Eleanor Kenny

Former Head of Communications and External relations Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL Cultural Heritage

Eleanor leads on Europeana’s communications. She has worked in the arts, heritage and film sectors for more than a decade and is passionate about spreading the word on Europeana and what we can offer the world of culture. Off-duty, she loves to lose herself in a good film or book. Or a good book on film.

News posts

Title:

Collaboration icon

Creator:

Carlos Marcelino

Date:

2021

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 8 February 2022 Eleanor Kenny Julia Fallon Milena Popova Beth Daley

Talking collaboration at the Europeana Foundation: driving change together

European-commission Partnerships Projects Business-plan collaboration

The Europeana Foundation’s Business Plan 2021, ‘Towards a digital public space for cultural heritage’, highlights five themes that run through all aspects of our work. We explore these themes with a series of interviews with Europeana Foundation staff. Here, Julia Fallon, Eleanor Kenny and Milena Popova from the Europeana Foundation, talk about collaboration.

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Title:

JR 01 scientific computer

Creator:

Jouets rationnels

Institution:

Deventer Musea

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 25 August 2021 Eleanor Kenny

What principles should guide Europe’s digital future?

Strategy Advocacy Funding Network Cultural Heritage Institutions European-commission Consultation foreign-policy

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.

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Title:

New European Bauhaus visual

Creator:

European Commission

Date:

April 2021

Institution:

European Commission

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 29 April 2021 Eleanor Kenny

Beautiful - sustainable - together: the New European Bauhaus

Strategy Cultural Heritage Institutions Sustainability New-european-bauhaus Green european-commmision

The European Commission has initiated a New European Bauhaus movement to shape future ways of living that answer the challenges we face today. Think green, sustainable and affordable, alongside accessible, inclusive and beautiful. Find out what it’s all about, what Europeana’s involvement is and how you can join the conversation today.

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Title:

Childcare Prevention is better than cure, 1917 US Red Cross

Creator:

Alice Dick Dumas

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 30 June 2020 Eleanor Kenny

European Commission seeks your views on future of digital and culture

Advocacy Funding Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Policy European-commission Consultation

The European Commission is now consulting on the opportunities offered to the cultural heritage sector by digital technologies. The results of this consultation will help shape related policy, priorities and funding at national and EU level for years to come. Your voice is critical.

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Title:

View of Dubrovnik

Date:

1914

Institution:

National and University Library of Zagreb

Country:

Croatia

Copyright:

Public Domain

Pressrelease Created: 15 July 2019 Eleanor Kenny

Heritage at Risk - honours Europe’s iconic sites and highlights role of digital in heritage restoration

Heritage

Marking three months since the fire that engulfed Notre-Dame de Paris, Europeana - the European Union’s digital platform for cultural heritage - launches the online exhibition Heritage at Risk.

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Title:

Harry Verwayen

Creator:

Europeana Foundation

Date:

2011

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Pressrelease Created: 13 April 2018 Eleanor Kenny

Europeana Foundation appoints new Executive Director

Strategy Cultural Heritage Institutions Governing-board Executive-Director

The Governing Board of the Europeana Foundation has appointed Harry Verwayen to be the new Executive Director of the organisation.

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Title:

Open education awards for excellence

Creator:

Open education awards for excellence

Date:

2018

Institution:

Open education awards for excellence

Pressrelease Created: 23 March 2018 Eleanor Kenny

Europeana wins global education award for work to open up digital cultural heritage

Strategy Education Open-education Award

Europeana has been awarded the 2018 Open Education Award for Excellence in the category of Open Culture. The OEA Awards provide annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the Open Education community.

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Pressrelease Created: 21 April 2017 Eleanor Kenny

Europeana launches a social media tribute to World Book Day

Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Digital Culture books social

For World Book Day, Europeana wants people to engage with famous European texts using social media, taking them on a month long literary tour of Europe.

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Blog Created: 2 July 2012 Eleanor Kenny

EU award for Europeana cultural hackers

Network Creative industries Events
On June 22nd 2012, Europeana showcased award-winning apps that demonstrate the social and commercial possibilities of open cultural data and its potential to touch everyday lives, at the European Commission's Digital Agenda Assembly.
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