Digital meets Culture

online event 25th February 2022 h. 14.30 CET

E-Learning Platform for Cultural Heritage Management

This online talk by ENCATC, the European network on cultural management and policy, will be an opportunity to learn more about the latest policy developments in the field of cultural heritage (CH) – among which, the European Heritage Strategy for the 21st century (ST21) of the Council of Europe – , as well as to get to know a new learning method and a best practice example of the implementation of this tool.

In the first part of the Talk, an extensive review of the state of the art of the main policies and initiatives currently in place or in development in the field of CH will be offered, with a special focus on Europe but also on some specific national realities.

The second part of the Talk, on its turn, will be devoted to the presentation of the new ST21 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which aims to address some of the challenges related to social cohesion, economic and territorial development, as well as education and knowledge. The MOOC provides heritage managers at local, regional and national levels with the knowledge and skills to implement the Strategy’s recommendations. To close this second part of the Talk, and before the debate with the audience, a best practice experience of application of this tool for a cultural project will be presented.

More info and registration: https://www.encatc.org/en/events/detail/e-learning-platform-for-cultural-heritage-management/

involving communities and engaging partners for the promotion of rural hicking tracks and the restoration of ancient paths

Fieldwork and expected outcomes for INCULTUM Pilot at Grand Site de France Bibracte-Mont Beuvray

All images courtesy of Bibracte.

A special session of the “rural tracks working group” was organized on January 24 2022, gathering around 25 local elected and volunteer residents of the 12 villages of the Bibracte – Mont Beuvray Grand Site de France. The group worked on the constitution of an “atlas” of the hiking itineraries of the area passing through the network of 1000 km of rural paths. Dozens of itineraries have been collected and participants were invited to discuss the best routes with the aim of creating a major hiking itinerary all around the Grand Site de France territory (a loop of around 120 km) and passing through the centres of the 12 villages.

On March 7, the Grand Site de France slow tourism working group (gathering around 25 professional of the territory) will gather for a session dedicated to the presentation of the INCULTUM Pilot. During this meeting, the members will be invited to map the tourist offer around the hiking itinerary of the Grand Site de France and identify the unmet needs in terms of tourism services. This will enable to begin the work on defining a marketing plan for the Pilot project, which will be produced by the end of the year in consultation in particular with the slow tourism working group.

In order to complete the mapping, work is ongoing for compiling existing heritage and environmental inventories and for studying the opportunity to complete or update them by organising, with Pilot’s partners, participatory inventory sessions involving inhabitants, and specifically the young audience.

All this work will allow to compile a technical file, which will be presented in the next few months to the local stakeholders in charge of the tourism strategy of the area. The next steps will include technical questions concerning the standardisation of certain routes, signposting and tourism communication. During springtime, these official stakeholders will be invited to participate in a special session of the rural tracks working group.

In addition to this work engaging various stakeholders, a partnership is being established with the French NGO Rempart, in order to organise an heritage workcamp on the restoration of an ancient Gallo-Roman road on the Bibracte site. The project is aiming at organizing a summer activity with young Europeans volunteers who will take part in the restoration of low stone walls and the enhancement of a new hiking itinerary.

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As part of the communication and event strategy within the frame the Pilot project, 5 “sensitive walks” in cooperation with Chemins association will be organized in 2022 on different themes on the rural paths linking the villages of the Grand Site de France. The first one will be held on June 2022 between the villages of Arleuf and Fachin on the thematic of a piece of heritage hidden in the forest: the ancient railway from Autun to Château-Chinon.

More widely, the Grand Site de France is working on the development of communication tools, such as a dedicated website which will including a section dedicated specifically to the work done within INCULTUM) and a project of tourist map based on the participatory work carried out in the frame of the pilot project. A press release announcing the new labelling period for the Grand Site de France for the next 6 years and also mentioning INCULTUM Pilot project will be sent out before the summer to local, national and professional media.

April 22 2022, Brussels and online

Turning a new page for heritage: ILUCIDARE Final Playground

ILUCIDARE is a three-year project, started in 2019, supported by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. The purpose of the project is to promote heritage as a resource for innovation and international cooperation.
ILUCIDARE’s activities aim to provide interactive learning opportunities to exchange knowledge, and to establish an international network with stakeholders and practitioners through face-to-face activities and international awards.

Next 22th April, the ILUCIDARE Playground will be held in Brussels, with a full programme of speeches and panel discussions, to share reflections and practical experiences from the three-year ILUCIDARE activities.

