MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe)

🌍 Celebrating #WorldBrailleDay: Unlocking Culture Through Multisensory Experiences On this World Braille Day, we celebrate the power of #inclusion and the vital role Braille plays in making the world more #accessible to everyone. Braille is more than a writing system—it’s a gateway to participation, independence, and connection for millions of blind and visually impaired individuals. Partners of the MuseIT project are committed to going beyond accessibility to create true inclusion by championing #multisensory cultural participation. Our mission is to ensure that everyone can actively engage with Europe’s rich cultural heritage. Why is this important? Because culture is a universal language that should be shared by all. By developing innovative tools and approaches to make #museums, #exhibitions and #music accessible through touch, sound, and other senses, we can break down barriers and open new pathways for participation. 👉 Multisensory experiences are essential to: - Enhance inclusion: They make cultural content available in diverse formats that everyone can enjoy. - Empower individuals: People with sensory disabilities can fully interact with and contribute to cultural spaces. - Enrich perspectives: Multisensory designs create deeper, more memorable experiences for everyone, fostering empathy and understanding. This World Braille Day, let’s reaffirm our commitment to building a world where culture is truly inclusive, participatory, and enriched by all voices and abilities. Together, we can transform cultural heritage into a shared treasure that belongs to everyone. 🌟 Let’s make culture more than accessible—let’s make it inclusive. Learn more on Braille day: https://lnkd.in/d2eNke9 Learn more about MuseIT and our work: www.muse-it.eu #WorldBrailleDay #Inclusion #Accessibility #CultureForAll #MuseIT Högskolan i Borås ShareMusic & Performing Arts Michael Culture Association Catalink Ltd EXUS AI LABS Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) Actronika SAS KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Ministero della Cultura Stanford University CCRMA Stanford University King's College London

Last Friday, within the MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe), we organised a ‘Participatory Session’ with the association ViSTA from Karlsborg. ViSTA means ‘we who think differently’ and is a creative meeting place for people with disabilities. As the MuseIT project is a co-creative project where we explore and develop our Remote Performance Platform together with end-users, we conduct a number of so-called ‘Participatory Sessions’. During our co-creative session in Karlsborg, we worked with the visual representations of emotions, sometimes also called avatars. During the session, the group had to create and design their own ‘avatars’ in 3D and give them different expressions depending on different emotions. The technicians' job is now to try to transfer these 3D ideas into digital form. The group also helped us to evaluate an already digital representation so that we can go further and improve its appearance and behaviour.  Over the past year, through these participatory sessions, we have learnt a lot about how representations of emotions can look and how important they are in the creation of our Remote Performance Platform. For example, the representation can be important both as abstract forms and more vivid things. A favourite representation in Karlsborg was the avatar dog, which came in many shapes and forms. Read more about the work with MuseIT and the Remote Performance Platform on our website.

Meet the members! MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe) aims to promote inclusion, participation, accessibility, and equal opportunities for all. By developing advanced technology, MuseIT works to enable and broaden access to cultural assets, as well as reshape how culture is experienced and created. MuseIT is working on: - Multisensory cultural experiences: engage with culture through sight, sound, and touch - Inclusive music-making tools: empowering everyone to create and enjoy music interactively - Sustainability in accessibility: preserving cultural heritage inclusively for future generations More on MuseIT: https://www.muse-it.eu/

🌍✨ Last week was the European Parliament’s Disability Rights Week—an inspiring reminder of the importance of inclusion, accessibility, and equal opportunities for all. It's the perfect moment to spotlight the MuseIT project, of which we’re proud to be a part! MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe) is revolutionizing access to culture by developing cutting-edge technologies that make cultural assets more inclusive, engaging, and multisensory. 🚀 Discover more about this exciting project and its mission to shape a more accessible future! #accessibility #haptics #DisabilityRightsWeek

Please join the European Regional Disability Summit: https://lnkd.in/dmJ3-JxT which is part of the series of regional pre-summits leading up to the Global Disability Summit (GDS) 2025, taking place in Berlin on 2-3 April. Today's summit will address key challenges and opportunities for inclusive development across Europe, Central Asia and beyond. This afternoon at 4:40 p.m. CET, there will be a panel discussion with the participation of the #privatesector on how to advance disability-inclusive development through regional commitments. Among others, the panel will include Caroline Casey, Co-Founder & Creator, Valuable 500, and Rebekka Weiß, LL.M., Head of Regulatory Policy, Senior Manager Government Affairs, Microsoft, Germany. #DisabilityRights #ERDS2024 #CommitToChange European Disability Forum | Global Disability Summit | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) | Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales | International Disability Alliance

