UNESCO Chair on Digital Heritage Presentation

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The DHRLab was established in 2013 and is the first and only unique lab on the island of Cyprus, specializing in the field of Cultural Informatics. Moreover, the lab has managed to create a strong collaboration island wide and regionally in addition to establishing a national committee to set up the strategic agenda of Cyprus on Digital Cultural Heritage. The lab carries out research on issues such as digitisation, archiving, preservation, use&reuse and protection of tangible and international cultural heritage in our region, in Europe and globally, focusing on how the latest technological developments can preserve, protect and deliver this legacy to everyone. Due to its unique achievements within a very short period of time, UNESCO awarded to the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) the prestigious academic Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage in 2018, which was the EU year dedicated to the preservation and protection of Cultural Heritage and its values. Since the beginning of 2019 and for a period of 5 years, the lab received a distinctive award of 2.5 million Euros for the European Research Area (ERA) Chair on Digital Heritage under the Horizon 2020 Framework programme. This fast growing laboratory has already managed to bring to Cyprus over 7.5 million Euro from highly competitive EU Horizon 2020 grants in the exclusive area of Digital Cultural Heritage and will expand its current collaboration with an intersectorial network of leading partners from the academic, research, CH stakeholders, international organisations and industrial sectors, developing innovative tools, applications and standards to provide an even greater local, regional and international social and economic growth. Our network includes some of the leading institutions in Europe and in the world, such as the European Research Infrastructure Consortia, DARIAH-EU, CLARIN-EU, CARARE, Michael-Culture, Photoconsortium, Europa Nostra, Europeana, TimeMachine, ICOMOS, ICOM, NEMO, EMA, INTERPOL, the Getty Foundation to mention a few.