The event, which can also be followed online, will focus on the ILUCIDARE tools to support heritage-led innovation and international relations in future policy actions and cooperation projects.

Participants will be able to discover the Innovation Handbook and the International Relations Display, play with the Inspirational kits and the Capacity Building roadmap.
Besides this, they will have the chance to engage with the ILUCIDARE community to debate policy recommendations.

During the event, the winner of the ILUCIDARE Challenge (the international competition focused on interdisciplinary and international collaborations, to reward creative ideas and changemakers worldwide working on heritage, innovation and international cooperation) will be declared.

Find out more about the event at https://ilucidare.eu/index.php/news/ilucidare-final-playground-brussels-online

online, 1 March 2022

Building the common European data space for cultural heritage together: The role of Europeana, content aggregation and strategic frameworks

In collaboration with Mobilier National and the French Ministry of Culture and under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Council, Europeana is organising an online conference on 1 March 2022 (09:00-16:30 CET), entitled ‘Building the common European data space for cultural heritage together: The role of Europeana, content aggregation and strategic frameworks‘

The conference explores the creation of the Data Space for Cultural Heritage. It takes place in the context of the European Commission’s Recommendation 2021/1970 of 10 November 2021.

The audience will include the members of the European Commission’s Expert Group on a common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage, delegates from the French Ministry and French cultural heritage institutions, aggregators and other professionals.

The high-level goal of the conference is to gain a shared understanding of some of the aspects of the creation of the Data Space for Cultural Heritage. Through a series of speeches, presentations, panel discussions and moderated Q&A sessions, we will explore what it actually means to and for the different players in that space and how we can work collectively and collaboratively to develop the Data Space for Cultural Heritage. Here is the draft programme.

Registration via this link.

ARCH project: “Knowledge Information Management System for Decision Support” deliverable

Decision support tools and methodologies to improve the resilience of historic areas

The EU-funded project ARCH-Advancing Resilience of historic areas against Climate-related and other Hazards– is a research project aims to deliver decision support tools and methodologies to improve the resilience of historic areas to climate change-related and other hazards.

Last December 2021 ARCH published the “Knowledge Information Management System for Decision Support” deliverable that summarizes methods, data and results obtained by the project to generate relevant information and knowledge to support decision making process.

The report highlights that:

to improve awareness and capacity building on disaster resilience at the historical area level: the implementation of ontology-based and semantic-based spatiotemporal assessment has great potential
to support decision-making processes of preventive conservation and restoration of cultural heritage buildings: automated approaches for 3D modelling and automatic crack / damage detection based on deep learning have proven to be extremely valuable tools

Forther information:
About ARCH project.
About “Knowledge Information Management System for Decision Support” deliverable.

The information day dedicated to Horizon Europe potential participants from Spain takes place on 24th February

INCULTUM presented as Experience of Participation at Information Day – Horizon Europe

Project coordinator José María Martín Civantos will present the INCULTUM experience at an Information Day – Horizon Europe Cluster 2: Culture, creativity and inclusive society, within the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027.

The presentation is entitled Experience of Participation in H2020: INCULTUM Project and is at 11:15 am on 24th February.

The Information Day is organized by Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento (AAC), Universidad de Granada and Universidad de Huelva, In collaboration with Red OTRI Andalucía

The programme of the day (Spanish language) can be read HERE.

9-12 June 2022

Open call: the Festival of the New European Bauhaus

From science to art, from design to politics, from architecture to technology, the Festival of New European Bauhaus will be a great opportunity to network, debate and shape a sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future.

The 2022 edition will be an hybrid event: the core activities will take place in Brussels with side events across the EU and beyond. It will propose live performances, exhibitions, participatory activities and a forum to discussion and exchange of ideas. The event aims to involve communities and the regions in putting the Green Deal into action as well as to build connections between different activities and individuals, bridging the fields of research, science and technology, to those of education and civil engagement, and of art, culture and architecture.

Beauty, sustainability and inclusiveness will be the main themes of the Festival.

The three pillars of the Festival:

The Fest: a cultural programme with a range of performances, art pieces, creative participatory activities, and festivities in associated pop-up spaces in Brussels.

The Fair: exhibitions spread across the city to display projects and products that support the values of the New European Bauhaus, with networking opportunities for visitors and exhibitors.

