Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2026-01-12

Description

Description (EN):

Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments (DACCHE) facilitates the use of local knowledge and equips communities to preserve cultural landscapes, with digital solutions and methods for communication of climate stories, instilling advocacy in the face of a rapidly changing environment. Cultural landscapes are home to communities and their heritage. Landscapes, archaeological sites, artefacts, and intangible practice threaten human legacy through temperature variance, and extreme weather conditions. DACCHE investigates how organisations can leverage emergent technologies to build local capacity for climate change adaptation, risk prevention and disaster resilience. By leveraging community knowledge and approaching new challenges from the perspective of “learning through heritage” we motivate and enable tourists, youth, local people and authorities to inspire behavioural changes for societal and environmental benefits, progressing to global net zero.

Actual Achievements (EN):

The work this period has focused on the initiation of the project, and creating a ground for its implementation. Please refer to the Work Plan progress for more in-depth descriptions and Attachments. In the beginning of the period, the focus has been on generating a common picture and agenda for the project amongst the partnership, and a work model for the implementation of project's activities. The main key success factors for the project were identified. Jamtli, the Lead Partner, met with partners and associated partners in the beginning to get to know each other, and a kick-off physical partner meeting was planned and held at Jamtli 5-6th of October (Activity 1.1). The core focus for each partner region was identified and a clear scope defined in line with each partners' budget and resources. FINM have a focus on physical restoration of peatlands, with simple but effective digital solutions to convey their stories together with their community. GST and CDHA will focus on their site with the use and development of technologies focusing on citizen monitoring and scanning. DCM will focus on community engagement, involving different community groups to choose the types of technologies based on the specific needs of their sites and their communities' capabilities. Jamtli and NCK will focus on their heritage sites, digitizing artifacts, landscapes and creating, in dialogue with communities and target groups, digital visualizations and exhibitions that convey the stories created in the process. All these approaches have the aim of working with processes that increase knowledge, awareness and capacity for climate action. In WP 1 partners wrote and shared a story about their regional case study (heritage site), as a start for Activity 1.4, (gathering of information), for the upcoming development of digital visualizations and exhibitions for heritage sites. This activity was continued and deepend by gathering and analysis of more information throughout the period. GST and CDHA are working closely on a site located close to GST. FINM on peatlands. Jamtli and NCK are working closely on a Sami Site. DCM has taken a different approach, where they will first establish contact with different community groups, and let them choose a site in the coastal region. The planning and execution of the Open Seminar, Activity 1.1, was coordinated by Jamtli in collaboration with GST and CDHA, as co-leaders for WP 1. The appointing of the Panel of Climate Heritage Experts, Activity 1.2, was coordinated by Jamtli, and in collaboration with NCK, a forum to connect the Panel with the target groups was designed and proposed. The proposal was discussed and improved in partnership dialogue, and preparations were made to pilot the Forum in period 2. A set-up for a workshop series (course) to be implemented with different target groups, as per Activity 1.3, was developed by Jamtli and NCK, with a focus on data gathering through storytelling. FINM has carried out workshops with their community to inform about the project and gather stories, from youth to elders. GST and CDHA have done workshops on the topic of citizen science. DCM will organise workshops with their community groups in April 2024. In WP 2, a feasibility study was done in partnership dialogue, to scope and prioritize technologies to visualize the regional heritage sites, as per Activity 2.1. The process focused on aligning expectations with budget. For this, preparations for a tender were started by the LP, that will deepen in Period 2. It was set that techs will be used. For Activity 2.3, Jamtli engaged the leading company Quixel Megascans Epic Games for a collaboration, in which they provide training and support in our work with digital modelling of cultural landscapes and artifacts. Through this collaboration, trainings and initial preparations for studio and equipment setup were done. This knowledge and experiences will be available to roll over to other partners. In WP 3, Activities 3.2 and 3.3 were adressed, by establishing a collaborations with youth organisations with whom to work with in the Creation of the Youth Manifesto and Torusim Framework. The focus on this was to start working with them early, so that the Manifesto and Framework can be based on experiences. This was mainly done by the partners in Sweden and in Iceland. Apart from the work in the activities, Jamtli recruited a Communication Manager for the project, who started in October. The key questions for communication and target groups were identified in dialogue with NPA, and a communication strategy and plan for the project was developed, and its implementation started (attached). As Lead Partner, Jamtli coordinated and led partner meetings (attached). Progress has been made on activities, deliverables and outputs according to plan. This period did not imply finalizing deliverables or outputs (please refer to time plan), but has created necessary foundations for upcoming periods. The following were important areas of focus. Monitoring and Mapping of Cultural Landscapes - partners have progressed in this activity and the project has received valuable training/experience. Both by internal experience sharing within the transnational partnership, as well as through external experts. This has provided the team with necessary capabilities for upcoming work. The digital modelling of cultural landscapes and artefacts has started and is progressing according to plan, as per A2.3. The initial modells/tests are part of the foundation for the upcoming production of digital visualizations, transmedia storytelling and exhibitions for the heritage sites. Partners have progressed with community engagement and storytelling workshops, each with its regional adaptations and uniquenesses. This has eniriched the Partnership through the monthly online Partner Meeting by sharing experiences. The project has communicated according to plan. The mini website has been finalized by the LP Communication Coordinator with input from all Partners. Relevant activities and news have been share in the website and in the project's Social Media platforms. As Lead Partner, Jamtli coordinated and led online partner meetings.

