Nicole McNeilly

Community & Partner Engagement

Impact Advisor Europeana Foundation Netherlands Cultural Heritage

Member of Impact Community

Nicole is a runner, reader, cyclist, traveller, foodie, Russian language learner, and a keen but lapsed trombonist. She feels most at home near water, the countryside or mountains.

Speaking at

25 — 27 August 2017
Essen

Maker Faire Hannover

Creative industries makers

A festival for inspiration, creativity and innovation. The fifth edition of the Maker Faire Hannover will gather over 900 makers at 200 stands and …

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20 — 21 May 2017
Enschede

Leonardo Maker Festival Twente

Creative industries makers

The Leonardo Maker Festival Twente is a co-production of Tetem and Museum TwentseWelle . Maker Festivals and Maker Faires are festivals …

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29 March 2017
Online event

Europeana4Education at Open Education Week 2017

Education

As part of Open Education Week 2017, Europeana invites educational publishers, content developers and software developers to find out how they …

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Blogposts

Title:

Bavlněný tištěný šátek

Creator:

Mgr. Tauberová Monika

Institution:

Historické muzeum

Country:

Česká republika

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 15 March 2023

Report from the Czech Presidency Europeana conference

events impact

Read the report ‘Digital transformation in the common European data space for cultural heritage: measurement and assessment, Czech Presidency 2022’.

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Title:

Passion fruit, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 27 February 2023

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana 2021

Impact framework Network europeana-2021 impact

This Impact Assessment Report explores Europeana’s annual conference, Europeana 2021 - Recover, Rebuild, Grow.

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Title:

Malerei | S2310-7

Creator:

Z'Graggen, Maria Magdalena

Institution:

Kooperationinitiative Museen Baselland

Country:

Switzerland

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 31 January 2023

Europeana Impact Community Work Plan 2023

Network impact

The Europeana Impact Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2023.

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Title:

Number Fascination

Creator:

Domestic Data Streamers

Date:

4 May 2022

Institution:

Estonian National Museum

Country:

Estonia

Copyright:

CC BY-NC

News Created: 22 November 2022

Learning from data collection with the Me-Mind project and Estonian National Museum

impact impactplaybook #IMD2023

The Estonian National Museum shares tips from their recent ‘Numbers Fascination’ exhibition, organised by the Me-Mind project, about how cultural heritage institutions can embed impact thinking and data collection into their exhibitions.

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Title:

Shofar blowing on New Year

Creator:

Bernard Picart

Date:

1725

Institution:

Jewish Historical Museum

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 2 November 2022

16 sustainability indicators for digital heritage projects: a Jewish History Tours reflection

Impact framework sustainability impact

To what extent does the Jewish History Tours project strengthen the ecosystem around digital storytelling in cultural route creation? With project partners, we mapped out 16 sustainability indicators to guide the project’s next steps. Find out more about the indicators and see how they can help you evaluate and plan for your own project’s sustainability and impact.

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Title:

Detail from Vas cu flori

Date:

1930-1940

Institution:

National Heritage Institute, Bucharest

Country:

Romania

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 8 August 2022

How to use Outcome Harvesting to investigate your impact

Impact framework impact

In 2020, Europeana piloted the use of Outcome Harvesting in our impact work, an evaluation method increasingly applied in the development sector. Here we share what we learned about the methodology, how we used it and how it could be useful to cultural heritage impact practitioners.

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Title:

Detail from Landscape with a Chair

Creator:

Galanda, Mikuláš

Date:

1929/1930

Institution:

Slovak national gallery

Country:

Slovakia

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 12 July 2022

Our impact word of the year: embedding

Impact framework impact

For a decade, Europeana has been working to standardise an approach that we - and others - could adopt to better understand the impact of digital cultural heritage. We look at the progress we have made towards this goal over the last year.

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Title:

Digitiser Robyn Crowther scanning drawers of Carabidae beetles 4

Institution:

© The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

Country:

United Kingdom

News Created: 16 March 2022

Understanding the economic impact of digitisation at the Natural History Museum

Impact framework impact

In this interview with the Natural History Museum in London, we hear about the findings of a recent impact study which gave them new insights into the economic value of digitising their collections.

