EXCALIBUR at the ECHOES webinar for German-speaking communities

On 14 January 2026, EXCALIBUR was presented during the ECHOES webinar for German-speaking communities, hosted by the Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek). The online event welcomed around 60 participants from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, showing strong regional engagement with the Cultural Heritage Cloud community.

EXCALIBUR was presented by our partner Dr. Mélanie Flossmann-Schütze (SMAEK) as part of a panel discussion alongside two other ECCCH Sister Projects: TEXTaiLES, and ECHOLOT. The webinar also shared initial insights from the ECHOES Consultation, supporting continued dialogue and stronger regional networks across the Cultural Heritage Cloud community.

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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].