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Knowledge Development Specialist , Europeana Foundation
Gina van der Linden
Senior Event Manager , Europeana Foundation
Do you work in, with and around cultural heritage? Do you want to gain new knowledge, learn digital skills and get creative? Then register for the newly-launched Europeana Academy which combines self-paced courses with instructor-led training.
Europeana Academy is a training programme for professionals working with, in and around cultural heritage. It aims to provide participants with a comprehensive and enriching learning experience, and to support professionals to develop new skills and knowledge.
The Academy combines two aspects. The first is a digital training platform through which you can follow online, self-paced training on topics from copyright in cultural heritage collections, to using Europeana’s APIs, to IIIF, to data statistics and aggregation. The second is live, instructor-led training sessions which offer you the chance to follow these courses in real time with the support of an expert instructor.
Read on to discover how you can sign up today!
Throughout the year, the Europeana Academy runs live training courses with expert trainers from across the Europeana Initiative. These courses are lively and engaging, requiring active participation and interaction with trainers. Courses can consist of one or several sessions, and you will receive a certificate when you attend all of the sessions.
Spaces on these courses are limited but as the courses run several times a year, you can choose to take part in whichever period suits you best!
Discover and register for the instructor-led training in 2025.
Combined with the opportunity to learn directly from trainers in a live environment, Europeana Academy offers self-paced courses which you can take online through our new training platform. These courses cover the same topics as the instructor-led-training but you can work through them in a time and place that suits you best.
Anyone can sign up and follow these courses - go to our Training Platform to set up your account and start learning! The platform is under development, and more courses will be added over time.
The feedback from the Academy’s pilot programme (launched exclusively for Europeana Network Association Members in 2024) was very positive, and we are excited to now make it available to wider audiences!
One pilot participant commented that the course they followed, ‘Absolutely boosted the motivation to write a story about an idea I had - about the digital objects in Europeana collection… and link it to my thesis.’
Others shared that the courses had motivated them to share knowledge themselves, and were a useful basis for doing so: ‘I will share this information with coworkers so that we can put more content in Europeana and leverage the visibility of that content.’
Europeana Academy allows you to learn new skills in a format and at a pace that suits you. The courses and training have been developed by experts and shaped specifically for cultural heritage professionals, and we hope that they will help to develop and build capacity across our sector.
You can see all of the instructor-led training sessions available and register for them on the Europeana Academy webpage.
You can access and start following self-paced courses by signing up to our Training Platform. Once you’ve signed up, we suggest that the first course that you follow is a guide on how to use it.
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