🏛️ How is digital innovation transforming archaeology?
Through ECHOES, archaeologists can access advanced tools, collaborate across borders, and ensure that discoveries are preserved and shared through the Cultural Heritage Cloud.
In our latest blog post, we explore:
- How digital storage prevents data loss in archaeology
- The role of 3D modelling and AI in reconstructing artefacts
- Why international collaboration is key to preserving our past
📖 Read more about how ECHOES is shaping the future of archaeology!
🔗 Link in Bio
Conservation has 6,000 voices in Europe. How do we bring them into the Cloud?
Episode 2 of ECHOES Insider Talks is out. Elis Marçal and Amalia Siatou from E.C.C.O. (29 organisations, 26 countries, 6,000+ professionals) sit with Margherita Sani (NEMO) to talk about what the Cultural Heritage Cloud will mean for conservator-restorers, both in institutions and in private practice.
Full episode at the link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #ECCO #Conservation #Restoration
ECHOES on stage at the Digital Heritage Summit 2026 in Cyprus.
From 25 to 29 May, Xavier Rodier will represent ECHOES at the Euromed/Digital Heritage Summit in Limassol, Cyprus, alongside our sister projects AUTOMATA and HERITALISE.
One of Europe's leading forums on digital cultural heritage research, organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology in partnership with Heritage Malta.
Conference website: link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #DigitalHeritageSummit #EuroMed2026 #Cyprus
12 projects, one Cultural Heritage Cloud.
ECHOES is delighted to introduce the first 12 projects awarded funding through our Cascading Call for contributions of data to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage.
Heritage Digital Twins, LiDAR surveys, 3D reconstructions, mosaics, recipes, community narratives, at-risk heritage. Twelve pilot projects working directly with the Cloud, shaping the ECCCH ecosystem alongside ECHOES.
Read about each project. Link in bio.
Image credit: The Castel Sant'Angelo. Thomas Wolf, , CC BY-SA 3.0
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #CascadingCall #DigitalHeritage
What changes is the scale of knowledge we can build.
A short clip from our first Insider Talks episode with Prof. Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS). 3D documentation, historical sources, scientific analysis: when these come together, our understanding of heritage gets deeper.
Full episode at the link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #ICOMOS #DigitalHeritage
AI, textile heritage and a hackathon: TEXTaiLES is taking the conversation to Oulu.
On 3 June 2026, our sister project TEXTaiLES hosts A Day with TEXTaiLES, a public event in Oulu, Finland, as part of Oulu Cultural Capital 2026.
Morning of presentations on the project. Afternoon of hackathon-like activities on the TEXTaiLES platform. Open to researchers, conservators, archaeologists, students and curious public. No technical expertise required.
Register at the link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #TextailesEccch #Oulu2026 #AIForHeritage
"Before data, there is heritage."
Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS), in Ep. 1 of ECHOES Insider Talks.
Cultural heritage is the memory of our societies. Everything we build digitally serves that memory.
Full episode at the link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #ICOMOS
Tomorrow, Tours opens the 5th HeriTech Forum.
ECHOES is going to be there with an information stand, participatory roundtables and a dedicated WP11 workshop on the long-term sustainability of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #HeriTechForum #Tours2026 #HeritageInnovation #HorizonEU
Before data, there is heritage.
A short clip from our first Insider Talks episode with Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS). Heritage as the foundation, technology as the tool.
Full episode at the link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #ICOMOS #HeritageConservation
Before data, there is heritage.
Episode 1 of ECHOES Insider Talks is out. Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS) sits with Margherita Sani (NEMO) to discuss why 60+ years of conservation experience matter when we build a digital infrastructure for cultural heritage.
The conversation: heritage as a foundation, the new scale of conservation made possible by the Cultural Heritage Cloud, and the role of ICOMOS through its scientific committee on heritage documentation, CIPA HD.
Full episode at the link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #ICOMOS #HeritageConservation #CIPA
Two European infrastructures, one ecosystem for Europe's cultural heritage.
On 18 March 2026, in Poznań, ECHOES and the Europeana Initiative signed a Joint Statement formalising the cooperation between the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage and the common European data space for cultural heritage.
Europeana brings 18 years of public infrastructure for sharing heritage data. ECHOES and the Cultural Heritage Cloud bring a new generation of digital tools for research, science and innovation. Together, they commit to interoperable standards and a shared digital commons.
Watch the announcement video. Link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #Europeana #DataSpace #DigitalHeritage
What do curators and conservators actually need from a Cultural Heritage Cloud?
At the end of March 2026, the Institut national du patrimoine in Paris hosted an ECHOES focus group bringing curators, art historians and conservator-restorers from across Europe around the same table.
A morning of joint presentations, three afternoon working groups on the digital practices of each profession, and a final session to discuss the outcomes together.
The findings feed the ECHOES Consultation and shape a Cultural Heritage Cloud built around its real end users.
Read more. Link in bio.
#EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #INP #HeritageProfessionals #UserCentredDesign #HorizonEU
