Digital meets Culture

7–8 May 2026, Hybrid (Ferrara and online)

Heritage at Risk Summer School 2026 – 3D Documentation of Cultural Heritage at Risk: Methods, Tools and Practice.

The Heritage at Risk Summer School 2026, organised in collaboration with the 3D-4CH Project and in the framework of 3DBigDataSpace, brough together experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore this question through advanced 3D documentation methods.

Participants gained insights into:

European and international frameworks for heritage protection
Case studies from earthquake zones and war-affected regions
3D reconstruction and modelling approaches
Practical workflows in photogrammetry, laser scanning, and mobile mapping
Data processing techniques for heritage documentation

The Summer School relied on a heavily relevant practical component. Participants attending in Ferrara worked directly with:

Static laser scanners
Photogrammetry tools
Mobile mapping systems (NavVis)

The Summer School was aimed at cultural heritage professionals, researchers and students, architects and urban planners, digital heritage and 3D specialists.

You can learn more about the Summer School and view the programme at this link<<<<.

5 May 2026, Ghent (Belgium)

Workshop(s) on 3D digitisation, preservation and reuse scenarios

The Workshop(s) on 3D digitisation, preservation and reuse scenarios event was organized in Ghent by meemoo, as a training for Cultural Heritage professionals and partners in the meemoo network. It was a onsite event with 15 attendees.

At this link, it is possible to download the PowerPoint presentation that was used for the training (PDF, NL).

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

A new blogpost on the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage

Use the EUreka3D-XR Toolbox to transform 2D and 3D digital collections into XR storytelling

A new blogpost was produced and published on the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage to disseminate and promote the five open-source digital tools developed by EUreka3D-XR.

In the blogpost, the AR Tour Builder, the AR Tour Experience, the AI 3D Builder, the 3D XR Studio and the Avatar Builder will be explored, focusing on how they enable the reuse of 3D and digital cultural content and transform these resources into engaging visitor experiences.

Read the blogpost at this link<<<<

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

Open source booklet available on Zenodo

EUreka3D-XR: 3D and XR in the European Digital Cultural Heritage

EUreka3D-XR has finalised its booklet “EUreka3D-XR: 3D and XR in the European Digital Cultural Heritage“: the publication describes the EUreka3D competence centre, including the EUreka3D Data Hub, their training and capacity building work, its impact, sustainability and future plans, and finally the 5 innovative open-source tools implemented to create three extended reality experience scenarios based on the reuse of existing digital cultural collection.

The scenarios:

The first scenario utilises the findings and collections of the Girona Municipal Archive, Catalonia, Spain, to reconstruct the missing portions of the city’s historical walls, employing AI technologies. The second scenario maps points of interest for the archaeological centre of Bibracte, France, offering an enriched AR experience for visitors: this experience places 3D representations of museum artefacts and virtual reconstructions of lost buildings back into the landscape context. The third scenario mixes the 3D digitisation of the historic hermitage (Enkleistra) of St Neophytos in Paphos, Cyprus, and its Byzantine frescoes together with historical documents, to deliver a range of VR experiences that make it possible for the visitor to interact with a virtual avatar of the saint and listen to the story of his life in the Enkleistra.

The booklet is available on Zenodo: follow this link to download the PDF.

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

Explore the newly aggregated objects!

New EUreka3D-XR galleries published on Europeana

“Fouille archéologique”, provided by Bibracted EPCC. CC-BY-SA

Following the most recent (and still ongoing) aggregation of new objects digitized in the context of the EUreka3D-XR projects, four new galleries on Europeana were created by Bibracte.

Start your journey:

All galleries include both 2D and 3D objects, and will be enriched with additional objects and videos as soon as they will be available on Europeana.

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

May 25, 2026 (14:30-17.30), Limassol (Cyprus)

Building Cultural Bridges, Shaping Shared Futures: The Power of the Europeana Network Association Community

On May 25, 2026 the Europeana Network Association (ENA) event will bring together more than 6,000 multi- and interdisciplinary professionals to expand, enrich, and democratise access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage.

