Capacity Building
This project provides online and onsite training and capacity building to CHIs for high-quality standards of digitisation, advanced metadata management and aggregation to Europeana. The capacity building programme follows the protocols and standards of the Europeana Capacity Building Framework (ECBF).
EUreka3D events
- 13 December 2024
The EUreka3D Final Conference will take place in Girona on 13 December 2024. The event will consist of a hybrid public conference by project partners and invited contributors, and a public onsite workshop mainly focused on 3D digitisation and cultural heritage for local cultural heritage and museum professionals.
- 26 September, 24 October and 15 November 2024
Transforming Heritage: Formats, authenticity and preservation
Webinar series 2024
The International Council on Archives (ICA) and the EUreka3D Consortium are organizing the second webinar series on 3D Digitisation and Digital Transformation of Cultural Heritage. The three sessions will take place in autumn 2024, and will focus on formats, authenticity and preservation for 3D and digitisation in the cultural heritage field.
- 29 May 2024
EUreka3D: Preserving Values through #MemoryTwins
On the occasion of the third EUreka3D project plenary, hosted by partner CUT in Limassol, a demo event is organized to present the latest development and services of the EUreka3D e-infrastructure dedicated to manage and share 3D cultural heritage datasets.
Hybrid Public Demo Event – in Limassol (Cyprus) and online
- 8 April and 17 May 2024
Webinars: Paradata, Metadata and Data for 3D acquisition in cultural heritage
These webinars will bring together professionals from the spectrum of Digital Cultural Heritage practice to share their experiences of using and working with paradata seeking to lay down a common understanding of paradata as a first step towards a community-built set of standards and expectations for its application to 3D documentation and the creation of knowledge.
Organized by UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology, in collaboration with EUreka3D project
- 15 December 2023
In this online demo event, we will present the status of development for EUreka3D Data Hub, a piloting action aiming to create e-infrastructure services for Cultural Institutions.
To create 3D models of cultural heritage collections is a new challenge for Cultural Institutions. However, the next steps after digitisation also pose challenges about storage, visualisation and preservation of such 3D models and their accompanying information. What are the available solutions that cultural professionals can consider for their collections management workflows?
- 27 October, 10 November, 1 December 2023
Transforming heritage: from 2D to 3D digitisation
International Council on Archives and EUreka3D consortium organise a series of webinars on 3D digitisation and digital transformation of cultural heritage. The three sessions focus on the quality guidelines for cultural heritage digitisation, the use of 3D digitisation for cultural heritage reuse and research, and innovative initiatives in 3D and the CH sector.
This activity is intended for archivists and records management professionals, CHI professionals, 3D digitisation and digital infrastructure providers, digital humanities researchers, and students in all these fields.
- 6 June 2023
under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy
The first public event of EU funded project EUreka3D is organized by project coordinator Photoconsortium in Rome on 6th June 2023. The conference 3D in Cultural Heritage was integral part of the DHCH 2023 initiative on Data Science, and is realized by EUreka3D project in collaboration with University of Basel Digital Humanities Lab and Istituto Svizzero.
The event helped understanding the challenges and needs for creating 3D content in good quality and reusable, bringing together experts and specialists on 3D digitization and holistic documentation of 3D cultural content. It was is the best occasion for institutions, researchers, cultural professionals and students in cultural heritage to improve their skills, knowledge and capacity for the current scenario of digital transformation in the cultural sector.
The event was a success, with ca. 50 people onsite and 120 online. Read more, view photos and access the presentations at the button below.
External events
- 23-27 September 2024
- 5-7 December 2024
EUreka3D joins Training Activity in Malta and Cyprus
From the 23rd to the 27th of September 2024, the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) -one of the EUreka3D partners-, in collaboration with Heritage Malta, organised a key training activity to exchange knowledge on heritage digitisation methodologies for artefacts, monuments and archaeological sites.
The second training activity will take place in Cyprus from 5th to 7th of December. Participants will work on the digitisation of the Panagia Aimatousa Church, in Aradippou, Cyprus. They will digitise both the exterior and interior, byzantine icons and key objects
- 2 December 2024
Call for in person Workshop Participation at EuroMed2024 – submission deadline 10th November 2024
This event will bring together professionals from across the spectrum of Digital Cultural Heritage to share their experiences, aiming to establish a common understanding of Paradata and lay the groundwork for a community-built set of standards and best practices for its application in 3D documentation. It is part of the 10th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2024).
- 25-29 November 2024
EUreka3D is showcased at Heritage Horizons, the Europeana Project Week
The ‘Heritage Horizons Project Week: Shaping the common European data space for cultural heritage’ will take place from 25 – 29 November 2024. This event – organised by the Europeana Initiative – will put the spotlight on the diverse and innovative projects encouraging reuse, innovating in technologies and enhancing sustainability which enrich and enhance the common European data space for cultural heritage.
- 20-23 November 2024
Image and Research Conference 2024
The 18th edition of the Image and Research Conference will be held with the aim of reflecting and sharing knowledge on different aspects linked to the management of photographic and audiovisual heritage. EUreka3D project will be presented by project coordinator Antonella Fresa following the paper entitled “A new dimension for AV heritage: a EUreka3D initiative“, jointly written by authors from the EUreka3D consortium.
