Overview
WALKING MEMORY is a European project that helps communities across Europe preserve and share their cultural stories using innovative digital tools. By combining interactive technologies like augmented reality (AR) memory walks and digital storytelling kits, the project makes it easier for people – including those from migrant and displaced backgrounds – to contribute their memories and heritage. WALKING MEMORY brings together local communities, researchers, cultural organizations, and policymakers to co-create and test these tools in real-life settings.
The goal is to make Europe’s cultural memory more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable, ensuring that everyone’s stories can be collected, shared, and reused for future generations. Through this collaborative and technology-driven approach, WALKING MEMORY strengthens social connections, supports new ideas in cultural preservation, and helps align heritage work with Europe’s digital and climate goals.
Objectives
Curate and disseminate underrepresented European cultural heritage through displaced community narratives.
Empower communities and cultural actors to co-create, annotate, and share heritage using ECCCH tools.
Develop and test interoperable digital tools (AR, GIS, 3D) for immersive cultural storytelling linked to ECCCH.
Ensure cross-border interoperability, inclusivity, and alignment with European data infrastructures.
Showcase the feasibility, replicability, and upscaling potential of WALKING MEMORY’s community-curated digital heritage tools across Europe.
Empower diverse European communities through cultural heritage literacy, digital skills training, and ECCCH-oriented citizen engagement.
Contribute to the iterative improvement and long-term sustainability of the ECCCH platform through structured feedback, technical insights, and coordination.
Facilitate broader ECCCH user engagement through Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP).
eBOS Role in the Project
eBOS plays a pivotal role in the WALKING MEMORY project as a key technical, quality assurance, dissemination, exploitation, and sustainability partner. Through its expertise in digital innovation, data interoperability, user-centred platforms, and EU-funded project delivery, eBOS supports the project’s successful implementation by leading activities related to risk management, quality assurance, and contingency planning. eBOS also contributes significantly to the project’s technical development through the design and implementation of the Digital Quilt, a web-based tool that enables multimedia story fragments to be collected, connected, and transformed into cohesive digital narratives, while ensuring usability, multilingual accessibility, FAIR compliance, and alignment with European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage standards. In addition, eBOS strengthens the project’s visibility, uptake, and long-term impact by leading dissemination, communication, exploitation, stakeholder engagement, capacity-building, and sustainability activities.
Overall, eBOS ensures that WALKING MEMORY delivers high-quality, accessible, interoperable, and sustainable outcomes for communities, cultural heritage professionals, policymakers, researchers, and the wider public.
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