GIF-making workshop: women’s history

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 […]

Europeana Impact Community Café: building peace and safeguarding heritage through digitisation

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 […]

CREA Cultura Festival

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 […]

46th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Glasgow , United Kingdom

The 46th ECIR is an annual event aiming to present new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. The community welcomes the engagement of postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers reporting on their research. The physical event will take place in Glasgow, Scotland form the 24th to the 28th of March. View the website to get […]

De-biasing digital cultural heritage collections

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 […]

Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data in 2D/3D Digital Heritage Documentation

Online

In collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage and the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol the 3-hour webinar is hosted online on April 8 from 2-5 pm. The training event focuses on the importance of the use of paradata and metadata in the digital documentation of the past in 3D. Therefore it […]

DE-BIAS: Diskriminierende Sprache in Archivdaten erkennen und beheben – Herausforderungen und Chancen

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 […]

New Professionals’ Twin Talks

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 […]

TwinIt! 3D for Europe’s culture campaign

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 […]

What’s next for Digital Skills? Beyond the European Year of Skills and the European Elections

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 […]