Previous Events

PLUGGY @IAAPA Expo

Our partner XTeam presented PLUGGY at IAAPA Expo Europe 2019 held on 16-19 September 2019 at the Paris Expo Porte De Versailles… Read More

PLUGGY Final Event Registration is now open!

We are happy to announce that PLUGGY’s Final Event is approaching and will be held on 20th November 2019 in Athens, Greece! You can now start registering here. Read More

More Collaborative Game Testings around Italy!

PLUGGY partner XTEAM organised several events in which the Collaborative Game was used and evaluated by the numerous participants! “The hidden symphony” was held in Bergamo, on 20 July 2017, where about 30 people participated and seven days later “The Awakening of the Goddess” with almost 40 participants took place in Padova. Read More

PLUGGY @ European Heritage Days

The European Heritage Days is the most widely celebrated participatory cultural event in Europe, which provides access to thousands of rarely opened sites and unique events to over 20 million people every year. The European Heritage Days take place in the 50 signatory countries to the European Cultural Convention every year in September. Read More

PLUGGY @ AES conference on Headphones Technology

PLUGGY partners from ICL participated in the 2019 AES International Conference on Headphones Technology that took place on from 27th to 29th August 2019 in San Francisco, USA.
This conference focuses on technologies for headphones with a special emphasis on the emerging fields of Mobile Spatial Audio, Individualization, Assistive Listening and Audio for Augmented Reality. It gathers scientists, developers and practitioners who are involved in theory, technical design, application or evaluation of headphone technology. Read More

PLUGGY @ ICED 2019

Our PLUGGY partners from VIANET presented the project in the market place of the ICED Conference 2019 that was held in Delft, the Netherlands, on 5-8 August 2019. Read More

PLUGGY @ Meeting Della Giostra

Our partners from XTEAM participated in the Meeting Della Giostra that took place on 29-31 July in Rovigo, Italy representing PLUGGY! The event attracted a lot of professionals from the entertainment industry and culture field as well as people from the local authorities of the area. Read More

PLUGGY @ 2nd Summer School “Rural Space as Cultural Heritage”

Our partner PIOP presented PLUGGY and its crucial role in the safeguarding and promotion of local cultural heritage to the students of the 2nd Summer School “Rural Space as Cultural Heritage”, organised by the Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, in Dimitsana (Arcadia, Peloponnese), Greece on the 23rd July 2019. Read More

3DPLUGGY: Learn how it works!

See how someone can use the PLUGGY3D, an Augmented Reality Application, created within PLUGGY and understand one of the reasons we are all so proud of this project! Live the 3D experience through PLUGGY! A special thanks to our partners in Universidad de Málaga (UMA)! Read More

PLUGGY Pilots

PLUGGY is travelling all over Greece and Slovakia, visiting several museums so as to encourage people to use its applications while visiting the exhibitions of each museum. The Environment Museum of Stymphalia, the Open-Air Water Power Museum of Dimitsana,(Peloponnese) and the Silversmithing Museum of Ioannina, all from the Museum Network of our partner PIOP are the three Greek museums which are hosting PLUGGY apps from the 1st August until the end of September. Read More

PLUGGY @ 2nd Summer School

Our Pluggy partner PIOP will participate in the 2nd Summer School entitled “The agricultural area as cultural heritage”, which is organised by the Directorate of Modern Cultural and Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of the Greek Ministry of Culture and sports, that is going to be held in Dimitsana, Greece on 21-28 July 2019. Read More

PLUGGY’s Collaborative Game App Testings in Italy!

PLUGGY partner Xteam organised some more Collaborative Game App Testings in which the participants, who were around 80 people, not only had fun but also gave their feedback so as to make the game even better! Read More

PLUGGY @ urbanHIST newsletter

The urbanHIST project is a multidisciplinary research and training program whose aim is to develop and sustainably promote a joint understanding of the history of urban planning in the 20th century from a European perspective. Read More

PLUGGY @ Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is a new three-day celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration which took place on 28-30 June 2019 in South Kensington, UK. Our partners from Imperial College London (ICL) were co-organisers. Read More

PLUGGY @ International Conference on Creative Economy, Cultural Development and Social Equity

Our Pluggy partners from Universidad de Málaga (UMA) presented today an overview of the project as well the project’s results at the International Conference on Creative Economy, Cultural Development and Social Equity Read More

PLUGGY @ Museums Festival 2019

PLUGGY joined the Museums festival 2019, a meeting of all the museums in Slovakia on 10 June 2019! Our partner East Slovakian… Read More

PLUGGY’s Collaborative Game App testing

Another fun testing of the Collaborative Game by organised by our partner XTeam. This time, ‘The Hunt-The treasure of Ezzelino’ as it was entitled, was held in Treviso, Italy on 3 June 2019. About 50 people participated, had fun and gave their feedback! Read More

PLUGGY @ Nordic Game 2019

Our partner XTeam presented PLUGGY at Nordic Game Conference held on 22-24 May 2019 at Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden. This annual conference hosts lots of international exhibitors and more than 2000 professionals. Read More

PLUGGY @ Rome VideoGame Lab

Our partners from vianet and XTeam represented PLUGGY at the Rome Video Game Lab that took place on 10-12 May 2019 in Rome, Italy and informed visitors about the project. Read More

Announcement of the App Challenge finalists

The six finalists who get 1000 euros each have been chosen and have been informed by the PLUGGY App Challenge committee, which decided on the final six apps during the 7th PLUGGY Plenary Meeting held on 9-10th April 2019 in Malaga, Spain. Read More

