Tag: cultural heritage

Europeana 2022: call for proposals is open

The 2022 edition of the Europeana conference will take place on 28 – 30 September and a call for proposals has been launched for the occasion. The event will be organised in a hybrid format and the conference programme will … Continue reading


Craft in the context of cultural heritage

Craft Hub – the craft library, is a 3 years European project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme. The project focuses on craft in the context of cultural heritage and its continuing relevance in contemporary practice. The project activities involve … Continue reading


Symposium: ‘Heritage for the future/Science for heritage, a European adventure for research and innovation’

Heritage science brings together the human, social, fundamental, digital, and engineering sciences and deals with the study of cultural heritage, contributing to the identification, understanding, preservation, restoration, and transmission of cultural heritage, be it tangible, intangible, natural or digital. Next … Continue reading


Call for entries is open for European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2022

Europa Nostra, the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural Heritage, launched the entries to participate in the 2022 edition of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards. The Awards were launched for the first time 20 years … Continue reading


UNCHARTED joins the Heritage Research Hub!

The Heritage Research Hub is a free and collaborative platform on and for the cultural heritage research community, created and managed by the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH) which is a EU Member-State-driven initiative … Continue reading


ILUCIDARE Playground: heritage voices out!

Next 2-3 December a new international event of ILUCIDARE H2020 project will take place in Brussels and online. The Playground ILUCIDARE will gather the multiplicity of cultural stakeholders (individual citizens, communities, entrepreneurs, researchers ..) to debate, share practices and reflections. … Continue reading


Cultural Heritage in Action event: sharing solutions in European cities and regions

On 8 December, Cultural Heritage in Action will hold an online event to present the work of the project so far and introduce future activities. Cultural Heritage in Action is one of the actions of the European Framework for Action … Continue reading


Exhibition: “A Century of Technology”

This exhibition explores different aspects of the technological revolution of the 20th century, highlighting the inventions and events that had a direct impact on habits and daily life. It focused on innovations such as travelling to space, computing and industrial … Continue reading


A female director for the Louvre!

The Louvre is about to get its first female director for the first time since its opening in 1793. Laurence des Cars, current head of the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, was recently appointed by President Macron … Continue reading


Digitisation of the endangered monastic archive at May Wäyni, Ethiopia

Text by Caterina Sbrana. I have already spoken in my blogs about the importance of the digitisation of historical documents in order to enable them to be used and disseminated worldwide through the Internet. There is another reason why digitisation … Continue reading