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Title:

Monastère fortifié de l'Ile Saint-Honorat, Abbaye de Lérins, Cannes (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)

Creator:

Jerome Kelagopian

Institution:

© Fondation du patrimoine

News Created: 3 March 2022

How impact assessment helps us to understand the value of built cultural heritage

Impact framework impact

We interview Ana Aziza, Project Manager, Fondation du patrimoine (France), who shares how an economic impact assessment completed by the Fondation provided insights into the value of the work they do and cultural heritage in France.

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Title:

Marmortreppe im Palazzo Bonagia in Palermo

Creator:

Friedrich Alois Schönn (Künstler/in)

Date:

1878 oder 1880

Institution:

Austrian Gallery Belvedere

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 15 February 2022

Impact Community Work Plan 2022

Impact framework Network

The Europeana Impact Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2022.

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Title:

Cabbage, sagittal view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 16 December 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana Network Association 2021

Impact framework Network

This report sets out the findings from the second investigation into members’ satisfaction and the outcomes of their participation in the Europeana Network Association.

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Title:

New bone growth within a bioceramic bone substitute

Creator:

Karin Hing

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 22 September 2021

Highlights from a year of working on impact for cultural heritage

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions europeanaimpact impact impactcommunity impactplaybook

Embedding impact at the heart of Europeana’s work on capacity building for digital transformation has been a major focus of our activities over the past year. We share highlights from our work and tools to support your own impact practice!

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Title:

Europeana 2019 - Connect Communities

Creator:

Sebastiaan ter Burg

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 4 August 2021

Convening for change: the impact of our annual conferences

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions conference europeana-2020 events impact europeana-2021

We are delighted to have published our Europeana 2019 and Europeana 2020 impact assessments! We share learnings from the reports, explore how virtual and in-person events create different outcomes for participants and look at what this means for our future plans.

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Title:

Pumpkin, sagittal view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 15 July 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana 2019

Network Cultural Heritage Institutions case-studies conference event impact

This Impact Assessment Report explores Europeana’s annual conference, Europeana 2019: Connect Communities.

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Title:

Lemon, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 15 July 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana 2020

Impact framework Network Cultural Heritage Institutions case-studies conference europeana-2020 events impact impactplaybook

This report explores Europeana’s annual conference, Europeana 2020: Crisis, Change and Culture.

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Title:

Vitamin C imaged with polarised light.

Creator:

Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 20 April 2021

Supporting impact practice with the Europeana standardised question bank

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions build-digital-capacity impact impactplaybook

Today, we publish Europeana’s standardised question bank, a tool to support cultural heritage organisations to investigate the impact they create for their stakeholders. The tool is one of a number of resources being developed to accompany Phase 2 of the Europeana Impact Playbook - explore how to use it.

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Title:

Engineering: a hoist in use at an arsenal. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after Leonardo da Vinci.

Creator:

Leonardo da Vinci

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 16 April 2021

Join our symposium - ‘Research and digital cultural heritage: new impact horizons’

Academic Research digital-cultural-heritage events impact impactplaybook

On 11 and 12 May 2021, Europeana will bring together cultural heritage professionals, policy makers, academics and researchers to discuss impact horizons of research when nurtured by digital cultural heritage. The organisers explain where the idea of a symposium came from and how its programme took shape.

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Title:

Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 24 February 2021

Understanding Europeana’s impact - introducing our impact assessment reports

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions case-studies impact impactplaybook europeanaimpact

We are delighted to share the first in a series of impact assessments we have conducted using and testing the Europeana Impact Playbook. The reports, carried out between 2019 - 2020, are the result of an intensive year of looking into the impact of Europeana’s work to support the digital transformation of the heritage sector. Explore the findings.

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Title:

Guava, sagittal view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Presidency events

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions events impact impactcommunity impactplaybook member-states case-studies europeanaimpact

This report explores the impact of the cultural heritage policy oriented presidency conferences which Europeana organises every year together with the Member States holding the presidency.

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Title:

Kiwi, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Enrich Europeana / Transcribathon

Impact framework Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions enrich-europeana generic-services impact impactplaybook transcribathon europeanaimpact case-studies

This report focuses on the impact of Transcribathon, an online crowdsourcing platform for the enrichment of European digital cultural heritage, from the Enrich Europeana project.

