Join us for an exciting lunch lecture that explores the fascinating world of visitor experiences in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).

Whether you’re a student curator, librarian, archivist, or museum enthusiast, this event is a must-attend to stay ahead in the ever-evolving GLAM landscape. The event will be in English.

Date: October 16th 2023
Time: 12.00 to 13.00 CET 
Location: Gunnerus library, Kalvskinnet campus
Bring your lunch
The event will be in English.

Speaker: Erik Champion, Professor from Adelaide University

Short bio: Erik Champion tutors game jam projects in South Australia at UniSA, and has hosted game design workshops in Australia, Italy, Poland, the United States, Qatar, and Finland, and co-hosted remotely a game design workshop with school children in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with Dr Juan Hiriart. He is currently working on research projects with Tencent Games and Ubisoft. He wrote Playing With The Past: Into The Future (Springer 2022), and edited the open access book Virtual Heritage: A Guide (Routledge, 2021) and has written books on the intersection between video games and cultural heritage. He has honorary appointments at Curtin, UWA, and ANU and was recently a visiting professor at the University of Jyvāskylā, Finland, a partner of the Centre of Excellence in Game Studies.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to gain valuable insights from our invited gaming guru and writer of the book.

The eCHOing project is an EU-funded programme that aims to foster collaboration through open-innovation between universities and 29 cultural institutions in five European countries.

Join us for an exciting event that explores the fascinating world of visitor experiences in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).

Whether you’re a student curator, librarian, archivist, or museum enthusiast, this event is a must-attend to stay ahead in the ever-evolving GLAM landscape.

Date: October 17th 2023
Time: 09:30+14.30 CET 
Lunch included 12.00 to 13.00
Location: Gunnerus library, Kalvskinnet campus
The event will be in English, space is limited.

Send and e-mail and register to secure your spot:

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Game design workshop

In this half-day workshop Erik Champion will help small groups of 4 brainstorm (“ideate”) ideas to create engaging games using a simplified working definition of computer games, and with the help of physical items. Although these game ideas could eventually become digital games, escape rooms, augmented or mixed reality projects, this introductory workshop will concentrate on creating and testing physical (analogue) demos and simple prototypes. Although Erik’s focus has been on history and heritage games, this workshop will be open to other types of games, but particularly on those where players can learn beyond the game, and where the game is a series of engaging challenges. You may bring your own idea for a game, or develop a game idea on the day in a group. No programming necessary. 

What is there for you:

• Work in interdisciplinary groups with real life problems 
• Be an agent of change as your ideas will help professionals reach a wider audience for their cultural institutions!
• Learn the fundamentals of serious games and why so many fail.
• Discover how paper prototyping in groups can help you quickly create engaging game ideas.

Short bio: Erik Champion tutors game jam projects in South Australia at UniSA, and has hosted game design workshops in Australia, Italy, Poland, the United States, Qatar, and Finland, and co-hosted remotely a game design workshop with school children in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with Dr Juan Hiriart. He is currently working on research projects with Tencent Games and Ubisoft. He wrote Playing With The Past: Into The Future (Springer 2022), and edited the open access book Virtual Heritage: A Guide (Routledge, 2021) and has written books on the intersection between video games and cultural heritage. He has honorary appointments at Curtin, UWA, and ANU and was recently a visiting professor at the University of Jyvāskylā, Finland, a partner of the Centre of Excellence in Game Studies.

 Skills required: None

The eCHOing project is an EU-funded programme that aims to foster collaboration through open-innovation between universities and 29 cultural institutions in five European countries.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to gain valuable insights from our invited gaming guru and writer of the book PLAYING WITH THE PAST.

About the online workshop

The Erasmus+ project eCHOIng is organising an online workshop to provide hands-on knowledge and expertise to cultural heritage professionals who will learn about two successfully run crowdfunding campaigns by the Hunt Museum, Ireland. In this workshop, participants will be called on to actively engage in an interactive session on the role of citizen engagement in crowdfunding for culture.
 
Invited speaker Jill Cousins | Director of the Hunt Museum, Ireland
Moderator | Katerina Zourou, Head of Web2Learn.

Who is it for?

Have you ever wondered how participatory and innovative approaches to crowdfunding can become a means for more social participation and engagement of citizens with cultural heritage? The online workshop is open to experts interested in further exploring the above-mentioned topics. 

About the training series

This online workshop is the second in a series on "Citizen engagement in cultural heritage: The quest for long-term participation and the role of open innovation", organised by Web2Learn. Learn more about the training series.

The Erasmus+ project eCHOIng is inviting you to a free webinar on fundraising for culture, arts and archive sector  (GLAM) by bringing emphasis to the role of citizens as agents of change and sustainability. The webinar will focus on donations and crowdfunding as two main fundraising types, aiming to introduce participants to key concepts, tools and objectives of fundraising for cultural heritage and discuss citizens’ role in shaping and enhancing the impact and social value of fundraising.

