SO-CLOSE project’s main focus was on forced migrations in the past and present, as well as the contexts, agents and victims of the processes that lead to forced migrations: wars, political, religious or gender-based persecution, or the effects of climate change. It is an effect of collaboration of NGO’s, cultural institutions, academics, IT specialists and representatives of local communities from Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Working in that project we aimed in contributing to social cohesion and fighting refugee marginalization or exclusion by facilitating the encounters of similar life stories, using innovative digital and artistic tools to mediate.

If you share the same goals and want to know more about the Memory Centre Platform or any of our digital tools please contact: The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona UAB soclose@uab.cat and/or The Exile Memorial Museum Consortium info@museuexili.cat.

European Union This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870939

Work Package 1

Framework Set Up & Design of the co-creation paths
LEADER: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

Work Package 2

Co-design of the tools for cultural heritage co-creation
LEADER: Monte Sole (Italy)

Work Package 3

Toolbox development
LEADER: ENGINEERING (Italy)

Work Package 4

Implementation & Validation /pilots/
LEADER: Lund University (Sweden)

Work Package 5

Exploitation, Dissemination & Communication
LEADER: Villa Decius Association (Poland)

Work Package 6

Project Management
LEADER: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)