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Title:

Garlic, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: National Workshops

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions events impact impactcommunity impactplaybook member-states case-studies europeanaimpact

This report explores the impact of national workshops, one or two day learning events led by the Europeana Foundation and an accredited aggregator with the support of local representatives.

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Title:

Tomato, sagittal view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Europe at Work

Collections Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions europe-at-work impact impactcommunity impactplaybook case-studies europeanaimpact

This report explores the impact of Europe at Work, Europeana’s fourth participatory campaign that focussed on the collection of user-generated content.

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Title:

Persimmon, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana Network Association

Impact framework Network Cultural Heritage Institutions impact impactcommunity case-studies europeanaimpact

This report looks at the impact of the Europeana Network Association (ENA), a democratic community of experts working in the field of digital cultural heritage.

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Title:

Mandarin orange, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: EuropeanaTech and IIIF

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions case-studies impact impactplaybook europeanatech europeanaimpact

This report explores the impact that the EuropeanaTech community and Europeana Initiative have on the implementation and development of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

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Title:

Apple, sagittal view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: Digital programming series

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions europeana-communicators events impact impactplaybook webinars case-studies europeanaimpact

This report explores the impact of the digital programme created by Europeana and catalysed by the COVID-19 crisis in 2020.

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Title:

Visualising digital transformation

Creator:

Europeana Foundation and Sketchy Business

Date:

2020

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 15 February 2021

Defining digital transformation for the cultural heritage sector

Strategy Cultural Heritage Institutions build-digital-capacity capacity-building digital-transformation

At Europeana, the ambition of ‘digital transformation’ has been at the heart of what we do for many years. Now, we have a shared working definition of digital transformation for the cultural heritage sector.

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Title:

Ballando in città

Creator:

Alice Pasquini

Date:

2013

Institution:

Associazione culturale GoTellGo

Country:

Italy

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 24 September 2020

Webinar series explores impact of digital cultural heritage

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions impactcommunity impactplaybook webinar impact

We are excited to launch an upcoming series of webinars to support professionals in using the Europeana Impact playbook, supporting you to better plan, measure and understand the impact that digital cultural heritage creates.

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Title:

Höst vid Vänern (Åmål)

Creator:

Olof Sager-Nelson

Date:

1891

Institution:

Nationalmuseum

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 1 November 2018

10 reasons to open up your digital cultural heritage data

Data publication Data standards Cultural Heritage Institutions open-data openGLAM europeana10

Today, we start a Pro News series focusing on Europeana's 10th anniversary, which we are marking throughout November. Here, we present 10 reasons to open up cultural heritage data for free reuse.

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Title:

Illuminated initial from BL Royal 2 A XVIII, f. 177v

Date:

c.1430

Institution:

British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 30 May 2018

Discover manuscripts from late antiquity to the arrival of the printing press with new Europeana Manuscripts collection

Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture lover manuscripts rise-of-literacy

A treasure trove of manuscripts in Europeana Collections has lain unloved for too long. Through Europeana Manuscripts, we’ll start bringing out the best of this content and celebrating the work of the experts and institutions who are working to preserve and digitise the textual heritage that reflects our history.

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Title:

The National Library of Lithuania,, CC BY-SA

Creator:

Nicole McNeilly

Date:

April 2018

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 11 May 2018

Lithuanian cultural heritage in a digital world: a Europeana national workshop

Data publication Data standards Cultural Heritage Institutions aggregation Lithuania national-workshop

On Wednesday 25 April 2018, the National Library of Lithuania hosted a Europeana national workshop in its spectacular renovated building.

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Title:

D100. Japanese Lantern Makers | Unbekannt.

Date:

1880-1890.

Institution:

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 14 February 2018

#MakeWithEuropeana: Makers market pilot report

Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions makers creative-industries

Europeana releases its report of the makers market and sets out recommendations for our future approach to reaching this segment of the creative industries.

