Europeana 2025 - Preserve, Protect, Reuse
2025-06-11 - 2025-06-12 | Polin Museum in Warsaw, Poland
The Europeana Conference 2025 is coming closer and the tickets are now available. You can attend the event onsite in Warsaw as well as online. The focus will be on the slogan “Preserve, Protect, Reuse” of cultural heritage and corresponding data.
The conference will be held on 11-12 June 2025 during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. This hybrid conference is organised in collaboration and partnership with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Poland and the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, who will host the conference.
Discover the full programme for the Europeana Conference 2025!

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
2025-09-09 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | 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
2025-09-12 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.

Inspiring new writing with European art and culture
2025-09-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
This event is organised by Europeana together with Writers’ HQ. The workshop is part of the Writing as Resitance Festival 2025 and uses inspiration from Europeana to explore new ways of enhancing your writing practice.
Find out more on the website or register here.

Copyright Office Hours: Evaluating risk in copyright clearance
2025-09-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Measuring risk regarding copyright clearance is a common problem among cultural heritage institutions. The uncertainty can be traced back to general grey areas for specific situations in copyright law. The question is: How can we face these grey areas?
These office hours will discuss various examples of cultural heritage organisations measuring risk, and some tools available.
Learn more about this event on the official website or register here.

A quiet writing hour with art and culture
2025-09-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This event, organised by Europeana, is part of the Shut Up & Write! initiative and supports writers by providing artworks and cultural heritage items from Europeana.eu to inspire the writer’s creativity.
You can learn more about that event on the website or go directly to the registering form.

Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops
2025-10-01 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
On the first Wednesday each month Europeana dedicates an hour to writing and creativity. This workshop will focus on getting inspiration out of illustrations and imagery from Europeana’s collections. The themes will change every month.
Visit the website for more information or go directly to the registering form.

Educators in the data space: a bottom-up approach
2025-10-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
This online workshop is organised by the ENA Education Community Steering Group and focuses on the role of the Education Community within the European data space for cultural heritage. 15 to 20 educators will discuss their experiences with the current data servies provided by Europeana and, on that ground, provide recommendations and statements for the data space.
This event will take place on October 23rd and you can still apply to be one of the education specialists shaping the role of Europeana’s Education Community. Visit the website for more information or apply here. The registration will follow soon.

Europeana Network Association Cross-Community Workshop on Culture for AI
2025-10-27 14:00 - 2025-10-28 13:00 | SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
From 27 – 28 October 2025, EuropeanaTech focuses on perspectives and contributions to a sectoral position on the responsible use of AI. The Cross-Community Workshop will be led by 30 Members of the Europeana Network Association (ENA).
The workshop is organised in collaboration with SMK, AI4LAM, Sound and Vision and the Europeana Initiative and builds on the insights of the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI, launched in May 2025.
The workshop is for ENA members exclusively.
Learn more on the website.

Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops
2025-11-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Every first Wednesday each month, Europeana dedicates an hour to writing and creativity. The online content will be used to foster your creativity and inspire you, in combination with practical writing exercices. The theme this time will be ‘cosy comfort’.
Visit the website or go directly to the registering form.

Copyright Office Hours: Public domain basics and copyright clearance
2025-11-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
The Copyright Office Hours, organised by the Copyright Community, will cover the public domain field on November 5th. They will discuss how public domain materials can be identified, used, and made available. In addition, there will be a focus on two tools to support cultural heritage professionals working in that field.
Visit the website or go directly to the registering form.

Europeana Network Association (ENA) General Assembly meeting 2025
2025-11-13 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
Are you interested in the development and use of Artificial Intelligence in digital cultural heritage? Do you want to know more about how Europeana’s Communities are shaping a shared vision for the use of AI in the common European data space for cultural heritage? Are you interested in learning how you can contribute to their activities? Then join the Europeana Network Association General Assembly on 13 November 2024!
The event will reflect on insights from the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI and recommendations and learnings from the ENA cross-community workshop and high level policy webinar held on 27-28 October in Copenhagen.
This meeting is exclusively for existing ENA Members.

Metis Sandbox – check your data for quality
2025-11-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This training course is run as part of the Europeana Academy and takes place on 14 April 2025. It aims to showcase the usage of the Metis Sandbox to check your data for quality and preview it for inclusion in Europeana.
During the training you will use prepared data, but can also run your own data to analyse the quality of your data. If you are interested, register here. You can get more information to this event on the website.

Public Domain Day in Europe 2026
2026-01-15 09:30 - 18:00 | Royal Library of Belgium
Like every year, numerous heritage works will enter the public domain on 1st January. This event aims to celebrate the public domain and focus on the hardships that still sustain with opening up these materials.
The event is co-organised by meemoo and will take place in the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) in Brussels. The program is designed for everyone working with public domain collections. Visit the event’s website for more information and registration.

Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops
2026-03-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
On the first Wednesday each month Europeana dedicates an hour to writing and creativity. This workshop will focus on getting inspiration out of illustrations and imagery from Europeana’s collections. The themes will change every month.
The topic this time will be ‘Creativity from uncertainty’.
Visit the website for more information or go directly to the registering form.

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
2026-03-10 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 10 March 2026 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
2026-03-13 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is organized by the Europeana Academy and will take place online on 13 March 2026. 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.

Copyright office hours: Rights clearance in audiovisual material
2026-03-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This time’s copyright office hours, organised by the Copyright Community, will cover the complex copyright spedifications of audiovisual materials. Common questions and problems will be adressed in an informal communication space. The event will take place online on March 24, 2026.
Visit the official website of the event for more information!

Copyright basics for cultural heritage professionals
2026-04-07 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
This event is organised by Europeana Academy and takes place on 7 April 2026.
This course aims to help you understand the basics of copyright, and to help you apply these concepts in order to determine if, and which, copyright exists in cultural heritage collections. Making such an identification is crucial for cultural heritage organisations to be able to successfully use, give access to, and enable the reuse of materials in their collections.
This course is particularly addressed at those working in cultural heritage institutions, but can potentially also be useful to researchers, teachers or creators wishing to use these materials (however, note that it is not specialised for those audiences).
Visit the event website to learn more about it and register.

Expressing reuse conditions in digital cultural heritage
2026-04-09 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
This event is organised by Europeana Academy and takes place on 9 April 2026.
Rights statements express the copyright status of a digital object and provide information about how someone can re-use the object. This course outlines and offers training on rights statements available which can support cultural heritage institution to communicating reuse conditions.
It offers information on how to identify the most accurate and adequate rights statement for the data you share online.
This course is particularly addressed at those working in cultural heritage institutions, but can potentially also be useful to researchers, teachers or creators wishing to use these materials (however, note that it is not specialised for those audiences).
Before taking this course, we strongly recommend you to follow the course “Copyright basics for cultural heritage professionals”, either instructor-led (taking place on 7 April 2026) or self-paced through the Europeana Academy.
Find more information here.

Preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana
2026-05-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This event is organised by Europeana Academy and takes place on 6 May 2026
Applying the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard allows viewing your image collection online in the best possible quality with a user-friendly zoom function and sharing your collection widely. This course will help you to prepare your images for IIIF.
Get more information here.

Digital Storytelling Festival 2026
2026-05-19 - 2026-05-20 | Online
Every year, the Europeana Initiative runs the Digital Storytelling Festival. The international event encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring culture. We hope to inspire participants to create connections between art, culture and history and the contemporary world.
The 2026 edition will take place on 19-20 May. For more information about the Creative Residency and application details, visit the Europeana website.

Metis Sandbox – check your data for quality and preview it for inclusion in Europeana
2026-06-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This event is organised by Europeana Academy and takes place on 3 June 2026.
The Metis Sandbox is a test environment for your data. It consists of a set of tools with which you can simulate ingesting and running the Metis workflow on your data, see what your records would look like on Europeana.eu and get insight into the quality of your records.
During the training you’ll mostly be working with data that we have prepared specifically for the purpose of this training. But you will also have the possibility to run your own data and analyse the results. If you are interested, please prepare a collection of at most 50 records that satisfy EDM specifications. It is easiest if you have them ready as a zip file (one file per record).
Find more information here.

Europeana Writers’ Room – monthly creative writing workshops
2026-06-03 15:00 - 16:00 | Online

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
2026-06-16 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 16 June 2026 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, go directly to the registering website.

How to tell great stories and write for Europeana.eu
2026-06-18 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is organized by the Europeana Academy and will take place online on 18 June 2026. 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 directly to the registering website.

Bring Cultural Memories to Life: Create Holographic Postcards with XRCulture and Twin it! Part II
2026-07-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
This training course is organized by the Europeana Academy and will take place online on 21 July 2026.
The interactive session is exploring the hologram postcards: innovative digital souvenirs that bring cultural heritage and tourism experiences to life in an unique way.
As part of the event, 3D models from Europeana’s Twin it! Part II campaign will be showcased and it will be explored how museums, educators, tourism organisations and heritage professionals can use existing 3D content to engage audiences in new ways.
If you want to learn more about this event, go directly to the registering website.

Preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana
2026-07-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This event is organised by Europeana Academy and takes place on Wednesday, 29 July 2026
Applying the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard allows viewing your image collection online in the best possible quality with a user-friendly zoom function and sharing your collection widely. This course will help you to prepare your images for IIIF.
Get more information here.

Creating Interactive Experiences with 3D Cultural Heritage from Twin it! Part II
2026-08-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is organized by the Europeana Academy and will take place online on 3 August 2026.
It will showcase practical tools, highlight important principles and workflows surrounding the reuse of 3D assets, and inspire you to imagine how you would transform 3D cultural heritage into your own interactive experience!
If you want to learn more about this event, go directly to the registering website.
