MNEME – A Collaborative Memory Platform for Cultural Heritage

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MNEME – A Collaborative Memory Platform for Cultural Heritage is a 30-month Horizon Europe project that commenced in June 2026, addressing key challenges in the digitization of cultural heritage. Despite significant progress in recent years, the sector remains highly fragmented, with cultural heritage institutions relying on diverse systems, standards, and data formats. This limits interoperability, hinders cross-institutional collaboration, and restricts seamless access to cultural resources. As demand for digital preservation, research, and public engagement continues to grow, there is an increasing need for interoperable, cloud-based solutions that enable efficient collaboration, improved data accessibility, and the effective reuse of Europe’s digital heritage assets.

MNEME brings together 18 partners from across Europe, to validate and demonstrate services of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) in real-world settings. Working closely with the ECHOES initiative and the wider ECCCH ecosystem, MNEME will implement five pilot demonstrations in Greece, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and France, exploring how cloud-enabled services can support cultural heritage professionals, researchers, and public audiences.

Through these activities, MNEME will contribute to the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector by testing and validating the ECCCH in a range of practical use cases. The project will assess how the platform can enable stakeholders to collaboratively access, share, analyze, and reuse cultural heritage data, generating evidence to support its wider adoption across Europe. In doing so, MNEME will help reduce fragmentation and strengthen interoperability, advancing improved collaboration and knowledge exchange across institutions and borders. To achieve these objectives, MNEME will develop and integrate an interoperable platform that combines artificial intelligence, robotics, immersive technologies, and collaborative innovation methodologies. By embedding these technologies within the ECCCH framework, the project aims to enhance heritage documentation, conservation, research, and public engagement, while fostering a sustainable, community-driven digital ecosystem that supports the long-term preservation, accessibility, and reuse of Europe’s cultural heritage.

The project’s main objectives are as follows:

  • Enable seamless semantic interoperability across heterogeneous cultural heritage collections.  
  • Create automated mechanisms for cross-institutional knowledge discovery, integration, and linking.  
  • Leverage AI-powered analytics to support automated heritage documentation, monitoring, and condition assessment.  
  • Implement robotic scanning technologies for autonomous 3D digitization and documentation of heritage assets.  
  • Develop AR/VR solutions that enhance immersive heritage experiences and support professional conservation and research activities.  
  • Establish participatory co-creation frameworks that actively involve stakeholders in heritage technology design and development.  
  • Enhance collaborative research, preservation, and conservation workflows through integrated digital platform capabilities.  
  • Ensure full compliance with ECCCH requirements while enabling seamless interoperability with existing infrastructures and services.  
  • Foster a sustainable, community-driven development ecosystem to support the platform’s long-term growth, maintenance, and evolution. 

ITML’s role in the project

ITML plays a leading role in the MNEME project, coordinating innovation and standardization activities as well as driving exploitation and market strategy development to support long-term sustainability and impact. ITML contributes key technical expertise across several core areas of the platform, including AI-based motif recognition for cultural heritage analysis, the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployment workflows to ensure scalable and reproducible system delivery. ITML also participates on activities relevant to cloud–edge orchestration mechanisms and federated microservice querying, enabling efficient, distributed processing and interoperability across heterogeneous infrastructures. In addition, ITML actively supports the implementation, integration, and validation of the developed technologies across all five pilot cases in Greece, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and France, ensuring that project outcomes are robustly tested in real-world cultural heritage environments.

Consortium partners: UBITECH LIMITED (UBI,0 VILABS (CY) LTD (VIL), ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS (AUTH), ARCHAIOLOGIKO MOUSEIO THESSALONIKIS (AMTh), AYUNTAMIENTO DE MURCIA (MUR), POKRAJINSKI MUZEJ CELJE (POKMUZ), MATHEMA SRL (MATHEMA), INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN (JSI), PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS (UOWM), IOTAM INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATIONS AND MULTI LAYER DEVELOPMENT LTD (ITML), DEPARTEMENT DU RHONE (RHONE), METAMIND INNOVATIONS IKE (MINDS), ODIN SOLUTIONS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA (ODINS), AKMON INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOCIETE ANONYME (AKMON S.A.), PJP ZALOZNISTVO, TRGOVINA, NAJEM, MEDICINA, ARHEOLOGIJA IN DRUGE STORITVE D.O.O. (PJP d.o.o.), ACCELIGENCE LTD (ACCELI), PRATO CULTURA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA (Prato),  ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH)

Project number: 101285462 

Call: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01

Topic: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-03

Project duration: 30 months 

Social media: LinkedIn

Website: https://mneme-eccch.eu/

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