Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future: your Gateway to a Collaborative and Innovative European Cultural Heritage Community
The Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH) is a shared platform designed to provide heritage professionals and researchers with access to data, scientific resources, training, and advanced digital tools tailored to suit their needs. This platform is developed by ECHOES (European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science), a project funded by the European Commission and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) that brings together fragmented communities of the Cultural Heritage field into a new community around the Digital Commons.
ECHOES will create a digital environment that enables the digitisation of existing knowledge and the collaborative analysis of cultural heritage assets, facts, and phenomena. In this context, actors – whether humans or Artificial Intelligence – can develop their interpretations, thereby enriching the knowledge of cultural heritage and their surroundings. The digital environment proposed by ECHOES will empower users to interact with, manipulate and enrich Digital Twins, fostering the creation of new, collaboratively developed scientific knowledge.
The ECCCH built by ECHOES is anchored in the principles of Open Science, which promotes inclusion and democratises access to knowledge and digital assets for all. This digital ecosystem will allow the creation of a new generation of heritage objects, the Digital Commons, which are semantically rich and collectively produced. Upon completion, ECHOES will provide a unified platform to integrate the outcomes of EU and national projects related to Cultural Heritage.
About ECHOES
Resources
Cascading Grants
The ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme encourages cultural heritage institutions to collaborate with researchers and other organisations within the Cultural Heritage Cloud. The Calls are focused on adding new datasets, attracting and expanding the communities involved, and developing vertical applications that integrate seamlessly into the cloud infrastructure.
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News & Events
The ECHOES Workshop at CAA 2025
The ECHOES Workshop, Opportunities and Tools from the Cultural Heritage Cloud for Digital [...]
HERITALISE invitation to participate in Memory Twin Alliance Survey
As part of the EU-funded HERITALISE project, and building on the outcomes of the VIGIE2020/654 [...]
Call for proposals: ECCCH – Innovative use cases
The European Commission has opened its call for "A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural [...]
ECHOES at Europeana 2025
The annual European Conference will be held on the 11th-12th June in Warsaw, [...]
Great response to first Cascading Grants call
In an amazing response, ECHOES received 195 applications for the first Cascading Grants call [...]
AUTOMATA Multiplier Event
The workshop, entitled ‘The human in the loop’ ? Intersecting perspectives on the archaeologists’ [...]
