EXCALIBUR in the DG RTD webinar for ECCCH

The Directorate General for Research and Innovation (RTD) organises the event: “The European Collaborative Cultural Heritage Cloud in Action: Join us to explore the latest update” [1], on Monday 1st of December, 2025, from 14.30h until 16.30h CET (online).

Complementing the Cultural Heritage Cloud call 2025 webinar on 30 June, the Directorate General for Research and Innovation would like to invite you to a new webinar focused on presenting the 10 new tools projects for the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage.

The EXCALIBUR project is among the 10 new tools projects and will be introduced by Dr. Eleftherios Anastasovitis, member of the Coordinator team of the Brain, Health & Virtual Reality (BHV) Research Group [2], at CERTH-ITI. Dr. Anastasovitis will explain the EXCALIBUR project, the technical challenges, and collaborations in the context of the ECCCH ecosystem. We will be glad to meet you online. 

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EXCALIBUR succeeds funding

The EXCALIBUR consortium welcomed the positive results of the evaluation with great enthusiasm. The interdisciplinary research project EXCALIBUR was evaluated together with 32 other proposals under the HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-05 topic: “A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for the study, conservation and restoration of heritage objects” [1]. The EXCALIBUR received an overall evaluation score of 14.5 out of 15.0, managing to be the one of the two proposals selected for funding. At the same time, it is one of the 10 selected proposals of the call “A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – 2024 (HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01) ” out of a total of 145 proposals.

The EXCALIBUR project: “Advanced toolkits for interdisciplinary and enhanced study, conservation, and restoration in burial excavations and findings” seeks to leverage the ECCCH infrastructure to develop and implement a set of innovative tools and methods [2]. The project focuses on creating digital twins of cultural heritage objects, related to burial excavations and findings, providing enhanced capabilities for the study, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. By addressing the gaps in both research and practice, as well as in stakeholder engagement, EXCALIBUR aims to transform how bioarchaeological findings are studied, shared, and interconnected with relevant artefacts, sites, and burial traditions, fostering a deeper understanding of past populations, while contributing to the vision of ECCCH.

The EXCALIBUR consortium consists of four (4) research centres (CERTH, CWI, CRS4, ECOE), three (3) academic partners (LMU, DUTH, IHU), three (3) SMEs (OKYS, CTL, PIX4D), and four (4) Cultural Heritage (CH) organisations (HEMO, ICOMOS, SA, SMAEK). As such, EXCALIBUR builds a very strong team of researchers, developers, associations and organisations related to the need of the project, for whom the issue of the study, conservation and restoration of heritage objects is of importance. In addition, EXCALIBUR will provide financial support to third parties of CH, through an open call.

The EXCALIBUR project is Coordinated by the interdisciplinary team of the Brain, Health & Virtual Reality (BHV) Research Group [3] of CERTH-ITI. It began in October 2025 and its duration is 42 months. EXCALIBUR is glad to contribute in the Cultural Heritage Cloud ecosystem [4].