetzelmann, European University Institute
Costanza Caraffa, Head of the Photothek and Rafael Brundo Uriarte, Digital Research Coordinator, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute
John Balean, Operations Manager, TopFoto (PDF, 6 Mb)
Juan Alonso, Audio-visual Archivist, Historical Archives of the European Union (PDF, 3 Mb)
PANEL 3: INNOVATION, AND FINAL REMARKS
Chair: Louise Arizzoli, I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
David Iglésias, Head of Photography and Audiovisual Records Department, Girona City Council (PDF, 2 Mb)
Vincent Guichard, General Director, Bibracte E.P.C.C. Research (PDF, 3 Mb)
Fred Truyen, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Cultural Studies Research Group, KU Leuven (PDF, 2 Mb)
Sander Münster, Time Machine Organization (PDF, 10 Mb)
A Hybrid Capacity Building Event in Brussels by EUreka3D-XR
26 September 2025
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 will explore these questions and offer a closer look at use case scenarios and possibilities of XR, as well as share practical insights and future reusable tools.
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 will take place on-site (TRACK Brussels) and online, and is built up in two parts:
10h – 12h CET: hybrid session in English
13h – 15h CET: in-person session in Dutch
In the morning, the focus will be on the EUreka3D-XR project. After a general presentation, there will be 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. Thus, the public will be presented with the open source digital tools that will be available for reuse at the end of the project. The morning programme will conclude with a section on the EUreka3D Data Hub.
In the afternoon, organised fully on-site in Brussels, the focus will be 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 will conclude by summarising results from research: guidelines, templates, and insights that participants can take away to shape their XR story.
For more information, please contact info@eureka3d.eu. Registration is required.
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
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.
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.
project presentation with video and dissemination materials at the important event on e-infrastructures
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.
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:
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.
Collaboration agreement has started between the SECreTour project, BUAS and the Cross-re-tour project, in May 2025
A new collaboration has started between the Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Cross-Re-Tour project and SECreTour.
Breda University of Applied Science (BUAS) is a specialist, personal, diverse, and inclusive university of applied sciences with 7,000 students, where personal innovative capacity is stimulated. BUAS’s vision is to be an international leading knowledge institute with industry- relevant, high quality, small-scaled and innovative education, and research. The domains of tourism, leisure, and hospitality as well as the domain of logistics and mobility are still at the core of their expertise. BUAS has developed into related domains, such as serious games and media. Its strength and uniqueness derive from their intense collaboration with key industry players in these fields. Research at BUAS has an interdisciplinary character. By joining forces – not only within their domains, but also with government, educational partners, and research institutes – they are capable of developing innovative solutions to topical questions in the industry.
Cross-Re-Tour is an EU funded project, coordinated by BUAS, aimed at helping European tourism SMEs transition toward digitalization and sustainability, including adopting Circular Economy (CE) practices. It promotes the use and adaptation of existing green and digital solutions from other sectors to enhance tourism business operations. This is done by identifying knowledge gaps through online dialogues and a market scan of best practices in six key areas like energy, water, and transport, the introduction of a diagnostic tool and a knowledge hub to support solution adoption and foster collaboration between tourism businesses and other sectors. In the final phase, Cross-Tour provides funding and support to a mínimum of 80 projects led by tourism SMEs across eight countries, with an emphasis on innovation and scalability of green, digital and circular solutions.
The themes addressed by the Cross-Re-Tour project and by the research carried out at BUAS are relevant also for the SECreTour action that is looking forward to establish further opportunities of collaboration and excchange of good practices.
Meeting with the Major of Idrija and the Director of the Tourism Board
On the 13th of May 2025 representatives of partners of the SECreTour project met in Idrija to visit the places of the pilot coordinated by the Institute for Heritage Innovation in Idrija ID20.
The rich heritage of the mercury mine of Idrija has been listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, together with the intangible heritage of its exquisite tradition of laces. While men were in the mines, women were busy at home taking care of the family and producing wonderful handmade jewels.
Mining heritage and lace heritage connects with nature in the geopark of the Idrijca River.
The meetings were very interesting and profitable.
The delegation of SECreTour was hosted by the Mayor of Idrija Tomaž Vencelj, Valerija Božič Director of the Idrja Tourism Board (Zavod za turizem Idrija), Sanja Marija Pellis consultant for tourism, Tatjana Dizdarević Director of the Mercury Heritage Management Centre CUDHG.
Here below we provide a selection of the pictures taken during the enconters.
Meeting with the Director of the Mercury Heritage Management
The elevators of one of the mercury mine shaft
Meeting at the premises of ID20
Mercury mine shaft
Laces from Idrija
Suspension bridge connecting the two banks of the Idrijca River
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Europeana 2025 held on 11-12 June 2025 under the patronage of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU!
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project presentation with video and dissemination materials at the important event on e-infrastructures
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