OPEN-HERIT 2026-2027 (ECHOES)
OPEN-HERIT is a capacity-building initiative designed to help small and medium-sized cultural heritage institutions, particularly open-air museums and regional heritage organisations, engage with the Cultural Heritage Cloud being developed by ECHOES (European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, ECCCH). Building on the outcomes of the earlier RETOLD project, OPEN-HERIT addresses a significant gap: while many institutions already document historic buildings, traditional crafts, cultural landscapes, intangible heritage, and other heritage assets, they often lack the technical knowledge and organisational capacity needed to align their existing documentation practices with emerging European digital infrastructures, semantic standards, and interoperability frameworks.
Led by EXARC, with technical expertise provided by REPREX and sector-wide dissemination and stakeholder engagement supported by AEOM.
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OPEN-HERIT Selected for Funding under ECHOES
We are happy to announce that our project OPEN-HERIT – Open-Air Heritage Documentation and Readiness for ECCCH has been selected for funding. We are excited to begin working with our partners on this new initiative and look forward to supporting open-air museums and regional heritage organisations across Europe. The project will officially run from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027...
EXARC submits an Application to secure RETOLD future
Building on the successful RETOLD project, which established structured documentation practices for open-air museums, this project focuses on capacity building, skills development, and standards awareness rather than new software development. The project aims to enable small and medium-sized cultural heritage institutions - open-air museums and regional heritage organisations - to realistically engage with ECCCH.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
This project has received support through a cascading grant from ECHOES, which is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101157364.
OPEN-HERIT (2026-2027)