JOIN us on: 24th of May at 11.00 to 11.45 CEST at zoom

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Have you ever wondered how participatory and innovative approaches to fundraising can become a means for more social participation and engagement of citizens with cultural heritage or archives ? 
Then, this webinar series is for you! The webinar is open to amateurs and experts interested in further exploring the above-mentioned topics. Everyone is welcome to join!

Speakers

Stefania Oikonomou | Political Scientist, Web2Learn                                                                                                                            
Loanna Tsakarelou | Digital Culture and Museum specialist, Web2Learn                                                                                                              
Moderator | Katerina Zourou, Head of Web2Learn

Invitation to a webinar on the 7th of March 2023 on zoom

“The eCHOing project aims to create collaborative opportunities between universities
and Cultural Organizations through Open Innovation.”

 

Date: 07/03/2023

Time: 14h CET

Venue: Online,

Registration Page: https://ntnu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gtMXQZs6RseZgfCMaIuQXA

The eCHOing consortium cordially invites you to their second open webinar delivered on line. We are pleased to present our free online modules on open innovation produced by the eCHOing consortium and partners from Estonia to present their own Open Innovation Initiatives connected with crafts.

Programme (Hours in CET)

14.00-14.05: Welcome by host organization, Ave Matsin, University of Tartu (Estonia)

14.05-14.10: Presentation of the eCHOing project, and eCHOing partners, Alexandra Angeletaki, coordinator, NTNU (Norway)

14.10-14.40: eCHOing partners introduce their study modules (5 minutes each)

14.40-14.55: “Kopli 93 – a community center for the new era” Karin Kruup, Kopli 93 Co-Initiator and CENTRINNO project coordinator at Tallinn University of Technology (Tallinn, Estonia)

14.55-15.10: “Paranduskelder – public repair space its origin, challenges and future” Jiri Krejci, co-founder (Tartu, Estonia)

15.10-15.20: Q & A

15.20-15.30: Wrap-up and brief intro of the next project section

Poster: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GUSeZGI4MDOCvNYREqLDXuhiGh2mi7fV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109343604423739790695&rtpof=true&sd=true

WEBINAR

Our first webinar event took place on the 7th of September 2022, with 89 participants from our partner countries. Those include: Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Italy, and Norway. With a wide range of educators and culture-enthusiasts with different cultural backgrounds that shared their knowledge and experience, we managed to achieve our webinar’s goal: to connect members of European Universities and smaller Cultural Heritage Organisations (CHOs), inspire each other, and present them with a tool  through/with which they can better their relationship - Open Innovation. The webinar also invited  DH scholars to present their case studies of [...]

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“Revival of European cultural organization through Higher-education-driven open innovation”

1st eCHOing project webinar

PROGRAMME–Hybrid Event

Date: 07/09/2022
Venue: Online,
Registration Page: https://ntnu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcldOiqrTgtG9QatLRQIQsfJb-OXT6cgclW

“An online webinar on synergies between universities and cultural heritage organisations with open innovation as means of convergence”

About the workshop

Coronavirus has given a great chance to reanimate the connection between Higher Education (HE) and society and enable them to assume even more energetically their role and responsibilities towards European citizens.

The Erasmus+ eCHOING project presents an open access publication showcasing practices in the revival of European cultural organization.

In general, eCHOIng addresses HE staff and students in the field of Cultural Heritage, from a wide range of relevant research fields, including Cultural Studies, (Art) History, Memory studies, Digital Humanities, Cultural Economics and software engineering.

Speakers of the event

George Papaioannou, University of Aegean, Corfu
Dr. Stella Sylaiou, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Social Sciences,Hellenic Open University
Alexandra Angeletaki, eCHOing Coordinator NTNU University
Anna Mavroudi, eCHOing partner, Women’s federation of the Cyclades

Who is it for?

The event is addressed to Higher Education staff and students who deal with Cultural Heritage and to Medium-sized and small cultural organizations.

About eCHOING?

eCHOing is an Erasmus+ project that aims to create collaborative opportunities between Higher Education Institutions and Cultural Organizations through Open Innovation.

Programme (Hours in CET)

Opening words from Marit Reitan, Pro-rector of education at NTNU

13.30-13.35: Welcome by host organization, Federation of Women’s Association in Cyclades

13.35-14.00: Presentation of the eCHOing  project, and eCHOing partners Alexandra Angeletaki, Coordinator, NTNU

14.00-14.30: eCHOing Associated partners introduce their organizations 

14.30-14.55: Presentation of the open access publication showcasing practices for the revival of European cultural organisations through open innovation, Anna Mavroudi, OSYGY, PR1 leader

Coffee Break 5 minutes

15.00-15.30: Paintings talking to children: the development and the impact of a co-created augmented reality application connecting students and paintings from the Corfu Art Gallery, Greece, George Papaioannou, Associate Professor, University of Aegean, Corfu, (via zoom) with Q & A

This presentation relates to the digital application of augmented reality ” Paintings talking to children…”, which was generated on the AURASMA platform via a co-creation process involving the Ionian University, the Corfu Art Gallery and elementary-school students from Corfu. Five well-known paintings come alive and talk to visitors/students on the screen of their mobile phone or tablet. We discuss the co-creation process in terms of successes, pitfalls and impact.

