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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 1d

Cultural Heritage Conference, 18 & 19 September 2025,
@UoNBookClub

This conference aims to unite researchers and practitioners to explore best practices in heritage management and conservation.
culturalheritageconference.org

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 2d

This year, on November 14, the Museo di Arte Classica at Sapienza University — in the historic Odeion — will host the 3rd Conference: “Databases and Archives as Tools to Combat Crimes Against Cultural Heritage.”

www.art-test.com/en/databases...

Databases and Archives as Tools to Combat Crimes Against Cultural Heritage - Art-Test

Mark Your Calendar: November 14 in Rome for a Landmark Cultural Heritage Event On November 14, 2020, amid the global pandemic, UNESCO established the first International Day against the Illicit Traffi...

www.art-test.com

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 2d

The Cultural Heritage At Risk Database (CHARD) is a charity to protect the world’s cultural heritage, especially moveable objects that may be at risk

Locating stolen and looted objects and fighting the illicit trade in art and antiquities

chardfoundation.org

The Cultural Heritage At Risk Database

chardfoundation.org

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Calling all #CulturalHeritage experts!

Join the ENIGMA Workshop: Safeguarding Heritage 🏛️

🗓️ 30 Oct 2025 | Online | 90 min

⚠️ Limited places – if a session is full, you’ll be offered the next slot.

🔗 Register: forms.gle/LwzyhjoYZnfG...

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Calling all #CulturalHeritage experts!

Join the ENIGMA Training Workshop: Safeguarding Heritage 🏛️

🗓️ 30 Oct 2025 | Online | 90 min

⚠️ Limited places – if a session is full, you’ll be offered the next slot.

🔗 Register: forms.gle/X4m1urAp84RQ...

ENIGMA - Training Workshop for Cultural Heritage Experts: Safeguarding Heritage

This interactive training session provides Cultural Heritage experts with a practical overview of ENIGMA, explaining its integrated tools and workflow to help combatting the illicit trade of cultural ...

forms.gle

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 8d

Experts from museums, law enforcement, academia and more will discuss issues ranging from art trafficking to wartime evacuations.

🎟 Registration open — €30 (discount for students & members).

➡ Full programme & info: blueshieldbelgium.be/nl/?p=3795

25/11/2025 – Trafficking and Conflict: Challenges for Cultural Heritage Today | Blue Shield Belgium

blueshieldbelgium.be

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 8d

🌍 Cultural heritage is a silent victim of conflict and illicit trafficking.

On 25 November 2025, in Brussels, Blue Shield Belgium will host a full day of reflection: “Trafficking and Conflict: Challenges for Cultural Heritage Today.”

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 10d

The ninth edition of Operation Pandora, an international operation targeting the trafficking of cultural goods, has led to 80 arrests and the seizure of 37,727 items including archaeological pieces, artworks, coins and musical instruments.

www.interpol.int/News-and-Eve...

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 16d

Excited that today ENIGMA joins MONDIACULT 2025, part of the “Towards MONDIACULT” side events with @auroraeuproject & @AnchiseProject introducing tech-driven tools for heritage protection and provenance tracking.

#MONDIACULT2025 #CulturalHeritage #Provenance

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 16d

If you are working in a museum 🏦, you are a curator 🔎, or are simply interested in learning how the tools developed by ENIGMA can help museums combat the illicit trafficking 🚨 of cultural property, don't miss this session 🧐.

📜Registration link: forms.gle/nLiWBPyKbKBx...

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 17d

Tomorrow we'll be participating in MONDIACULT25 @unesco.org together with Anchise Project and auroraeuproject.
"Showcasing European Innovations projects to combat illicit trafficking of cultural goods".

#HeritageCrime #CulturalHeritage #Innovation

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 17d

📢 Join us on October the 1st at 12:00 CET in Brussels at KMKG museum and online for an interesting session:

"ENIGMA and Museums: New Technologies to Prevent Heritage Crime".

Registration link: forms.gle/dwByBEfM28uH...

Don't miss this oportunity to know more about ENIGMA

#TECH #Museums #Prevent

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 18d

Save the date!!! ENIGMA final conference.

Title: Unlocking ENIGMA: Technology and Data for Safeguarding Culture
Date: 3rd of December.
Hybrid: online and at the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
Time: 09:30 to 17:00
Registration form: forms.gle/ScVwXLu2Gdhs...

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 19d

Cutting-edge technologies reshape cultural heritage preservation, inheritance

www.newsgd.com/node_1299786...

www.newsgd.com

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 19d

On the morning of September 16, the Cultural Heritage Digital Preservation Training Program successfully commenced during the Cultural Heritage Digitalization Forum of the 2025 World Internet Conference.

www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202509/17/...

Cultural heritage digital preservation training program launches

www.chinadaily.com.cn

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 19d

On September 17, 2025, the World Internet Conference Cultural Heritage Digitalization Forum opened in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. Themed “Bridging History Through Digitalization, Building Civilization with Intelligence — Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace”

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 24d

The deep integration of digital technology and cultural heritage will take center stage at the upcoming 2025 World Internet Conference Cultural Heritage Digitalization Forum.

chinadaily.com.cn/a/202509/15/...

#cultural #heritage #innovation #technology #protection #goods #artifacts

China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World

Chinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion, Sports/Olympics, E...

chinadaily.com.cn

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 24d

We are happy to invite you to participate in our upcoming online event organizing with our sister' projects in the framework of Mondiacult 2025 event which will take place on September 25 (4.00 – 5.30 PM CET)

Registration is required
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Towards Mondiacult - Showcasing European innovations projects to combat illicit trafficking of cultural goods

WHERE: Online WHEN: September 25, 4.00 - 5.30 PM CET Read more info and the programme here. All the fields "*" are requested.

docs.google.com

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 26d

Cultural heritage in the digital age: how Asian creatives are using AI to preserve traditions.

www.tatlerasia.com/power-purpos...

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 26d

www.omanobserver.om/article/1176...

How digital tech is used to preserve heritage and culture

Imagine being able to see the ancient wonders of the world, including the hanging gardens of Babylon or the lighthouse at Alexandria, as if it existed...

www.omanobserver.om

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · 26d

Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, innovation and opportunity.

There is a rich and growing global ecosystem of cultural heritage practitioners using technology to reimagine what heritage is, who it belongs to and how we may preserve it for future.

www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

www.britishcouncil.org

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · Sep 9

ENIGMA has been presented at Digital Heritage 2025 conference, the world’s leading event on cultural heritage and emerging technologies, held this week in Siena, Italy.

The coming months will be very intense in terms of disseminating the project results.

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ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · Sep 1

- 4th Pilot : Validation of the ENIGMA Decision-Support and Data-Communication Platform.

The main objective of this pilot study is to provide an overall assessment of the developed system as well as a validation of the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed integrated workflow.

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · Sep 1

It is very important to monitor endangered areas, to detect land changes and alert authorities. Smuggling and illicit trade of CGs, in many cases, originates in conflicting areas, by looting or deliberate demolition of heritage sites by illegal excavators, or simple neglection of them.

ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social · Sep 1

- 3rd Pilot: Monitoring of Endangered Heritage Sites

The main objective of this pilot study is to validate the developed Earth observation toolkit and the innovative AI techniques as well as the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed workflow.

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