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Institution: Telemuseet

Country: Norway

News Created: 29 January 2021 Dasha Moskalenko Andy Neale

Introducing strategic priorities for the Europeana website

We take a look at our strategy and plans for the Europeana website in the coming year, and how we will work to make it more engaging than ever for our visitors.

Title: Ilustrasjon av ESAs nye Aurora program som har som mål å lage strategi for Auropas solsystemforskning de neste 30 årene

Institution: Norsk Teknisk Museum

Country: Norway

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News Created: 28 January 2021 Milena Popova

Europeana Common Culture: successes towards a harmonised and coordinated aggregation ecosystem

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The Europeana Common Culture project has contributed significantly to the development of a well-functioning and sustainable aggregation infrastructure in Europe. We take a look back at what the project has achieved.

Title: PG.SS.PH.112, Inspection of penstock at Ardnacrusha, in Copyright, ESB Archives

Date: 8 May 1929

News Created: 19 January 2021 Killian Downing

The Shannon Scheme: reflections on sharing industrial cultural heritage during COVID-19

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As part of Europeana’s Europe at Work season, the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland, and partners have been exploring the role of the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme. The team involved in engaging audiences onsite and online during COVID-19 discuss their approach and the importance of sharing stories of Europe’s industrial heritage.

Title: Still Life with Fish and Fruit

Date: 1652

Institution: Rijksmuseum

Country: The Netherlands

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Page Created: 13 January 2021 By Gregory Markus

Issue 17: Multilinguality

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight, the EuropeanaTech publication, we present three articles related to multilingual access of digital cultural heritage material.

Title: Dog in the woods

Creator: Weisz-Kubínčan, Arnold Peter

Date: ca. 1937

Institution: Slovak National Gallery

Country: Slovakia

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News Created: 11 January 2021 Jolan Wuyts

#publicdomainday: a few of Europeana's public domain favourites, highlighted for you

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With the 1st of January each year marking Public Domain Day, this month on Europeana Pro we are exploring the public domain and open access to cultural heritage. In this post, members of the Europeana Network Association Communicators and Copyright communities share some of their favourite public domain works available on the Europeana website.

News Created: 14 November 2018 Steven Stegers

How can online tools promote historical thinking? A teacher training guide now available

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The potential for use of digital heritage in education is widely acknowledged, but in order to ensure this use offering access to this heritage is not enough. Sources need to be selected, contextualised, and crucially become part of learning activities for students. Europeana and the European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) worked together to inspire and support educators to create their own learning activities.