In this Food and Culture workshop, students from Erasmus University Rotterdam get to cook, eat, and discuss the role of food in shaping and expressing identity – also talking about the environmental effect of the food chain. The event takes place at the Erasmus Food Lab, an organization aiming to promote and raise awareness about sustainable and healthy food. It is an experimental playground for research, teaching and marketing related to plant-based foods.
Image credit: Angela YT Chan, Tidal Workshop
arebyte Gallery is pleased to announce a new masterclass “Digital Practices – Masterclass with climate change expert Angela YT Chan”, that will take place on May 20 and will focus on developing a socially and environmentally responsible digital practice with climate change specialist, researcher, curator and artist Angela YT Chan.
Participants will learn about the historical roots of the climate crisis, gain tools for applying climate literacy in your digital projects, and develop frameworks for building a sustainable future in the digital sector.
The masterclass will be divided in three sessions:
The masterclass will take place at arebyte Gallery, 7 Botanic Sq, Leamouth Peninsula, London E14 0LG. For more information, check this link. Get your ticket here.
The Europeana conference “Why 3D Matters: accelerating 3D in the common European data space for cultural heritage” took place on 18th April 2023, under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU, in collaboration with the Swedish Ministry of Culture and the Swedish National Heritage Board.
The event saw the participation of important guests such as Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak (DG CONNECT), Harry Verwayen (Deputy director of Europeana Foundation), Sophia Laurin (Swedish Ministry of Culture), Eva Stengård (Ministry of Culture, Government Offices of Sweden), Joakim Malmström (National Antiquarian and Director General, Swedish National Heritage Board), Ann Follin (Director of Etnografiska Musee), who opened the conference.
A programme of interesting talks and panels discussed various aspects and international projects focusing on 3D and cultural heritage. The conference was a great success, with 60 people who joined in-person and more than 200 online attendees.
EUreka3D, being dedicated to supporting Cultural Heritage Institutions with capacity building, training, and new services for 3D collections management storage and sharing, was presented by project coordinator Antonella Fresa, vicepresident of Photoconsortium, in the Final Plenary part “Building capacity, sharing, training, learning“.
The presentation focused on how e-infrastructures can support the implementation of 3D in Cultural Heritage, and what are the challenges and needs of CHIs in the 3D digitization effort.
Antonella Fresa presenting @eureka_3d project https://t.co/i76JyUXd2V and focusing on infrastructure to give an answer to the question mention in this conference: where do we store?. #EU2023SE #DS4CH @sweden2023eu @Europeanaeu pic.twitter.com/HxKBVNOZGU
— Eureka 3D (@eureka_3d) April 18, 2023
View and download EUreka3D presentation at this link (PDF, 1MB)
Antonella also participated in the panel discussion moderated by Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation), where selected speakers discussed the challenges and possible solutions for CHIs in the digital transformation and 3D digitization management.
“#CapacityBuilding around #3D should not just be about gaining knowledge and information, but establishing infrastructures and e-infrastructures, so that smaller organisations can be able to contribute”
– @antonella_fresa on the importance of #accessibility and #inclusivity https://t.co/G16LixZJqC
— Europeana (@Europeanaeu) April 18, 2023
Furthermore, one of the key partners of EUreka3D Dr. Marinos Ioannides (Cyprus University of Technology), presented the pioneerig project of digitization and enhancement that created an advanced 3D model of The Asinou Church, one of the national monuments in Cyprus.
EUreka3D website: https://eureka3d.eu/
Find EUreka3D also on Twitter.
EUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.
text and images courtesy of dr. Sabine Gebert Persson, Associate professor Uppsala University
In the context of INCULTUM Pilot 10 Escape into the archipelago landscape, students of Uppsala University were involved in training actions that follow the work done in the Pilot to collect data relating to visitors behaviour in the area of Swedish Archipelago.
In the university course called GIS2, offered by Marina Toger at the Department of Human Geography of Uppsala University students are examined, among others, through project work, by reusing for various assignements the data collected by the researchers in the Pilot. As a result, one student team analysed data collected in Roslagen, and identified both challenges and opportunities that relate to both the destination and its sustainable development, also suggesting a new tourist route. On April 4th, 2023, the students presented their results at a workshop with different stakeholders in Öregrund.