Project outputs: Community monitoring and mapping toolkit (EN)
Community monitoring and mapping toolkit - pilot action(EN)
DACCHE transnational cooperation(EN)
Climate change communication toolkit(EN)
DACCHE virtual museum without walls(EN)
Best practice on monitoring, adaptation and advocacy for cultural landscapes based on case studies(EN)
Best practice on monitoring, adaptation and advocacy for cultural landscapes based on case studies - pilot actions(EN)
Green transition toolkit to approach large sized infrastructure projects(EN)

Thematic information

ICT and digital society Climate change and biodiversity

Priority: (VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities

Priority specific objective: RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility

Type of intervention: 060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: Stiftelsen Jamtli

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 951186172

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 893200030301

Department: N/A

Address: Museiplan 2, 831 28 Östersund, Sweden

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Other

Website: https://www.jamtli.com/

Total budget: EUR 618 548.80

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 402 056.72

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 65.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 216 492.08

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20a

Contractors:

Name: Hyper Island
VAT registration or tax identification number: SE556783310701

Tindved Kulturhage AS

Name: Tindved Kulturhage AS

Department: N/A

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 897609386

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 887 921 512

Address: Johannes Minsaas plass , N-7650 Verdal , Norway

Department address: Johannes Minsaas plass , N-7650 Verdal , Norway

Legal status: private

Organisation type: SME

Website: http://www.tindved.no

Total budget: EUR 80 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 40 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 50.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 40 000.00

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20

Nord University

Name: Nord University

Department: Faculty of Social Sciences

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998222927

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 970940243

Address: Universitetsalleen 11 , N-8026 Bodø, Norway

Department address: N-7600 Røstad , Norway

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website (not verified): https://www.nord.no/

Total budget: EUR 70 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 35 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 50.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 35 000.00

Nordiskt centrum för kulturarvspedagogik

Name: Nordiskt centrum för kulturarvspedagogik

Department: N/A

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 948952650

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 556173-6280

Address: Box, 83128 Östersund, Sweden

Legal status: public

Organisation type: SME

Website: https://nckultur.org/

Total budget: EUR 138 800.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 90 220.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 65.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 48 580.00

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20a

Donegal County Museum

Name: Donegal County Museum

Department: N/A

Partner’s ID if not PIC: IE 8F 28103W

Address: High Road, F92 K123 Letterkenny, Ireland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.donegalcoco.ie/culture/countymuseum/

Total budget: EUR 141 552.40

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 92 009.06

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 65.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 49 543.34

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20a

Contractors:

Name: John Cronin Associates
VAT registration or tax identification number: 6394240B

Tjóðsavnið

Name: Tjóðsavnið

Department: Department of Botany

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 629006

Address: Kúrdalsvegur, 188 Hoyvik, Faroe Islands

Department address: V. U. Hammershaimbsgøta, 100 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.tjodsavnid.fo/

Total budget: EUR 30 267.38

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 19 673.79

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 65.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 10 593.59

