SENTINEL has received EU Green Seed Funding under the “Procedure to Leverage Joint Research Activities”. The Cluster: C4- Heritages & Tourism seed funding will help pave the way to strengthening the collaboration and develop the proposal into a larger project. The activities will be funded for 1 year, until the end of 2026 and the partnership includes: Atlantic Technological University, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, University of Gävle, and University of Evora.

The SENTINEL project (Smart Engagement and Networking Tools for Interactive Narratives in European Living Heritage) addresses persistent challenges in the cultural heritage sector, where institutions often rely on costly, fragmented, and inaccessible tools for content creation, sharing, and exhibition design. Many cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), especially smaller or under-resourced ones, face significant barriers to adopting advanced digital solutions due to high costs, technical complexity, and a lack of interoperable systems. This limits their ability to collaborate, reuse digital assets, and engage visitors through modern, interactive experiences. SENTINEL responds by designing two interconnected toolkits, SENTINEL Create and SENTINEL Design, that empower CHIs of all sizes to produce, share, and deliver engaging digital and physical heritage experiences.