Cultural heritage creates identity to people, society and nations. But in many regions of this world tangible cultural heritage is in danger due to erosion, political conflicts or natural desaster. Thus, cultural knowledge is lost and cannot be passed on to future generations.This conference deals with the urgent question of the possibilities of digitalizing and virtualizing cultural heritage in order to preserve it digitally and make it accessible to a broad audience, regardless of space and time. This conference presents several keynotes on Digitalization of Cultural Heritage from Germany, Cyprus and Middle Eastern Countries, including 24 student presentations with showcasing UNESCO heritage sites, historical sites in danger and workflows of digitalilzation.
American University of Beirut

• Location:
  American University of Beirut, Mediterraneo Campus
  Apostolou Pavlou Ave 51, 8046 Paphos - Map
• Program & Documents:
• download Program - Conference in „Digitalization of Cultural Heritage“

"Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage" at the Festival of the German Informatics Society (GI – Gesellschaft für Informatik).
GI Informatik Festival 2025
DoCH Workshop 2025 - Introduction

• Location:
  University of Potsdam, Campus III - Griebnitzsee
  August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14482 Potsdam - Map
• Program & Documents:
• picture_as_pdf Call for Papers 2025

"Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage" at the Festival of the German Informatics Society (GI – Gesellschaft für Informatik).
GI Informatik Festival 2024
GI Informatik Festival 2024 - Line-Up
GI Informatik Festival 2024 - Lecture Notes
DoCH Workshop 2024 - Introduction

• Program & Documents:
• picture_as_pdf Program "Digitalization of Cultural Heritage" Workshop
• picture_as_pdf Call for Papers 2024

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.