During the project period, extensive research, training, and dissemination activities were conducted, including: 1) training of the researcher to further develop professional competencies and the research profile as an interdisciplinary researcher by enhancing knowledge in digital methods (participation in courses, workshops, and summer schools at the Universities of Graz, Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Utrecht); 2) fieldwork research, including conducting interviews with experts in cultural heritage and digitalization (in Graz and Novi Sad) and online data collection; 3) dissemination of results through scientific conference presentations (at the universities in Graz, Rabat, Philadelphia, Augsburg, Magdeburg, and Ljubljana), article publication (two journal articles published, one book chapter in print, and one co-authored journal article under review) and book draft (to be published one year after the project finishes, with Transcript Verlag), public lectures and public presentations (including one master’s and one PhD course workshop at the University of Graz, a roundtable discussion organized by Museumsbund Austria – #digiRoundtable at the MAK Museum in Vienna, project fair poster presentation and lunchtime lecture at the DDH University of Graz, presentation in the lecture series “Critical Heritage Studies” of the Arqus Network, University of Leipzig, European Young Researchers’ Night – online, and European Researchers’ Night in Graz); 4) transfer of knowledge activities, including the organization of the “International Conference European Cultural Memory in Its Digitalization – Inventing Cultural Memory in the 21st Century?”, followed by the co-edited issue of the journal Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (De Gruyter Brill, to be published after the project finishes); organization of a series of lectures (“Lunchtime Lectures”) at the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz, and the organization of the international workshop “Digital Archives as Spaces for Collaborative Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences” at the University of Graz; 5) outreach in the digital sphere through a LinkedIn account and the websites of the DDH University of Graz and the Field of Excellence – Dimensions of Europe, publication of two essays (one on the “Museumsbund Austria” web portal in English and one on the “Korzo” web portal in Serbian).
