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Transforming heritage: from 2D to 3D digitisation
2023-11-10 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online
Webinar 2: Friday 10 November
The webinar series returns after the first webinar at 27 October. The focus is on the use of 3D digitsation for cultural heritage reuse and research.
The webinar ist intended for archivists and records management professionals, CHI professionals, 3D digitsation and digital infrastructure providers, digital humanities researchers , and students in all these fields.
It is included in th EUreka3D capacity building programme.
The webinar will be held online! Register now for the second part of the series.

Copyright office hours on matters affecting the audiovisual industry, documentary filmmakers, film educators
2023-11-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Join this copyright office hours session to discuss matters affecting the audiovisual industry, documentary filmmakers, film educators, with peers and experts in the copyright community.
The event, organised by the Europeana Copyright Community, will be held online,
Find out more about the data space!

EuropeanaTech presents: Acoustics and sound in cultural heritage
2023-11-22 13:00 - 14:00 | 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 Nov 22 will be held online.
Register now!

Europeana Impact Café Explore the Europeana Impact Playbook, Phase two
2023-11-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join this Café from the Europeana Impact Community, focusing on Phase two 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 two is dedicated to measuring impact.

Ida Pfeiffer - Forschungsreisende und Sammlerin im 19. Jahrhundert
2023-11-22 18:30 - 19:30 | NHM Wien, Vienna, Austria
Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858) unternahm zwischen 1842 und 1858 fünf große Reisen in verschiedene Länder und Erdteile. Zahlreiche Naturalien, die sie von ihren Expeditionen mitgebracht hatte, bereicherten die Bestände des k.k. Naturalienkabinetts. Darunter waren auch einige bisher unbekannte Arten. Der Vortragsabend beleuchtet Biographie und Forschungsleistungen der Wiener Weltreisenden und stellt sie in einen größeren historischen Kontext.
Der Vortrag wird vom NHM Wien in Kooperation mit den Freunden des NHM Wien und der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft Wien organisiert. Für weitere Informationen siehe hier.

ENA General Assembly 2023
2023-11-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
The Europeana Network Association will hold its General Assembly meeting on 29 November 2023. The aim is to engage in interactive discussions around the strategic interests of ENA and the Europeana Initiative. The main topic will be the common European data space for cultural heritage and how the ENA members can contribute to it.
Register now for this online event!

Europeana Impact Café Explore the Europeana Impact Playbook, Phase three
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:00 | 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!

IIIF 2023 Online Meeting
2023-12-05 17:00 - 2023-12-07 21:00 | Online
The 2023 Online Meeting will take place December 5-7 and is free to attend. It is open for a wide range of participants and meant to introduce newcomers to IIIF and to provide a forum for discussion and dissemination of IIIF and its resources.
The call for proposals is open until September 15, 2023. The submission form can be found here.
The required registration is now open!

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!

Humboldt Futures
2024-01-12 09:30 - 16:15 | Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Sophienstraße 22A, Berlin, 10178, Germany
Humboldt Futures is a projection project putting light on the debates and discussions about the Berlin Humboldt Forum and putting it into the frame of today’s challenges.
With opening the Digital Twin of the Humboldt Forum to the public, it aims to contribute to the growing discussions about the world’s future.
You can join this event by writing an e-mail to the organizers.

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!

46th European Conference on Information Retrieval
2024-03-24 - 2024-03-28 | 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 more information.

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!

Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data in 2D/3D Digital Heritage Documentation
2024-04-08 14:00 - 17:00 | 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 brings together experts from the field of Digital Cultural Heritage sharing their knowledge and experience of using paradata and working with it.
It is also possible to share your own experience about the topics presented on the event’s webiste. You can submit your contribution until March 29.
Find more information here!
Recording of the event: YouTube channel: https://unescochair-dch.net/1st_Webinar_3D_Digital_Documentation_CH

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.

EMAF - European Media Art Festival
2024-04-24 - 2024-05-28 | Osnabrück, Germany
The 37th EMAF takes place in Osnabrück from April 24-28. The call for submissions is now closed.
If you want to learn more about the EMAF and last year’s festivals, visit the 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.

Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data for Documenting 2D/3D Digital Cultural Heritage
2024-05-17 14:00 - 18:00 | Online
This webinar, organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage in Cyprus, is in direct continuity to the similarly named webinar from April 8th, which focused on the topic of paradata and metadata for 3D Aquisition in Cultural Heritage.
The event now gives the spotlight to Case Studies & Implementations in that matter. Its aim is to work towards a community-built set of standards for the application of paradata to 3D documentation and is therefore addressed at the whole Digitial Cultural Heritage Community, to start with a location determination of paradata and metadata.
Visit the event’s website for more information or register here.
Note: If you already registered for the first part of the webinar series (8th April 2024) you do not have to register again.
