Generative AI: Confusion of facts or understanding of content?
2025-05-21 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Online
This event is organised by EUScreen and focuses on the responsible use of and open questions on Generative AI connected with audiovisual materials. How do we approach the sensible use of Generative AI and how can we detect AI generated media?
This event aims to provide practical guidelines and critical reflections on that topic as well as potential tools for AI detection.
If you are interested in joining this event, please visit its website or go directly to the registering form.

Photography and archives: discovery, technology and innovation
2025-05-29 09:45 - 13:30 | Florence, Italy
This hybrid conference will take place on May 29 in Florence, Italy and online. It is coordinated by the Eureka3D-XR project, Photoconsortium and the Historical Archives of the European Union.
The event is part of Eureka’s capacity building programme and aims to highlight the evolving landscape of photographic archives through presentations of different use cases at institutions, research centres, and private image banks.
The preservation, management, and valorisation of photographic collections, especially in the light of new technologies will make a great part of the conference.
If you are interested in joining, please visit the event’s website or go directly to the registration form.

2025 IIIF Annual Conference
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-05 | Leeds, United Kingdom
The 2025 IIIF Annual Conference will be held in Leeds, UK, June 2-5. It will be jointly hosted by the University of Leeds and the IIIF Consortium.
It is intended for a wide range of participants and also adds a Showcase after the Conference days to introduce newcomers to IIIF. Topics will include IIIF implementations around the world.
The call for proposals is now closed. Register here for participation.

Europeana 2025 - Preserve, Protect, Reuse
2025-06-11 - 2025-06-12 | Polin Museum in Warsaw, Poland
The Europeana Conference 2025 is coming closer and the tickets are now available. You can attend the event onsite in Warsaw as well as online. The focus will be on the slogan “Preserve, Protect, Reuse” of cultural heritage and corresponding data.
The conference will be held on 11-12 June 2025 during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. This hybrid conference is organised in collaboration and partnership with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Poland and the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, who will host the conference.
Discover the full programme for the Europeana Conference 2025!

Museum Digital Summit
2025-07-22 - 2025-07-23 | Online
The virtual conference “Museum Digital Summit” is organized by MuseumNext and takes place online from 22-23 July 2025.
The event focuses on the digital work in museums and takes the rapidly changing digital environment into account. The conference is suited for everybody that works in a museum and wants to learn how to efficiently do digital work in museums and to apply the latest technologies.
The presentations will also be available to watch on-demand for 12 months. If you are interested in this event, learn more about it on its website or go directly to the registering form.

Preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana
2025-09-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This training course runs as part of the Europeana Academy on September 3rd 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.

Digital Heritage 2025
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-13 | San Niccolò Palace, Siena, Italy
The foundation of “Digital Heritage” as a conference dates back to 1998 and was formalized in 2013 as a critical platform for the intersection of digital technologies and cultural heritage. As a leading global event in that field, “Digital Heritage” features workshops, panels and tutorials as well as lectures and exhibitions. Professionals from all over the world and across domains will come together to debate the potentials and challenges of digital technology for cultural heritage.
After the first three editions (2013, 2015 and 2018) this year the conference will take place in Siena, Italy from 8-13 September 2025. The call for paper is open, you can find the specifications here.
Registration will be open on May 15, 2025. In addition, the draft programme for the conference is already online.

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
2025-09-09 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 11 March 2025 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
2025-09-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is organized by the Europeana Academy and will take place online on 14 March 2025. 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.

Inspiring new writing with European art and culture
2025-09-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
This event is organised by Europeana together with Writers’ HQ. The workshop is part of the Writing as Resitance Festival 2025 and uses inspiration from Europeana to explore new ways of enhancing your writing practice.
Find out more on the website or register here.

Copyright Office Hours: Evaluating risk in copyright clearance
2025-09-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Measuring risk regarding copyright clearance is a common problem among cultural heritage institutions. The uncertainty can be traced back to general grey areas for specific situations in copyright law. The question is: How can we face these grey areas?
These office hours will discuss various examples of cultural heritage organisations measuring risk, and some tools available.
Learn more about this event on the official website or register here.

