Project Section
A 36-month Erasmus+ KA220-SCH cooperation partnership uniting six European nations to pioneer artificial intelligence, 3D photogrammetry, and interdisciplinary STEAM education in cultural heritage preservation.
Relevance & Vision
European cultural heritage represents a shared wealth of identity, artistry, and history. Yet across our continent, countless historic sites face risks from environmental erosion, climate stress, and a growing disconnect among youth. Traditional textbook education often portrays history as static, lacking experiential and modern technological connection.
The Erasmus+ project “A.B.C. — AI Bridging Cultural Heritage” transforms students from passive observers into active digital guardians. Secondary school learners in Estonia, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Portugal use everyday smartphones to create high-precision 3D scans of local monuments, train neural vision models to classify architecture, and build interactive digital archives.
Funded under Erasmus+ Key Action KA220-SCH (Cooperation Partnerships in School Education), the project bridges the humanities and STEAM disciplines to inspire long-term digital literacy and cross-border European solidarity.
Aims & Objectives
Six concrete intellectual and educational outcomes that drive every stage of consortium work.
A comprehensive open-source pedagogical toolkit with guides, annotated image datasets, and 3D workflows adapted for classroom use across European schools.
Regular coordinator meetings (TPM) and international student learning mobilities (LTT) where multicultural teams test tools and solve local heritage challenges.
Empowering students as primary researchers to capture and publish over 30 interactive 3D digital models of regional monuments and museum artifacts.
Training accessible neural networks to recognize Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Modernist styles, giving students hands-on artificial intelligence literacy.
Each partner school applies the methodology to its own historic reality — from medieval Tallinn gates to Portuguese Manueline architecture and ancient Minoan ruins.
Ensuring all resources remain free, open-source, and permanently hosted for schools and museums throughout Europe after project completion.
Methodology & Tech
How artificial intelligence and photogrammetry come together in school classrooms.
Students gather and label thousands of photos of arches, capitals, and facades. Using transfer learning, they train lightweight vision models capable of real-time style identification on mobile devices.
By taking overlapping photos around sculptures and facade details, students process point clouds into textured polygon meshes, producing web-ready 3D models viewable in AR and VR.
Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and curated historical databases, teams create interactive conversational assistants that answer visitor questions in multiple languages.
Target Groups
Direct Group
More than 350 learners gain technical AI competence, creative digital skills, and an international perspective on European heritage.
Direct Group
Educators in history, computer science, arts and languages receive interdisciplinary training and ready-to-use lesson packages.
Indirect Group
Regional cultural institutions gain free 3D digital assets, educational museum apps, and increased engagement with youth.
Indirect Group
Open-access materials allow any European school to replicate and adapt our heritage AI modules free of charge.
Project Phases
A structured roadmap ensuring rigorous development, testing, and dissemination.
Phase 1 · Autumn 2024
Consortium setup, first Transnational Project Meeting (TPM 1) in Tallinn, ethical AI guidelines for secondary schools, and hardware baseline setup.
Phase 2 · 2025
Teacher training and student learning mobility (LTT 1) in Braga on 3D scanning, pilot creation of 15 models, and interim evaluation meeting in Florence (TPM 2).
Phase 3 · 2026
Virtual reconstruction workshop and AI hackathon in Kraków (LTT 2), and pilot classroom testing across all partner schools.
Phase 4 · 2027
Open release of the 3D model repository, launch of the multilingual Heritage AI Toolkit, and final dissemination conference in Heraklion, Greece.
Project Passport
Official registration data under the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union for reporting, academic citations, and administrative verification.
Follow the chronological journey of our student exchanges and coordinator meetings across Europe.