Climate Action Community

Who we are

We are professionals at all levels who work within and around the digital cultural heritage sector. We acknowledge that climate change is an emergency and believe that cooperative action is required to reverse this momentum. 

What we do 

We aim to drive impactful, cooperative and sustainable action to address the climate emergency and the environmental impact of our life, work and the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector and we aim for wider systemic change within our organisations and networks. 

Why join?

  • Exchange knowledge, approaches and good practice related to climate action and the digital cultural heritage sector

  • Help grow expertise on how the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector can reduce the climate footprint of its digital transformation and contribute to positive climate action

  • Raise the profile of climate action in Europe’s cultural heritage institutions through specialised task forces, working groups and workshops 

  • Collaborate with your peers to address this urgent issue - we are stronger together!

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Activities and resources

Meet the steering Group

The Europeana climate action manifesto

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Title:
BARRE DES ECRINS 4103 M. ET GLACIER BLANC/ (DAUPHINE').
Creator:
SELLA VITTORIO
Date:
1900 ca.
Institution:
Archivio Fotografico - Fondo Gabinio
Country:
Italy

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Mixing sustainability and cultural heritage with TuEuropeana
Title:
TuEuropeana 2019 visual, reusing Jan Brueghel the Younger, Paradise with the Fall of Man, Mauritshuis, Holandia, public domain ;Fabryka papieru w Krapkowicach, Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe; Grażyna Rutowska, Kontenery na śmieci pod blokiem przy ul. Baczyński
Creator:
@magdarysuje

Mixing sustainability and cultural heritage with TuEuropeana

Created: 19 December 2019

The TuEuropeana project recently ran a poster competition exploring the theme of environmental sustainability to encourage the creative reuse of material accessed through Europeana and Polish digital repositories. In this post, Małgorzata Szynkielewska, Europeana's Content and Exhibitions Coordinator, interviews Maria Drabczyk - Chief International Projects Expert at FINA and Europeana Network Association Members Councillor - about the competition, which Małgorzata was a jury member.

Europeana 2019: Building a sustainable event
Title:
Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines
Creator:
1807
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Country:
Netherlands

Europeana 2019: Building a sustainable event

Created: 21 November 2019

In recent years, the threat of climate change has been a topic of conversation around the world, and Europeana has been listening. We have organised our annual conference, Europeana 2019, with our planet in mind, and this post explores some of the decisions we’ve made to help create a more sustainable event.

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