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  • Final Dissemination Event and presentation of the “Digital Spektrum Toolkit for Museum Professional”

    Final Dissemination Event of the Digital Spektrum Project

    On 9th January 2026, the Digital Spektrum project will conclude with its Final Dissemination Event, hosted at MACRO – Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma.

    The event will bring together museum professionals, researchers, cultural practitioners, and international experts to reflect on how digital skills and technologies can foster cultural inclusion and wellbeing, with a specific focus on museum users with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

    The morning session will introduce the project’s objectives and key outcomes, coordinated by Università di Roma Tor Vergata, followed by presentations from project partners in Italy, Spain, and France, highlighting how Digital Spektrum activities have been implemented across different national and institutional contexts.

    A central moment of the event will be the presentation of the Digital Spectrum Toolkit for Museum Professionals: a practical, open-access resource designed to support museums in developing inclusive, technology-enhanced practices for engaging neurodiverse audiences. The toolkit’s structure, key features, and guidelines for use in museum settings will be illustrated through concrete examples and demonstrations.

    In the afternoon, the event will open to a broader international perspective with keynote contributions from experts working at the intersection of arts, health, wellbeing, and social inclusion, followed by a roundtable discussion entitled
    “Supporting Wellbeing through Digital Tools: Inclusive Museum Practices”.
    This dialogue will explore how digital tools can act as mediators for access, participation, and emotional wellbeing in contemporary museum environments.

    The Final Dissemination Event represents not only the conclusion of the Erasmus+-funded Digital Spektrum project, but also an invitation to museum professionals and cultural institutions to continue experimenting, collaborating, and innovating in the field of inclusive museum education.

    📍 MACRO – Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma
    📅 9 January 2026 | 12:00–16:00

    Programme

    12:00 – 12:15 | Opening Session

    • Institutional greetings

    • Introduction to the project – Prof. Antonella Poce, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Project Coordinator)

    12:15 – 12:45 | Project Activities in the Different National Contexts

    • Italy – Antonella Poce, Project Coordinator, Full Professor in Experimental

    Pedagogy, Università di Roma Tor Vergata

    • Spain – Guillem d’Efak Fullana-Ferré, Head of Community Action, Public

    Programs, and Communications at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

    • France – Veronique Dalmasso e Fred Dalmasso, President and Advisory Boad

    Member, Via Artis NGA

    12:45 – 13:15 | Presentation of the Digital Spectrum Toolkit

    • Objectives and structure of the toolkit

    • Demonstration of key features

    • Guidelines for its use in museum contexts

    13.15 – 14.00 | Lunch break

    14.00 – 15.00 | International Keynote Speakers

    • Hamaad Khan, International Development Associate, National Academy for

    Social Prescribing (NASP)

    • Rosie Dow, Head of Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Arts Council of Wales

    15:00 – 15:45 | Roundtable with International Experts: “Supporting Wellbeing through Inclusive Museum Practices”

    • Viviana Gobbato, Head of Culture and Education Department at Arc de

    Triomphe (Paris)

    • Mariona López Corominas, Activist for the rights of people with ASD (Spain)

    • Clàudia Torner, Coordinator of Apropa Cultura (Spain)

    • Elisabeth Ioannides, Education Curator and Art Psychotherapist at the

    National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens)

    15:45 – 16:00 | Closing Remarks

    • Closing of the session

    • Future perspectives

  • Digital Spektrum: Project Team Meeting in Paris

    Digital Spektrum: Project Team Meeting in Paris

    On Saturday the 25th of January we were hosted by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris for the Digital Spektrum projet team meeting.

    Representatives from Italy, Spain and France re-convened to evaluate the activities recently completed and plan the next international meeting in Barcelona and the next steps for the development of the project outputs.

    After a very well planned Museum sensorial visit, the international partnes have discussed the following points:

    WP3: reflection on the workshop hosted by Via Artis NGA and next steps [led by VANGA] 

    WP1: Overall Management. Activities status and next steps [led by Tor Vergata University of Rome]

    WP4: Digital technologies for well-being – an InSite workshop. Activities, objectives and methodology presentation – [led by Museu Nacional d’Art Catalunya]

    WP5: Digital Spectrum Toolkit for museum professionals. Activities, objectives and methodology presentation [led by Tor Vergata University of Rome]