Last June, we just got a little bigger, and a lot more diverse. We’re thrilled to welcome four new members to our network! Different countries, different disciplines, different scales, but all working, in their own way, at the intersection of culture, technology, and people.

Here’s a closer look at who they are.

🇮🇹 Laboratorio Lapsus –  Italy – Network member

Laboratorio Lapsus is a non-profit organisation working at the crossroads of historical research, participatory history, education and community engagement. Its mission: making history a living, shared practice rather than something told to communities. Lapsus builds public history and educational projects that make people the active protagonists of their own history.

Their work spans oral histories of marginalised and underrepresented communities, critical nodes of contemporary history, and public narratives, always approached with historiographical rigour, but through collaborative, participatory and creative methods. Lapsus coordinates and takes part in European projects, weaving transnational partnerships across the cultural and third sector, with the aim of fostering critical thinking, civic engagement, and a deeper sense of belonging to shared cultural heritage.

We’ve already worked alongside Lapsus in the Creative Europe project WE-Hope (2019-2022), focused on inclusion and migration, a partnership we’re glad to now continue as fellow MCA members.

🇸🇪 Innovus – Sweden – Network member

Innovus is a recently created Swedish multidisciplinary research collective on a mission to advance a more equitable, inclusive and sustainable society through technological innovation, rigorous knowledge creation, and co-creative collaboration.

Their work spans an unusually wide range of fields, data science, human-computer interaction, mechanical engineering, smart textiles, haptics, information science, media design, the semantic web, and critical disability studies. Innovus develops research, technologies and collaborative initiatives that support inclusive digital transformation across sectors, including culture and cultural heritage, with a strong emphasis on accessibility, participation and societal impact.

Innovus is no stranger to MCA’s world either: we partnered together with Innovus’s founders on the Horizon Europe project MuseIT (2022-2025), dedicated to inclusion and accessibility in museums.

🇫🇷 Bibracte – France – Active member

Bibracte EPCC is a public cultural cooperation institution responsible for the management, research, conservation and promotion of Bibracte, a former Gallic capital dating back to the 1st century BC, nestled in the heart of the Morvan massif. The site holds the Grand Site de France label, recognising the excellence of its landscape preservation and sustainable management.

Beyond the archaeological site itself, Bibracte manages the Bibracte Museum and a European research centre welcoming international researchers and students every year. The institution develops cultural mediation, heritage education and professional training activities, while coordinating European projects on natural and cultural heritage, tourism and digital technologies, sitting right at the intersection of scientific research, knowledge-sharing and innovation.

We’ve collaborated with Bibracte through the Erasmus+ project PITCHER, focused on the fight against illicit traffic protection.

Benjamin Omer – Individual Network member

Rounding out our new members is Benjamin Omer, a cultural heritage law specialist joining MCA as an individual member. He currently serves as Scientific Project Officer at the École française d’Athènes (EFA), coordinated the Horizon Europe project ANCHISE, dedicated to combating the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage in which we’ve been proud partners.

Benjamin previously worked at UNESCO and the CNRS, and today combines his research role with teaching as an adjunct lecturer at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and at the École nationale supérieure de la police. He’s also a doctoral candidate at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, completing a thesis on the laundering of proceeds from archaeological and heritage-related crimes, with his defence scheduled for late 2026.

His work sits squarely at the intersection of cultural heritage protection, law, and European policy, a perspective we’re delighted to add to the network

Same mission, different angles

History made participatory. Technology made inclusive. Heritage made sustainable. Trafficking made harder. Four very different profiles, one shared thread: culture as something built with people, and protected for them.

👉 Discover the rest of our network across Europe and beyond: michael-culture.eu/our-network

Join us: https://michael-culture.eu/join-us/