INCEPTION s.r.l. is an innovative start-up company incubated as a spin-off at the University of Ferrara, aimed at developing and marketing the outcomes of the project “INCEPTION – Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modeling”, funded with four million euros by the European Commission within the Work Programme Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies (Call – Reflective Societies: Cultural Heritage and European Identities, Reflective-7-2014, Advanced 3D modelling for accessing and understanding European cultural assets).

The Inception Spin-off strategic goal is to offer support to the process of digitization, management, dissemination, enhancement of cultural heritage and built heritage, through products and services using BIM-based technologies and semantic-web platforms. It is aimed at public and private organizations that manage these processes at different levels, as well as other users such as researchers, students, tourists, technicians, etc. The focus on workflows and user experience is aimed at reducing work-related stress and technical stress resulting from the use of new IT tools and related to the demand for ever-growing skills. The mission of Inception Spin-off is to allow access to these technologies by users with different levels of competence, training and age.

The project was developed (June 1^st, 2015 – May 31^st, 2019) with the contribution of fourteen partners from ten different European countries, and coordinated by the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara and the TekneHub Laboratory, Ferrara Technopole, Construction Platform, Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network.

More information on the project and the results achieved can be found at: Inception Project

Current development includes the use of collected data to improve off-site applications, the use of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, XR and 5G to enable the innovative use of digitized cultural resources.