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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 UTC | 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.

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