15.30-15.50: Promoting active citizenship through Higher education and communities, Dr. Stella Sylaiou, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University (via zoom) with Q & A

The paper draws experience from an ongoing project promoting active citizenship. Come2Art is a Erasmus+ project where art university students and society work together to co-create hubs connecting community members and artists / cultural workers for life skills application, boosting creative resilience (O3), including delivery of training and mini artistic collective projects but also through an inclusive approach, promoting active citizenship.

15.50-16.00: Conclusions by Milena Dobreva, University of Sofia

Our speakers

Dr. Georgios Papaioannou (gpapaioa@ionio.gr) Associate Professor at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. His research interests lie in museology, digital humanities, archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arab World, cultural studies, and IT applications including heritage documetation, Big Data and mobile applications. He has lectured, excavated, and conducted museum and cultural heritage work internationally (Europe, Arab World). He is the General-Secretary of the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies, Director of the Museology Research Lab at the Ionian University (Greece), member of the Pool of Experts of the European Museum Academy, and a member of ICOM and EUROPEANA Research Groups.  

Dr. Stella Sylaiou Her background is in Humanities (BSc. History, Archaeology and History of Art at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/ AUTh, Greece). She has an M.Sc. in Archaeological Computing (University of Southampton, UK); an MA in Museology (AUTh), and a Ph.D. on Virtual Museums and the promotion of arts and culture with new technologies from the Inter-departmental Postgraduate Programme, Protection, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments (AUTh), partially funded by the Marie Curie Scholarship for the Transfer of Knowledge in the Graduate Centre of the School of Science and Technology (Centre of VLSI and Computer Graphics, University of Sussex, UK). She has done extensive research on experimental museology and digital heritage, with an emphasis on virtual museums. She is an expert in designing, applying, and evaluating digital solutions for cultural environments, working at the forefront of virtual experiences since 2003.

Alexandra Angeletaki is a Senior Researcher at NTNU UB and Project coordinator for eCHOing ERASMUS +  project, which gained funding to work on the recovery of Cultural Heritage through Open innovation initiatives in collaboration with 5 other European universities and 29 small cultural organisations in 5 lands. Norway, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Estonia. She is a Senior Research Librarian at NTNU University, Library. A Classical Archaeologist by training working  for NTNU in the field of cultural heritage, digital collections management and Digital Heritage.  Her research focuses on collaborative learning through game technologies and the integration of digital technologies in archive and museum’s dissemination strategies. She has led several DH projects and i s a member of the Europeana Members board ENA.

Dr Milena Dobreva is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and at GATE Institute “Big data for smart society” at Sofia University, Bulgaria. Her main research interests are in digital cultural heritage, data spaces for cultural heritage and media and information literacy, including research on disinformation. In 2004, she was the founding head of the first Digitisation Centre in Bulgaria. In 2008⎯2011, she worked at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow with research and development projects funded by the EC, JISC, the European Digital Library Foundation, and the Scottish Funding Council. In 2012⎯2017, Milena was a resident Associate Professor in the University of Malta where she expanded the degree  portfolio of the Library Information & Archive Sciences Department and brought its first ever EC-funded project, Civic Epistemologies. In 2017, she joined the University College London in its Doha campus, where she led in the introduction of four pathways within the MA programme in Library and Information Studies delivered in UCL Qatar. One of the internationally acclaimed contributions of her work is hosting the booksprint which delivered the book ‘Open a GLAM Lab’ exploring innovative practices and datafication of cultural heritage collections. She is a member of the editorial board of the IFLA Library Journal and currently serves as a Europeana Network Association Board member.

Anna Mavroudi is the Vice President of OSYGY (Federation of Women Associations “Kores of Cyclades, Greece). With a BA in English Studies and an MA in Cultural Studies & Critical Theory, she is currently a high school manageress in Kea island, Cyclades. Holding a permanent position in the Greek Ministry of Education since 2002, she has worked in European and international relations and vocational and adult learning departments. She also served as CEO in the Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation. Her professional expertise includes lifelong learning, quality assurance and compensatory education. She has broad experience in European projects (National Coordinator in INTERREG, project developer in ERASMUS+ K3, K2, Sport) and holds an M.A. in Cultural Studies. She has also co-designed and implemented several projects focused on local development (gender mainstreaming, cultural heritage promotion, environmental volunteering, sports etc.).

We are excited to share the first newsletter from the eCHOing project.

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We are excited to announce that the eCHOIng project has officially started! It began on 1st of January 2022 and will continue until July 2024 with a journey that will be full of innovative experiences, ideas and people cooperating to enhance collaborations between HEIs- CHOs for the benefit of the cultural heritage sector in the post- pandemic era.

Stay tuned to our websites’ news section so you don’t miss any event or publication during our project’s lifecycle!