ECHOES (European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science) is a five-year project dedicated to developing the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH)—a shared online platform designed to provide heritage professionals and researchers with access to data, scientific resources, training, and advanced digital tools. ECHOES fosters a digital environment for knowledge digitization and collaborative cultural heritage analysis, enabling the co-creation of new insights within the framework of the Digital Commons.
A key component of the project is the ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme, which supports the testing and integration of external tools and applications into the ECCCH, expanding its capabilities and fostering innovation.
Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme and the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the project brings together 51 implementing partners under the coordination of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. As one of the partners, ICOMOS mobilises five experts from the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation (CIPA) for this ambitious initiative.