A quiet writing hour with art and culture
2025-09-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This event, organised by Europeana, is part of the Shut Up & Write! initiative and supports writers by providing artworks and cultural heritage items from Europeana.eu to inspire the writer’s creativity.
You can learn more about that event on the website or go directly to the registering form.

Empowering networks with digital skills
2025-09-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
This webinar is organised as part of the framework Creative Week 2025 by the Una Europa university alliance and reaches out to Una Europa students and researchers from 11 universities across Europe. It will provide the exploration of Europeana’s offer, concerning education and research on cultural heritage.
Visit the official website for more information or view the event on Europeana.

Global STEAM Conference 2025
2025-09-23 - 2025-09-25 | Wesley University Ondo, Ondo, Nigeria
The hybrid Global STEAM Conference 2025, organised by The Green Institute, will take place from 23rd-25th September at Wesley University, Ondo. The whole conference will be podcasted live, so everyone around the world can follow. The event aims to bring together experts, innovators and thought leaders from all over the world together to address the world’s most pressing charges. They come from various fields in the sectors of Science, Technology, Egineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM).
During the second day of the conference, attendants will have the chance to listen to Dr. Juha Henrikssons (University of Finland) presentation on ”Promoting the Green, Digital, and Social Transition Through Digital Cultural Heritage”. He will be focusing on Europeana, the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage, and Time Machine Organisation.
The deadline for Abstract Submission ist August 15, 2025. If you want to learn more about this event, visit its website or go directly to the registering platform.

Reimagining cultural heritage in 3D and XR
2025-09-26 09:00 - 13:30 | Brussels, Belgium
This capacity-building event is organised by the Eureka3D-XR project in collaboration with Cultuurconnect and takes place on September 26 in Brussels and online. There will be an english hybrid session in the morning, while the rest of the event will be held in Dutch.
Eureka3D-XR aims to transform 2D and 3D content into extended reality scenarios.
The morning session will focus on the presentation of the Eureka3D-XR project and the first versions of XR tools developed by project partners. Attendants will get a glimpse of the open source XR tools and services that can be further applied for their own XR reuse scenarios.
Visit the event’s website to get more information or register.

IIIF Online Training (5-Day Course)
2025-09-29 18:00 - 2025-10-03 19:00, 2025-11-24 11:00 - 2025-11-28 12:00 | Online
This limited-seat 5 day course starts Mar 31 and is conducted online with video tutorials and extensive tutoring and support opportunities.
The course will be held completely online and covers the first steps in IIIF. Some topics will be:

Image API & Presentation API
Creating Manifests
Set up annotation environment + Annotation of resources

If you want to get started with IIIF but don’t quite know how, this training may be suitable for you. If you want to learn more about it, go directly to the registering page.
Important Information: The training will be held every day for one week at 6 p.m. (CEST).

Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops
2025-10-01 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.
Visit the website for more information or go directly to the registering form.

ENDORSE - The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics
2025-10-08 09:00 - 2025-10-09 17:30 | European Commission Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium
This conference takes place from 8 – 9 October 2025 at the Charlemagne building in Brussels. It is organised by the Publications Office of the European Union and brings together experts, researcheres and professionals from all around the European Union to speak about semantic interoperability, knowledge management and digital policy making.
Theme: ‘Reference Data and AI: Transforming Data into Action across Borders and Languages’
After the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act being launched on 1 August 2024, the conference will take this opportunity to discuss the use of AI in the context of reference data and semantic technologies.
Visit the website for more information or go directls to the registering form.

