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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

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: 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

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

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

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

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.

Call for Papers HIP’21 – 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing

Dates: September 5-6, 2021 Venue: Lausanne, Switzerland / online Website: https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2021/#infoContact: hip2021@primaresearch.org Description The HIP’21 workshop is co-located with the ICDAR2021 Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. HIP brings together researchers working with historical documents and intends to be complementary and synergistic to the work in analysis and recognition featured in the main sessions of ICDAR, the … Continue reading

INTELE Network Workshop

Gustavo Candela, from the IMPACT Centre of Competence & Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes (Universidad de Alicante) will participate in the INTELE Network Workshop that will take place online on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. Gustavo will participate in the round table representing IMPACT as CLARIN Knowledge Centre in digitisation (IMPACT-CKC). CLARIN K(nowledge)-Centres are an important part of … Continue reading