H2020 project MEMEX – MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling

Valentina Nisi and Nuno Nunes recently won an H2020 project named MEMEX – MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling, as a partner, with a budget of about 380K€ for ITI. This project, funded by the European Commission, has an overall budget of 3,995.036,25€. The project coordinator is Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), established in Genova, Italy and it involves seven other partners from Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal.

MEMEX aims to develop new interactive technologies (in particular, augmented reality and interactive stories) combined with artificial intelligence techniques to create and disseminate stories about European migrant communities and their tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

The project will have three pilots to assess the new technologies developed by the European consortium. First, in Barcelona, where it will focus on gender matters around migrant women’s inclusion. Secondly, in Paris’ largest multicultural immigrant settlement district XIX. Finally, the third pilot will happen in Lisbon (coordinated by ITI/LARSyS) and it will approach the inclusion of second and third-generation immigrants.