Forthcoming event highlights

As 2012 ends, here’s the must-know information for some of the forthcoming Europeana partner key events early in the New Year. Interested? Follow the links to find out more or to register.

Featured image for December: 'Expérience du Globe Aërostatiques de MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin des Thuileries le I. Decembre 1783’ Bibliothèque National de France and The European Library, public domain.

New events

ICT / Policy Support Programme Call for Proposals Information Day, 15 January, Brussels
To receive funding from the EU Digital Agenda for Europe under the PSP Programme, you should answer a Call by the Commission (Call 7) by 14 May 2013. This Information Day will help you to do this.
One of the Information Day themes is 'Digital content, open data and creativity', which includes two Europeana-related objectives. The first is 'Enriching and improving the Europeana content base'. Best Practice Networks will be supported for up to 5 M€. Preference will be given to proposals contributing audiovisual material including films to Europeana. The second is 'Promoting the use of Europeana by creative industries'. Best Practice Networks will be supported up to 7 M€. The proposal should address the necessary licensing or clearing arrangements for IPR to ensure the wide use and dissemination of the project output.
More info and register

Open Data Case Studies Workshop, 29 January, Paris
Europeana and Institut National d'Audiovisuel (INA) invite representatives from the cultural sector, Wikipedia, and business design to discuss and analyse 5 real life examples of services based on Open Data, identify the value created by those services and discover what lessons can be learnt from them. We will invite five organisations who have developed, or are in the final stages of developing services that use Open Data, to present their cases to this panel.
The output of this meeting will be a publication that will be shared widely across the GLAM sector, serving as an inspiration for the services that can be created through the re-use of Open Data.
Register before 22 January

Midem 2013, 26-29 January, Cannes, France
Midem is a yearly international B2B event dedicated to the new music ecosystem, with a tradeshow, conferences, competitions, networking events and live performances. It’s the place where music makers, cutting-edge technologies, brands and talents come together to enrich the passionate relationship between people and music, transform audience engagement and form new business connections.
More info

Europeana End-User Research Workgroup, 31 January, The Hague
We’re interested in the ever-changing behaviours and demands of end-users across the web and we want to explore how this affects Europeana and how we can adapt to the needs of new and existing users. In this first meeting, Europeana is initiating a workgroup of 12 members from the Network with the aim of extending knowledge of end-users’ needs and behaviours. The workgroup will be involved in various research activities that will be shared with the Network through a number of outcomes and deliverables in 2013/14.
For more info or if you would like to participate in this group remotely, please contact Neil Bates.

Museum LAB, 30 January – 1 February, Science Museum, London, UK
iDROPS (Belgium) and the Creative Industries KTN (UK) are organising a 2nd Museum LAB to help you develop your innovative ideas for projects to improve audiences’ access to collections. At the end of the LAB, you will have made lots of adjustments to your concept and learned different tools to bring your project to a higher level.
More info

More on events
Check out our events calendar for other diary dates and our presentations page for slides from recent events.

Your events
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