May 2019 | Issue #4

Dear friends,

PLUGGY is now going through its final 6 months and is planned to finalise its activities with a grand Final Event on the 20th of November 2019 in Technopolis, Athens. During the summer, our friends in Greece and Kosice will be able to experience the PLUGGY apps up close and personal in the museums of Ioannina, Stimfalia and Dimitsana (Greece) and ESM (Kosice). Everybody is invited to start using the PLUGGY platform currently available under https://beta.pluggy.eu, where more stories appear every day!

Do remember, that the best way to be informed about PLUGGY is to stay connected through the existing social media: Facebook,Twitter,Instagram and LinkedIn.
Enjoy the rest of our news below!

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OUR NEWS

Visit our beta.pluggy.eu platform and share your own #culturalheritage story!

PLUGGY invites you to visit beta.pluggy.eu platform and not only to read some of the most interesting stories about cultural heritage from all around Europe but also to share your own story and help others discover your country's cultural heritage secrets! Get inspired by PLUGGY.

PLUGGY App Challenge

Within the framework of PLUGGY an App Challenge took place in the first semester of 2019 in order to invite external developers to develop pluggable applications for demonstrating the pluggable nature of PLUGGY and its exploitation potential. There were both a dedicated section on the PLUGGY website and a social media campaign so that the participants could find all the needed information. Finally, the App Challenge committee chose the six finalists who get 1000 euros each. The final winner, who will get extra 4000 euros, will be announced after public voting during the PLUGGY Final Event that will be held on 20th November 2019 in Athens, Greece.

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OUR EVENTS

PLUGGY 7th Plenary Meeting in Malaga, Spain

PLUGGY plenary meeting took place on 9-10 April 2019 in Malaga, Spain. Not only interesting presentations about each WP separately but also presentations of the updated Pluggy platform and parallel workshops in which the partners explained to externals, invited to experience Pluggy, how to actually use all the PLUGGY apps! Moreover, in the afternoon the partners divided in groups, competed during the Malaga Challenge in which they had to find the artworks of the artist Invader which were hidden in Malaga streets.

PLUGGY @ Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy

PLUGGY was presented on 2nd April 2019 in Bologna, Italy during the Bologna Children’s Book Fair that is one of the biggest events in the publishing year’s calendar built around children’s content 2018.
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PLUGGY @ ECHIC 2019 in Athens, Greece

PLUGGY was presented by ICCS at ECHIC 2019 which was held in the Byzantine Museum in Athens, Greece on 4-5 April 2019. The conference was hosted in collaboration with the University of the Peloponnese and other participating Greek education and cultural institutions.
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PLUGGY’s Collaborative Game App spread fun in Verona, Italy

PLUGGY partner XTeam organised another testing of the Collaborative Game during an event in Verona, Italy on 13 April 2019 entitled The Hunt-Verona Hacker.
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PLUGGY @ AES Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio Conference

PLUGGY participated in the AES Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio that was held in York, UK on 27-29th March 2019. A PLUGGY paper entitled ‘The 3D Tune-In Toolkit VST Binaural Audio Plugin’ was presented by our partners ICL & UMA on 28th March with a lot of excitement for the PlugSonic Soundscape app by the participants.

PLUGGY & Vakalo College Exhibition in Athens, Greece

A very interesting art exhibition took place on 18-20 December 2018 along with PLUGGY’s plenary meeting in Athens, Greece. Graduate students from Vakalo Art & Design College got inspired by PLUGGY and created an exhibition with videos and AR posters.
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'Tools and ideas to attract visitors to your museum’ workshop in Rome, Italy

PLUGGY’s partners Xteam and Vianet organised a workshop entitled ‘Tools and ideas to attract visitors to your museum’ on 5th February 2019 in Rome, Italy.
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PLUGGY @ Symposium and Policy Debate in Brussels, Belgium

PLUGGY spent two days full of cultural heritage in Brussels, Belgium. On the 20th March 2019, PLUGGY participated in the Symposium entitled “Horizons for Heritage Research – Towards a Cluster on Cultural Heritage”.
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PLUGGY 6th Plenary Meeting in Athens, Greece

The 6th PLUGGY plenary meeting was held on 18-19 December 2018 in Athens, Greece. PLUGGY’s partners gathered to discuss the project’s progress and discuss their future steps.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The PLUGGY Pilot Activities are coming soon!

You are all invited to use the PLUGGY apps during the four PLUGGY Pilots, which will be held this summer in four different museums in both Greece and Slovakia.
In Greece, the three museums that take part in the Pilots and will host the PLUGGY apps, belong to the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation's (PIOP) Museum Network: The Open-Air Water Power Museum, in Dimitsana, Peloponnese, the Silversmithing Museum in Ioannina and the Environment Museum of Stymphalia in Stymphalia, Corinth.
The East Slovak Museum in Kosice, Slovakia is the fourth museum in which you will have the chance to experience PLUGGY.
Don’t miss the chance to combine a visit to these wonderful museums with the unique experience of using the PLUGGY apps! Stay tuned for more information soon!

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ENGAGING STORIES

Letter to the president Tusk | Belonging & Becoming

At his 2017 State of the European Union address, President Juncker unveiled a roadmap detailing the main steps towards a more united, stronger and more democratic Union.

European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 Throwback

The European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) 2018 put European heritage and culture on the map. In a recent monitoring report the results and impact of the year speaks loud and clear; 9 558 740 people attended 18 365 events across Europe.

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MEET OUR NEW COLLABORATORS

RURITAGE

RURITAGE is a 4-year EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 programme. The main ambition of RURITAGE is the creation of an innovative rural regeneration paradigm based on Cultural and Natural Heritage, consolidating the role of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development and contributing to economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability in rural areas.

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A 3-year EU Funded project
Start date: 1st December 2016
Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 726765.

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