Project description
Living labs to empower digital heritage communities
The EU-funded CULTUR.ACT project will bring the Cultural Heritage Cloud from technological development into everyday cultural practice. Through a network of living labs, 10 European museums, archives, cultural organisations, researchers and creative communities will test tools in real-world environments across archaeology, fashion, audiovisual heritage, digital art and 3D printing. These experiments will generate practical workflows, open solutions and reusable knowledge, while feeding real-world needs and user experience back into the development of the cloud. By connecting technological innovation with cultural practice, CULTUR.ACT will help shape a Cultural Heritage Cloud that enables new forms of collaboration, reuse and engagement across Europe’s cultural heritage ecosystem.
Objective
The development of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) alongside complementary initiatives like the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage and other thematic research infrastructures under the wider European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative, is set to provide Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) and Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) with valuable, open, commonly accessible tools and resources that will fundamentally change the ways the European tangible and intangible cultural heritage in conserved, interconnected, shared, enhanced, re-used and ultimately experienced by the public. CULTURAL.ACT is designed as a real-world proving ground for the ECCCH. It will massively move the validation of components, achieved so far in lab/unit-test settings, into real-life conditions, leveraging on a community of CHIs and CCIs – of diverse types, cultural heritage domains, disciplines, size and expertise – that agreed to collaborate and share experiences in the use of ECCCH tools and resources in core tasks of their own processes and working environments. Several Living Labs (LLs) will enable our stakeholders’ community to test and assess the ECCCH tools and services sharing experiences and collaboration, in the context of various real-world challenging Use Cases (UCs). Offering not just a set of use cases but Living Labs embedded in real cultural institutions and creative communities, CULTUR.ACT will make indispensable steps for the ECCCH’s market take-up. Finally, It will build a participatory, shared understanding of how the ECCCH can improve the way of working, cooperating and co-creating of CHIs and CCIs, and gather evidence-based, reusable knowledge and outcomes with high potentials for transfer and early adoption by other organisations in the same or other cultural heritage sectors, for the benefits of their users whether they are researchers, practitioners, teachers, scholars or the public interested in EU Culture.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.2 - Cultural Heritage
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2025-01
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40132 Bologna
Italy
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