Project - UNICHE -- 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.
- Financed by
- Horizon Europe
- Duration
- Keywords
- Culture AI Indexing & Discovery
Overview
UNICHE is a European initiative dedicated to transforming how cultural heritage is created, shared, and experienced. At its core, the project empowers museums, researchers, creatives, and cultural organisations to design immersive and interactive experiences—without technical barriers.
Built as a no-code, collaborative platform, UNICHE brings together powerful tools for authoring, deploying, and evaluating cultural experiences across physical, digital, and hybrid environments. From AR/VR storytelling to digital twins and virtual exhibitions, the platform makes advanced technologies accessible to institutions of all sizes, including those with limited resources.
UNICHE is fully aligned with the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), enabling seamless access to high-quality cultural assets and supporting interoperability with Europe’s digital heritage ecosystem. By combining AI-assisted content creation, intuitive design tools, and integrated visitor analytics, UNICHE helps organisations produce richer, more engaging experiences while understanding their impact.
The project’s approach is validated through real-world pilot deployments in archaeological sites, museum spaces, and portable exhibitions—demonstrating UNICHE’s versatility and ability to enhance cultural storytelling across diverse contexts.
UNICHE ultimately aims to bridge the digital divide in culture, empower non-experts, and open new pathways for participation, learning, and creativity across Europe’s cultural heritage landscape.
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.
Alongside IN2, the project consortium includes the following organisations:
- Uni Systems, Luxembourg (Coordinator)
- Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece
- Miastopracownia, Poland
- FundingBox Accelerator, Poland
- Mobics Telecommunication and Consulting Services, Greece
- Leopoly, Hungary
- German Archaeological Institute, Germany
- Museum of Architecture Wroclaw, Poland
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR-ISPC, Italy
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Italy
Affiliated Partners:
- Museotek, Greece
- FundingBox Communities, Spain
Our role
- Work Package Management
- Leading Use Case Requirements, Design and Development
- Dissemination, communication, exploitation and networking
- AI-based curator assistant
- Website development and Operations
- Intelligent content retrieval and storage
- Pilots and Applications with the project's end users