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Title:

Image from the PARTHENOS training suite website

Blog Created: 1 February 2018

PARTHENOS releases new training module for digital humanities researchers

Projects Academic Research web-resources

The project organisers have released a new training module entitled “Manage, Improve and Open Up Your Research Data”. The module addresses concepts such as the FAIR Principles, Open Science, and Data Management Plans, and is geared towards researchers in the digital humanities.

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Title:

Joe Petrosino Museum pitching during interactive impact assessment session

News Created: 15 December 2017

Presenting Impact at the Europeana Network Association AGM

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions AGM europeanaimpact impact

The 2017 Europeana Network Association AGM was dedicated to exploring the impact of digital cultural heritage - we’d like to share the learning and inspiration we took home with us.

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News Created: 26 September 2017

Introducing the Rise of Literacy Generic Services project: digitizing Europe’s textual heritage

Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions books rise-of-literacy

Read about our kick off meeting to create text based collections

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Blog Created: 12 September 2017

Digital cultural heritage content in schools: learnings from our partnership with European Schoolnet

Collections Content promotion Education education

Read about the outcomes of our teacher's validation pilot

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Blog Created: 7 September 2017

‘Add culture to your course’ with Eliademy and Europeana Collections

Collections Content promotion Education

Finnish learning platform Eliademy brings digital art and culture to the classroom

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Blog Created: 30 August 2017

#MakewithEuropeana at Maker Faire Hannover

Creative industries makers creative-industries conference

labs On 27 August 2017, Europeana took to the stage at Maker Faire Hannover (MFH) to show makers, researchers, and interested members of the …

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News Created: 4 July 2017

Maps for makers

Creative industries creative-industries makers maps

labs Over the past months, we’ve been showcasing the best of our openly licensed digital cultural heritage content to inspire makers and new …

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News Created: 10 April 2017

Inspire makers to creatively transform Europe’s digital cultural heritage

Data publication Content promotion Creative industries digital culture makers

pro We recently launched the Europeana ‘makers pilot’, a programme of research and promotional activities to explore how to harness the value of …

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News Created: 6 April 2017

Europeana at Open Education Week 2017

Collections Education

pro Between 27 and 31 March 2017, we joined educational institutions, publishers, academics, students and enthusiasts from across the world at the …

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News Created: 5 April 2017

#MakeWithEuropeana

Creative industries makers creative-industries art-nouveau

labs The maker movement is diverse, dynamic, and digitally connected. It is an innovative and independent community that brings together both …

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News Created: 27 March 2017

Plotting Europeana on the OER World Map

Content promotion Education digital europeana europeana4education

pro By Jan Neumann, Head of Legal Affairs and Organisation at the North Rhine Westphalian Library Service Centre and Project Manager of the OER …

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News Created: 22 March 2017

Help shape inspiring education: join us as we launch Europeana4Education!

API Content promotion Education europeana4education historiana artstories

pro We believe that Europeana’s content has value for all areas of education; from the formal to the informal, from primary education to lifelong …

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Blog Created: 6 March 2017

#Europeana4Education: final teachers’ workshop

Collections Education workshops

pro On 27-28 February 2017, European Schoolnet (EUN), the international network of European Ministries of Education, hosted the final Europeana …

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Title:

Dürer, Albrecht

Creator:

Hendrik Hondius

Date:

1598

Institution:

Austrian National Library

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 3 March 2017

Get #InspiredbyEuropeana at Coding Dürer

API Collections Academic Research Creative industries api hackathon

labs Are you one of the art historians and data-scientists taking part in the Coding Dürer hackathon ? Do you want to know what Europeana …

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Blog Created: 6 December 2016

#Europeana4Education: Europeana taster for teachers

Collections Education europeana4education EUN

pro Twenty teachers of all disciplines from 10 EU countries took part in a workshop — from 28-29 November, led and hosted by European Schoolnet …

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Blog Created: 19 September 2016

The next Europeana Challenge 2016 is open

Funding Creative industries challenge challenge2016
Apply for your share of €20.000 for the best idea(s) that re-use Europeana's openly licensed fashion content in a digital application or product.
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Blog Created: 19 September 2016

The next Europeana Challenge 2016 is now open!

Collections Funding Creative industries challenge

pro Today Europeana launches the second Europeana Challenge of 2016 dedicated to the theme of fashion. The challenge offers a share of €20.000 …

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