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PLUGGY for Cultural Heritage
PLUGGY addresses the need of the society to be actively involved in cultural heritage activities, not only as an observer, but also as a maintainer, creator and a major influencing factor.

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PLUGGY is an EU funded research project that aims to develop an innovative social platform and a suite of smartphone apps that will enable individuals, community groups, industry, museums and countries as a whole to bring out, document and share their heritage online.
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It's about us
PLUGGY will be powered by its users and will put people's values, aspirations and needs first.
They will be able to act as skilled "storytellers" by creating fascinating personalised stories and sharing them through social networking with friends, associates & professionals
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Impact 
PLUGGY’s sophisticated technologies addresses the need of citizens across Europe to be actively involved in cultural heritage activities,
 not only as observers of cultural heritage assets but also as creators, maintainers and indeed, major influencers.
"Everyone, alone or collectively, has the right to benefit from the cultural heritage and to contribute towards its enrichment"

Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society
(Faro Convention, 2005)
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OUR NEWS
PLUGGY at the “Cultural Heritage in the Digital Era” workshop organised and hosted by the European Cooperation in Science & Technology Association (COST)
PLUGGY, the leading-edge, cultural heritage-specific project was represented at the ‘Cultural Heritage in the Digital Era’ workshop organised and hosted by the European Cooperation in Science & Technology Association (COST), a pan-European intergovernmental framework.
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3D Tune-In Toolkit for binaural audio now ready!
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The PLUGGY Social Platform and its Pluggable Applications will integrate 3D audio functionalities. This will be achieved exploiting the work done within 3D Tune-In, one of our partner EU projects.
3D Tune-In has released the first test application for their binaural audio processor...
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Info day “Museums, Skills and New Perspectives in the digital era”
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PLUGGY at the Info day “Museums, Skills and New Perspectives in the digital era”, dedicated to the identification of the created needs of the professionals of culture and museum due to the quickening pace of the adoption of ICT in the cultural sector... 
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PLUGGY at the II Meeting on European Associations of Industrial Heritage
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PLUGGY was presented at the II Meeting on European Associations of Industrial Heritage, celebrated in Malaga, 27 – 29 October, 2017...
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PLUGGY in Smart Innovation Festival 2017
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PLUGGY was introduced by its dedicated Italian partner, the XTEAM Software Solutions srls, to several different stakeholders who attended the Festival Smart Innovation 2017 that took place in Silea, Italy last September...
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PLUGGY in INNOVATHENS 6th Business Accelerator
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PLUGGY’s leading partner in Greece, ICCS, presented PLUGGY’s philosophy, key objectives and business model, as an innovative case study, combining cutting edge technology with cultural heritage, the creative industries and potential commercial opportunities...
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Students contribute to PLUGGY’s communication 
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A group of students from Malaga University / Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Department / Advertising and Public Relations Bachelor Degree offered to prepare a proposal for PLUGGY's local communication strategy and implementation in Spain, as part of their “Cultural Communication” course...
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Workshop on Advances in Digital Cultural Heritage
PLUGGY co – organized the Workshop on Advances in Digital Cultural Heritage as part of the 23rd ICE/IEEE International Technology Management Conference that took place on the 27th, 28th and 29th June 2017, in Madeira Island – Portugal.
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CULTURAL HERITAGE | ENGAGING STORIES


Looking forward to the European Year of Cultural Heritage
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2018 will be the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH2018) and there will be a lot of unique opportunities across Europe to involve citizens in events and projects emphasising Europe's cultural heritage and values, helping to strengthen a sense of belonging to a European common area and identity...
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Why are culture and creativity so important for cities and which European city is the “ideal” cultural and creative city?
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“The best use of digital is to not make you aware of the technology, but to make you aware of the art,” said Jane Alexander, chief information officer at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museums are looking at the best attendance they’ve ever had, thanks to the way technology is revolutionizing the consumption of art...
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How new technologies are completely revolutionizing the consumption of art
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The European Commission released the first ever edition of the ‘Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor’, a brand new tool that provides comparable data on how European cities perform across nine dimensions and underlines how their performance contributes to cities’ social development, economic growth and job creation...
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MEET OUR PARTNERS
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Via its innovative tools and sophisticated technologies,
PLUGGY is expected to encourage all European citizens to narrate their cultural experiences, to share knowledge of the cultural properties of their place, but also to compose the puzzle for the common and diverse heritage of the whole Europe .
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Dr. Angelos Amditis
 
Project Coordinator, ICCS
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Vakalo Art & Design College
The Vakalo Art & Design College is the first private educational institution of Applied Arts in Greece, founded in 1958, offering higher education programmes of study in design along three specialisation pathways...
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ViMM: An Action for Visual Museums
Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016)...
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EMOTIVE: Storytelling for Cultural Heritage
EMOTIVE is an EU-funded heritage project that aims to use emotional storytelling to dramatically change how we experience heritage sites...
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Project Mu.SA: Museum Sector Alliance
The project “Mu.SA: Museum Sector Alliance” is approved in the European Framework of Erasmus+ / Sector Skills Alliances...
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Our next Newsletter will be out around March 2018 and will include:

* Our low-fidelity technological prototypes
* A beta website for you to visit
* More news about our collaborations
* PLUGGY's place in #ECHY18

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A 3-year EU Funded project
Start date: 1st December 2016
Funding : This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 726765.
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