iPhotoCult aims to design, develop, demonstrate, and validate innovative and intelligent solutions that will allow for non-invasive and safe ways to inspect, document, diagnose, and monitor Cultural Heritage (CH) so as to ensure efficient adaptation of sustainable management plans. These solutions comprise (a) a unique suite of advanced diagnostic and monitoring tools along with methodologies for their effective and optimum use, combined with (b) an intelligent data processing, visualization and prediction software services platform, for the remote and/or on-site monitoring of CH buildings, monuments and artefacts impacted by a wide variety of environmental and anthropogenic threats. iPhotoCult contributes significantly to the preservation of CH by adding verifiable dimensions to preservation strategies. The iPhotoCult Solutions will enable and empower CH community to better assess CH in a cost-effective, efficient, reliable, user-friendly and safe manner. These solutions will revolutionize the capabilities of end-users to diagnose and continually monitor the condition of materials constituting CH including those used in their restoration. iPhotoCult interdisciplinary approach involving many different stakeholders and CH pilots across Europe will serve as use-cases for demonstration, testing and validation of the iPhotoCult Solutions delivered and applied in the form of demonstrators. The outcomes to a variety of CH pilots will provide crucial insights and enable the optimization of the tools and methodologies to help in the decision-making and serve for replication to Europe’s CH in many in real settings. Ultimately, iPhotoCult main goal is to contribute to the sustainable management of Europe's CH by leveraging advanced photonics technologies and intelligent software to contribute to the decision-making process for its preservation. iPhotoCult aims to develop a comprehensive, cost-effective, and scalable solution that can be deployed across Europe and beyond.

ARGUS draws on the current challenges in monitoring remote built heritage assets and the current research focus on preventive preservation, and envisions the development of: (a) a novel built heritage digital twin model to support multi-scale/modal data; (b) an advanced digitisation strategy to support the digital twin model; (c) a portable measurements system for non-descructive physical and chemical monitoring based on miniaturised sensors, and sensor composites integration, comprising of ground and aereal components; (d) AI-enabled methods for the modeling and identification (reverse engineer) of threat factors and their impact; (e) AI-powered multimodal data methods for the fusion of (i) remote sensing climate, weather and pollution data with (ii) natural disaster regional statistics, (iii) governmental statistics (ii) on-site acquired measurements; (f) Trustworthy AI decision support methods for the preventive preservation of built heritage. ARGUS’ innovation targets: (a) Researchers/academics: data from the ARGUS monitoring systems, long-term status processed data, the novel multimodal digital twin white paper, multidimensional/modal data visualisations, APIs. (b) Stakeholders/heritage managers/practitioners: real-time monitoring, long-term status analysis, predictive preser¬vation predictions, intervention decision support. (c) Authorities: real-time monitoring, long-term status analysis, predictive preservation strategies. (d) General public: real-time visualisations, crowdsourcing and citizen contribution in preventive preservation, citizens-in-the-loop R&I design with Living Labs and Hackathons.

"<< Background >>Contemporary public/urban artworks certainly have a great impact on communities, whether they are spontaneous manifestations of social discontent, or works commissioned as part of urban regeneration or social inclusion projects. Before the CAPuS project, although there had already been some experiences both in terms of scientific research and conservation interventions, the initiatives aimed at safeguarding and conserving public works of art were still sporadic and uncoordinated.<< Objectives >>The challenge of the CAPuS project was to make a substantial contribution to the formalization of possible strategies for the conservation of urban art by involving in the partnership and during the project all possible stakeholders.The main goals of the project were: 1) the definition of guidelines and protocols for the protection and conservation of contemporary public art and 2) the development of education and training opportunities in that field.<< Implementation >>The working methodology developed to achieve the project results was based on:- the analysis of the socio-cultural context of the artworks- the analysis of the needs expressed by the community, by funding bodies of public art works and by those responsible for their maintenance- the attention to economic, environmental and social sustainability criteria- the use of innovative technologies (for the analysis of the state of conservation) and materials (for the conservation intervention).<< Results >>- A digital repository containing a wide range of information and documentation on the studied artworks- Conservation guidelines- CAPuS e-learning platform- Guidelines on training for professionals- Illustrated multi-lingual glossary- The documentaries 'Time Has Not Helped', discussing scientific and practical research that has to precede conservation works on outdoor sculptures, and ""Conversations on Conservation of Art in Public Spaces"", containing inteviews to Street Art-related artists"

HERITALISE mission is to research and develop advanced digitisation techniques and solutions for documenting and representing diverse CH assets, giving a full comprehension of the diverse CH features, visible and non-visible. In addition, AI-powered tools including Machine Learning (ML) will be developed for improved and optimised data post-processing and integration based on standard and expanded methodologies. All this will be connected through a knowledge graph environment that allows the individual aspects known about the CH object to be related and retrievable. As with Wikipedia, by following links it will be possible to learn more about a particular object, what research has been done, and what results have been derived from it. HERITALISE will provide the upcoming ECCCH with a interoperable web-based Ecosystem, advanced input data from improved digitalisation methodologies and preservation supporting tools, which will be achieved by meeting the following General Objectives (GO) and setting the conditions for a wide-scale replicability and scalability across European CH institutions/organisations across European CH institutions/organisations: GO1: State-of-the-art review of current digitisation standards and methodologies defining the data requirements for CH tangible and intangible objects GO2: Improve 3D/2D Data acquisition methods and technologies GO3: Data post-processing methods and technologies will be adopted, including new AI-powered digitisation methods and the development of data fusion techniques to mix various multimodal digitisation approaches (multisensory, multiscale, multispectral, external and internal) GO4: Development of methodologies and solutions as Hardware (HW) and/or Software (SW) services GO5: Development of ECCCH-compliant open interoperability components enabling connecting and sharing data and modular services in a distributed web-based architecture GO6: Increasing the Impact of current and developing digitisation technologies