Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope is an EU project co-financed in the framework of the CEF Connecting Europe Facility Programme, which aims at leveraging photographic content in Europeana depicting the 1950s in Europe, to connect today’s citizens with the post-war generation… Continue reading →

ANNOUNCING The final conference of the CEF project Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope is organized in Berlin by SPK – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. “New strategies for user engagement and digital heritage” Mixing stories and lessons learnt in the project with interesting … Continue reading →

Much like scents, flavours and music, photographs are powerful triggers of memory. So what better medium to recall a past as recent and as visually recognizable as early postwar Europe…? For about a year, the consortium involved in the EU-funded … Continue reading →

The progress meeting of 50s in Europe Kaleidoscope project took place on the 5th June in Helsinki, attached to the annual event of Photoconsortium hosted by Museovirasto. Partners met particularly to discuss the next steps in two main areas of … Continue reading →

photos by Valentina Bachi. Hosted by partner OSZK, on 25th April a plenary meeting for the “Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope” project took place in the beautiful premises of the National Library in Buda Castle. The meeting was attended by all … Continue reading →

all photos courtesy Fred Truyen. One of the technological aspects in the 50s in Europe Kaleidoscope project relates to implement a specific visual matching search tool for photography of the Fifties, that will support user engagement with Europeana content and … Continue reading →