ECHOES Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (D11.1)

This Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) articulates the strategic orientations emerging from the foresight exercise conducted through the methodology of Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal (PESTEL) dimensions under T11.1, integrated with extensive stakeholder consultation across the ECHOES consortium. It identifies three Priority Areas — Infrastructure and Interoperability, Communities and Capacity, and Sustainability and Value Creation — aligned with the Cultural Heritage Cloud’s phased development towards a permanent European infrastructure. The agenda identifies the enabling conditions for long-term sustainability — including governance, recognised as essential and addressed in coordination with WP10 (deliverable D10.2 on governance models), professional capacity building, legal clarity for data sharing and reuse, and alignment with the evolving EU policy landscape. The document is the outcome of the work undertaken under WP11 “Long-Term Sustainability”, task T11.1 “Sustaining the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH)’s excellence within and beyond Europe”.