Project cooperationUpdated on 12 May 2025

HeritageTwin

Jessika Weber

Professor Digital Transformation in Cultural Tourism at Breda University of Applied Sciences

Breda, Netherlands

About

TwinHeritage is an innovative digital twin game designed to support data-driven cultural heritage management in the face of climate change and digital transformation. Building on the SCITHOS framework, it integrates real-time data, AI analytics, and immersive storytelling within a metaverse environment to simulate the challenges of preserving European heritage sites. The game engages policymakers, communities, and tourism stakeholders through scenario-based missions focused on sustainability, conservation, and adaptive planning. By combining serious gaming with open data, TwinHeritage empowers decision-makers to explore the impacts of tourism, environmental risks, and digital cultural representation. It fosters inclusive stakeholder collaboration, ethical virtual engagement, and resilient destination management. The project contributes to the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-05, positioning Europe as a global leader in virtual cultural innovation while safeguarding authenticity, community voices, and long-term heritage value in a rapidly virtualizing world.

Stage

  • Ideation - identifying the project idea
  • Design - setting the project scope

Topic

  • EIT CC Calls
  • HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
  • Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program

Type

  • Consortium seeks Partners

Organisation

Breda University of Applied Sciences

Academia / R&D Institution

Breda, Netherlands

Similar opportunities

  • Project cooperation

    Design and research of cultural and tourism-related spaces based on transmedia storytelling

    • EIT CC Calls
    • Other relevant EU initiatives
    • HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
    • Ideation - identifying the project idea
    • HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
    • Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
    • Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program

    Silvia Casellas

    Director and Researcher at Iternatura comunicación S.L.

    Olot, Girona, Spain

  • Project cooperation

    Offering Virtual Worlds Generator platform for Cultural Heritage Sector

    • EIT CC Calls
    • Other relevant EU initiatives
    • HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
    • Design - setting the project scope
    • Ideation - identifying the project idea
    • HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
    • Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
    • Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
    • HERITAGE-05: Evolution of culture in a virtualising world
    • HERITAGE-09: Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being
    • Regional Perspective: Interregional Innovation Investments (I3-Instrument)
    • HERITAGE-04: Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativitydriven innovation
    • HERITAGE-06: Europe as a global powerhouse of design for sustainable competitiveness
    • HERITAGE-03: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases
    • HERITAGE-07: Cultural Strategies for Peace: culture and creativity as catalysts for conflict prevention and post-conflict reconciliation
    • HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage

    Cosmin Voisan

    CEO at Artetra

    Rotterdam, Netherlands

  • Project cooperation

    Research and development: Digital for culture and social transformations

    • EIT CC Calls
    • Other relevant EU initiatives
    • Design - setting the project scope
    • Ideation - identifying the project idea
    • Drafting - writing the project proposal
    • HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
    • Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
    • Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
    • HERITAGE-05: Evolution of culture in a virtualising world
    • HERITAGE-09: Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being
    • HERITAGE-01: Co-funded European partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage
    • HERITAGE-04: Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativitydriven innovation
    • HERITAGE-03: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases
    • HERITAGE-02- two-stage: Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience
    • DEMOCRACY-10: The role of civic and citizenship education for strengthening civic and democratic participation and support for common European values
    • HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage

    Elena Ananiadou

    EU Project Manager at La Tempesta

    Bcn, Spain