[Due to overwhelming response, we have reached capacity and must close workshop in-person registration. You must still use the registration form to secure your online attendance. Thank you all for your interest.]
Workshop Overview
The ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ - Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-EGOV) and the Observatory on Science, Communication and Culture Policies () are pleased to announce Digital4Culture, a joint in-person workshop dedicated to exploring the relationship between digital technologies and cultural heritage.
The workshop will take place on 17 September 2025, at , in , Portugal.
Digital4Culture aims to bring together cultural practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to foster dialogue and exchange on the opportunities and challenges that digital transformation presents for the study, protection, safeguarding, monitoring, and accessibility of cultural heritage across different contexts.
Agenda
Time | Activity |
9:00-9:30 | Registration |
9:30-9:45 | Welcome Remarks |
9:45-10:00 | Introduction |
10:00-11:30 | Roundtable 1: Platforming Digital Culture in the Margins |
11:30-11:40 | Wellness Break |
11:40-12:00 | Interactive Session: Co-Creating Culture |
12:00-13:30 | Roundtable 2: Digital Tools for Co-Creation in Arts & Culture |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
14:30-16:00 | Roundtable 3: Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural Heritage in Crises |
16:00-17:00 | Presentation: NOCUI Experimental Index & Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural Heritage in Crises initiative |
17:00-17:10 | Wellness Break |
17:10-17:50 | Strategic Foresight Workshop: Stargazing |
17:50-18:00 | Closing Session |
18:00-19:00 | Before Sunset: A Guided Museum Tour |
Download the detailed agenda here
Key goals of the workshop include:
- Fostering discussion and the sharing of case studies and good practices among cultural practitioners and scholars, identifying both risks and opportunities for digital technologies to support the study, protection, safeguarding, monitoring, and accessibility of cultural heritage and experiences in a diversity of contexts;
- Launching NOCUI, an online universal index for culture that measures the scope and quality of culture¡¯s digital presence and its impact on people and communities, with the announcement of pilot projects;
- Identifying opportunities for and catalyzing advanced research on four key areas of inquiry:
- Opportunities and risks: How are digital technologies and digital transformation being used as tools to safeguard and support or destroy and undermine arts and cultural heritage?
- Monitoring: How do we monitor and/or measure the presence, scope, quality, and status of digital culture and culture¡¯s digital presence, as well as its impact on people and communities using a universal index?
- Just Futures for Cultural Heritage: Are there emergent and novel uses of digital technologies to support the preservation of cultural heritage? How can we co-design and co-create values-driven and based (digital) interventions to safeguard culture?
- Governance: What policies, governance frameworks, and regulations would support the safeguarding and enjoyment of arts, culture, and heritage as it relates to digital technologies?
Registration
Please register , or click above on "Register".
Event Details
17 September 2025 | 9H00 - 18H00 | Museu Martins Sarmento and Online
