Metis Sandbox – check your data for quality
2025-11-17 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | 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.