Earlier in the Spring/Fall semester 2022 Uppsala University jointly with researchers at CBS Copenhagen Business School arranged a Ph.D. course called ”Advanced Spatio-temporal analysis: Methods in understanding tourists’ behavior”. Students used data collected in Gotland, Torsö, Roslagen, and Copenhagen, during the course in the practical exercises.
As a result, 3 papers academic weresubmitted to the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Additionally, the PhD course developed one collaboration among students from University of Palermo, Italy, and Uppsala University, Sweden. Their analysis has also been submitted to Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.
text and images courtesy of Elena Correa Jiménez (University of Granada).
In the context of project INCULTUM, the Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory (MEMOLab) of the University of Granada, directed by Dr. José María Martín Civantos, has launched the participatory project “Recovering the Aynadamar irrigation channel”. This irrigation channel had been abandoned for 50 years, and thanks to a big particpatory effort it was recovered in all its sections, and was inaugurated on 15 April 2023.
The restoration project has been promoted by the University of Granada itself as one of the INCULTUM Pilots, through the Vice-Rectorate for University Extension and Heritage, with the co-financing of the Granada Water Foundation, the Hidralia Chair, EMASAGRA and the collaboration of the Community of Irrigators and Users of the Aynadamar irrigation channel and the Association of Historical and Traditional Communities of Andalusia.
The Aynadamar irrigation channel has been documented at least since the 11th century to supply water to the ancient Alcazaba of Granada (Qasabat Garnata), the seat of the Zirid dynasty, and to the present-day Albayzín. This canal has been one of the axes that have shaped the city of Granada and its surroundings since the Middle Ages. In the 80s of the 20th century, the final section was definitively abandoned and destroyed on its arrival in the city, with the consequent loss of heritage, landscape and environment.
The aim of this project, in addition to the heritage and environmental aspects, has been the recovery for irrigation of the Cartuja Campus, thus avoiding the use of drinking water and the consequent regeneration of the landscape, taking advantage of the environmental functions of the traditional irrigation ditches.
The recovery work, in which more than 500 volunteers from various interests and more than 1000 schoolchildren have participated, has made it possible to put into use one of the last stretches of irrigation ditch, which had been abandoned for more than 40 years. From now on, the water from Fuente Grande (Alfacar), which used to run to the end of the Fargue, will begin to flow towards the Cartuja Campus. However, the scarcity of water due to the overexploitation of the aquifer and the drought, now confront the irrigation community and the irrigation channel with a new challenge
Learn more about INCULTUM Pilot 1 – Altiplano de Granada
images courtesy of Elena Correa Jiménez.
On 12 April 2023, Elena Correa of the MEMOLab team at University of Granada, the INCULTUM coordinator, provided a presentation of the work done in the project and on the Altiplano de Granada Pilot at the “VI Encuentro Voluntariado Comunidad Universitaria y Asociaciones Solidarias” (VI Meeting of University Community Volunteers and Solidarity Associations).
The presentation specifically focused on the recovery of historic irrigation ditches and cultural trails. This meeting was organised by UGR Solidaria and recording is available
SmartCulTour (Smart Cultural Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development of European Regions) is a four-year project, funded by the European Union in the frame of Horizon 2020. The goal of SmartCulTour is to support regional development in all European regions with important tangible and intangible cultural assets, including those located in rural peripheries and the urban fringe, through sustainable cultural tourism.
The final Conference on sustainable cultural tourism under the HSmartCulTour project is called “Culture as Catalyst: Redefining Cultural Tourism for Sustainable Destinations”, and it aims to explore emerging trends in cultural tourism and identify priorities for destinations to harness the power of culture and local values to redefine the visitor experience by introducing the project tools and sharing the different experiences of the Living Labs with key target audiences.
The conference will take place on Wednesday 24th of May 2023 from 9:15 to 18:30 at the Herman Teirlinckgebouw building (Havenlaan 88, 1000 – Brussels, Belgium).
Registration in the final conference is free but is highly recommended in order to prepare for the event and make sure to have enough seating capacity for everyone attending.
