Topic: EU projects

Cultural Heritage counts for Europe

The project Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe will gather, analyze, consolidate and widely disseminate the existing data on the impact of cultural heritage – i.e. the impact on the social, economic, cultural as well as environmental. It will result in a European mapping of both qualitative and quantitative evidence-based research carried out at the European, national, regional, local and/or sectorial levels. Continue reading


EUDAT News bullettin – March 2014

Welcome to the March edition of the EUDAT News Bulletin! These short email bulletins are prepared monthly to keep the community updated about the latest news and developments from EUDAT. Continue reading


Pre-announcement of the call for tender

We are happy to announce that PREFORMA call for tender Prior Information Notice has been published on the Tender Electronic Daily (TED), the Internet version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities. Continue reading


ICRI2014 – 2nd International Conference on Research Infrastructures

ICRI 2014 offered a high level international forum where key stakeholders could meet, discuss and contribute to bringing forward global issues related to Research Infrastructures. Co-organised by the European Commission and the Greek EU Presidency of the European Union, it … Continue reading


Joint cooperation between DCH-RP and APARSEN

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed to formalise the fruitful cooperation started in the past months between the two projects funded by the European Commission, with the aim to set-up of a Proof-of-Concept in DCH-RP, based on the work and prototypes developed in APARSEN, and to develop a common registry of services and tools focused on digital preservation. Continue reading


MoU between DCH-RP and SCAPE

After the successful workshops and networking sessions jointly organised by DCH-RP and SCAPE, the two projects are now planning the next joint activities, such as the possibility to set-up of a Proof-of-Concept in DCH-RP based on the work and prototypes developed in SCAPE and the organisation of other joint events. Continue reading


APARSEN webinar on Storage Solutions for Digital Preservation

Storage is a central component in any preservation solution, and requires special functionalities in order to adequately address the need of a preservation system. This webinar aims to provide recommendations towards adopting storage solutions that can better serve digital preservation. Continue reading


PREFORMA factsheet translated in Dutch

The factsheet presenting the project and the call for tender is now available also in Dutch thanks to the work of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The factsheet has been published both in the NISV project pages and in the DEN Project repository. Continue reading


German Cultural Heritage on the way to the Europeana

Digital photographs, film and sound recordings, books and museum objects are no longer hidden in archives, libraries and museums, or scattered on different websites, but more accessible and used in various ways by central services and Internet portals thanks to … Continue reading


Europeana Space Scenarios: development of Pilots in the six thematic areas

Europeana Space project started its life on February with a successfull kick-off meeting in Leuven. Every Work Packages group are developing initiatives and meetings to discuss about their aims and objectives. On 19th and 20th March, the partners involved in the WP4 had their first meeting in Brussel, hosted at the iMinds – Vrije Universiteit Brussel offices. Continue reading