Objects connect us to memories and experiences. They possess biographies that reveal their human relationships. This is why archaeologists focus on material culture, gathering countless archaeological finds to preserve what we can learn and the stories they create for current and future generations. Archaeology unlocks these stories, enabling objects to speak about their origins, uses, and evolution. They offer insights into technology, daily life, relationships, the environment, and human history. Pottery and lithics are common forms of archaeological evidence, holding crucial information. However, documenting and classifying these finds is labour-intensive, it limits our understanding of these objects. While digitisation campaigns have been undertaken, they remain complex, time-consuming, and costly, leaving millions of artefacts inaccessible. AUTOMATA will transform this process by enabling low-cost and time-efficient digitisation. Using AI-augmented robotics and sensors, AUTOMATA will create 3D models enriched with archaeometric data, providing a practical and cost-effective solution for digitisation. Robotic tools with newly developed AI methodologies will improve the digitisation process of visible and non-visible properties of archaeological finds, enhance the robustness and efficiency of 3D digitisation, improve surface appearance acquisition, and integrate 2D representations. This approach streamlines data acquisition, aided by human-AI collaboration, and, in turn, the collection of big, well-identified data will empower the development of AI models. This cost-effective technology will democratise access to digitisation, benefiting museums and smaller institutions, aid preservation methods and restorers’ work, and foster inclusive knowledge-sharing via a dedicated crowdsourcing platform. Finally, the data collected by AUTOMATA will ensure seamless integration of data into the ECCCH Cloud and facilitate data sharing and innovative usage strategies by CCIs.

The ARIADNEplus project is the extension of the previous ARIADNE Integrating Activity, which successfully integrated archaeological data infrastructures in Europe, indexing in its registry about 2.000.000 datasets. ARIADNEplus will build on the ARIADNE results, extending and supporting the research community that the previous project created and further developing the relationships with key stakeholders such as the most important European archaeological associations, researchers, heritage professionals, national heritage agencies and so on. The new enlarged partnership of ARIADNEplus covers all of Europe. It now includes leaders in different archaeological domains like palaeoanthropology, bioarchaeology and environmental archaeology as well as other sectors of archaeological sciences, including all periods of human presence from the appearance of hominids to present times. Transnational Activities together with the planned training will further reinforce the presence of ARIADNEplus as a key actor. The technology underlying the project is state-of-art. The ARIADNEplus data infrastructure will be embedded in a cloud that will offer the availability of Virtual Research Environments where data-based archaeological research may be carried out. The project will furthermore develop a Linked Data approach to data discovery. Innovative services will be made available to users, such as visualization, annotation, text mining and geo-temporal data management. Innovative pilots will be developed to test and demonstrate the innovation potential of the ARIADNEplus approach. Fostering innovation will be a key aspect of the project, with dedicated activities led by the project Innovation Manager.

Finds Stories is an interdisciplinary project that aims at utilising and interpreting European Cultural Heritage assets through new technologies with the view to promote second language acquisition and strengthen the social inclusion of minority groups. This project's priority is to record object biographies along with their tangible and intangible heritage significance in order to establish second language acquisition tools. The participation of young people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, religions, languages, mindsets, and perspectives will allow them to gain and enjoy social inclusion through innovative practices and universal digital approaches. For the achievement and the completion of this project's aims, several mediums will be utilised. The recording of Cultural Heritage objects with 3D methods, the production of the object biographies through creative arts, and the creation of lesson plans and educational resources. All these mediums will help educators to develop Cultural Heritage awareness and language competence. Finds Stories are delivered through a dual approach that leads through five phases of activities to the achievement of project objectives and results: A) a methodology to index and creatively investigate biographies of cultural heritage (CH) objects - finds - that can promote EU values of human dignity and rights, democracy and equality, and advocate the value of the free movement of people, ideas, and goods across the continent and B) a methodology that teaches second language through the Creative Object Biographies (COBs). Finds Stories aims to produce six different intellectual outputs, including an interactive resource, an open online course, a handbook, academic, and policy papers, along with an exhibition. These intellectual outputs are providing educators, researchers, academics, museum curators and visitors, multicultural classrooms students and the wider public with free, open access, tools that allow them to explore, understand and interpret the local European Cultural Heritage and its narratives and stories. Finds Stories aspires to offer resources that promote cultural awareness, equality, and acceptance, help participants to improve their research, and digital skills, and finally contribute to the development of active European citizens.

<< Objectives >>- Increasing the organizational capacity of the partners.- Increasing the level of transferability of methods and good practices, developed by the 2 promoters, within the cultural institutions of the partner countries, through transferability events for at least 80 participants.- Increasing awareness on equality, non-discrimination and social inclusion, on heritage related activities, but also on the E+ for a minimum number of 20.000 adults.- Increasing the visibility of the promoters.<< Implementation >>In order to achieve the proposed objectives, we have established the following activities:A1.1. Mobility in Zagreb (6 days)A1.2. Mobility in Bucharest (6 days)A2.1. Transferability event in Zagreb (3 days)A2.2. Transferability event in Bucharest (3 days, simultaneously with A.2.1)A3. Online conference (2 days)A4. Editing and publishing the magazine “Heritage & Education” (180 days)AO. Offline & online promotion and dissemination (permanent - 14 months)<< Results >>- A sustainable partnership, that will be strengthened and expanded by submitting new project applications.- A competent and interested staff in the aria of adult education in a museum context.- The magazine “Heritage & Education” as a tool for the promotion of innovative methods of adult education through the use of cultural heritage.- Ensuring the quality of current programs and initiating new programs dedicated to the adult public.- Audience development (for partners and for E+).

The main goal of the CEMS project would be to focus on the numismatic and archaeological heritage of a geographical area in a given time-frame, i.e. the Middle Danube region from the La Tene B period till the Great Migrations period (between two symbolic dates, 279 B.C., the arrival of the Celts in the Danube basin, and A.D. 582, the fall of Syrmium). Four of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum’s departments have an extremely large number of artefacts from this period found in this particular region, most of which remain unpublished and require a thorough scientific assessment. Therefore, the main emphasis of the project would be on the study and publication of the material kept in the holdings of the Museum. The principal results of the CEMS project would be to publish up to ten monographs on the archaeological and numismatic heritage of the Middle Danube region within a given time frame. These publications would not merely be catalogues of material but would aim to present, following modern methodological approaches in archaeology, ancient history and numismatics, all the cultural, social, economical, monetary and technological transformations that occurred over that fascinating period in a defined geographical area.