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Project HIVE

Project Acronym HIVE
Project Title Heritage in Virtual Environments

Summary

Cultural and natural heritage plays a key role in social cohesion and inclusion. It contributes to a sense of belonging, helps build shared identities and promotes cultural awareness and historical reflection. The last year has been a tumultuous one for the heritage sector. The COVID 19 pandemic has had a huge impact resulting in many temporary closures and threatening the survival of heritage organisations. At the same time there was a huge response with organisations connecting to audiences in the digital domain. We saw many organisations stepping up their digital profile through creating virtual tours, digital galleries, live events and social media posts. This response to impact took place in the context of virtual reality, augmented reality and other digital innovations starting to move into the heritage mainstream.

In HIVE we will collate and analyse primary research into the heritage response to COVID 19, e.g. there have been questionaires by ICOM and NEMO and many national questionaires. In doing so we will identify and understand what worked well, which will enable us to learn from the response and establish a new best practice which addresses resilience and sustainability.

Objectives

This preparatory project aims to develop a full application for submission under the 2021-2027 NPA programme.

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Partners

Project Info

Theme
Tourism, recreation, cultural heritage, languages
Priority
1 Innovation
Objective
1.2 Increased innovation in public service provision
Project duration
01-01-22 to 30-06-22
Total budget
121 500 EUR
NPA co-financing
77 456 EUR
Target groups
business support organisation
education/training centre and school
General public
higher education and research
local public authority
regional public authority
sectoral agency
enterprise, including SME
Other
Joint Secretariat Desk Officer
Kalle Pakalèn