Educators in the data space: a bottom-up approach
2025-10-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
This online workshop is organised by the ENA Education Community Steering Group and focuses on the role of the Education Community within the European data space for cultural heritage. 15 to 20 educators will discuss their experiences with the current data servies provided by Europeana and, on that ground, provide recommendations and statements for the data space.
This event will take place on October 23rd and you can still apply to be one of the education specialists shaping the role of Europeana’s Education Community. Visit the website for more information or apply here. The registration will follow soon.

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2025
2025-10-25 - 2025-10-30 | Bologna, Italy
The 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence will take place in Bologna, October 25-30, 2025.
The conference will be organized by the Europeana Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) and focuses on AI development and sustainability-related issues.
If you are interested in submitting or taking part, visit the conference website to keep up with the latest information. The submission site opens 10 April 2025.

Europeana Network Association Cross-Community Workshop on Culture for AI
2025-10-27 14:00 - 2025-10-28 13:00 | SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
From 27 – 28 October 2025, EuropeanaTech focuses on perspectives and contributions to a sectoral position on the responsible use of AI. The Cross-Community Workshop will be led by 30 Members of the Europeana Network Association (ENA).
The workshop is organised in collaboration with SMK, AI4LAM, Sound and Vision and the Europeana Initiative and builds on the insights of the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI, launched in May 2025.
The workshop is for ENA members exclusively.
Learn more on the website.

GLAM Wiki 2025
2025-10-30 09:00 - 2025-11-01 22:00 | Lisbon
The Glam Wiki Conference, organised by Wikimedia Portugal and Wiki Editoras Lx, is an event about GLAM, Culture and Heritage.
The conference brings together community members from around the world to strenghten partnerships and report on projects, initiatives and activities in the GLAM sector.
The event will take place from 30 October to 2 November 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. Learn more about the event or go directly to the registering form.

Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops
2025-11-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Every first Wednesday each month, Europeana dedicates an hour to writing and creativity. The online content will be used to foster your creativity and inspire you, in combination with practical writing exercices. The theme this time will be ‘cosy comfort’.
Visit the website or go directly to the registering form.

Copyright Office Hours: Public domain basics and copyright clearance
2025-11-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
The Copyright Office Hours, organised by the Copyright Community, will cover the public domain field on November 5th. They will discuss how public domain materials can be identified, used, and made available. In addition, there will be a focus on two tools to support cultural heritage professionals working in that field.
Visit the website or go directly to the registering form.

Preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana
2025-11-12 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.

Europeana Network Association (ENA) General Assembly meeting 2025
2025-11-13 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
Are you interested in the development and use of Artificial Intelligence in digital cultural heritage? Do you want to know more about how Europeana’s Communities are shaping a shared vision for the use of AI in the common European data space for cultural heritage? Are you interested in learning how you can contribute to their activities? Then join the Europeana Network Association General Assembly on 13 November 2024!
The event will reflect on insights from the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI and recommendations and learnings from the ENA cross-community workshop and high level policy webinar held on 27-28 October in Copenhagen.
This meeting is exclusively for existing ENA Members.

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

Driving digital transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions
2025-11-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
This online training programme is the successor of two series of webinars organised in 2023-2024 by Eureka3D and will be held in three sessions on
19.11.2025
26.11.2025
03.12.2025
The training series wants to provide knowledge and practical experiences to cultural heritage professionals by creating a learning environment featuring different domain experts and an interactive working sessions for a selected group.
You can register until 5 October 2025. 30 learners will be selected by the organisers for the interactive session. If you want to learn more about this event series, visit the EUreka3D website.

FRAME Advanced Access 2025
2025-11-24 - 2025-11-28 | INA – French National Audiovisual Institute, Paris, France
Frame Advanced Access 2025, organised by the INA (French National Audiovisual Institute), is a training programme dedicated to international audiovisual heritage professionals. This is the second training edition and the call for applications is open until September 24.
This training is aimed at audiovisual heritage professionals with previous experience in archiving and basic concepts. The 5-day training will take place from 24 – 28 November 2025 at INA in Paris. Visit the homepage of the FRAME training programmes to get more information.
