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The No-Code Platform Powering the Future of Cultural Heritage

A powerful yet simple platform that helps anyone in the cultural heritage world design and share amazing interactive experiences.

Whether you’re a museum professional, a researcher, a creative freelancer, or a small cultural organisation, UNICHE gives you the tools to work together and bring cultural stories to life in multiple formats - without needing any coding skills.

IN2 leads the communication and dissemination activities and develops intelligent systems and tools to support content retrieval, story creation and curation for archaeological sites and museum exhibitions.

Online Competence Centre in 3D for Cultural Heritage

The Online Competence Centre in 3D for Cultural Heritage (3D-4CH) is an EU-funded initiative dedicated to transforming how cultural heritage is preserved, digitised, and shared through advanced 3D technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR).

The Centre will serve as a fully online hub for training, tools and best practices, empowering cultural professionals, researchers and institutions with skills, resources and certified learning opportunities. It supports the creation and enhancement of high-quality 3D cultural assets, fosters research and innovation, and encourages international collaboration — with a special emphasis on preserving and integrating Ukrainian heritage into a shared digital space.

IN2 leads the work package on impact measurement and long-term sustainability, works in use cases for storytelling and visitor engagement in XR and provides a community of practice for stakeholders.

3D Big Data for the Data Space for Cultural Heritage

Enrich and aggregate 3D heritage data using AI, enabling long-term storage, improve access, and immersive use in XR and educational applications across Europe.

3DBigDataSpace is revolutionizing digital cultural heritage by unlocking access to high-quality 3D data. Our mission: to make Europe’s cultural treasures more visible, usable, and immersive through AI, XR, and interoperable 3D technologies. By integrating datasets, enhancing them with smart tools, and powering real-world applications—from museums to cultural routes—we’re shaping a future where digital heritage is alive, interactive, and accessible to all.

IN2 leads the technical project management of the project, supports and the communication and dissemination activities and develops use cases for re-using 3D data in cultural heritage.

European Data Incubator

Unlocking data-driven innovation for European SMEs

Removing barriers to data access and innovation to help SMEs grow within Europe’s data economy

IN2 has been selected for the European Data Incubator (EDI) programme, as one of the brightest Big Data startups in Europe. EDI gives the most innovative companies the opportunity to tackle real-world challenges set by corporates across Europe.

After pitching to a jury of technical experts, business experts and investors, we were chosen as one of the top 18 startups and SMEs from a pool of 208. We are going to solve the challenge set by VRT: Automatic Chaptering of Video Content.

The Podcast Search Engine

MIXTAPE improves podcast discovery by enabling topic-based search of individual episodes using speech processing and natural language understanding.

Podcasts have rapidly grown in volume and diversity, making discovery increasingly difficult, and MIXTAPE addresses this challenge by using speech processing and natural language understanding to enable topic-based search and personalised discovery of individual podcast episodes.

Multimedia and Augmented Radio Creation: Online, Interactive, Individual

MARCONI brings radio experiences to the next level, enabling fully interactive and personalised radio solutions and integrating broadcast radio with digital and social media.

With MARCONI, listeners will be able to engage with live radio through their preferred communication channels in richer and more meaningful ways than currently possible, fostering stronger connections to radio brands and more personalised listening experiences. At the same time, radio professionals will gain a unified view of audience interactions, supported by automated engagement services that streamline communication and response. Together, these capabilities lead to deeper audience engagement and more responsive, listener-centred radio services.

IN2 leads the social media interaction and analysis services, the communication and exploitation activities and delivers digital tools for indexing and search content and visualising geolocated data.

Content Management and Storytelling for the Social World

EMMA empowers destinations and event organisers to create interactive, media-rich stories that engage audiences across digital channels.

The EMMA Innovation Platform redefines interactive storytelling and content marketing by enabling richer, more engaging digital experiences. Designed for tourism destinations and event organisers, EMMA helps organisations connect with audiences through compelling, media-rich narratives powered by the latest ICT, social media, and information management technologies.

Coordinated by IN2, EMMA is developed in close collaboration with Fondazione Sistema Toscana, which manages the digital tourism presence of the Tuscany region, and the Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s leading publishing trade fair. Together, they ensure the platform addresses real-world needs and supports the commercialisation of next-generation content management solutions that enhance brand visibility, audience engagement, and cross-platform storytelling.