You can download the programme of the event here (PDF, 217 KB).
For further information, follow this link.
EuropeanaTech is the community of experts, developers, and researchers from the R&D sector within the greater Europeana Network Association, that coordinates research and development endeavors that seek to improve the standing of European digital cultural heritage and facilitate knowledge across the sector at large.
EuropeanaTech Conference 2023 will take place in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 10 to 12 October 2023, and is aimed to all tech-minded professionals, developers, researchers and students working in and around digital cultural heritage across the globe. It will be a fantastic opportunity to meet with, learn from and work with your collegues, as well as to become part of a community dedicated to Tech in culture, and explore the challenges and opportunities that topics such as AI and 3D bring to the sector.
The Conference is organised in collaboration with the EuropeanaTech community, the Europeana Network Association’s community of experts from the R&D sector. It will be the fourth EuropeanaTech conference, reviving and continuing the series after successful previous editions in Vienna, Paris and Rotterdam. It will be a predominantly onsite event, with some options for online participation.
Here you can find the programme of the event
To get updates on the call for proposals, ticket sales and more, register through the following link.
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed by a consortium of leading cultural institutions and it’s a useful resource for researchers and developers.
The latest Conference will be hosted jointly by the University of Naples Federico II and the IIIF Consortium.
The IIIF Showcase, that will take place on June 5 is free for anyone to attend, and it’s aimed at newcomers to IIIF and locals*. Attendees will receive an introduction to IIIF, including an overview of what it does, use cases, how a wide variety of institutions implement it, and how to contribute to the community.
The IIIF Annual Conference, on June 6-8 is aimed to a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audiovisual materials. Discounted tickets are available to IIIF Consortium members.
To learn more about the event and to register, click this link. Contact staff@iiif.io if you have any questions. Registration close on May 16th.
* Pre-registration is required and space is limited to the first 150 registrants.
RURALIZATION is a EU-funded project aiming at developing forward-looking policies fulfilling the ‘future dreams’ of new rural generations and foster sustainable development of rural and marginal areas. In this light, RURALIZATION and INCULTUM established a cooperation agreement for cross-dissemination and knowledge exchange. The RURALIZATION project has identified a series of ‘innovation stories’ to better understand the problems associated with rural living, the importance of sustainable and inclusive farming practices, and how new thinking (dream scenarios, foresight activities) can help to transform rural communities. The ultimate aim is to open up rural areas to renew rural generations, jobs and farms.
The RURALIZATION consortium organized the Final Conference on April 20th at the Committee of the Regions, Brussels. Within the course of an on-site and virtual meeting with experts and stakeholders, the event focused on the presentation of lessons learned, best practices and project results that will serve to design and implement policies and activities that facilitate the entry of new generations and newcomers to the rural areas.
View the recording here: https://ruralization.eu/final-conference/
RURALIZATION is focused on assessing and developing novel instruments, strategies and policies for rural regeneration and generational renewal. Its particular focus is on rural foresight analysis, the future dreams of rural youth, facilitating rural newcomers, farm succession, new entrants into farming and access to farmland.
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From August 25–29, 2025, Seoul hosted the 30th CIPA Heritage Documentation International Symposium under the theme “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data‑driven Heritage Conservation.” Organized by CIPA—a longstanding international committee established in 1968 by ICOMOS (International Council … Continue reading
From 8th to 13th September 2025 Antonella Fresa, president of Photoconsortium and EUreka3D-XR Project Coordinator, took part to Digital Heritage 2025, the premier global forum where culture meets cutting-edge technology, hosted in Siena. With colleagues from Europeana Foundation, XRculture, 3DBigDataSpace … Continue reading
To the 30th CIPA International Symposium, UNESCO Chair for Digital Cultural Heritage, Heritage Malta and Fundación Tekniker will join as a team to present EUreka3D-XR project along with Heritalise EU Project. The theme of the 30th CIPA 2025 Symposium is … Continue reading
The VERNE project that participates in the SECreTour Network of Common Interest, has published an interesting news about Cost-benefit Analysis for the Transition to Circular Tourism. “Yes, sustainability sounds nice, but what will it cost me?” This question stops many tourism businesses … Continue reading
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