Europeana highlights: July-September 2021

The European Commission’s New European Bauhaus initiative wants to put sustainability, inclusivity and beauty at the heart of Europe’s future. Through conversations with cultural professionals and heritage advocates, we are exploring the key role that cultural heritage can play.

Summer 2021 was a summer of sport, complemented by the Europeana Sport season, which shared the story of Europe through sporting heritage. September saw us ready to refocus, whether that was going back to school armed with a best practice toolkit for creating learning resources, or setting into motion new creative ideas for sharing digital cultural heritage, guided by learnings from others on things like creating podcasts and vlogs.

Working in the cultural heritage sector is all about making a difference to the people who visit and use our products and services. Europeana helps cultural heritage institutions to measure, evaluate and understand the impact of their work on stakeholders, audiences and the wider public. We share highlights from the last year of working on impact, including the impact assessments of our 2019 (in-person) and 2020 (online) conferences. 

The ‘Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive’ was adopted in 2019 - we explore the progress and choices Member States are making in implementing it, the challenges involved, and take a look at why risk management remains important when clearing rights and publishing collections online. 

A selection of some of the other most-read Europeana Pro News items from July to September 2021.

We are working hard on developing an exciting and useful programme for our annual conference, Europeana 2021: Recover, Rebuild, Grow, taking place in November. In the meantime, sign up for forthcoming webinars from Europeana and friends, or catch up on those you might have missed!