Milena Dobreva

Treasurer - Management Board

MC Term: January 2021 - December 2026

Senior Lecturer University of Strathclyde

I am working in the domains of digital transformation, user experiences and innovation in big digital cultural collections. After 13 years of academic experience in Scotland, Malta and Qatar I am now reintegrating in my native Bulgaria with a research grant which explores disruptive technologies in innovation labs in GLAM institutions. In 2019 I was instrumental in hosting the booksprint which delivered the first book exploring the innovation labs in the cultural and scientific heritage sectors, ‘Open a GLAM Lab’ and I also was honoured to receive the Europeana Unsung Hero award. A member of the ENA Management Board.

News posts

Title:

Madara Rider

Creator:

Velislav Bonev and Andrei Aladzhov

Date:

2023

Institution:

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Country:

Bulgaria

Copyright:

CC BY-NC

News Created: 16 April 2024 Milena Dobreva

Europeana Initiative Country Group for Bulgaria co-organises national strategic event around digital transformation and 3D

Digital-cultural-heritage 3d Bulgaria Twin-it Country-groups

Milena Dobreva tells us how a recent event in Bulgaria explored the landscape of national digitisation, with a focus on 3D. Featuring expert speakers and a rich programme, the event took place under the Twin it! 3D for Europe’s culture label.

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Title:

Achilles

Creator:

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Institution:

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC BY-NC-SA

News Created: 19 February 2024 Milena Dobreva

Discover the development of the first-ever Bulgarian national platform for digital cultural heritage

Digital-cultural-heritage Bulgaria Country-groups

Developments taking place at a national level in Bulgaria will see the launch of the country’s first platform for digital cultural heritage.

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News Created: 21 April 2023 Milena Dobreva Alexandra Angeletaki

eCHOIng project develops training modules based on open innovation for the cultural heritage sector

Innovation

Since 2022, eCHOing, an Erasmus+ project bringing together academics, activists and practitioners, has been exploring how academia driven open-innovation can support the post-pandemic recovery of cultural heritage. Discover the training modules that the project has developed on this topic.

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Title:

Milena Dobreva presenting MA Library and Information studies at UCL Qatar, Doha.

Creator:

Milena Dobreva

Date:

2017

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 28 June 2021 Milena Dobreva Georgia Evans

Professionals in Focus - Milena Dobreva

Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Members-council Professionals

For ‘Professionals in Focus’ , we speak to Europeana Network Association Members Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Council. This month, Milena Dobreva discusses the concept of heteromation and bringing together GLAM and research sectors.

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Title:

A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a represent

Creator:

Richard Corbould

Date:

1805

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 14 February 2020 Milena Dobreva

Innovation through GLAM Labs

Collections Academic Research Data Labs Innovation Glam

Milena Dobreva is an Associate Professor in Library and Information Studies at UCL Qatar, as well as one of Europeana 2019’s Unsung Heroes for her work with the Europeana Research Community. In this post, she discusses the concept of a GLAM lab and her contribution to Open a GLAM Lab, a book for everyone interested in experimentation with digital collections.

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Milena Dobreva

News posts

Europeana Initiative Country Group for Bulgaria co-organises national strategic event around digital transformation and 3D

Discover the development of the first-ever Bulgarian national platform for digital cultural heritage

eCHOIng project develops training modules based on open innovation for the cultural heritage sector

Professionals in Focus - Milena Dobreva

Innovation through GLAM Labs