research and innovation on cultural heritage and ccis 2024

European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries

Under Cluster 2 , the European Commission funds research that will promote better access to cultural heritage and improve its protection while supporting job creation in the creative industries.  

2024 calls for proposals

Cluster 2 Work Programme 2023 – 2024

• 4 October 2023 Launch of call for proposals for funding
• 18 October 2023 Cluster 2 Info Days
• 19 October 2023 Cluster 2 Brokerage Event

178 proposals submitted by call for proposals deadline.

• June 2024 Applicants informed if their proposals have been selected
• October 2024 Grant agreement signature for successful projects
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All funding information and procedures on how to apply are on the Funding and Tenders portal.

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2023 calls for proposals for funding

Call  a european collaborative cloud for cultural heritage  (2023).

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44 proposals submitted by call for proposals deadline.

Budget available € 35 million

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• May 2024 Grant agreement signature for successful projects (TBC)

The Cultural Heritage Cloud

Whether you are looking to explore the capabilities of the Cloud, learn about its applications, stay up-to-date with the latest research, or share with the community, we have got you covered. 

What is the Cultural Heritage Cloud?

The Cultural Heritage Cloud is a European Union initiative for a digital infrastructure that will connect cultural heritage institutions and professionals across the EU. It will develop specific digital collaborative tools for the sector while removing barriers for smaller and remote institutions.

Our goal is to help cultural heritage institutions, research organisations and other professionals of all sizes and types work with their digital objects in a more visible, interconnected, harmonised, and informed way, allowing them to successfully cope with the challenges the digital transition poses to the sector.

The Cultural Heritage Cloud will aim to add a new digital dimension to cultural heritage preservation, conservation, restoration and enhancement by providing cutting-edge technologies for digitising artefacts and researching artworks,

Our exciting new initiative, funded by Horizon Europe , is paving the way for unprecedented transdisciplinary collaboration in the field of cultural heritage, bringing together specialists from a range of disciplines, including scholars, curators, archivists, and conservators.

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Working with other European initiatives and preparatory work

This cutting-edge platform will work in tandem with other European initiatives, such as Europeana and the Common European Dataspace for Cultural Heritage , to add a new dimension the way we approach, conserve and enhance our shared cultural heritage. We've already started building this ambitious project, but further investment is needed to fully realise its potential.

The European Commission launched this initiative at the request of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, and we are proud to be a part of it.

Our team of independent renowned experts in the field of cultural heritage has laid the basis for the concept of this initiative by helping identify the existing needs in the field, with an ex-ante impact assessment: Report on the European Collaborative Cloud on Cultural Heritage

Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, has launched a dialogue with EU countries on the joint creation of a Cultural Heritage Cloud to help safeguard European cultural treasures through a digital infrastructure.

Following the Research and Innovation Days session dedicated to the Cultural Heritage Cloud, the European Commission launched an online survey to collect detailed feedback among a broader number of stakeholders focusing on their needs and challenges.

The in-depth survey with over 1000 respondents added  a bottom-up approach to the Commission's initiative. Additionally, the recent  A Cloud for All event with over 1000 participants was essential to the gradual building up of a community of practice to create ownership of the Cultural Heritage Cloud.

Following the event, more than 1200 cultural heritage experts signed up to work with us regularly, resulting in an increase in the number of experts who are now part of the Cultural Heritage Cloud community. This community will aim at working together with the Commission, EU countries, cultural heritage professionals, and their organisations to make the Cultural Heritage Cloud, its tools, and services a joint project.

Good practices from Horizon projects

Are you interested in learning how the Cultural Heritage Cloud could benefit cultural heritage institutions and museums?

This video playlist will equip you with valuable insights and good practices from Horizon projects that have developed similar tools with the Cultural Heritage Cloud and demonstrated practical results.

The Cultural Heritage Cloud will speed up discoveries, facilitate understanding, enrich cultural experiences and promote access to Europe’s cultural treasures. It will also help unify the fragmented landscape of the cultural heritage research projects. This will be achieved by establishing a European infrastructure that facilitates the exchange of interoperable data between cultural heritage professionals and institutions.

The platform will provide a legally secure space where professionals can collaborate, create projects, and combine their research efforts to fully exploit the potential of Europe's rich cultural heritage.

