The webinar on the Call for “A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases” was a great success with over 500 viewings on Zoom and YouTube on the day (Monday 30th June) and several more since. The online event was jointly organised by the European Commission, ECHOES, and the three sister Cloud projects (AUTOMATA, TEXTaiLES and HERITALISE) selected under the 2023 call.
The two hour webinar started with a session overview from Maria Claudia BODINO, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation who handed over to Katja Reppel, Head of Unit, who introduced the topic and provided some background to the current call. Rickard Bucksch, from DG RTD, then when into the details of the call, explaining the purpose, scope and expected outcomes. Xavier Rodier followed with a presentation on ECHOES where Dimitris Kotzinos described the technical aspects of the Cloud infrastructure. Next on the agenda were presentations given by the three sister Cloud projects – Gabriele Gattiglia on AUTOMATA, Mikel Borras on HERITALISE and Georgios Ioannakis on TEXTaiLES. After 52 minutes, the webinar moved to the Q&A section which had been extended due to the high level of interest and questions received.
A panel of experts (Aleksandra Nowak, PCSS, Sorin Hermon, CYI, Paolo Cignoni, CNR and Carlos Andujar, UPC) and the speakers addressed the questions submitted in advance for the next 25 minutes. Several more questions had been sent in during the webinar and the session then continued with these until the end of the webinar.
Answers to the most commonly asked questions are available on the ECHOES website FAQ page which will be updated with the latest enquiries from the webinar.
The webinar can be viewed on YouTube (see below). The presentations are available as a PDF download.
About the Call
This topic aims at implementing real use cases and carrying out demanding end-to-end testing of the platform and its tools, in order to verify its capabilities and improve the Cultural Heritage Cloud. The activities carried out should focus on concrete use cases, undertaken by the participating institutions, professionals and researchers with a view to improve their results or work processes.
Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Findings from thorough end-to-end testing based on real use cases contribute to a seamlessly working, user-friendly, inclusive and powerful European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH).
- By documenting and communicating the use cases deployed, a wide collection of innovative uses of the ECCCH is elaborated, which contributes to exemplify and illustrate its benefits and attract new users and user groups.
- By identifying and implementing improvements and engaging with users, significant contributions are made for the ECCCH to be widely used by European cultural heritage professionals and researchers, enabling new ways to interact, cooperate and co-create, thus supporting the generation of new knowledge and opening of new research paradigms.
Deadline: 16 September 2025 17:00:00 CET
Funding: Lump sum
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