Author Archives: elena.pardini

Emotional experiences at the museum and heritage sites

EMOTIVE storytelling for cultural heritage, is an EU funded Horizon 2020 project which seeks to develop emotionally-resonant digital experiences for visitors at cultural heritage sites; the basic premise of the project is that cultural sites are highly emotional places.   From … Continue reading


5th Biennial Conference of ACHS: “Futures”

The Association of Studies on Critical Heritage (ACHS) is an international networking  that brings together people of  the interdisciplinary field of heritage studies (researchers, scholars and professionals ) who are interested in contributing to a critical  analysis of the role … Continue reading


“Smart Specialisation and the Heritage City”, ROCK workshop at the European Week of Regions and Cities

From 7 to 10 October 2019 in Brussels, the 17th edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities will be held, this year under the heading “Regions and Cities: Pillars of the EU’s Future”. Sessions including Workshops, Participatory labs, … Continue reading


Hyperion: a new European project for the preservation of tangible cultural heritage

Hyperion is a new project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020, it is just started in June and will last until November 2022. The purpose of Hyperion is to provide an integrated resilience assessment platform that, through the … Continue reading


The art to connect people “The Chronicles of San Francisco”

With his digital mural “ The Chronicles of San Francisco” the French artist JR tryied to capture a whole city. The mural,107 feet long and 16 feet tall, is installed in a ground-floor gallery free to the public at the … Continue reading


The REACH project at Silk Cities conference 2019

The international Conference  “Reconstruction Recovery and Resilience of Historic Cities and Societies” took place in L’Aquila from 10 to 12 July 2019. It was organized by Silk Cities an independent professional and academic initiative for contextual knowledge exchange, research and … Continue reading


Call for Entries: ILUCIDARE Special Prizes within the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards 2020

The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards are Europe’s top honour in the field of cultural heritage. The Awards recognise outstanding conservation projects, innovative research; the dedication of heritage professionals and volunteers; and exceptional initiatives in education, training and … Continue reading


Horizon Europe Co-design 2021-2024: share your views with the European Commission

The Horizon Europe framework programme from 2021 to 2027 is the next and largest collaborative multinational research and innovation investment in Europe with a proposed budget of 100 billion euro. The last April, the European Parliament and Council reached a … Continue reading


A new generation of professionals and Cultural Heritage Messengers

The European Young Heritage Professionals Forum was organized by UNESCO in partnership with the European Union within the joint project ‘2018 – European Year of Cultural Heritage: Engaging Youth for an Inclusive and Sustainable Europe’. It took place from 20 … Continue reading


European Commission report on Cultural Heritage: Digitisation, Online Accessibility and Digital Preservation

The Consolidated Progress Report reviews and assesses the overall actions and progress made by Member States in the European Union in implementing the Recommendation (2011/711/EU) which is one of the main EU policy instruments on digitisation, online access and digital … Continue reading