Europeana Impact Café Explore the Europeana Impact Playbook, Phase three
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Online
Join this Café from the Europeana Impact Community, focusing on Phase three of the Europeana Impact Playbook.
The Europeana Initiative started talking about impact over a decade ago. They want to bring you along on this impact journey by introducing the revised Impact Playbook. The Impact Cafés will give you the opportunity to come together and chat about your experiences or plans with the Impact Playbook.
Phase three is dedicated to narrating your impact.

EuropeanaTech presents: Acoustics and sound in cultural heritage
2023-12-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar, organised by EuropeanaTech, highlights a topic highly relevant to the cultural heritage sector: acoustics and the preservation and presentation of historic acoustic spaces.
The webinar on Dec 4 will be held online.
Register now!

Europeana Impact Café Explore the Europeana Impact Playbook, Phase four
2023-12-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join this Café from the Europeana Impact Community, focusing on Phase four of the Europeana Impact Playbook.
The Europeana Initiative started talking about impact over a decade ago. They want to bring you along on this impact journey by introducing the revised Impact Playbook. The Impact Cafés will give you the opportunity to come together and chat about your experiences or plans with the Impact Playbook.
Phase four is dedicated to evaluating your approach to impact.

Copyright office hours on cross-border uses of copyright-protected materials
2023-12-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join this copyright office hours session to discuss cross-border uses: clarifying questions around the applicable jurisdiction when using copyright-protected material, with peers and experts in the copyright community.
The webinar, organized by the Europeana Copyright Community, will be held online.
Registration will be available soon!

Policy office hours on data governance and the Europeana Licensing Framework
2024-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Join this copyright office hours session to talk about data governance and the Europeana Licensing Framework with peers and experts in the copyright community.
The webinar, organized by the Europeana Copyright Community, will be held online.
Registration will be available soon!

Collections as Data: collaborating across data spaces for cultural heritage and open science
2024-02-19 - 2024-02-20 | Royal Library of Belgium
The event is organised by the Royal Library of Belgium and the Europeana Foundation. It offers European national libraries a unique opportunity to explore and discuss their role in the common Europeana data space for cultural heritage and beyond.
It takes place in the Royal Library of Belgium and focuses on Collections as Data.
More information about the programme and how to participate in the event will be published shortly on Europeana.

Copyright office hours on collective rights management
2024-02-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join this copyright office hours session to discuss collective rights management: understanding how this type of licensing works, when it is suitable, and how to best negotiate licensing conditions, with peers and experts in the copyright community.
The webinar, organized by the Europeana Copyright Community, will be held online.
Register now!

Creative Online Residency 2024 - Information Session
2024-02-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Join us to find out all you need to know to apply for this year’s Digital Storytelling Festival Creative Online Residency!
The online information session will start at 3 p.m., February 21st. The Digital Storytelling festival is organised every year by the Europeana Initiative and encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives and students from Europe and beyond too improve their storytelling skills connected to culture and education.
Register here for the information session!

Public Domain Day 2024
2024-03-07 09:00 - 17:00 | KBR, Kunstberg 28, Brussels
If you are working in a GLAM organisation and curious about learning how to manage and open you public domain collections, the Public Domain Day 2024 may be the right event for you.
The event is hosted by meemo and organised by various partner organisations including Europeana Foundation and the Europeana Network Association. It is taking place at KBR in Kunstberg, Brussels, but can also be attended online.
For more information or to register, visit the webiste.

GIF-making workshop: women’s history
2024-03-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Europena Foundation provides an online GIF-making workshop on March 8, 2024. The aim is to teach how to browse through Europeana’s cultural heritage collections to find specific materials, such as about women’s history.
Using free online tools you will learn how to create animated stickers and GIFs out of the materials.
Register now!

Europeana Impact Community Café: building peace and safeguarding heritage through digitisation
2024-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This Europeana Impact Community Café will explore the role of digitisation in fostering peace and safeguarding heritage within conflict zones.
The interactive session will encourage attendees to share their own cases, shedding light on how digital heritage can contribute to building positive societal impacts in conflict-affected and post-conflict societies.
The event is organised by Europeana and will take place online.
Register now!

