Project description
Museums in the digital age
Confronted with the lockdowns to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many museums have embraced digitalisation. But the success of this endeavour needs a lot more than technical advances. It requires broad comprehensive ideas and visions. With this in mind, the EU-funded DOORS project aims to create a European incubator for small and medium-sized museums. It will provide museums with support in a digital transformation through strategies shaped based on their specific values. This will ensure the attraction of their audiences and their financial sustainability. The incubator will empower 40 museums by teaching and strengthening digital engagement and maturity – the level of ability or capability to apply the digital transformation. Twenty innovative pilots will develop digital transformation experiments to stimulate a collaborating network promoting European digital excellence.
Objective
The situation most museums are currently facing remains compromised by the global health crisis, which has hit the sector particularly hard and accelerates the importance of digitalisation in the museum sector. But technology is not a solution in itself; particularly when not constituent to a larger strategy and equipped with comprehensive goals. DOORS (Digital incubatOr fOR muSeums) focuses on digital maturity of institutions and empowerment of their teams. The central question is how the museum sector can develop digital strategies and values to adapt and reinvent themselves to strengthen their performance, reach their audiences & develop new ones, and ensure financial recovery and sustainability.
The overarching aim of DOORS is to become a truly European incubator for small and medium sized museums that will support them in their digital transformation journeys. The incubator will seed and nurture digital thinking in forty institutions resulting in a continuing network of DOORS digitally maturing actors. Through a two-stage pilot scheme, DOORS involves 40 museums in 20 innovative pilots developing digital transformation experiments in 4 concrete innovation areas.
The resulting active network of European museum and innovation stakeholders will form a synergetic collaboration platform, share lessons & partner experience and publicly highlight Europe’s digital excellence for museums. Building on the support and diverse networks of the three experienced consortium partners, Ars Electronica, Ecsite and Museum Booster, DOORS invites museums practitioners, digital experts, cultural innovators and all those being interested in our collective endeavour to take part, contribute and benefit.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.6.3.1. - Study European heritage, memory, identity, integration and cultural interaction and translation, including its representations in cultural and scientific collections, archives and museums, to better inform and understand the present by richer interpretations of the past
Call for proposal
H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018-2019-2020
See other projects for this callSub call
H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2021
Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
4040 Linz
Austria