WEBINAR: Driving Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions Part 3
Good practices and experiences for creation, access and re-use
After two series of webinars co-organised in 2023-2024 by EUreka3D consortium, Photoconsortium and ICA, the 2025 edition goes a step forward and offers an online training programme that provides knowledge and practical experiences to cultural heritage professionals. The programme includes 3 online sessions of 2 hours each. Each session is organised in two parts: a keynote speech from different domain experts, open to a wide group of participants, and an interactive working session offered to a selected group of learners who will have the opportunity to discuss, engage and share experiences, and will obtain a certificate of participation, based on their commitment to attend all three complete sessions, which include both the keynote lecture and the interactive working session.
About this session
Keynote Speaker: Frederik Temmermans (VUB – imec) and Eirini Kaldeli (National Technical University of Athens)
Ensuring that digitised cultural heritage assets can be created, accessed, and reused in trustworthy and sustainable ways requires both sound underlying principles and standards as well as practical solutions. In this session, Frederik will discuss good practices and current state of media standards for authenticity, provenance and representation formats that enable reliable long-term access. Particular attention will be given to how such frameworks can safeguard trust and reusability when cultural heritage data is enhanced or transformed, including through the use of emerging technologies such as AI.
In the second part, Eirini will build on this perspective by presenting insights from the AI4Culture project. She will explore the opportunities and challenges that AI technologies bring to the cultural heritage sector, drawing on lessons learned from the project. As part of her presentation, she will discuss diverse as well as common concerns across different AI application scenarios and highlight the types of knowledge and capacity resources needed by CH organisations. She will also present the resources and functionalities offered by the AI4Culture platform, an online capacity-building hub designed to make AI technologies more accessible and usable within the cultural heritage sector.
The presentation will be followed by a hands-on interactive session, where participants will have the opportunity to engage directly with the AI4Culture platform and provide feedback and suggestions for further improvements.
Interactive working session: co-creation exercise based on use case scenarios. The interactive working sessions will be led by Prof. Dr. Peter Fornaro, Head of Research Projects at the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel.
Participation
To participate in the full training programme, applicants must complete the participation form by October 5. A total of 30 learners will be selected by the organisers, and will have the exclusive opportunity to discuss with highly renowned experts, exchange knowledge and experiences, and acquire practical tools and methodologies to improve their skills in the digital transformation in the field of cultural heritage. 10 learners’ places out of 30 are reserved to ICA members, and 20 are open to the rest of the audience. For further details and to apply, please check the full call for participation and fill in your application.
In addition, it is possible to attend the keynote speeches independently, via YouTube streaming. These are designed for a broad audience, including cultural heritage professionals, archivists, records managers, students, and educators in related fields. These streamed open-access lectures provide insights into the opportunities, challenges, and practical applications of emerging technologies in the cultural heritage sector.
Essential Information
- What: Eureka3D 2025 Training Programme: Driving Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions Part 3 Good practices and experiences for creation, access and re-use
- Where: Online
- When: 3 December 2025, 15:00-17:00 CET
- How: Open registration online HERE, ICA member registration HERE.
Further information and updates can be found on the Eureka3D 2025 Training Programme webpage HERE
Key Dates
Call for participation to the full training programme: open until 5 October 2025
Confirmation to selected learners for the full training programme: 17 October 2025
Part 1: 19 November 2025 Heritage Policies and strategies for the digital transformation of practices (streaming on YouTube)
Part 2: 26 November 2025 The impact and transformative power of Digital Cultural Heritage (streaming on YouTube)
Part 3: 3 December 2025 Good practices and experiences for creation, access and re-use (streaming on YouTube)