Presentation of Digital Humanist Project

The University of Alicante participates as a partner in the European Digital Humanist project. This European project, which lasts two years, aims to develop and provide students of careers related to the humanities a set of digital skills and entrepreneurship to innovate and create new products and services for the promotion and access to cultural assets in digital key. The students will have access to the most advanced technologies to generate highly immersive environments, with the aim of supporting the evolution of digital services and their full integration in the cultural heritage sector.

The University of Alicante, a pioneer university in the offer of higher education related to the digital humanities, brings to the project its experience in this field, both at the level of intervention projects (applied in museums and archaeological sites), as well as in teaching.

Within the framework of this innovative project, last Tuesday, February the 12th, the first focus Group (Group Dynamics) was carried out, in which university professors and students of the Degree in History, of the Master's Degree in Professional Archeology and Integral Management of the Heritage and the Master in Virtual Heritage participated. Representatives of the cultural heritage sector: museum directors, municipal archaeologists and owners of small and medium-sized companies in the sector also took part in this focus Group. Thanks to this varied representation, it was possible to obtain an interesting overview of the state of the digital humanities in Spain and the degree of penetration and integration of new technologies in the humanities, both by their presence in the training plans at the University, as for its offer and demand at a professional level. The session, which included the completion of an extensive questionnaire designed among all European partners participating in this project, was held in the building of the Control Tower of the University of Alicante, thanks to the collaboration of the International Project Management Office (OGPI), which coordinates the participation of the University of Alicante in this international project.