The ECHOES website is now online, you can follow all updates on the creation of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) there!
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== PLEASE HELP! The ECHOES CONSULTATION IS OUT! Please take a few minutes to answer this questionnaire that will help to map the different cultural heritage communities, and understand their needs and expectations for the Cultural Heritage Cloud. More info here ==
The ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme provides funding for consortia led by Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) to engage with the EU's Cultural Heritage Cloud, developed by the ECHOES (European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science) project. The first call for projects, focused on DATA, is now open and the deadline is 15 May 2025. It aims to support projects that contribute heritage data to the Cultural Heritage Cloud and would like to make use of its tools and infrastructure. Read more here: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/echoes-c...
ECCCH is a shared platform for heritage professionals and researchers to access data, training resources, and advanced digital tools, co-developed by the heritage community according to their specific needs. It is being created by the ECHOES project, which brings together fragmented communities of the Cultural Heritage field.
The ECHOES consortium brings around the Digital Commons the main actors of the European Cultural Heritage community, including us at APE!
ECHOES will create a digital environment to empower users to manipulate digital tools and promote jointly-developed scientific knowledge. This digital environment will allow the creation of a new generation of heritage objects, the Digital Commons, which are semantically rich and collectively produced.
At the end of the project, ECHOES will deliver a single platform to integrate results of EU and national projects on cultural heritage. ECHOES covers 15 EU member states directly, but many more countries are represented through different projects, in all areas of cultural heritage.
This is a video presentation of the ECHOES project:
You can find the full list of partners here; and please download the ECHOES brochure here
EVENTS FEATURING ECHOES:
- TourismA 2025 (21-23 February, Florence): ARIADNE RI booth
- CAA2025 (5-9 May, Athens): joint session with AUTOMATA, TEXTaiLES and HERITALISE
- Europeana Conference 2025 Conference 2025 (11-12 June 2025, Warsaw) - TBC
- DARIAH Annual Event 2025 (18-20 June 2025, Göttingen) - TBC
- Digital Heritage Conference 2025 (8-13 September 2025, Siena) - TBC
- IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE CH) (8-10 September 2025, Florence) - TBC