It’s the European Parliament’s Disability Rights Week, the perfect time to get updated on the MuseIT research project!   MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe) aims to promote inclusion, participation, accessibility, and equal opportunities for all. By developing advanced technology, MuseIT works to enable and broaden access to cultural assets, as well as reshape how culture is experienced and created. Those of us at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science are delighted to be a part of this project!    What MuseIT is working on: - Multisensory cultural experiences: engage with culture through sight, sound, and touch - Inclusive music-making tools: empowering everyone to create and enjoy music interactively - Sustainability in accessibility: preserving cultural heritage inclusively for future generations Read more about the research project: https://lnkd.in/d2FDgJew Högskolan i Borås, ShareMusic & Performing Arts, Michael Culture Association Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, EXUS AI LABS Catalink Ltd, Actronika SAS, Ministero della Cultura, Stanford University, King's College London, MEMENTOES Project, SHIFT PROJECT (HORIZON EUROPE), Perceive_horizon, PREMIERE and MEMORISE_EU   #DisabilityRightsWeek

🌍 Celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities! 🎉 Today, we honor the rights of persons with disabilities while advocating for a more inclusive and accessible world. We are deeply committed to this mission and we hope to support all committed actors in reshaping how culture is experienced and practiced by prioritizing accessibility and inclusion for all. 🚀 What we are working on: -> Multisensory cultural experiences: Engage with culture through sight, sound, and touch. -> Inclusive music-making tools: Empowering everyone to create and enjoy music interactively. -> Sustainability in accessibility: Preserving cultural heritage inclusively for future generations. 🔗 Learn more about our initiative here: www.muse-it.eu 🔗 Learn more about IDPWD here: https://idpwd.org/about/ #IDPD2024 #InclusiveCulture #MuseIT #AccessibilityForAll #CulturalInnovation Högskolan i Borås ShareMusic & Performing Arts Michael Culture Association Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen EXUS AI LABS Catalink Ltd Actronika SAS Ministero della Cultura Stanford University King's College London MEMENTOES Project SHIFT PROJECT (HORIZON EUROPE) Perceive_horizon PREMIERE MEMORISE_EU

Our latest article highlights the inspiring work of Nigel Osborne, Chair of ShareMusic’s Advisory Board. Throughout his career, Nigel has used music to make a real difference, from developing innovative music therapy for children in war zones to championing art as a practice of human rights. He shares how ShareMusic has been at the forefront of creating new ways for art to engage with society—breaking barriers and building bridges for inclusion. With projects like MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe), ShareMusic demonstrates how art can be accessible to everyone, fostering connection and creativity. 📖 Want to know more? Read the full article and discover how the arts are shaping a more inclusive and compassionate world. If you want to read the article in Swedish you can also find it on our website/ För att läsa artikeln på svenska, gå in på vår hemsida sharemusic.se

We've just integrated CLARIAH SpaCy DANS pipelines with Dataverse instances in MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe) to automate named entity recognition and knowledge graph generation. While Machine Learning annotations are not always perfect, the "human in the loop" approach with Doccano-powered annotation service (https://lnkd.in/eb39dAyb) addresses this challenge. Human intervention ensures precise entity correction and alignment, resulting in higher-quality knowledge graphs. These aligned graphs can significantly enhance the precision and quality of #LLM dialogues. "Old but useful".

The 2024 European Day of Persons with Disabilities (EDPD) conference is coming! 🗓 When: 28-29 November 2024 📍 Where: Brussels and Online - (live streaming in multiple languages & International Sign Language) Hosted by the European Commission in partnership with the European Disability Forum, this event is a pivotal moment to: -->Explore strategic objectives and policies shaping the next 5 years for disability rights. -->Dive into discussions on employment, independent living, transport, and accessibility. -->Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Access City Award recognizing inclusive and accessible cities. This year's conference coincides with the implementation of Phase 2 of the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. 🎥 Can’t make it to Brussels? Watch the live stream in 9 languages! 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/esZJSpHJ #EDPD2024 #Accessibility #Inclusion #DisabilityRights #AccessCityAward #EU University of Borås ShareMusic & Performing Arts Michael Culture Association Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen EXUS AI LABS Catalink Ltd Actronika SAS Ministero della Cultura Stanford University King's College London MEMENTOES Project SHIFT PROJECT (HORIZON EUROPE) Perceive_horizon PREMIERE MEMORISE_EU