Digital digs: Technology preserving Europe’s cultural heritage

The common perception is that archaeologists spend their time crawling around a dusty dig on all fours, but Serbian researcher Nenad Jončić could not be more different. He uses drones and digital technology to document archaeological sites at risk of disappearing. In January 2016, Jončić, then a postgraduate archaeology student at the University of Belgrade, […]

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Europe’s musical and cultural heritage at your fingertips

With all the fanfare of the Eurovision Song Contest in May this year, it is possible that many missed another European song contest that was taking place at around the same time – the Polifonia Song Contest.  Organised by Polifonia, an EU-funded research initiative aimed at protecting and promoting Europe’s musical heritage, the competition sought to […]

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