Integrated Full-Stack Toolkit for Cultural Space Revitalisation

PARTNER SEARCH | HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-01 — “Artistic intelligence” : harnessing the power of the arts to address complex challenges, enhance soft skills and boost innovation and competitiveness | Deadline: 23 September 2026 

Integrated Full-Stack Toolkit for Cultural Space Revitalisation

We're forming a Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action (RIA) consortium to build a full-stack toolkit for cultural spaces (e.g. museums, libraries & theaters): combining advanced digital technologies, research methodological frameworks, operational guidelines, and implementation support. 

Mission: recontextualise existing cultural spaces and archived knowledge, through integrative artistic, technological and participatory approaches; enable a balanced partnership of equals with the meaningful transfer of knowledge, skills, and tools between arts, science, and society; fostering engagement with new generations and envision the future generation needs and interests; enhance knowledge communication practices and develop advanced tools for knowledge experience, co-creation, and exchange across disciplines and audiences. Goal: develop and validate prototypes at Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) 4–6, demonstrating their feasibility in relevant environments and their potential for further scaling. The solutions will be designed for transferability to creative and cultural markets, and to adjacent application domains including education, social inclusion, professional training, and healthcare, thereby enabling cross-sectoral impact and sustainable uptake.

Aligned with Focus 2, the toolkit will leverage emerging, avant-garde yet accessible technologies: GenAI, generative hallucination, AI transformers, sonic embodiment; Immersive multisensual arts, haptic, & multi-modal audio-visual tech; Spatial computing - real-time sensing, motion-capture and interaction.

The project will unfold in three phases: co-development of prototypes, real life case studies with implementation support and feedback loops, & finalization with evaluation and market assessment.

CONSORTIUM (what we offer)

University of Coimbra (Portugal) - Computational Media, Transition Design, Sociotechnical Systems Engineering, Collaborative and Social Computing; HCI / CSCW; Sound Design / Sonification; Collaborative and Social Computing; Transition Design; Sociotechnical Systems Engineering; Computational Media Design; Transition Design; Game / Play Design;
Human-Computer Co-Creativity;

Inholland University (Netherlands) - AI and immersive technologies in the music industry, transdisciplinary art-science-technology collaborators;

University of Bremen (Germany) - pre-award funding advise, project management and coordination; environmental research, scientific modeling and data analysis; Science–Art, Multi-actor &Transdisciplinary Collaboration management; AI & Creativity; Art & Technology Integration; Creativity Management; Creative Entrepreneurship; Startup development;

USEYA CO., LTD (Japan) - XR-based tacit skill transfer; digital preservation of embodied craftsmanship; immersive training environments; motion and workflow capture; AI-supported knowledge structuring; spatial computing interfaces for cultural and educational applications.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

1. Creators, Creator Association / CMO: actors, dancers, musicians, performers' union, to co-create and validate high-tech prototypes and ensure real-world adoption and transfer across the fields;

2. Techdev Studio: engineers specializing in haptic tech, software developers with AI expertise

3. Heritage / GLAM Institutions (end-users): Museum, library, or archive to pilot-test with cultural collections and lead heritage impact assessment. Smaller entities, such as museums facing public engagement challenges are highly welcomed!

4. Audiovisual / Cross-Sectoral Media Partner: Film archive, AV producer, media lab, XR/gaming studio, or creative hub — to extend pilots beyond music and prove cross-sectoral scalability. A startup developing hightech technology and needed the platform to test it. 

5. Legal advisors on AI and IP.

Express your interest: Nadezhda Sokolova - nadezda.v.sokolova@gmail.com; Anna Pagnone = panna2611@gmail.com  

Send us: you name or organisation, country, relevant experience (200 words max), partner profile (#1–6), key contact.

EoI deadline: 30 June 2026 

Call details — EU Funding & Tenders Portal