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20a

Háskóli Íslands

Name: Háskóli Íslands

Department: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999884246

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 600169-2039

Address: Sæmundargata , 102 Reykjavík, Iceland

Department address: Sæmundargata, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://mshl.is/cdha

Total budget: EUR 12 372.83

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 8 042.33

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 65.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 4 330.50

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20a

Gunnarsstofnun

Name: Gunnarsstofnun

Department: N/A

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 889736090

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 67073

Address: Skriduklaustur, 701 Egilsstadir, Iceland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Other

Website: http://www.skriduklaustur.is/

Total budget: EUR 23 613.90

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 15 349.03

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 65.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 8 264.87

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20a

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Tindved Kulturhage AS

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Nord University

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Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning & Creativity svb

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Donegal County Museum

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Jamtli Foundation

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Faroe Islands National Museum

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University of Iceland

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Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute

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Summary

Project name (EN): Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments

Project acronym: DACCHE

Project ID: NPA0300093

Project start date: 2023-07-01

Project end date: 2026-06-30

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

CINE - Empowering remote communities using emergent technologies through a toolkit to create on and off site experiences. Sustainable management of heritage by collecting, sharing, creating knowledge disseminated to diverse audiences, empowering the public, strengthening communities, influencing planning and policy. Education of visitors to reveal risk of heritage due to exploitation of natural resources. Helped local, regional, and national authorities to understand the value of heritage. (EN) | The CINE project worked to promote & preserve cultural heritage resources. This approach will be extended to address the issues of climate change. Through digitising and modelling heritage resources we will engage people in the cultural landscape and develop digital models which bring home the future impact of climate change, overcoming the barriers of distance and time which make it difficult to develop the sort of understanding of climate change that is required to achieve behavioural change. (EN), CUPIDO - EU Interreg North Sea project to develop new business opportunities in the cultural and cultural heritage sector around the North Sea, to reinforce the economic position, competitiveness and social cohesion of local rural communities in areas with a declining population. CUPIDO strengthened a viable and sustainable future economy, based on the social historic role and core qualities and values of the involved regions,cities and local communities. (EN) | Developing visualisations of heritage for new visitor experiences for economic benefits of the organisations and local community. Virtual digital skills webinars during COVID-19 to build digital capacity amoung heritage practitioners for resilient response to direct and indirect threats. (EN), Stratus - Connecting emergent digital technologies and changing digital literacies to re-energising towns, villages and communities. Stratus used disruptive VR technologies to enable exploration of the past, present and future, maximising societal benefits from natural and cultural heritage. VR enhances visitor experiences, help direct the flows of visitors to tourist sites and inform policy. The limits of VR were pushed with the goal of enabling its potential to be realised in the future. VR solutions were developed that enhanced and integrated exploration of cultural and natural heritage, by bringing together real-world media (aerial, 360, 3Dand stereoscopic) with virtual world media enabling new perspectives on natural and cultural heritage to enrich onsite experiences and inform digital narratives. The main focus for this project was enhancing experiences and managing flows of visitors along the Wild Atlantic Way through the creation of an interactive VR experience for the Downpatrick Head site situated in the coastal town of Ballycastle in County Mayo, Ireland. (EN) | Creating alternative immersive experiences of cultural landscapes for tourism as well as reinvesting into communities in digital literacies and rediscovery of heritage. Maximise accessible VR technologies to augment exploration of natural landscapes through time. (EN), Adapt Northern Heritage - project supporting communities and local authorities to adapt northern cultural heritage to the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards through community engagement and informed conservation planning. ADAPT developed risk and vulnerability assessment methods for historic places and associated guidance for their adaptation, trial and demonstrate this method in eleven case studies and initiate a community network for interdisciplinary learning, knowledge exchange and stakeholder networking. (EN) | Guidance on managing the impacts of climate change on northern historic places. (EN), EMERGREEN - project supported by the NPA programme to create greener communities in remote areas by sharing new innovative models for participative, user-centred, quality and sustainable public services. Six partners from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Faroe Islands worked together with the goal of strengthening greener communities through the use of new emerging technologies to create more sustainable public services in remote areas. They tackled the common territorial challenge of how to deliver quality and sustainable public services in remote areas, overcoming factors such as long distances, high service delivery costs due to low demand aggregation, shortages in human and material resources and lack of access to latest innovations. (EN) | One of the outputs from EMERGREEN was “Data storytelling”, to effectively communicate insights from data using narratives and visualisations. “Donegal coastal stories” app was developed to engage public participation as ‘Citizen Scientists’ in the field of marine coastal erosion mapping through crowd-sourcing imagery. And in the Faroe Islands stories on green energy solutions were used to motivate people. (EN), Relics of Nature - An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North. This project is rooted in archaeology and heritage studies, and drawing on the Environmental Humanities more broadly. It focuses on selected case studies in the High North, combining fieldwork and discourse analysis, to work towards the project’s threefold primary objectives:
It will scrutinize the cultural and ontological values involved in a) understandings of natural heritage and b) discriminations between natural and cultural heritage
It will investigate how such scrutinizing can inform alternative understandings of sustainability and environmental ethics in the Anthropocene
It will employ the project’s findings in public outreach, and explore how natural heritage may become a more inclusive venue for critical environmental dialogue.
Relics of Nature is run by the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo and supported by the Art council of Norway and the Research council of Norway. (EN) | The objectives of this projects have some synergies with what DACCHE is doing, not least related to the understanding of natural and cultural heritage which can be defined differently in the NPA regions. (EN), Solander's eye is a project funded by IK Foundation, The University of Iceland and the Swedish Embassy in Iceland. An autonomus research station was set up at Breidamerkursandur in Septembe 2022 to monitor the landscape biosphere, such a wildlife, weather, vegetation, atmosphere and more without human intervention for up to one year. The field station is within the Vatnajökull National Park and streams live data and pictures from the site. (EN) | This project is about monitoring how a piece of land that has been under glacier for centuries develops. This kind of monitoring is the opposite to what DACCHE is about, engaging communtites to monitor changes. But there are synergies, both in the research and also the technology that could be enhanced in monitoring some of the selected sites in DACCHE. (EN)

