University & Media Technology for Cultural Heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

University & Media Technology for Cultural Heritage

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

UMETECH aims to strengthen the role of Latin American Universities as instruments of social and economic development in the cultural heritage sector through the design and implementation of 4 competence centers on cultural heritage specialised in: smart computing, 3d, big data and human-machine interaction. The competence centres will work in an inegrated network called UMETECH. The network will be developed on the model of NEMECH (New Media for Cultural Heritage competence center) implemented by the University of Florence and will exploit the experiences and researchs results carried out by the University of Bucharest (Big data) and Telecom Lille (3d) and the University of Florence (Smart computing and human-machine interaction). The competence center is conceived asa bridge between HEIs and the territory, in particular with the productive system. It connects research activities with the market and works on the following issues:- Development of products, services and projects in the ICT field applied to cultural heritage enhancement for the local and infra-regional markets and public authorities in charge of cultural heritage policies and cultural sites management- Support and development of business start-ups in the cultural heritage / tourism sector- Promotion of know-how integration on cultural heritage enhancement researches among all HEIs operating in the same geographical area. Each competence center will focus on a specific subject as follows: – Cordoba (Argentina): Mobile, wearable and cloud – Misiones (Argentina): 3D technology- Itapua (Paraguay): SensorsThe major impact of the project is the strengthening of HEIs engagement with the civil society and industry. In particular, the competence centre will promote self-entrepreneurship in the cultural/tourism sector exploitoing the skills/competences/knowledge developed within each competence centre and in the UMETECH network.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 970000 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FUNDACION EUROSUR PARA LA COOPERACION ENTRE AMERICA LATINA Y LA UNIONEUROPEA
• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES
• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL ESTE
• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ITAPUA
• UNIVERSIDAD DE PIURA
• UNIVERSIDAD INCA GARCILASO DE LA VEGA
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI