Europeana Sport

Europeana Sport highlighted the rich heritage of sport across Europe. The project published new and improved digitised collections on Europeana, organised a series of engagement events across Europe and curated editorial on Europeana through digital storytelling focused on the histories of sport in Europe.

Posted on Thursday September 24, 2020

Updated on Monday November 6, 2023

Projects Generic-services Europeana-sport

1 October 2020 to 30 April 2022

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About the project

The project increased the amount of high-quality content and metadata accessible under the Sport collection on Europeana. The project delivered around 28,000 new digital objects relating to sporting heritage and improved more than 5,000 objects already available on Europeana.

The project held a series of collection day events both in-person and online, inviting the public to share their stories and memories related to sport. These were held in France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom. From these events, more than 340 user-generated stories were published on Europeana. Moreover, the events raised awareness of Europeana among the general public, encouraging the use of our collections across Europe.

The project published more than 60 editorials on Europeana, including 35 blogs, one exhibition and eight galleries. These can be found on a dedicated sport feature page on the Europeana website.

This project was a Europeana Generic Service project, co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.

Project partners

ICCU (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche) - Italy (project coordinator)
National Archives of Hungary - Hungary
Europeana Foundation - Netherlands
Michael Culture - Belgium
Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision - Netherlands
Ajuntament de Girona - Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge - Spain
Biblioteca Județeană Octavian Goga Cluj – Octavian Goga Cluj County Library - Romania
National Library of Scotland - United Kingdom
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum - Ireland

Project news

Title:
L'italiana Tagliaferri vince l'ottava batteria dei 100 metri piani all'Olimpiade di Londra, seguita dall'olandese Stad-de-Jong
Institution:
Associazione culturale GoTellGo
Country:
Italy
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 24 May 2022 Antonio Davide Madonna Adrian Murphy
Celebrating sport heritage with Europeana Sport
Projects Europeana-sport
The Europeana Sport project has highlighted European sport heritage through publishing new cultural heritage collections, digital storytelling and a series of participatory events. Explore what the project achieved.
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Title:
Europeana Sports collection day at the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 25 November 2021 Adrian Murphy
Engaging the public with Europeana Sport events
Projects Europeana-sport
Since April 2021, the Europeana Sport project has held 13 events inviting the public across Europe to share their stories, memories and memorabilia relating to sport. We spoke with project partners to hear about their experience of engagement from the public and reflections on running in-person events during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Title:
Persfoto Olympische Zomerspelen 1928 Amsterdam, 1662 4 x 400 meter estafette - wissel finale, Algemeen Fotobureau (Ltd.) Amsterdam 1928
Creator:
Algemeen Fotobureau (Ltd) Amsterdam
Date:
1928-08-12
Institution:
NOC*NSF
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 23 June 2021 Nienke van Schaverbeke Yasemin Bagci
Celebrating Olympic Day with new sports heritage on Europeana
Collections Data publication Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeana-sport
With 23 June marking Olympic Day, the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision share work they have been doing to make new sporting heritage available through Europeana and encourage audiences to engage with their sports heritage.
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Title:
Pingpongozó gyerekek
Creator:
Bauer Sándor, fényképész
Date:
1957
Institution:
Fortepan
Country:
Hungary
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 9 June 2021 Adrian Murphy
Ready, set, go: Europeana’s sport season kicks off
Collections Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Generic-services Sports Europeana-sport
In 2021, we celebrate the welcome return of sport to our summers, with the Olympic Games, the European Football Championships and many more sporting events. Explore how our Sports season will share the story of Europe through our sporting heritage in the past and the present.
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Title:
Glengara Park winning the Schools Lacrosse Shield
Date:
1947
Institution:
Rathdown Schools Archive via Europeana Sport
Country:
Ireland
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 17 December 2020 Killian Downing Kathryn Cassidy
Collecting Ireland's sport stories during COVID-19
Collections Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture lover Covid-19 Europeana-sport Ireland
With public events in 2020 largely cancelled, public engagement events have been difficult. We speak with partners in Ireland who have been working on projects collecting stories from the public during the pandemic.
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Title:
Turnerin am Barren
Creator:
Hamann, Heinrich
Date:
1905-1910
Institution:
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Country:
Germany
Copyright:
CC0
News Created: 9 April 2020 Adrian Murphy Ad Pollé
Kicking off a summer of Europeana Sport
Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Sports
2020 was supposed to bring a summer of sport - the Tokyo Olympics, European football championships in cities across Europe, Wimbledon - but all of that is now on hold. But people’s passion for sport remains. And that’s why we bring you Europeana Sport - sharing the story of Europe through our sporting heritage in the past and the present.
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