Semantic Technology at your service

StoM applies semantic intelligence to improve search, browsing, and discovery across digital archives.

StoM builds on top of the research results of a previous Research for SME project called SEMLIB that produced two software components: a semantic annotation system and a semantic recommendation engine. These solutions improve searching and web browsing of digital archives for different user groups.

IN2 develops EventPlace, the solution on top of semantic technology services that allows event and destination managers who want to organise their event content (e.g. presentations, video recordings, video promotions, documents) and combine it with user-generated content (for example photos and videos from participants, sharing impressions of the surroundings) for an engaging experience for everyone.

Pushing multimedia research into practice

Turning intelligent multimedia research into scalable, real-world digital platforms.

IM3I+ advanced intelligent multimedia management by combining semantic technologies, scalable architectures, and user-centric interaction models. The project addressed the challenge of managing and reusing large volumes of multimedia content in dynamic web environments.

IN2 contributed the core platform and architectural expertise, enabling scalable media processing, semantic enrichment, and publishing workflows that bridge research results and real-world digital services.

IM3I+ demonstrated and implemented showcases built upon a flexible framework for importing, analysing, annotating, searching and publishing multimedia documents and collections. This framework became largely IN2's core platform and the project resulted to the offering of the MyMeedia service.

Adaptive Channels in Europe

Empowering professionals and consumers with adaptive, topic-driven access to Europe’s multimedia information streams.

EUTV – Adaptive Channels in Europe introduced a new way to explore and monitor multimedia content by transforming fragmented audio-visual streams into personalised, topic-aware channels. The project combined multimodal analysis, topic detection, and adaptive presentation to support both professional media analysts and everyday users.

Main results of EUTV include processing of multimedia streams, RSS, topic detection and tracking, tools for speech recognition and image and video content analysis. These results extended our platform and have been integrated into our Tellit service offering.

IN2 has conceived this project and was the scientific and technical manager of the project, shaping EUTV’s professional vision, leadinging user requirements, system design input, and real-world demonstration. By focusing on media monitoring, clipping, and user-centric interfaces, IN2 ensured that EUTV delivered practical value and a clear path from research to market.

Immersive Multimedia Interfaces

Enabling intelligent, scalable multimedia management through semantic and service-oriented technologies.

IM3I explored new ways to manage and interact with large-scale multimedia content by combining semantic technologies with intelligent media analysis. The project addressed the challenge of turning complex media collections into searchable, reusable digital assets.

IN2 was the technical and scientific manager in this project and contributed the core platform expertise, designing and integrating service-oriented workflows that support multimedia ingestion, enrichment, search, and publishing in scalable web environments.

The project builds the foundation for our MyMeedia platform and delivered an open architecture with integrated services and advanced solutions for experiencing, searching and accessing creative audio-visual content. It focused on enabling intuitive media production and supporting creative industries in delivering new forms of interactive, immersive and very high quality media.

Semantic Tools for Digital Libraries

Connecting digital libraries through semantic technologies to unlock smarter discovery.

SEMLIB brought Semantic Web technologies into the heart of digital libraries, transforming isolated collections into interoperable, intelligent knowledge ecosystems. By combining semantic annotation, recommendation, and Linked Data publishing, the project made digital content easier to discover, connect, and reuse across institutional boundaries.

IN2 led the development of Web of Data connectors and contributed to system design and specifications, enabling multimedia and digital library platforms to publish and consume Linked Data.

The semantic annotation and recommendation components have been integrated and made available in FollowThePlace. The semantic recommender was built as a generic system to support content-based recommendations and collaborative filtering.

Gateway to Archives of Media Art

European portal for discovering, accessing, and reusing media art archives.

GAMA, was the first portal in the world that provided access to a wealth of information about the works of both well-known and emerging media artists from European collections of media art. The media art content originates from 8 European media art archives and could be searched and browsed on this navigation platform. The portal networks different databases housing textual and visual information on more than 10,000 works.

GAMA created the foundations for a European-wide portal for media art, offering multilingual, user-friendly access to digitised collections from leading archives. By aggregating a major share of Europe’s online media art holdings into one interface, the project aimed to boost discovery, reuse, and cross-border visibility.

IN2 contributed to the platform’s specification and integration approach and supported delivery through day-to-day project management, helping align partners and drive the portal towards becoming a central entry point for media art online.

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