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The 3 December Europeana Writers’ Room focuses on the theme of climate action, and helps you prepare your entry for the first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award. Join for inspiring writing prompts based on cultural heritage from Europeana.eu. Register 👉 bit.ly/4o4XeHL
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Sometimes organisations are afraid of the lack of data to make decisions.

Do not worry, data is out there!

You might need the right "tools" to analyse it but - remember - that without a curious mind and a solid method even the most advanced technological instruments are useless...
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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📚 Europe needs a Books Data Commons. Our new paper with @europeana.bsky.social shows how library-controlled infrastructure can unlock digitized cultural heritage for AI—strengthening digital sovereignty and advancing the Data Union Strategy. openfuture.eu/publication/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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📣 The Call for Papers for the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 is now open!

🌐 This year’s event will explore 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 & 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮: 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 & will take place from May 26-29th in Rome, Italy🇮🇹

🚨 Deadline: December 22

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November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🗓️ Join our Europeana Academy training course on creating with cultural heritage collections ✍️

Join on 12 December and learn what to consider when creating your own blog. By the end of the training you will be ready create your own stories. Sign up here: bit.ly/47Sg8go%22
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Schengen area, consists of 29 countries in Europe, is over 4 million km² and is populated by almost 420 million people. It is the world's largest travel area without internal border controls. Discover how it began, how it works, and the challenges it faces today ➡️ bit.ly/48G9AC7
Schengen: a Europe without borders?
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November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Join our informal Impact Community Café on 9 December and hear about the experience of Music Archive Finland in using two impact models together. After hearing their perspective, take part in an open Q&A session and share your own perspectives: bit.ly/47YK5dw
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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📢 @europeana.bsky.social Creative Climate Action Award✨

Write, imagine, and inspire 🌿

The first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award invites you to create a short story or poem (up to 500 words) inspired by cultural heritage and the theme of climate action.

👉 More ℹ️: shorturl.at/rDWPZ
Europeana Creative Climate Action Award - Enter our creative writing competition before 11 January 2026
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Prizes and publication for the winners!
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November 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's photographic portraiture #OnlineArtExchange we've chosen to share this excellent self(ie) portrait by Josefina Rydholm, from the collections of Bohusläns museum 📸
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The @dataconversations.bsky.social project recently invited cultural professionals and creatives to share their perspectives on impact needs and challenges. Discover the findings and the learnings here: bit.ly/43qoCbQ
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🗓️ Join our Europeana Communicators Community webinar on 24 November and hear museum professionals across Brazil and Europe explore issues of repatriation, decolonisation, and representation of Indigenous voices. Book your place now! bit.ly/47RBb1m
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today, @cop30brazil.bsky.social is discussing #culture. On this day, #Europeana is delighted to launch our first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition. Find out more and take part 👉 bit.ly/488sVeq
Europeana Creative Climate Action Award - Enter our creative writing competition before 11 January 2026
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Prizes and publication for the winners!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🎮🗓️ Video games are an engaging way to interact with cultural heritage. Join us and speakers from @efgamp.bsky.social on 26 November as we explore the video game as a cultural artefact in its own right. Sign up now 👉 bit.ly/4p9fYqF
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Every historical recipe tells a story - not just of ingredients and techniques, but of cultural exchange, social aspiration and the everyday lives of people who lived centuries ago.

Learn how trade, innovation and tradition shaped our culinary heritage: bit.ly/4nSTHfJ
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
There's still time to register for the Europeana Network Association's Annual General Assembly!

📅 13 November 2025, 9.30 - 11.00 CET
📍 Online
💡 This year's AGM has a special focus on #ArtificialIntelligence
👤 The AGM is for ENA members
🔗 bit.ly/4377uHP

See you there!
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Join our Europeana Café on 18 November. Speakers will introduce case studies from various perspectives around digitised heritage and data belonging to minority, indigenous and other communities. There’ll also be a Q&A and open discussion.

Find out more and sign up here: bit.ly/4nH0aKG
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
📣 Funding opportunity 📣

Are you a professional or researcher working with #3D cultural heritage? Apply now for the #3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call, which focuses on on transforming 3D heritage data into public-facing outreach experiences.

Get the full details & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3LrE8xP
Apply for the 3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call: opening 3D cultural heritage to the public | Europeana PRO
Are you a professional or researcher working with 3D cultural heritage? Then apply for funding for a new Outreach Synergy Call, launched under the 3DBigDataS…
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November 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The #Heritage of ancient Greece is commonly recognised as a ‘pillar’ of European culture and identity. But the complex historical processes of cultural reception & appropriation that have shaped this idea are not yet fully understood.

@michaelcultureasso.bsky.social explores ➡️ bit.ly/3KreRDx
The fascination with Greek culture - Ancient Greece as a ‘pillar’ of common European culture and identity
The heritage of ancient Greece is commonly recognised as a ‘pillar’ of common European culture and identity. However, the complex historical processes of cultural reception and appropriation that have...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
How can nature and related archival material inspire textile design? OpenUp! (Europeana's natural history aggregator) talked to Susanne Huber - artist and farmer, and founder of Austrian fashion label Peaces - to find out 👉 bit.ly/4mCwlu0
Peaces: fashion for peace, sustainability and social justice
How can nature and related archival material inspire textile design? OpenUp! (aggregator of natural history material for Europeana) talked to Susanne Huber - artist and farmer, and founder of Austrian...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Joseph, born into enslavement in Saint-Domingue, became a world-renowned model in Paris thanks to Géricault's 'The Raft of the Medusa'. What do we know about his life? @fondationme.bsky.social tells his story ➡️ bit.ly/47CF1Lv
Joseph - Who is the man portrayed in the Raft of the Medusa?
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October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Collecting data without an adequate strategy is like eating a bland soup that doesn't give you the results you expected.

Data doesn't guarantee useful results, if it's not contextualised.

How data can fit your purposes? Follow us on:
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October 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Planet Africa shares the outcomes of archaeological research through an exhibition that brings together new art with digital engagement. Its vibrant visuals were created by African artists and designed by notwendiges übel, a German company. Discover its achievements! ➡️ bit.ly/47vp3Tr
Spotlight on Planet Africa - an exhibition for archaeology communication | Europeana PRO
Planet Africa shares the outcomes of archaeological research through an exhibition that brings together new art with digital engagement. Its vibrant visuals…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Explore the collage pieces created through our Online Creative Residency, which respond to the fascinating and festive experience of eating oysters at a Christmas market in Riga bit.ly/46Vcl13 #DigitalStorytelling #FoodHeritage
Oysters - where, when and how - Collage art from Europeana's Online Creative Residency
Europeana's Online Creative Residency brings people who want to gain storytelling skills in a professional setting together with mentors in a range of formats. The theme for 2025 is food. Here are res...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A growing number of cultural institutions have recently closed entire galleries or covered display cases containing sacred and funerary objects. This is not an act of censorship or erasure. It is an act of listening. Samba Yonga tells us more ➡️ bit.ly/4oan5yN
Why museums should hide sacred African objects to truly see them | Europeana PRO
A growing number of cultural institutions have recently closed entire galleries or covered display cases containing sacred and funerary objects. This is not…
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October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The worlds of fashion and Surrealism have a rich and fascinating history of cross-pollination. From the 1930s onwards, fashion became a fertile ground for Surrealist creativity.

Find out more in this story from the European Fashion Heritage Association bit.ly/4gH0qao
Fashion’s fascination with Surrealism - Surrealist fashion designers and photography
How did the Surrealism art movement influence fashion?
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October 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM