3D-4CH
- Expert Guidance and Validation: Insights from a prestigious Advisory Board of international scholars and a Stakeholder Panel of CHI representatives will ensure scientific rigor and practical relevance.
- Sustainability and Accessibility: A comprehensive long-term data strategy rooted in open access, interoperability, and licensing standards will guarantee that all resources remain available for at least five years post-project.
- Global Inspiration: A model for international collaboration and technological excellence that demonstrates the power of cultural heritage will strive to unite and inspire.
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3D-4CH
3D-4CH is an ambitious and forward-thinking initiative designed to transform how cultural heritage is preserved, digitized, and shared for educational and societal benefit. This groundbreaking project unites the rich history and cultural diversity of the European Union and Ukraine with cutting-edge technologies, setting a new benchmark for digital heritage innovation.
Τhis Centre aims to elevate the role of 3D digitization and advanced technologies in cultural preservation. It also looks to the future with forthcoming collaborations like XRculture and 3DBigDataSpace, ensuring a constantly evolving ecosystem of tools, services, and expertise.
The Online Competence Centre for 3D is more than a repository — it is aiming to be a vibrant hub for innovation, collaboration, and learning. Designed as a fully online platform, it will bring together leading cultural heritage institutions, researchers, and practitioners to unlock the full potential of 3D technologies.
The Competence Centre for 3D will deliver:
- Expert Guidance and Validation: Insights from a prestigious Advisory Board of international scholars and a Stakeholder Panel of CHI representatives will ensure scientific rigor and practical relevance.
- Sustainability and Accessibility: A comprehensive long-term data strategy rooted in open access, interoperability, and licensing standards will guarantee that all resources remain available for at least five years post-project.
- Global Inspiration: A model for international collaboration and technological excellence that demonstrates the power of cultural heritage will strive to unite and inspire.
By blending advanced technologies with a deep respect for cultural diversity and historical significance, the Online Competence Centre for 3D promises to redefine how we preserve and experience our shared heritage.
The project consortium comprises 20 partners, led by INCEPTION SRL, and eight associate and affiliated partners, Athena RC being one of them.
ARTEMIS
Athena RC participates in the ARTEMIS project, a pioneering three-year research program funded by the European Union. The project, led by the Italian National Research Council (CNR), brings together 22 partners and two cooperating entities with the common goal of protecting cultural heritage through innovative digital technologies.
At the heart of ARTEMIS is the Heritage Digital Twin. This concept consists of the physical heritage object (such as a small artefact or a large monument) along with all the digital information associated with it and the system which connects all the information together. The digital data may include many different types, from the history and related documents, physical measurements and test results, 3D and VR models, environmental data and records which all provide a context for the original object.
A further development of this concept that ARTEMIS will address is the Reactive Heritage Digital Twin (RHDT) which will enable heritage professionals to forecast the consequences of real-life events via sensors and other information collected automatically from other systems, or resulting from computer modelled experiments.
Most importantly, the digital twin technology will allow researchers and conservators to conduct virtual experiments and simulations, testing various conservation methods and their potential impact without risking damage to the actual heritage assets. This will revolutionise conservation practises as it will lead to better, non-invasive interventions.
Over the next three years, ARTEMIS will:
• develop the cloud-based digital infrastructure that will enable the digital data from different sources to be connected together,
• create and integrate the necessary tools and services for gathering data, performing experiments, etc.
• develop 3D and VR technologies that also benefit the public,
• run tests and real life pilot studies,
• provide training to end users using ARTEMIS,
• establish a research infrastructure (RI) that is well integrated with other existing cultural heritage RIs and initiatives (ARIADNE, 4CH, DARIAH, DIGILAB.be and HSDS).
- CNR
- ARIADNE RI
- DARIAH
- INFN
- KIK-IRPA
- UoY-ADS
- PIN SCRL
- Athena RC
- ZRC SAZU
- LNEC
- HOF
- UNIFI
- AUEB-RC
- UNIBO
- SEL
- PRISMA
- PIXELATED
- HOLAVR
- NUMENA
- PHASMATIC
- AEDEKA
- INCEPTION
DataGEMS
Data is an asset that spurs innovation, drives decision making, improves operations and impacts science, environment, health, energy, education, industry, and society in general. Nevertheless, the expanding sea of data remains mostly unexplored and underutilized. The EU-funded DataGEMS project aims to change that by offering a next-generation dataset discovery and management ecosystem that will provide algorithms to make datasets discoverable, combinable and explorable. DataGEMS develops state-of-the-art data management, natural language processing and machine learning technology to discover and analyze datasets of different data modalities such as tabular data, text documents, knowledge graphs, and images. The main goal is to gain new insights into vast amounts of complex, heterogeneous data sets by providing intuitive tools. DataGEMS promotes data FAIRness in key areas such as education, meteorology and linguistics.
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ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS (ATHENA)
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA (UNIVR)
- INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE BRAGANCA (IPB)
- ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON (NOA)
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS (CNRS)
- DUALE HOCHSCHULE BADEN-WURTTEMBERG (DHBW)
- COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES EXPERTS ANONYMOS ETAIREIA SYMVOULEFTIKON KAI ANAPTYXIAKON YPIRESION (CITE)
- UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE (UPCité)
- FUNDACION CENTRO DE SUPERCOMPUTACION DE CASTILLA Y LEON (SCAYLE)
- IDEGO GROUP SP ZOO (IG)
- LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR DEUTSCHE SPRACHE (IDS)
ATRIUM
ATRIUM will exploit and strengthen complementarities between leading Εuropean infrastructures: DARIAH, ARIADNE, CLARIN and OPERAS in order to provide vastly improved access to a rich portfolio of state-of-the-art services available to researchers across countries, languages, domains and media, building on a shared understanding and interoperability principles established in the SSHOC cluster project and other previous collaborations. Research infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities domain must cater to a very wide range of stakeholders and offer services that cut across discipline-specific boundaries.
ATRIUM will tackle this heterogeneity within the Arts and Humanities by going deep and wide at the same time: on the one hand, ATRIUM will make a groundbreaking contribution to the consolidation and expansion of services, including data services, specifically in the field of archaeology, while, on the other hand, facilitating access to a wide array of essential text, image and sound-based services that benefit a number of other disciplines within the Arts and Humanities, and cover all phases of the research data lifecycle (creating, processing, analyzing, preserving, providing access to and reusing).
Athena’s contribution
Athena (ILSP and IMSI) participates in the following tasks, coupled with the relevant demonstrators:
- speech recognition on non-native English speech and noisy/low-quality recordings,
- application of automatic linguistic processing workflows (tokenization, PoS tagging lemmatization, and named entity recognition on the transcribed spoken data produced),
- overview of data and metadata formats, schemas, ontologies and controlled vocabularies used in the Arts & Humanities domain, aiming at semantic interoperability between catalogues and repositories,
- metadata harmonisation and enrichment – geotagging of texts and collaborative reusable map annotation,
- ontology-driven extraction of work processes from published articles in Archaeology and other Humanities fields.
Additionally, Athena undertakes a significant activity which aims to facilitate access to research facilities in the Art and Humanities with a complimentary offer of advanced technologies and local expertise; to enhance researcher mobility and cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer of best practices throughout Europe; and to provide specific transnational training and access linked to the new types of Arts and Humanities data showcased in the project.
ARIADNE Research Infrastructure
Athens University of Economics and Business
Centar Za Digitalne Humanisticke Nauke / Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities
Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN ERIC)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – National Research Council (CNR)
Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH ERIC)
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)
Institut National De Recherche Eninformatique et Automatique (INRIA)
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) / National Laboratory for Civil Engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Open Access in the European Area through Scholarly Communication
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
PILLAR-Robots aims at developing a new generation of robots endowed with a higher level of autonomy, that are able to determine their own goals and establish their own strategies, creatively building on the experience acquired during their lifetime to fulfil the desires of their human designers/users in real-life application use-cases brought to TRL5. To this end, the project will operationalize the concept of Purpose, drawn from the cognitive sciences, to increase the autonomy and domain independence of robots during autonomous learning and, at the same time, to lead them to acquire knowledge and skills that are actually relevant for operating in target real applications. In particular, the project will develop algorithms for the acquisition of purpose by the robot, ways to bias the perceptual, motivational and decision systems of the robots’ cognitive architectures towards purposes, and strategies for learning representations, skills and models that allow the execution of purpose-related deliberative and reactive decision processes. Given the aim of reaching TRL5, PILLAR-Robots will implement and validate demonstrators of purposeful lifelong open-ended autonomy using the resulting Purposeful Intrinsically Motivated Cognitive Architecture within three different application fields characterized by different types and levels of variability: Agri-food, Edutainment, and unstructured Industrial/retail. PILLAR-Robots will perform a complete evaluation of the possibilities and impacts of purposeful lifelong open-ended autonomy in these realms from an operational perspective, but also from a market-oriented (with significant productivity gains) and societal (socio-economic, ethical and regulatory) perspective. Engagement of industry and SME players is also expected in order to prepare the ground for further large-scale demonstration.
TEXTaiLES
The importance of textiles in contemporary societies has stimulated reflections on textile culture in antiquity. From the Upper Paleolithic era until today, textiles are an essential part of everyday life and accompany people throughout their life course, conveying and symbolising their gender, age, religious beliefs, profession and status. Textile products and the crafts and traditions associated with them, as addressed by TEXTaiLES, hold a central and pivotal role in European history. Despite recent methodological advances in European textile research, digitisation of textile CH objects has not received sufficient attention and the technological and methodological position which is evident in the development of acquisition and digitisation technologies.
Objectives:
This lack of attention can be attributed to the significant technical challenges posed by textile CH objects, mainly stemming from their soft and pliable nature, the minute scale of dimensions of their primary structure and the inherent sensitivity they exhibit to degradation agents. TEXTaiLES’ mission is to employ key emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D digitization, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud/Edge Computing, Robotics, Digital Twins (DTs) to capture and visualise the visible and non visible characteristics of textiles in CH. TEXTaiLES will develop a set of bespoke AI-intensive digital tools to provide cultural heritage institutions and professionals with enhanced technological and methodological capabilities for digitising textile CH collections
Results:
TEXTaiLES will deliver several technological tools such as i) robust robotic data acquisition techniques for digitising textile objects; (ii) Web-based collaborative 3D digital replica manipulation environment; (iii) AI-based tools for surface morphology and micro-structure analysis; (iv) tools for motion and dynamics analysis for textile artefacts; (v) tools for semi-automated textile artefact restoration tool; (v) software for continuous monitoring of textile artefacts utilising smart wireless sensor networks. Additionally, TEXTaiLES will have a significant outreach impact such as education material and training activities for CH professionals and institutions as well as policy recommendations at EU, national and regional levels for promoting and safeguarding textile tradition.
ILSP’s role:
The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the ATHENA Research Center is the coordinator of the consortium. ILSP is responsible for developing technological tools based on AI, robotics, and 3D mesh processing. Additionally, ILSP plays a critical role in developing infrastructures for data storage and executing machine learning algorithms.
ACCELIGENCE Ltd
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
NUBIS IKE
TechnAI Technology, Culture and Society SL
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza / Sapienza University of Rome
University of Oulou
Verein Textilmuseum St. Gallen
Εθνικό Κέντρο Έρευνας & Τεχνολογικής Ανάπτυξης (ΕΚΕΤΑ) / Centre for Research and Technologies Hellas (CERTH)
ThrombUS+
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) poses a significant health risk, with potentially life-threatening consequences when left undetected. ThrombUS+ is set to redefine DVT care with an ambitious mission to develop an innovative wearable diagnostic device for point-of-care, operator-free, continuous monitoring.
DVT involves the formation of blood clots in deep veins, primarily in the lower limbs, leading to blood flow obstruction. Shockingly, up to two-thirds of DVT cases exhibit no clinical symptoms, making early diagnosis challenging. ThrombUS+ steps in to bridge this gap, bringing together a diverse team of experts spanning industry, technology, regulation, social science, and clinical trials.
Our interdisciplinary approach centers around creating a novel wearable diagnostic device utilizing autonomous, AI-driven DVT detection. This groundbreaking device incorporates wearable ultrasound hardware, impedance plethysmography, and light reflection rheography for immediate clot detection. Activity and physiological measurements will continuously assess DVT risk, supporting prevention through serious gaming. An intelligent decision support unit will provide real-time monitoring and alerts, with extended reality guiding users for optimal device utilization.
ThrombUS+ is designed for postoperative patients, those undergoing lengthy surgical procedures, cancer patients, bedridden individuals at home or in care units, and women during pregnancy and postpartum.
ThrombUS+ will leverage big datasets collected through three large-scale clinical studies for AI training. Validation will be carried out in clinical settings through one early feasibility study and one multi-center clinical trial.
Athena Research Centre
ComfTech S.R.L.
EchoNous Inc.
Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza IRCCS (CCS)
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
Hôpital Simone Veil (HSV) / Hospital Simone Veil
Kauno Technologijos Universitetas (KTU) / Kaunas University of Technology
Lietuvos Sveikatos Mokslų Universitetas (LSMU) / Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
Medea S.r.l.
medis Medizinische Messtechnik GmbH
Papageorgiou General Hospital
Phaze Clinical Research & Pharma Consulting S.A.
PredictBy Research and Consultancy S.L.
Scigen Technologies S.A.
TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR (TAU) / Tampere University
TELEMED Medical Imaging Equipment Design & Manufacturing
VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V.
Vermon SA
FoodCoP
Project summary:
FoodCoP is an innovative venture to enhance interregional collaboration among Startup Villages to ignite the transformation of food systems. At the heart of this initiative lies the challenge of aligning diverse stakeholder interests and catalyzing sustainable growth through the principles of the circular bioeconomy. The project aims to deliver three main impacts: establishing a robust collaborative framework, fostering sustainable food system transformations, and enhancing knowledge and awareness of circular bioeconomy solutions among rural innovators. Methodologically, FoodCoP unfolds in 3 phases. First, it lays the groundwork by establishing a conceptual framework and stakeholder engagement, drawing insights from best practices to shape a collaborative agenda and design pilot projects. The subsequent phase transitions into developing a transformative Community of Practice (CoP), emphasizing resource optimization, collective learning, and implementing co-creation methodologies to bolster innovation. The final phase focuses on sustainability and resilience, highlighting the role of FoodCoP ambassadors and leveraging dissemination and communication activities to share successes and insights. FoodCoP comprises a diverse network of stakeholders, including Startup Villages, regional networks, clusters, SMEs, research centers, and knowledge and innovation communities. Standing uniquely positioned to drive this initiative. With its comprehensive approach, FoodCoP aims to revolutionize the food industry's innovation landscape and ensure its impacts resonate well beyond the project's lifetime. The collaboration brings together a wealth of expertise and resources, promising to create a sustainable and inclusive ecosystem that supports the transformation of food systems through circular bioeconomy principles. FoodCoP will redefine the parameters of interregional collaboration, making a significant contribution towards a sustainable, resilient, and innovative food industry.
EXCEED
Project summary:
The EXCEED – EXCELLENCE IN GREEN AND DIGITAL MANUFACTURING project aims at establishing a European COVE network of 6 centres in 5 countries, Italy, Spain, Finland, Czech Republic, and Greece to support innovation and sustainable competitiveness of the Advanced Manufacturing (AM) sector. As one of the pillars of the European economy, AM has been strongly impacted by the twin transitions, generating disruptive changes, beside the urgency to foster industry decarbonization. To face those changes and new challenges, citizens, present and future workforce needs new competencies, for life and work. VET providers can play a crucial role preparing the workforce and the society of the future, no one left behind, increasing their responsiveness, operating in strong connection with policy levels. EXCEED assumes the synergic and mutual benefitting application of digital and green, according to the so-called “digital eco-innovation” paradigm and the transition to the circular digital economy as powerful leverages to accelerate innovation in AM.
Involving a public-private platform of overall 39 partners, 18 full and 21 associates, EXCEED will work as an alive integrated skills ecosystem, promoting, 1) upskilling and reskilling of low-skilled adults and workers at risk of marginalization through a joint internationalized, flexible and individualized Life Long Learning training offer; 2) strengthening the HIGHER VET (EQF 4 and 5) through design of new curricula and updating of existing ones; 3) adopting joint strategies for Talent Management by the establishment of an International Talent Factory, aware of the fact that talented and skilled individuals have a key role to play in countries’ future prosperity; 4) upskilling and empowerment VET professionals as key profiles translating innovation in education contexts. In 4 years, partners expect to involve at least n. 600 learners and an overall number of 26.000 beneficiaries through an extensive multichannel communication strategy.
- Duration: Start date 1 June 2023 – End date 31 May 2027
- Budget: € 2 582 433.00
- 39 partners
- Coordinated by CENTOFORM SRL
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