Project description
Extended reality for digital innovation in cultural heritage
Cultural heritage spans multiple fields, making advanced technologies invaluable for addressing its challenges. The EU-funded HERIFORGE project aims to create a network of three interconnected ecosystems in Poland, Cyprus and Turkey. This initiative seeks to foster innovation in the cultural heritage and creative industries by responsibly leveraging extended reality (XR) technologies and digital cultural heritage assets to strengthen social resilience. The project brings together academic institutions, businesses, public authorities, and societal actors, drawing on expertise from three leading hubs. Key outputs include a strategic impact package, a fully operational HERIFORGE Hubs Network, XR-driven prototypes and services, guidelines for building trustworthy innovation ecosystems and a Data Orchestration Platform.
Objective
The main goal of HERIFORGE is to develop a network of three interconnected place-based ecosystems in Poland, Cyprus and Turkey providing an excellent R&I environment for innovation in the cultural heritage and creative industries with the responsible use of extended reality (XR) technologies and digital cultural heritage assets for the benefit of social resilience.
The HERIFORGE project harnesses the expertise of three excellence hubs on XR technologies, advanced IT and digital humanities infrastructures as well as cultural heritage resources to provide an interregional ecosystem of innovation. These hubs epitomise the quadruple helix model, integrating academic institutions, businesses, public authorities, and societal actors within their ecosystems, in a bid to foster a real place-based innovation culture based on a strategic agenda and in line with regional or national smart specialisation strategies. Within the project, these individual ecosystems will be transformed into the HERIFORGE Hubs Network.
The project results in five key results including critical for the establishment of the innovation ecosystem, including strategic impact package, the fully operational HERIFORGE Hubs Network, XR-driven prototypes and services, guidelines for building human-centric and trustworthy innovation ecosystemsas well as Data Orchestration Platform.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. This project's classification has been validated by the project's team.
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- humanitiesother humanitieslibrary sciencesknowledge organization
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
- humanitiesother humanitieslibrary sciencesdigital humanities
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-07
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
61-704 POZNAN
Poland