The Forum: an online platform broadcasting debates in Brussels, as well as side-events across the world, to debate on the key themes of the New European Bauhaus:

sustainability, from climate goals, to circularity, zero pollution, and biodiversity
aesthetics, quality of experience and style, beyond functionality
inclusion, from valuing diversity, to securing accessibility and affordability

The Festival offers many opportunities for involvement for individuals and groups who can propose their own activities, projects, venues or side events to become a spotlight feature of the three pillars of the Festival.
The call is addressed to individual artists and cultural actors, collectives of artists, projects, public organizations, non-governmental organizations and any other non-profit organization, and it will be open until 7 March 2022.

More detailed information are available at https://new-european-bauhaus-festival.eu/

online event, 3rd March 2022

INCULTUM Data Workshop: measuring the impact of cultural tourism

img. Lorenzo Cafaro, Pixabay

INCULTUM project is pleased to announce its first public event, in the framework of the research conducted based on data analysis. The results of this work are expected to provide insights on how to design effective and sustainable cultural policy and to facilitate the mapping of good practices.

In INCULTUM, different types of data are collected and analysed on various dimensions of cultural tourism, urban and regional development. A wide selection of socio-economic indicators is used for this purpose. The collected data are then analysed in order to convincingly establish the relationship between each of the innovative approaches to urban and regional development and cultural tourism. Econometric approaches are used with a particular focus on identification of causal relationship, as opposed to just a correlation. The project explores also in depth the mechanisms (i.e. the channels) through which an intervention works on development.

The Data Workshop was organized by University of Southern Denmark.

View recordings and presentations: https://incultum.eu/events/data-workshop/

3rd March 2022 h. 9.00 – 12.00 pm CET

The morning session is reserved to project partners only.

During the session data samples sourced from the Pilots will be analysed and discussed with the WP Leader.

3rd March 2022 h. 12.00 – 14.00 pm CET

The afternoon session is open to the public.

Antonella Fresa – INCULTUM Network Coordinator, Promoter S.r.l.

– Introduction to INCULTUM project

Karol Jan Borowiecki – WP Leader, University of Southern Denmark

– Introduction to keynote speakers and chair of the session

Key Note Speakers:

Trilce Navarrete – Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

– Cultural statistics to evidence societal and economic impact

Enrico Bertacchini – University of Torino

– Challenges of data analytics strategies for tourism in peripheral areas

Deadline for submission: 8 March

The European Commission has launched the Horizon Impact Award 2022

The deadline to apply for the third edition of the Horizon Impact Award ends on March 8th.

This European Commission’s initiative intends to celebrate projects that have used their results to provide value for society and show the socio-economic benefits of EU investment in research and innovation. This will also encourage all other beneficiaries to best use and manage their results.

All beneficiaries of closed FP7/H2020 projects can submit their application; they must be able to show proof of effective exploitation and uptake of their research results.

Six winners will be selected by the evaluation jury for their achievements and each of the six winners will receive EUR 25.000.
The Commission will further promote the winners by inviting them to provide testimony at other major events.

Further information on the prize and how to participate are available on the Funding and Tenders Portal.

UNCHARTED supports small and medium-sized European museums in the development of digital strategies

The UNCHARTED community is expanding: welcome DOORS project!

DOORS, the Digital Incubator for Museums is a H2020 project coordinated by ARS ELECTRONICA with the aim to create an European incubator to support small and medium-sized museums in developing strategies to integrate technology and to enrich the online and on-site cultural offer.

It moves from the assumption that for small museums, the technologies and skills to launch and sustain digital strategies are usually unattainable.
DOORS aims at offering small institutions a program of incubation and development of digital skills so that they can access knowledge, resources, skills.

The project has launched a call to invite small and medium-size museums across Europe to submit proposals for digital pilots that can benefit their institutions and help them initiate a long-term digital transformation. The deadline for submitting applications is February 13 2022.
40 museums will be selected among the participants in the call, to participate in the first phase of the incubation programme focused on shared learning and, among these, 20 will be able to continue in the second phase with the practical implementation of their digital pilot projects.

DOORS has recently joined the UNCHARTED community with the aim of collaborating in mutual support, respectively, of the dissemination and promotion activities of the main progress of the projects as well as mutually participating in the events organized within the two projects. With regard to the latter aspect, UNCHARTED and DOORS have accepted each other’s invitations to participate respectively in the festival organized by ARS Electronica, DOORS coordinator, to be held in September 2022 and in the central UNCHARTED event to be held in London in January 2023.

The Showcase of DOORS on UNCHARTED website is available here.
Learn more about DOORS at https://ars.electronica.art/doors/en/