This position paper from the Europeana Initiative supports the consultation of the European Commission on the principles that should underpin Europe’s digital landscape and underlines elements we believe are critical to realising the potential of digital cultural heritage for Europe’s future.
The European Commission is now consulting on the digital principles that will serve as the foundation of Europe’s digital environment - it believes that the rights and values it promotes offline should also be reflected online. What considerations should be taken into account? Read Europeana’s response and submit your own before 2 September 2021.
The European Commission’s New European Bauhaus initiative wants to put sustainability, inclusivity and beauty at the heart of Europe’s future. We interview Harry Verwayen, General Director of the Europeana Foundation, about the key role cultural heritage can play in the initiative, and in the digital space.
Every quarter we bring you a round-up of what's been going on across the Europeana Initiative. Highlights from April to June 2021 include bringing culture into discussions about Europe’s future as part of the New European Bauhaus, a new season of sport, and the launch of our spring programme of digital events.
Title: Maria Inês Cordeiro, Director-General of the National Library of Portugal
We talk to Maria Inês Cordeiro, Director-General of the National Library of Portugal, about how the Portuguese Presidency put culture at the heart of both its policy and its event programming.
Title: he National Library of France’s Digital Roadmap
The National Library of France (BnF) has recently launched a new digital strategy - we speak to Céline Leclaire, Strategic content production officer, to explore the strategy and what it means for the organisation’s digital transformation.
