Topic: Citizenheritage News

Empowering communities and citizens in heritage research

This session, organized by the Citizen Heritage  project, wanted to entice an interactive discussion with the audience, focused on understanding the approach methodologies, the various roles and challenges of technology in enabling an inclusive engagement with cultural collections that empowers … Continue reading


Mapping Fashion Heritage through Patterns

On 27 November 2021, at MoMu-bibliotheek & Dries Van Noten Study Center, Nationalestraat 28, 2000 Antwerp took place Mapping Fashion Heritage Through Patterns, a workshop organised by EFHA – European Fashion Heritage Association and ModeMuseum Antwerp, in collaboration with KU Leuven, University of … Continue reading


Citizen science for cultural heritage: ECSA webinar

What kind of citizen science initiatives take place in the cultural heritage field? How cultural heritage contributes to citizen science and civic engagement in general? What lessons can be drawn for the relevance of social sciences and humanities to citizen … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage presented at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin

CitizenHeritage will be presented at the online symposium Participatory Transcription Projects in Museums, Archives, Libraries – A Practical Exchange of Experience, by project partners Katerina Zourou and Mariana Ziku  (Web2Learn).The event is organized by the Museum of natural History in … Continue reading


CHARTER Alliance publishes its first result and presents a new model for the cultural heritage sector

The European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance CHARTER, Erasmus+ funded project, released its first public deliverable: “A new landscape for heritage professions preliminary findings” by Working Package 2 (Strategic analysis of cultural heritage competences and occupational profiles). The report summarises the … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage presented at NTNU event

CitizenHeritage project partner Katerina Zourou (Web2Learn) was invited by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Brussels office, to give a presentation about CitizenHeritage project on June 4. The topic of the talk was “Citizen science initiatives in the … Continue reading


From mainstream citizen science to new conceptualizations: insights from the cultural heritage sector

The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and its Working Group “Citizen science and universities” in the series of monthly webinars, will host a webinar on October 26 (16 CET) with three partners of the CitizenHeritage project. The topic of the 1h webinar … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage presented at DTCE 2021

The 1st International Online Conference on Digital Transformation in Culture and Education took place on 14-16 April 2021, hosted by the Serbian Library Association Section for Digital Transformation. The Conference provided an excellent forum for digital librarians, researchers and practitioners to … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage as part of students activities at Erasmus University

CitizenHeritage promotes participative approaches and is also about involving university students with cultural heritage projects. As part of the Museums in Context master course, the Rotterdam University organizes activities where students perform short and intense research projects involving the discussion … Continue reading