Funding opportunities

The topics under the call HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01 aim to support the establishment of a European Collaborative platform for Cultural Heritage, by also contributing also to the vision and objectives of the Commission on a common European data space for cultural heritage .

For the purpose of this call, the collaborative space will be referred to as the “European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage” (ECCCH)

Open calls for the Cultural Heritage Cloud

The European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage will be a one-of-a-kind framework that will enable unparalleled transdisciplinary and large-scale collaboration between cultural heritage professionals on shared topics.

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Horizon Europe | Research and innovation on cultural heritage and Cultural Creative Industries

Convinced that cultural heritage and the cultural and creative industries are an important part of the "social" dimension of democracy and sustainability, the Horizon Europe calls under this destination invite suggestions for policies and practices to address, at all levels of action, current challenges and provide innovative responses.

The Call “Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs” invites proposals for five different actions:

• New European Bauhaus – Innovative solutions for greener and fairer ways of life through arts and culture, architecture and design for all
• Cultural and creative industries for a sustainable climate transition
• Leverage the digital transition for competitive European cultural and creative industries
• Europe´s cultural heritage and arts – promoting our values at home and abroad
• Strategies to strengthen the European linguistic capital in a globalised world

The application period for all different actions will run from 4 October 2023 until 7 February 2024.

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Horizon Europe Calls on Cultural Heritage 2023

Cluster 2 destination: innovative research on european cultural heritage and cultural and creative industries - building our future from the past.

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Europe’s rich cultural heritage, with its common values, its wealth of monuments and sites and its creative diversity of traditions, crafts, arts, architecture, literature, languages, theatre, films and music, not only reflects our past but also shapes our present and builds our future. It is a creative way of cultivating independent thinking and dialogue, while promoting our interests across the world. Access to experience with cultural heritage contributes to social cohesion and inclusion, by strengthening resilience and the sense of belonging, bringing people together and improving well-being.

In the Pillar II Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness  of the Horizon Europe, among the Cluster 2  Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society , the  Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries – Building Our Future from the Past  adresses calls on the cultural heritage research and science.

General Recommendation

Proposals under this destination should consider and promote in a cross-cutting way, and whenever appropriate and applicable:

• The use of digital and cutting-edge technologies;
• An active and sustainable engagement with stakeholders, social innovators and citizens;
• The active involvement of local, regional or national authorities and sectoral social partners, particularly in the uptake and implementation of research results and recommendations;
• clear strategy for the uptake of research outcomes, recommendations or results, in particular where CCIs are participating or are concerned;
• Training and education activities for targeted groups of users and/or stakeholders;
• A robust plan for how projects will use or build on outputs and results from research already undertaken and technology already available;
• Increased participation of CCIs, SMEs and industry;
• Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis in view of a sustainable management of the post-crisis society;
• Contribution to the European Green Deal, the New European Bauhaus as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.

Expected impacts:

Proposals for topics under this Destination should set out a credible pathway to contributing to the following expected impact of the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan:

The full potential of cultural heritage, arts and cultural and creative sectors as a driver of sustainable innovation and a European sense of belonging is realised through a continuous engagement with society, citizens and economic sectors as well as through better protection, restoration and promotion of cultural heritage.

Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs – 2023

Call ID: HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01

Opening: 14 Dec 2022 / Deadline: 14 Mar 2022

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A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – 2023

Call ID: HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01

Opening: 20 Jan 2023 / Deadline: 21 Sep 2023

Horizon Europe is structured into three main pillars,  Pillar I Excellent Science covers fundamental research funded by the European Research Council and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, while Pillar III Innovative Europe  is dedicated to improving Europe’s innovation ecosystem and to commercialising innovation. Under Pillar II, EU funding is provided to tackle global challenges and to boost Europe’s industrial competitiveness . That’s where the clusters come in. The structure of Horizon Europe lists a total of six clusters that are broken down into individual expected impacts around overarching themes. The six clusters are

• Cluster 1: Health
• Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society
• Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society
• Cluster 4: Digital, Industry & Space
• Cluster 5: Climate, Energy & Mobility
• Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment

The clusters are subdivide into different Destinations  where the specific directions and ultimate points of arrival Horizon Europe aims to achieve through the new impact-driven approach.

