ORIGINS – Open Realities for Inclusive Generative Immersive Narrative Spaces

The aim is easy to state and hard to achieve: let people learn, collaborate and create together in worlds that feel safe, authentic, adaptive and open to all.

The Museum of Cycladic Art is responsible for the development of the project’s use case in cultural heritage and hosting of pilot sessions at its premises in Athens.

One open platform. Three technologies. Four places it has to prove itself.

ORIGINS combines real-time holoportation, multimodal interaction and generative Al in a single, human-centred platform – then puts it to work with real people in culture, education, tourism and healthcare. Every part is designed to be accessible, tested in the open, and released as tools that others across Europe can reuse long after the project ends.

ORIGINS is funded under Horizon Europe within Cluster 4 (Digital, Industry & Space), answering the call HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-15, “Generative AI for Virtual Worlds.” As an Innovation Action, it matures proven research into technology validated at real-world scale. Over 36 months, ten partners from six countries contribute to Europe’s ambitions for human-centric AI and Virtual Worlds, to the meaningful involvement of the social sciences and humanities, and to the digital sovereignty of Europe’s cultural, education, tourism and health sectors.

Duration: 2026-2029