- 7 October 2024
EUreka3D at European Heritage Hub Forum in Bucharest
The event “Championing a responsible digital transition for and with cultural heritage” addresses various themes and challenges on digital technologies to enhance sustainability, inclusion, and diversity in the heritage sector. The event will consist of two interlinked components: policy conversations and an interactive exploration and fair that will showcase a diverse array of projects, initiatives, and best practices. EUreka3D will be present at the exhibition, with visual materials disseminating the general information about the project and the upcoming events
- 30/09 – 4/10 2024
At the annual EGI conference, international scientific communities, computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policy makers gather to take research and innovation in data-intensive processing and analytics forward. EUreka3D project is present at the conference with a keynote speech by Marinos Ioannides from Cyprus University of Technology, one of EUreka3D partners: “The oldest traditional Trawler of Cyprus on its way to the Data Cloud and Memory Twin”.
- 19 September 2024
Supporting Communities Through Digital Cultural Tourism
This webinar introduces the potential use of digitised cultural heritage resources to boost cultural tourism, raise awareness about sustainability, and how to prepare for digitisation with the involvement of communities. Antonella Fresa, EUreka3D project coordinator, will deliver a presentation about understanding, preserving and communicating the character of monuments, sites & cultural landscapes in the digital sphere.
- 11 September 2024
EUreka3D will be showcased at the EGI DataHub Webinar, organized by EGI Foundation, one of EUreka3D project partners. This webinar presents the latest advancements in EGI DataHub, an innovative distributed data access and management platform powered by Onedata technology.
- 19 June 2024
Clean Oceans and Mapping our Seas Conference
EUreka3D took part in the Clean Oceans and Mapping our Seas Conference, organized by Heritage Malta and the Norwegian Museum Stavanger. The conference focuses on 3D digitisation methods for documenting the impacts of climate change and ocean quality on maritime cultural heritage. EUreka3D presentation highlighted outcomes and stories behind the 3D digitisation project that created a fully documented memory twin of the traditional Lambousa boat, a cultural monument of Cyprus heritage.
- 27 May 2024
EUreka3D project was accepted for a paper and presentation in the prestigioius annual conference EVA Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, organised in Florence by Professor Vito Cappellini, University of Florence. Read the abstract and download the full paper about EUreka3D aims to support Cultural Heritage Institutions in implementing high quality 3D digitisation for the purposes of reuse by a variety of stakeholders.
- 21-22 May 2024
Digital Storytelling Festival 2024
Every year, the Europeana Initiative runs the Digital Storytelling Festival. The international event encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring culture. EUreka3D project will be present at this online event with the participation in the Panel session “Innovative media”, presenting outcomes and stories behind the 3D digitised objects and sites within the context of EUreka3D.
- 14 May 2024
EUreka3D will be present at the Europeana Twin it! campaign final high-level event in Brussels, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency. The project will be featured in a dedicated booth where the main project outcomes and goals will be deployed through videos and printed visual materials.
- 12 April 2024
EUreka3D at INCULTUM International Conference
The conference will be an occasion to present results and outcomes of INCULTUM, to prepare for further exploitation by the partners, and to trigger the next implementation and replication phases in new areas across the European Union. EUreka3D will be represented in the conference with the participation of the project coordinator Antonella Fresa and with a poster displaying the project’s 3D digitisation journey.
- 25-26 March 2024
EUreka3D at the Spring edition of Europeana Aggregators Forum 2024
Updates on EUreka3D development were presented to colleague institutions, partners and Europeana aggregators by the Project Coordinator Antonella Fresa, vice president of Photoconsortium, and Valentina Bachi, project manager.
- 12 – 14 March 2024
EUreka3D will be showcased at the Data Spaces Symposium 2024. EGI Foundation, one of the project partners, will be present at the symposium with a booth. On this occasion, the EUreka3D project will be featured in the booth through a promotional video and a brochure, distributed to the symposium attendees.
- 28 November 2023
Europeana Digital Practice Workshop by Bibracte
As part of the training “Raw materials to sources, from the archaeological object” organized by the Resource Center for Artistic and Cultural Education (Préac) Archaeological heritage, Bibracte hosted a workshop on digitisation and aggregation to Europeana.
Within the context of EUreka3D project, the workshop has addressed the different types of resources on Europeana, and the 3D digitisation of archeological objects as an educational resource.
- 23-27 October 2023
As part of the training event Re-envisioning Cultural Heritage Documentation in the Metaverse Age, a session about the EUreka3D action will take place on 24th October, coordinated by the project leader Antonella Fresa (Photoconsortium) and Marinos Ioannides (Cyprus University of Technology), specifically focusing on the use of Cloud Infrastructures and the process of aggregating and harvesting high quality 3D models for its publication on Europeana.
- 17 October 2023
Spanish Presidency Europeana Conference
EUreka3D takes part at the conference with the discussion about 3D data governance and access. The event will explore some of the aspects of building the capacities of heritage professionals in creating and making available high-quality 3D data in the common European data space for cultural heritage and in our sector.
- 10 – 12 October 2023
EuropeanaTech will be taking place in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 10 – 12 October 2023
The conference is for all tech-minded professionals, developers, researchers and students working in and around digital cultural heritage across the globe. The project EUreka3D will be showcased at the conference through a presentation video about 3D digitisation in cultural heritage.
- 19 – 23 June 2023
EGI2023 will take place in Poznań, Poland – from June 19th to June 23rd!
At the annual EGI conference, international scientific communities, computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policy makers gather to take research and innovation in data-intensive processing and analytics forward.
- 18 April 2023
The Europeana conference under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU
The Europeana conference under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU took place on 18 April 2023 (9h00 – 15h00 CET). The conference was hosted by the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm and online. This hybrid event is made possible thanks to the support of the Swedish Ministry of Culture, and is organised in collaboration with the Swedish National Heritage Board.