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Europe’s Heritage Data Space Sets Its Course: Strategy 2025–2030 and a New Home Online
When we reported from Warsaw last June (Preserve, Protect, Reuse: Inside Europeana 2025), the forthcoming Strategy 2025–2030 was the quiet “red thread” running through every session. It has...
When the Past Speaks With a Synthetic Voice: The Ethics of Generative AI in Heritage
Walk into a growing number of museums and you may now be able to “talk” to a historical figure, a chatbot trained to play a Renaissance patron or...
New resources added: Laboratories and Equipment databases
Resources section of the Digital Transformation Hub now includes a dedicated databases of laboratories and research equipment available within the EURECA-PRO Alliance. This new resource supports visibility and...
Student internship recruitment launched through DTH Mobility Opportunities
The Digital Transformation Hub has opened access to information on student internship opportunities developed within the HI-EURECA-PRO cooperation framework. The Mobility Opportunities section supports students interested in international...
Lasers, Algorithms and Lost Worlds: How AI Is Rewriting the Map of the Past
Some of the most striking discoveries of recent years were not dug out of the ground, they were computed out of it. Pairing LiDAR, which maps terrain hidden...
A Cathedral With a Digital Soul: Notre-Dame’s New Twin
The 2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris was a near-catastrophe with one quiet stroke of luck: years earlier, art historian Andrew Tallon had laser-scanned the building, recording around...
The Library That Fire Could Not Erase: AI Reads the Herculaneum Scrolls
When Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum in 79 AD, it carbonised an entire private library into what looked, for nearly three centuries, like lumps of charcoal. Unrollable, unreadable, untouchable...
The 47th World Heritage Session — and What It Means for Poland’s Heritage
Meeting at its Paris headquarters from 6–16 July 2025, UNESCO’s 47th World Heritage Committee session inscribed 26 new properties, bringing the global total to 1,248 sites across 170...
From Coal to Culture: Three Regions Reimagine the Mine
In late June 2025, artists and activists from three of Europe’s coal regions gathered in Eastern Wielkopolska, Poland, for a Just Transition Culture week. Alongside the Polish hosts...
Preserve, Protect, Reuse: Inside Europeana 2025 in Warsaw
For two days in June, Warsaw became the capital of Europe’s digital memory. Europeana 2025 – Preserve, Protect, Reuse, the flagship conference of the common European data space...