Workshop „Digitalization of Cultural Heritage“

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Our 2nd Project Week "Digitalization of Cultural Heritage" at Technische Hochschule Brandenburg we continued to explore efficient and low-cost workflows in the Digitalization of Cultural Heritage in Danger to enable local experts, communities, and authorities to protect and save their cultural heritage through digitalization. We worked on databases, date-file formats, interactive 3D workflows and digital twins, and the Metaverse.

It was great hosting more than 30 researchers, professors, and students from the American University of Beirut, University of Mosul, Tishk International University, and the University of Khartoum. Thanks to our president Prof. Dr. Andreas Wilms for his welcoming words, expert Rainer Herpers, and to our new partner from Mälardalens universitet, Auday Al-Dulaimy.

Academic exchange is crucial for fostering cultural understanding and sustainable development. It was very inspiring to discuss the implementation of the Bologna Reform into Iraqi higher education at the German Embassy in Baghdad and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) in Iraq at the beginning of our delegation visit, which included 15 people from our university partner network.

We also visited our long-term university partners in the country, such as Tishk International University, the Polytechnic University of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region, and the University of Mosul.

The result is a commitment to a joint Erasmus+ Capacity Building application to strengthen Iraq's efforts in higher education, research, and internationalization by supporting the implementation of the Bologna Process.

As part of the "Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage" project, a workshop was held at the German University of Science and Technology (JUST) and the German Jordanian University with a total of 45 students from our partner universities in Germany, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. The workshop was complemented by a field camp in which we digitised the cultural heritage on site at historical sites such as Umm Qais, Jerash and Petra. The highlight was the first conference on the "Digitisation of Cultural Heritage" at the SABE campus of the GJU in Amman, where 120 guests were present and many interesting local and international contributions on the topic were presented.