This event is targeted at the full spectrum of professionals and knowledge-makers who shape, preserve, and transmit cultural heritage: librarians, museologists, archivists, archaeologists, historians, scholars, and educators across all levels, as well as researchers from all disciplines, with particular emphasis on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The event will be a catalyst for a real networking, connection and activation. It will take place in the framework of the Digital Heritage Summit, organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage / Research Center MNEMOSYNE in cooperation with ENA and Europeana under the auspices of the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is open invitation and free of charge participation to all those who safeguard memory, generate knowledge, and educate future generations. Read the full press release.

Registration to the event are open: follow this link<<<<.

20 April 2026, Belgium

Introduction of the XR toolkit and Data Hub for meemoo staff

On April 20 2026, meemoo the Flemish Institute for Archives organised a successful event to train its staff: the event provided an introduction to the XR toolkit developed within the EUreka3D-XR project and to the EUreka3D Data Hub.

The event involved 55 people on site and more online, who were able to expand their knowledge on a increasingly relevant aspect of technology that is becoming more closely related to the cultural heritage sector, with the guidance of professionals with experience in the area of XR and within the EUreka3D-XR project.

Download the presentation of the Workshop at this link (PDF, NL)<<<<<

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

Submit yours!

By MetaHeritage: Knowledge Hub and Good Practices call

MetaHeritage is building a shared knowledge ecosystem to showcase innovation at the intersection of cultural heritage, technology, and business models: it now invites to innovators, cultural heritage professionals, and SMEs to contribute to its growing Knowledge Hub, a compendium of good practices born from interregional collaboration, including examples to promote the unique strengths, assets, and resources of different regions, especially the less developed ones, focusing on cultural heritage, digital competences and local expertise. Anyone can contribute through a quick questionaire: Metaheritage will review and showcase inspiring projects and innovative approaches at the intersection of heritage, technology, and tourism. Join the Hub at this link<<<<

If you want to learn more about the Call for Good Practices, click here<<<<

22 April 2026, Mannheim, Germany - Hybrid event

REMOTE WORK IN EUROPE: Evidence, Impacts, Policy

The R.Map project, member of the SECreTOUR Network of Common Interest, is organising a Joint research symposium in collaboration with WinWin4WorkLife and REMAKING projects.

The event will take place in hybrid format accessible online and onsite at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany.

The Symposium will be the occasion to know about the mid-term insights from the three
Horizon Europe projects and their proposed policy recommendations.

The programme of the event is available for download here.

Those interested to participate can join either in person in Mannheim, Germany, or online, following the registration link.

Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.

8–12 June

International Archives Week 2026

Celebrated annually, International Archives Week has been providing a global platform to highlight the societal functions of archives: enabling accountability, preserving memory, safeguarding rights, and supporting the rule of law.

International Archives Week is coming back in 2026, with the theme of Archives for Justice – Rights, Memory & Futures: chosen through a global survey of the archival community, this year’s theme theme places particular emphasis on archives as active infrastructures that sustain justice across time, from past violations and present responsibilities to future claims and aspirations. A specific focus will be reserved on how archives safeguard rights, preserve memory, and support justice — across time and across borders. The programme is built around five subthemes:

Archives for Accountability: Rule of Law, Truth, and Transitional Justice
Archives for Memory: Recognition, Human Dignity, and Lived Experience
Archives for Inclusion: Access, Participation, and Community Empowerment
Archives, Colonial Legacies, and Non-Sovereign Contexts: Displaced and Shared Heritage
Archives for Future Justice: Anticipating Rights, Responsibility, and Possibility

Learn more about International Archive Week 2026<<<<

A call for proposal is also ongoing, for institutions to take the opportunity to share their proposal and explore how archives contribute to justice in its many forms and to engage with an international audience. Submit your case study<<<<

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