HERIFORGE

The main goal of HERIFORGE is to develop a network of three interconnected place-based ecosystems in Poland, Cyprus and Turkey providing an excellent R&I environment for innovation in the cultural heritage and creative industries with the responsible use of extended reality (XR) technologies and digital cultural heritage assets for the benefit of social resilience.

The HERIFORGE project harnesses the expertise of three excellence hubs on XR technologies, advanced IT and digital humanities infrastructures as well as cultural heritage resources to provide an interregional ecosystem of innovation.

These hubs epitomise the quadruple helix model, integrating academic institutions, businesses, public authorities, and societal actors within their ecosystems, in a bid to foster a real place-based innovation culture based on a strategic agenda and in line with regional or national smart specialisation strategies. Within the project, these individual ecosystems will be transformed into the HERIFORGE Hubs Network.

The project results in five key results including critical for the establishment of the innovation ecosystem, including strategic impact package, the fully operational HERIFORGE Hubs Network, XR-driven prototypes and services, guidelines for building human-centric and trustworthy innovation ecosystems as well as Data Orchestration Platform.