CREA Cultura Festival
2024-03-20 - 2024-03-22 | Foligno, Italy
The C.R.E.A. Cultura Festival is taking place in Folgino, Italy and hosts school institutes of all levels and civil society organisations that have implemented a project or intitiative exploiting the potential of digital technologies in the cultural, civic or social domains, and that are interested in disseminating the results and get in touch with other national and international stakeholders.
The event is organised by the CRHACK LAB FOLIGNO 4D and aims to support young people to develop their innovative and cnoscious thinking about digital practical culture.
Participation is completely free and includes entry, setting up an stand for your own institution and taking part in several workshops.
Register here!

De-biasing digital cultural heritage collections
2024-03-25 09:00 - 12:00 | Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands
This training event, targeted at aggregators, will provide participants with the opportunity to learn more about the DE-BIAS project’s activities. It is an in-person event.
The event is organised by Europeana and gives the opportunity to learn more about the project’s activities and findings so far and to actively engage with some of the models and approaches the project applies in detecting and categorising bias and in deciding which actions to take.
Register here or visit the event’s website for more information!

DE-BIAS: Diskriminierende Sprache in Archivdaten erkennen und beheben - Herausforderungen und Chancen
2024-04-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
The event, organised by Europeana, focuses on the ongoing debates about gender neutral and inclusive language in cultural heritage institutions. It addresses the problem of historical collection descriptions and catalogue entries using discriminating language.
For that purpose the project DE-BIAS developed a tool to detect terms in collection and object descriptions that do not conform to the present understanding of gender and inclusivity anymore.
The webinar is aimed at the german cultural heritage sector and will also be held in german.
Find more information on the event’s website or visit directly the registration website.

New Professionals’ Twin Talks
2024-04-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Europeana organises an education and communication event aimed at new professionals and those who can take a profit of them on April 24th.
The need for digital skills becomes ever more pressing in the cultural heritage sector as well a in the education sector. Europeana Research began exploring the level of digitization in university curricula and how they could be further improved to prepare the scholars for the growing need for digital skills in cultural heritage.
Therefore, the Twin Talks will host farely new professionals in the sector who want to speak about their experiences in this matter, state challenges they came across and provide recommendations what to improve about educational programs.
You can register here.

Shaping the Future of Digital Cultural Heritage Professionals. Pioneering Approaches in Higher Education
2024-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This online event, organised by Europeana Research invites you to a roundtable discussion about innovative and new approaches to enable new professionals with the necessary skills for the future of the cultural heritage sector.
The webinar is connected to the New Professional’s Twin Talk on 24 April 2024 and reaches out to universities wanting to build education programs as well as cultural heritage institutions, students and policymakers.
Visit the event website for more information or register right now.

TwinIt! 3D for Europe's culture campaign
2024-05-14 13:45 - 16:30 | European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
The event is organised by Europeana and takes place on May 14th in Brussels. The aim is to showcase the achievements of the TwinIt! 3D for Europe’s culture campaign until now.
The focus lies on the developments in the approach to 3D digitisation and those that are yet to come.
More information about the event will arrive soon!

What’s next for Digital Skills? Beyond the European Year of Skills and the European Elections
2024-05-14 14:30 - 17:30 | Microsoft Center Brussels, Rue Montoyer 51, Brussels, Belgium
The ALL DIGITAL Weeks 2024 launch event is taking place in Brussels and includes a panel discussion on Digital Skills in modern society, focusing on Equity, Citizenship, Entrepreneurship and Cybersecurity.
The event series runs from 13th to 31st May and is co-funded by the European Union. For more information about ALL DIGITAL visit the event’s website.

Digital Storytelling Festival
2024-05-21 09:00 - 2024-05-22 14:00 | Online
Join the Digital Storytelling Festival – organised by the Europeana Initiative – to boost your storytelling skill and tell stories about culture!
The annual event takes place from May 21st to 22nd 2024 and is organised by the Europeana Initiative.
Register now!

Reviewing the Europeana Public Domain Charter
2024-06-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This office hours session will host professionals sharing their view on an evaluation of the Europeana Public Domain Charter, and constul participants into additional challenges around the public domain.
The Charter was developed in 2010 and tried to communicate the importance of widely reusable digital cultural heritage objects by encouraging to maintain the public domain status.
The re-evaluation shall identifiy old and new challenges, and give us an idea on how well we followed the charter’s principles.
Visit the event’s webiste or register here!

Licences, labels, statements and tools
2024-07-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Europeana organises this office hours session to address various questions around the use of Creative Commons licenses, tool, and rights statements.
Creative Commons licenses help you and the people using your digital objects to clarify access and re-use of cultural heritage. The webinar will provide information on how and which tools to use when searching for attribution advice.
Visit the website for more information or register here!

