The European Commission has opened its call for “A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases” (HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-03). Projects selected for funding will be part of the ECHOES Community.
A specialised webinar is planned which focuses on how the future projects funded under the Cultural Heritage Cloud call topic of Horizon Europe’s Cluster 2 Work Programme 2025 will interact with the other Cloud projects and be integrated in the Cultural Heritage Cloud initiative.
This online event, “The Cultural Heritage Cloud call 2025: implementation update” will take place on the 30th June from 14.00 to15.30h (CET).
The webinar is co-organised with ECHOES and the three sister Cloud projects selected under the 2023 call. Attendees will receive the latest information about the Cultural Heritage Cloud implementation and be able to ask live questions to the ECHOES consortium.
The ECHOES FAQ web page will be updated to include information about this call and further details on the webinar will be available shortly.
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
Full call text: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-03
