Designing the future of Digital Heritage: INFINITY at the heart of the ECHOES Ecosystem in Poznań
The European Cultural Heritage Cloud is taking shape, and INFINITY is leading the charge. At the ECHOES Second Annual Meeting in Poland, our consortium helped lay the technical and ethical foundations for the ECCCH.
Breaking the silos: a shared vision in Poznań
From March 16th to 20th, 2026, Poznań became the European capital of Digital Heritage. INFINITY played an active role in the ECHOES Second Annual Meeting, a high-stakes event that brought together the coordination team, European Commission representatives, independent board members, and “sister projects.”
The mission was clear from day one: accelerate the creation of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), transforming fragmented, isolated data into a connected and accessible digital ecosystem.
Key Moments: AI, Governance, and Synergies
INFINITY contributed its technical and strategic expertise across several key sessions hosted at the National Museum in Poznań and the PCSS headquarters:
- Advancement of technical development: we joined deep-dive discussions on the ECCCH ecosystem, sharing our progress in developing ethical AI models and multidimensional knowledge graphs.
- Sister-Projects roundtable: a vital forum for identifying technical and operational synergies, ensuring we maximize the impact of EU funding by avoiding duplication.
- Cloud & Data Space integration: we contributed to the roundtable focused on the joint declaration between the Cultural Heritage Cloud and the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage—a decisive step for continental data interoperability.
- Inspiration from the “PIAST AI Factory”: the keynote by Tomasz Parkoła (PCSS) on the potential of AI factories confirmed that INFINITY’s tech-heavy approach is exactly where the industry is heading.
Why Poznań was a turning point for INFINITY
Our participation wasn’t just about visibility; it was about deep integration. INFINITY is a core member of the ECHOES Integration Task Force, the working group ensuring that our solutions—such as data provenance tracking and transparent AI annotations—perfectly align with the global infrastructure ECHOES is building.
“ECHOES and INFINITY share a single mission: not just to digitize the past, but to make it ‘alive’ through digital tools that respect European values of democracy and inclusion.”
What’s Next?
We left Poznań with a sharpened roadmap. The feedback gathered from sector professionals and tech partners during the consultation sessions will be immediately funneled into the development of our six use cases. The path toward a digital, ethical, and shared European memory is now clearly paved.