26 May 2026: Agenda
h. 8.30 Registration
h. 9.00 Opening ceremony:
- Dr. Marinos Ioannides, Dr. Athos Agapiou, UNESCO Chair and RESEARCH Center on Digital Cultural Heritage Mnemosyne
- Dr. Konstantinos Kleovoulou, Director of Research and Innovation, Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
- Dr. Lina Kassianidou, Deputy Minister of Culture, Cyprus Government
h. 9.30 Introduction – Antonella Fresa, Cordinator EUreka3D-XR, Photoconsortium International Association
- 3D services for cultural heritage institutions: digitisation, storage, sharing and reusing.
h. 10.00 Keynote Speech – Professor Isto Huvila, Uppsala University
- Sustainable digital heritage practice is Europe’s digital future in the making.
h. 10.30 Coffee Break
h. 11.00 Case studies and EUreka3D-XR Tools session:
- Case study 1: Virtual Girona: Discovering the Historical Walls – David Iglesias Franch (Center for Image Research and Dissemination – CRDI Ajuntament de Girona, Spain)
- Case study 2: The AR narrative of the hidden side of Bibracte archaeological site – Agathe Le Riche Maugis (Bibracte, France) and Eirini Kaldeli (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
- Case study 3: The creation of a new life of Saint Neophytos Enkleistra in Cyprus in the virtual space – Marinos Ioannides (UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus) and Nadia Thalmann and Nedjma Cadi (MIRALab, Switzerland)
h. 12.45 Discussion
Conclusions
h. 13.00 Lunch Break
h. 14:00 Roundtable 1: Twin it! Policy Roundtable: 3D and AI for Europe’s culture and heritage
h. 15:30 Coffee Break
h. 16:00 Roundtable 2: Why we Digitise Cultural Heritage, its Use & ReUse; Persistent Virtual Worlds and AI
h. 17:30 Conclusion
During the afternoon, in the exhibition space, EUreka3D-XR partners host booths to present and demonstrate the tools and resources openly accessible to all cultural professionals to support digital trasformation challenges faced by memory institutions.