Heritage Horizons: Europeana Project Week
2024-11-25 09:30 - 2024-11-29 12:30
About Heritage Horizons: Europeana Project Week
The common European data space for cultural heritage is the European Commission’s flagship initiative to foster the creation and reuse of content in the cultural and creative sectors and accelerate the digital transformation of Europe’s cultural sector. Its achievements depend on the efforts and expertise of the data space consortium, led by the Europeana Initiative, but also on diverse and innovative projects which enrich and enhance the data space and cultural heritage sector.

The Heritage Horizons Europeana Project Week, taking place from 25 – 29 November 2024, will put the spotlight on these projects and their inspiring work. Project Week will showcase their efforts while facilitating collaboration and connection, accelerating knowledge sharing and shaping new project opportunities. Sessions will highlight the role of digital technologies in developing the data space, preserving and engaging with cultural heritage, advancing social inclusion, encouraging reuse and promoting sustainability.

How to sign up

Register for Project Week through the link below! You can register for each day separately, allowing you to choose the days and sessions which interest you the most. We can’t wait to see you there, and in the meantime, invite you to explore the projects that will be in focus on the week.

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Experiences from the Europeana Research Community: data science and reuse of Europeana data at Leiden University
2024-12-03 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
This webinar, organised by Europeana Research, is part of the series “Europeana data reuse in academia and research” and focuses on data science and reuse of Europeana data at Leiden University.
The series is dedicated to the exploration of digital cultural heritage in Higher Education and Research and innovative practices surrounding the reuse of Europeana data.
If you want to know more about the event, visit EuropeanaPro or register now!

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
2024-12-10 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course, organised by Europeana as part of the Europeana Academy focuses on using and telling stories with collections on Europeana.eu.
The course is aimed at people and institutions new to Europeana who look for a guideline on how to use collections, but also at researchers and educators who want to promote or use digital collections available at Europeana for learning goals.
Visit EuropeanaPro for more information or register now!

How to tell great stories and write for Europeana.eu
2024-12-13 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is part of the Europeana Academy and focuses on creating editorial for Europeana.eu and with cultural heritage collections.
At the end of the course you will be able to write your own blog according to Europeana’s structural and editorial guidelines as well as the right “tone of voice”.
If you want to know more specifics about the course, visit EuropeanaPro or register now.

Public Domain Day 2025
2025-01-09 | Royal Library of Belgium
This event, organised collaboratively between Europeana, Creative Commons, Communia, Meemoo, KBR, Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia Europe, celebrates Public Domain Day in 2025. It will be held in the KBR – Royal Library of Belgium and online.
The Public Domain Day will give you an overview about recent developments in the sector and institutions are invited to showcase their collections and achievements.
Click here for more information.

Introduction to Europeana APIs
2025-02-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This course is part of the Europeana Academy and runs on February 19th 2025. It provides in-depth information about the Europeana APIs, the differences between them and how you can use them for your needs.
If you want to learn more about this course, visit the event’s website. If you are interested in completing the course, go right to the registration form.

Creative Online Residency 2025 - Information Session
2025-02-26 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
The Online Creative Residency is a key part of the Digital Storytelling Festival and brings students and new professionals who want to gain storytelling skills in a professional setting together with experts.
This event focuses on last year’s Residency and launches the application process for this year.
Everyone can register for the event, but there will also be a recording for this session. If you want to learn more about it, view the event on Europeana’s website.

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
2025-03-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is part of the Europeana Academy and focuses on telling stories with collections on Europeana.eu. It takes place on 11 March 2025 online.
If you want to learn about how to tell stories with Europeana’s contents, find and use different collections, this course may be right for you. It is aimed at a broad audience, from cultural heritage professionals or academics who want to present their data to educators using the content in learning scenarios.
If you want to read more about this event, visit its website or go directly to the registering form.

How to tell great stories and write for Europeana.eu
2025-03-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is organized by the Europeana Academy and will take place online on 14 March 2025. It focuses on creating editorial for Europeana.eu and with cultural heritage collections.
In this course you will learn about the Europeana approach to editorials like blogs in terms of structure, tone of voice and editorial guidelines. The goal is to develop you own blog idea using Europeana’s tips and guidelines.
If you want to learn more about this event, go to the website or directly to the registering form.