PLUGGY’s Collaborative Game App spread fun in Verona & Vicenza, Italy

PLUGGY partner XTeam organised another testing of the Collaborative Game during an event in Verona, Italy on 13 April 2019 entitled The Hunt-Verona Hacker. More than 50 people, between 23 and 35 years old, participated and had great fun. Read More

7th PLUGGY Plenary Meeting

Pluggy plenary meeting took place on 9-10 April 2019 in Malaga, Spain. Not only interesting presentations about each WP separately but also presentations of the updated Pluggy platform and parallel workshops in which the partners explained to externals, invited to experience Pluggy, how to actually use all the PLUGGY apps! Moreover, in the afternoon the partners divided in groups, competed during the Malaga Challenge in which they had to find the artworks of the artist Invader which were hidden in Malaga streets. Read More

PLUGGY @ ECHIC 2019

PLUGGY was presented by ICCS at ECHIC 2019 which was held in the Byzantine Museum in Athens, Greece on 4-5 April 2019. The conference was hosted in collaboration with the University of the Peloponnese and other participating Greek education and cultural institutions. Read More

PLUGGY @ Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Pluggy was presented on 2nd April 2019 in Bologna, Italy during the Bologna Children’s Book Fair that is one of the biggest events in the publishing year’s calendar built around children’s content Read More

PLUGGY @ AES Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio Conference

Pluggy participated in the AES Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio that was held in York, UK on 27-29th March 2019. A PLUGGY paper entitled ‘The 3D Tune-In Toolkit VST Binaural Audio Plugin’ was presented by our partners ICL & UMA on 28th March with a lot of excitement for the PlugSonic Soundscape app by the participants. Read More

PLUGGY @ Symposium and Policy Debate

PLUGGY spent two days full of cultural heritage in Brussels, Belgium.
On the 20th March 2019, PLUGGY participated in the Symposium entitled “Horizons for Heritage Research – Towards a Cluster on Cultural Heritage”. The aim of the Symposium was to agree on the content of a Manifesto that will provide the basis for the creation and the sustainability of a research stakeholder cluster on Cultural Heritage. Read More

App Challenge deadline extension

You asked for it and you got it! PLUGGY’s consortium decided to extend the submission deadline from the 28th February 2019 to 24th March 2019 so everyone can take the chance and participate in. Remember that the 6 finalists will receive 1000 euros and the final winner will get extra 4000 euros. Read More

App Challenge Webinar

PLUGGY organised a webinar dedicated to the App Challenge in order to help participants with the details of the App Challenge and answer any question they may have had. It lasted more than an hour and had several participants from all around Europe. Read More

‘Tools and ideas to attract visitors to your museum’ workshop

PLUGGY’s partners Xteam and Vianet organised a workshop entitled ‘’ Tools and ideas to attract visitors to your museum’’ on 5th February 2019 in Rome, Italy. The workshop, in which PLUGGY and the collaborative game applications were presented, attracted about 40 experts and curators from the museum and cultural sector. Read More

PLUGGY’s App Challenge

PLUGGY’s App Challenge has started!
We invite app and web designers to to develop pluggable applications for demonstrating the pluggable nature of PLUGGY and its exploitation potential. The deadline for submitting the app description is 28th February 2019. The 6 finalists, chosen by the PLUGGY committee, will win 1000€ each and the final winner, after public voting, will win extra 4000€!
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PLUGGY & Vakalo College Exhibition

A very interesting art exhibition took place on 18-20 December 2018 along with PLUGGY’s plenary meeting in Athens, Greece. Graduate students from Vakalo Art & Design College got inspired by PLUGGY and created an exhibition with videos and AR posters. The visitors of the exhibition had also the chance to use and experience PLUGGY social platform. Read More

PLUGGY 6th Plenary meeting

The 6th PLUGGY plenary meeting was held on 18-20 December 2018 in Athens, Greece. PLUGGY’s partners gathered to discuss the project’s progress and discuss their future steps.
During the 1st day, the presentations and discussions focused on the progress made during the last months as well as on the actual hands-on experience of the apps. Read More

PLUGGY Social Platform is out!

We are proud to announce that our social platform is out and ready to receive your stories related to culture! Share the stories that inspire you with the whole Europe! Be part of the European cultural heritage! Visit PLUGGY now! Read More

PLUGGY is inviting you all!

PLUGGY’s 6thPlenary Meeting will be held on 18th-20th December 2018 in Athens, Greece. On this occasion, an exhibition with videos and AR posters, which are inspired by PLUGGY, created by VakaloArt & Design College will be held at “The box”. The exhibition will be open for everyone to visit! PLUGGY’s partners will be also there to inform you about PLUGGY and help you use its tools. Don’t miss the chance to live the PLUGGY experience by using its innovative tools and share your own story related to cultural heritage! Read More

Slovakian Cultural Institutions met PLUGGY

On 10thDecember 2018 PLUGGY’s partner East Slovakian Museum (ESM) presented the project to about 20 representatives from museums, galleries and cultural institutionsin East Slovakia in a dedicated workshop. The presentation entitled “Let’s meet PLUGGY” was very interesting and the participants got informed about PLUGGY Read More

We are happy to announce that PLUGGY’s Final Event is approaching and will be held on 20th November 2019 in Athens, Greece!

Registration is free, but availability is limited. Grab your seat here.
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