Libraries as leading actors in Europe’s digital heritage cloud

Building a cloud-ready ecosystem of tools, trainings and pilots for European libraries

Today, European libraries struggle to fully engage with digital transformation

As Europe lacks a coordinated way to help them build interoperable, future-ready practices in line with the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH).

Our solution

POLARIS aims at re-imagining libraries as active ecosystems of participation, through:

Open Calls

Addressing libraries, NGOs, companies and researchers who aim to develop new use cases

Library Innovation Support Hub

For training, mentoring, and technical guidance on ECCCH standards, FAIR data management and semantic interoperability

Our Pilots

POLARIS validates and strengthens the ECCCH through three pilots
across national, public, and research libraries.

British Library

Holding one of the largest digitised corpora of historical texts in Europe, with 750,000 volumes spanning from 1501 to 1900.

Malatestiana Public Library

A UNESCO-listed humanist library, preserving 429 Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, to be integrated into ECCCH.

Hellenic Music Lab of NKUA Research Library

Integrating the POLYMNIA collection of recordings, annotated scores, reviews, and narratives into ECCCH.