OpenUp!

Copyright basics for cultural heritage professionals
2026-04-07 10:00 - 12:30 UTC | 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 - 2026-07-08 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.
