European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science

ECHOES

ECHOES aims to create the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) as a shared platform for heritage professionals and researchers to access data, innovative scientific and training resources and advanced digital tools co-developed by the heritage community according to their specific needs. ECHOES will bring together fragmented communities of the Cultural Heritage (CH) field, which consists of various actors from different sectors and disciplines, into a new community around the Digital Commons. Going beyond the strict focus on assets and the mere digitisation of Heritage, ECHOES intends to generate a visionary paradigm shift in the CH field. Adopting a holistic approach, ECHOES will also enable digitising the existing knowledge of Heritage objects, whether tangible or intangible. It will create a digital environment enabling collaborative analysis of CH assets, facts, and phenomena. In this environment, actors – humans or Artificial Intelligence – can develop their interpretations, thereby enriching the knowledge of CH and their surroundings. The digital environment proposed by ECHOES will empower users to interact with, manipulate and enrich Digital Twins, leading to new, jointly developed scientific knowledge. The ECCCH built by ECHOES is anchored in the principles of Open Access and Open Science. It thus promotes inclusion and democratises access to knowledge and digital assets, which are understood as public goods by and for all. This digital environment will allow the creation of a new generation of heritage objects, the Digital Commons, which are semantically rich and collectively produced – we see this as “the heritage of tomorrow”. At the end of the project, ECHOES will deliver a single platform to integrate results of EU and national projects on CH. The ECCCH will be sustainable thanks to its inclusive legal entity, which will be created before the end of ECHOES.

Status

Active

Start Date

06/2024

End Date

05/2029

Type

European

Responsible

Partners

1. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS (CNRS)
2. CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR)
3. FONDATION DES SCIENCES DU PATRIMOINE (FSP)
4. STICHTING EUROPEANA (EF)
5. INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (PSNC)
6. IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS (FORTH)
7. FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV (Fraunhofer),
8. Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium (KIK-IRPA),
9. THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE (CyI)
10. UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC)
11. HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO (UH)
12. ÖSTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK (ONB)
13. MEDIA SOLUTION CENTER BADEN-WURTTEMBERG E.V. (MSC-HdM)
14. STICHTING NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOORBEELD EN GELUID (INSV)
15. ARIADNE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (ARIADNE RI)
16. DEUTSCHER MUSEUMSBUND EV (NEMO)
17. CONFEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES ORGANISATIONS DE CONSERVATEURSRESTAURATEURS (E.C.C.O.)
18. CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES MONUMENTSET DES SITES ASSOCIATION (ICOMOS)
19. RESEAU EUROPEEN POUR LE MANAGEMENT ET LES POLITIQUES CULTURELLES (ENCATC)
20. STICHTING ARCHIVES PORTAL EUROPE FOUNDATION (APEF)
21. COMISSAO NATIONAL PORTUGUESA DO CONSELHO INTERNACIONAL DE MUSEUS (ICOM-PT)
22. STICHTING EGI (EGI)
23. DIGITAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (DARIAH)
24. CLARIN ERIC (CLARIN)
25. ETT SPA (ETT)
26. SPARNA (SPARNA)

Associated Partners:
1. CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITE
2. UNIVERSITE DE TOURS
3. CENTRO DI RICERCA, SVILUPPO E STUDI SUPERIORI IN SARDEGNA SOCIETÀ A RESPONSABILITÀ LIMITATA
4. FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
5. Institut national du patrimoine
6. VERENIGING EUROPEANA NETWORK
7. FONDAZIONE PIN - POLO DI PRATO UNIVERSITA DI FIRENZE
8. PRISMA CULTURA S.R.L.
9. UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
10. UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
11. NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
12. CENTAR ZA DIGITALNE HUMANISTICKE NAUKE
13. ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
14. OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
15. DA NEXT SRL
16. A SRL

Partners:
1. FERENCIA DE RECTORES DE LAS UNIVERSIDADES DEL SUROESTE EUROPEO
2. E MACHINE ORGANISATION (TMO)- ORGANISATION FUR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT IN TECHNOLOGIE UND WISSENSCHAFT UND KULTURELLEM ERBE
3. VERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
4. CHTING LIBER
5. IONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY
6. SANTIKVARIEAMBETET
7. HAEL CULTURE
8. NATIONAL GALLERY
9. ERSITY OF YORK