Relevant mentions and prizes:

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 115 155.31

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 584 285.78

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 65.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 584 285.78. Co-financing rate, 65.00%.
ERDF equivalent: Amount, EUR 19 673.79. Co-financing rate, 65.00%. Sources, FO.
ERDF equivalent: Amount, EUR 75 000.00. Co-financing rate, 50.00%. Sources, NO.
ERDF equivalent: Amount, EUR 23 391.36. Co-financing rate, 65.00%. Sources, IS.
Others: Amount, EUR 19 673.79.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

Recordings and proceedings from the seminar
Minutes from panel meetings
Open forum to connect advisory board with project communities
Minutes and media from community workshop events
Community workshop report
Archived data and content collection
Monitoring and mapping digital resource centre
Feasibility study of transmedia storytelling tools
Best practice for climate stories
Guidelines for intangible heritage preservation and promotion
Guidelines holistic presentation of cultural landscapes - natural, cultural, tangible, intangible.
3D models compatible with XR, VR and AR
Digitised heritage
Land restoration
Cultural landscape action plan toolkit and advocacy pack
Tourism engagement
Evaluation of tourism framework
Transmedia manifesto
Comparative study
Recordings and proceedings
Official launch of project virtual museum

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

SeaBasinStrategyArcticOcean Contribute towards action to tackle impact from climate change and environment degradation which affect cultural and natural heritage. Support inclusive and sustainable development to benefit local communities to monitor, preserve and communicate heritage and climate change stories. Partners and target groups reside in vulnerable Arctic regions. A framework facilitates reuse and feeds back into itself to generate adaptation and expansion of use.
EuropeanGreenDeal DACCHE contributes to equitable green transition, local economic growth through sustainable resource use. Through highlighting the threat climate change poses to cultural landscape we provide motivation for behavioural change which accelerates transition to net zero economy. Though promoting renewable energy and shared transportation we will facilitate the move away from fossil fuels and related global warming. We will aid representing communities often underrepresented in climate adaptation.
Other Global Research and Action Agenda on Culture, Heritage, and Climate Change: Scientific Outcome of the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change, Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility Horizon Europe policy and strategy, Cluster 2: Culture, creativity and inclusive society Horizon Europe policy and strategy, UNESCO Declaration of Ethical Principles in relation to Climate Change.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Northern Periphery and Arctic

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2026-01-12

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

65 / 65 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

316 / 316 (100%)

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