Author: Impact Centre of Competence
Booklet “DRIVING A GREEN, DIGITAL & INNOVATIVE EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
The European Commission has published a booklet that unveils a diverse array of EU-funded projects, contributing to a more sustainable, digitised, and innovative cultural heritage. These projects are funded under Cluster 2 “Culture, Creativity, and Inclusive Society” funding program of Horizon Europe. In this booklet you can find relevant information on the projects, get inspiration … Continue reading "Booklet “DRIVING A GREEN, DIGITAL & INNOVATIVE EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE"
EC Webinar: “A Cloud for All: Accessing EU Cohesion Funds for Cultural Heritage Institutions.” Recording available
On November 28th, the European Commission implemented a webinar on the role of EU Cohesion Funds in aiding cultural heritage institutions in their digital transition and leveraging the Cultural Heritage Cloud’s transformative potential. The webinar was attended by over 400 participants and the replay is available below:
Open call: Europe’s cultural heritage and arts – promoting our values at home and abroad
HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04 07 February 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time ExpectedOutcome: Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Scope: The European Union should endeavour to use its cultural and creative assets to better assert its influence around the world. The arts can play an important role on building the contemporary image of the EU by … Continue reading "Open call: Europe’s cultural heritage and arts – promoting our values at home and abroad"
Open call: Data Space for Cultural heritage
DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-DATA-AI-05-CULTHERITAGE 23 January 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time Expected outcome and Deliverables Objective This action will continue the deployment of an operational data space for cultural heritage. The objective is to make more high-quality content available, particularly in 3D, foster reuse of digitised cultural resources and provide more opportunities for the community to offer enriched services, … Continue reading "Open call: Data Space for Cultural heritage"
Job Opportunity at the British Library
Position: Digital curator, OCR/HTR Basis: Full time Contractual hours: 36 Contract type: Permanent position Grade: B Location: St Pancras Salary: GBP 32,000 Closing date: 5th November, 2023 Interview date: 20-21 November, 2023 BL background information and the team’s address for informal inquiries: https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/10/join-the-british-library-as-a-digital-curator-ocr-htr.html Job description The British Library is looking for someone to join its … Continue reading "Job Opportunity at the British Library"
Open call: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for digitising cultural heritage objects
HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-02 21 September, 2023 ExpectedOutcome: Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Scope: This topic aims at designing and implementing innovative tools and methods for digitisation of (a) visible characteristics and (b) non-visible characteristics of cultural heritage objects, to be incorporated into the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH). As regards … Continue reading "Open call: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for digitising cultural heritage objects"
IMPACT 10th Anniversary Workshop and Writing Sprint
On 12th December 2012, the IMPACT Centre of Competence, built upon the results of the namesake FP7-funded project, was officially launched. The initial aim of IMPACT was to “make digitisation better, faster and cheaper” and, during these 10 years, IMPACT has been providing support to institutions, researchers and individuals in their digitisation programmes, facilitating the … Continue reading "IMPACT 10th Anniversary Workshop and Writing Sprint"
IMPACT Hour – Launching the IMPACT Hour!
On February 21st, we celebrated our 1st IMPACT Hour, quarterly meetings in which our members are able to informally exchange information, expertise and good (and bad) practices in the field of digitisation in a safe environment. This 1st edition of the IMPACT Hour was attended by 26 people from different IMPACT member institutions and was … Continue reading "IMPACT Hour – Launching the IMPACT Hour!"
Sally Chambers appointed as new Executive Director of the IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation
The IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation is proud to announce the appointment of Sally Chambers as IMPACT’s new Executive Director. As Executive Director, Sally will be responsible for closely working with Centre members and the Executive Board in order to outline the IMPACT action plan for the upcoming years and improving IMPACT’s portfolio of services … Continue reading "Sally Chambers appointed as new Executive Director of the IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation"
Europeana call for research videos
Europeana has launch a call for videos in order to showcase cutting edge projects and collaborations within research and cultural heritage fields.The deadline for proposal submissions is set on March 31st and the amount allocated per video is up to €300.Further info on this call can be found at https://pro.europeana.eu/post/announcing-our-call-for-the-europeana-research-community-video-series.