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Horizon Europe - Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs aiming at promoting cultural heritage, arts and cultural and creative sectors as a driver of sustainable innovation and a European sense of belonging thanks to the continuous engagement with society, citizens and economic sectors as well as through better protection, restoration and promotion of cultural heritage

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Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Various categories of projects are eligible:

• RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory.
• IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities.
• CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures.
• MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:

• Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium)
• Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization
• Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-01: Advanced technologies for remote monitoring of heritage monuments and artefacts
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-02: Cultural and creative industries for a sustainable climate transition
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-03: Re-visiting the digitisation of cultural heritage: What, how and why?
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-04: Cultural heritage in transformation – facing change with confidence
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-05: Fostering socio-economic development and job creation in rural and remote areas through cultural tourism
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-06: A world leading European video game innovation system
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-07: Promoting cultural literacy through arts education to foster social inclusion
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-08: Cultural and creative approaches for gender-responsive STEAM education

Amount per topic:

• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-01: 12 million euro
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-02: 12 million euro
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-03: 12 million euro
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-04: 9 million euro
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-05: 9 million euro
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-06: 12 million euro
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-07: 9 million euro
• HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-08: 3 million euro

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Cultura, creatività e società inclusiva: bando Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs 2024

Pubblicato ufficialmente il 6 dicembre 2022 il nuovo bando  Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs 2024  (HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01) del  Programma di lavoro 2023-2024  del Cluster  Culture, creativity and inclusive society  di  Horizon Europe .

Il bando contiene i seguenti  5 topic , per un budget complessivo ad essi destinati pari a  65 milioni di € :

• HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-01: New European Bauhaus – Innovative solutions for greener and fairer ways of life through arts and culture, architecture and design for all
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-02: Cultural and creative industries for a sustainable climate transition
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-03: Leverage the digital transition for competitive European cultural and creative industries
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04: Europe’s cultural heritage and arts – promoting our values at home and abroad
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-05: Strategies to strengthen the European linguistic capital in a globalised world

Entrambi i topic si aprono il  4 ottobre 2023  e si chiudono il  7 febbraio 2024 .

Pubblicato ufficialmente il  b ando A sustainable future for Europe  (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01) del  Programma di lavoro 2023-2024  del Cluster  Culture, creativity and inclusive society  di  Horizon Europe .

Il bando contiene i seguenti  11 topics , per un budget complessivo pari a  96 milioni di € :

• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-01: Policy recommendations from socio-economic impacts of loneliness in Europe
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-02: Strengthen economic fairness and resilience of active labour market policies and address high unemployment
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-03: Minimise costs and maximise benefits of job creation and job destruction
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-04: Social services: economic and social returns and value added
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-05: Social dialogue in the new world of work
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-06: Beyond the horizon: A human-friendly deployment of artificial intelligence and related technologies
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-07: Methodologies for teamworking of researchers – reinforcing transversal collaborative skills, behavioural and implementation sciences
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-08: Arts and cultural awareness and expression in education and training
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-09: The role of social economy in addressing social exclusion, providing quality jobs and greater sustainability
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-10: Effective education and labour market transitions of young people
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-11: Assessing and strengthening the complementarity between new technologies and human skills

Il bando si apre il  3 ottobre 2023  e si chiude il  7 febbraio 2024

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Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs - 2022

Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs - 2022 ( Funding & tenders (europa.eu ). This call covers the following topics:

• Increase the potential of the international competitiveness of the European filmmaking industry
• The New European Bauhaus – shaping a greener and fairer way of life in creative and inclusive societies through Architecture, Design and Arts
• Safeguarding endangered languages in Europe
• Traditional crafts for the future: a new approach
• Protection of artefacts and cultural goods from anthropogenic threats
• Effects of climate change and natural hazards on cultural heritage and remediation
• Europe’s cultural heritage and arts - promoting our values at home and abroad
• Games and culture shaping our society
• Towards a competitive, fair and sustainable European music ecosystem
• The role of perceptions, formed by traditions, values and beliefs, in shaping European societies and politics in the 21st century

Opening date: 20 January 2022

Deadline date: 20 April 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

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• Délai de candidature: 20/04/2022
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• Résident / nationalité du bénéficiaire: Autres

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