Public Domain Day in Europe 2026
2026-01-15 09:30 - 18:00 UTC | 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.

3D-4CH Winter School
2026-01-21 - 2026-01-23 | Royal Museum of Art an History, Brussels, Belgium
The 3D-4Ch Winter School, organised by the 3D-4CH Competence Centre, will take place from 21st to 23rd January 2026 at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels.
This three-day events will feature keynotes, workshops and collaborative larning environments designed for cultural heritage professionals who want to deepen their 3D expertise concerning digitisation and technologies. It is organised in cooperation with the Twin it! Part II campaign by the Europeana Foundation and the European Commission. The event aims to strengthen the skills of CH professionals in emerging technologies connected to 3D. This shall support the digital shift on European level.
The Winter School is suitable for individuals and groups at the beginning of their digitisation journey as well as more advanced ones who want to explore the newest developments, tools and best practices.
In September 2025, 3D-4CH will publish the official Open Call with the programme details and information about registration and funding.

2026 IIIF Online Meeting
2026-01-27 - 2026-01-29 | Online
The IIIF Consortium is organising an Online Meeting from Janurary 27-29 2026. It is intended for a wide range of participants that are interested in IIIF, are at the beginning of their application journey or more advanced. The event is meant to provide an introduction to newcomers and to highlight new developments concerning the IIIF standard. It is also a place for discussion and dissemination for those with experience.
The event is completely free and registration will start in November 2025. The call for proposals is now open!

Demonstration event of EUreka3D-XR tools and pilots
2026-01-29 09:30 - 12:30 | Online
This hybrid capacity building and demonstration event is organised by EUreka3D-XR and aims to provide insights into new tools and pilots working with 3D and XR technologies in the cultural heritage sector. EUreka invites cultural heritage professionals, archivists, researchers, and students to attend the open showcasing of the project’s outcomes.
The hybrid part takes place in the morning, while there will be an on-site workshop for archivists focused on hands-on experimentation in Girona.
Visit the website for more information!

Preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana
2026-02-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This training course runs as part of the Europeana Academy on November 12th 2025 and focuses on preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana.
The application of IIIF and its APIs allows viewing your image collection online in the best possible quality with user-friendly zoom function and sharing you collection widely.
If you are interested in learning how to prepare your collections correctly for IIIF, this course is perfect for you! Additional information to the course will follow soon, the application will run on the Europeana Academy portal. You can register for the Europeana Academy newsletter to get the latest news about courses and trainings.
Visit Europeana’s website to register now!

Masters of Digital 2026
2026-02-25 - 2026-02-26 | Steigenberger Witcher’s, Brussels, Belgium
Masters of Europe 2026 is a forum for digital policy and innovation in the European Union. The future of Europe’s digitalisation and the global tech race will be at the centre of interest. The overall theme is “Redesigning Europe’s Digital Power”.
Registration is already open. Due to capacity limits at the venue, interest in attending at the location should be stated early enough, virtual registration is guaranteed. Visit the official website to get more information about the agenda and the attending speakers.

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.

EUscreen Symposium 2026
2026-04-08 - 2026-04-09 | Filmoteka Narodowa Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA), ul. Wałbrzyska 3/5, Warsaw, Poland
EUscreen Symposium April 2026: Reframing Openness – Empowering Authenticity and Reuse in Audiovisual Heritage
The annual EUscreen Symposium takes place on 8 and 9 April in Warsaw, Poland. It is organised and hosted by EUscreen and Filmoteka Narodowa Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA).
The Symposium will focus on how, in a rapidly evolving social and technological landscape, film and audiovisual heritage institutions face urgent questions about how to preserve the authenticity of the archive and its collection while embracing openness, innovation, and reuse. This symposium will bring together professionals, scholars, rights experts, technologists, and community practitioners to explore critical intersections between archival integrity, public access, and participatory practices.
Find more information or register here.

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.

Digital Cultural Heritage in the Era of AI and Extended Reality
2026-05-26 | CTU Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
This event takes place in the context of the Cypriot Presidency of the EU Council of the European Union and will highlight the outcomes and achievements of the EUreka3D-XR project. The conference day will feature public presentations by project partners and invited experts. The audience will learn about the combination of 3D digitisation, AI and Extended Reality fosters the reuse of cultural heritage as well as digital storytelling techniques and immersive technologies.
Once again, we will also here about the status quo of the three use-case scenarios of Girona, Bibracte and Saint Neophytos Monastery in Paphos and the project tools developed during the 3D-XR project.
The event is organised by EUreka3D-XR and takes place at Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol.
Visit the website for more information!

Digital Heritage Summit 2026
2026-05-26 - 2026-05-29 | Cyprus University of Technoloy, Limassol, Cyprus
Organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, in partnership with Heritage Malta, the Digital Heritage Summit 2026 is this year’s special edition of EuroMed 2026—Europe’s leading forum for digital cultural heritage research, policy, and innovation.
The Summit is in cooperation with Europeana, the European Commission (DG CONNECT), the AI4LAM initiative, the EUreka3D Competence Center, the Digital-Europe project EUreka3D-XR, the Horizon Europe projects HERITALISE, STECCI, IMPULSE, the Time Machine Organisation and more.
The event will also host the Grand Final of the Twin it! Part II campaign. There will be a Policy Roundtable on 26 May 2026 and the Hackit!4EU hackathon from 27 to 29 May 2026.
Registrations are now open!

2026 IIIF Annual Conference & Showcase
2026-06-01 - 2026-06-04 | Scheltema, Marktsteeg 1, Leiden, 2312, Netherlands
This year’s IIIF Annual Conference & Showcase is, as usual, hosted by the IIIF consortium and takes place in different places around the Netherlands. The Showcase will be in Amsterdam, while the actual conference on June 2-3 will be in Leiden.
The Showcase at the beginning of the event is meant as an introduction for newcomers and those interested in current use cases in IIIF. The conference in general is therefore suitable for everyone seeking to get into IIIF for the first time as well as more advanced professionals looking for new ideas and networking possibilities.
The preliminary conference program can be viewed here.
Visit the IIIF website for more information!

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.
