European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH)

The Cultural Heritage Cloud – or “European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage” (ECCCH) – is a European Union initiative for the creation of 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.

The goal is to help cultural heritage institutions, research organisations and other professionals of all sizes and types of 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 aims 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.

This exciting new initiative, funded under 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.