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1. In conception and planning - 3 meetings so far with DGEAC -
2. Website design
3. Participation at the launch in the European Culture Forum
4. some of the Flagship projects and maybe running one
5. Developing a conference for late Spring of 2018 in the Netherlands on a topic such as
Showing Impact - Culture Heritage on Society.
European Year of Cultural
Heritage/Europeana
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European Culture Forum Launch
● 7/8 December 2017
● Europeana Network AGM - 6th venue (tbd)
● Europeana Tech stream (maybe including a transcribathon)
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European Flagship Projects
1. Working with schools to encourage the sharing and appreciation of cultural
heritage and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space:
2. Promotion of European sites and intangible heritage awarded the UNESCO
label of world heritage
3. Engaging Youth with cultural heritage
4. Participatory approaches and social innovation in culture
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Europeana Flagship Project
Connecting European Citizens through shared culture - Citizen contributions to our
digital cultural heritage of the museums, libraries, archives and audio visual
collections to promote understanding of our shared cultural heritage in cities, towns
and villages across Europe.
To include two interconnected topics:
1.End of WW1 and the Birth of Modern Europe
2.Migration in the Arts & Sciences
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WW1 & Birth of Modern Europe
Collection Days, Transcribathons, Working with Schools, Centenary Tour
Roles & Responsibilities
●Establishing the date and place of the primary event - Ministries of Culture
●Involving local institutions: Ministries of Culture, Europeana and Cultural Heritage Instutions
●Training the trainers: cultural heritage institutions, national aggregators
●Running the centenary tour - physical: Europeana and Ministries of Culture
●Running the centenary tour - virtual: Europeana
●Europeana 1914-1918 Collection - Europeana and local institutions.
●Promoting campaign, transcribathons, events etc to networks and all of the above Europeana Network
Association
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Migration in the Arts & Sciences
Marches (just for lizzy and eric) descendents of immigrants post WW1
Collection of family stories and memorabilia on the march days
Link to Europeana Migration in the Arts & Sciences Collection
Roles & Responsibilities
●Establishing the date and place of the primary event - Ministries of Culture
●Involving local institutions: Ministries of Culture, Europeana and Cultural Heritage Instutions
●Training the trainers: cultural heritage institutions, national aggregators
●Organising the Marches: Europeana Network Association
●Promoting campaign, events to networks and all of the above: Europeana Network Association
○ AND?
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Europeana Flagship Project
Connecting European Citizens through shared culture - Citizen contributions to our
digital cultural heritage of the museums, libraries, archives and audio visual
collections to promote understanding of our shared cultural heritage in cities, towns
and villages across Europe.
To include two interconnected topics:
1.End of WW1 and the Birth of Modern Europe
2.Migration in the Arts & Sciences
3.AND ???????????
On 9 February 2017 Council and European Parliament representatives reached a provisional agreement on a decision establishing a European Year of Cultural Heritage (2018).
Cultural heritage encompasses resources from the past in a variety of forms and aspects. These include monuments, sites, traditions, transmitted knowledge and expressions of human creativity, as well as collections conserved and managed by museums, libraries and archives.
The aim of this initiative is to raise awareness of European history and values and to strengthen a sense of European identity. At the same time, it draws attention to the opportunities offered by our cultural heritage, but also to the challenges it faces, such as the impact of the digital shift, environmental and physical pressure on heritage sites, and the illicit trafficking of cultural objects.
The European Year will have a dedicated financial envelope of EUR 8 million. And 12 or so flagship projects. 4 of which are very relevant to our activities and are where we have offered to be involved and we have proposed one more.
We were asked to build the website for the year and even considered briefly making Europeana Collections the EYCH site itself but in the end we have offered to help design the website taking on board the requirements of the other major partners beside the Council of Europe and the EC such as UNESCO and Europa Nostra. We are to do a workshop at the Commission in March.
1. Working with schools to encourage the sharing and appreciation of cultural heritage and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space: this will be done through the e-twinning scheme; other synergies with Erasmus + are being explored. Material will be prepared for teachers and disseminated through DG COMM's 'teachers corner' programme
As noted above Europeana will look to involve schools directly in transcribathons of WW1 material. We would also be interested in a campaign that revived Wiki loves Monuments/ UNESCO World Heritage but gets schoolchildren involved in documenting them. We are talking to a Wikipedia about this currently.
2. This could tie nicely to: Ø Promotion of European sites and intangible heritage awarded the UNESCO label of world heritage: together with UNESCO, we will launch a promotion campaign of the UNESCO European heritage sites.
Here the contribution would be to make sure that each of the sites is noted in Europeana and linked to other material. An exhibition or collection that pulls these sites together could be jointly created by UNESCO, Europeana and Europa Nostra and make use of local input derived from the Wiki loves campaign.
3. Ø Engaging Youth with cultural heritage: a mobility project will be designed in relation with the European Solidarity Corps.
Our Challenge competitions for 2018 could be made to relate to this theme, we will also use them to support the Migration in the Arts and Sciences project to come up with new ways of connecting our past migrations to present ones. There might well be a good link to be made with schools campaign and migration with teenagers tracing ancestral/family migration and connecting to new migration.
4. Ø Participatory approaches and social innovation in culture: we will launch a Research and Social Platform on Participatory approaches to the management of cultural heritage which will continue the work of an OMC expert group, whose recommendations and best practices will be delivered in 2017.
The Europeana Network Association would be a useful source of such approaches for the proposed platform
Each country will be invited to organise a collection day(s) or transcribathon(s) in a town or place that was significant in 1918. Transcribathons will be held in schools and link to Flagship programme 1. Working with schools to encourage the sharing and appreciation of cultural heritage and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space
To create media attention a centenary tour based on the 1918 places of significant events within Europe, both WW1 and the independence of countries - Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania etc, telling the sequenced story of the end of WW1 and the birth of Europe through family stories and histories connected to our physical cultural heritage and developing a schools based European transcribathon competition of the material held on Europeana1914-1918. The tour will be both physical and virtual, allowing local events to link themselves to the centenary tour, advertise their event and relate it to the bigger picture of change in Europe.
With the help of Ministries of Culture a physical tour of at least 14 countries with collections on days of significance, en situ e.g. March 3, Battle of Picardy March 23, Zeebrugge raid and Doellens agreement, March 28, June 15, Battle of Piave, September 26, Battle of Vardar, November 3, Trieste falls to the allies, November 10 Kaiser Wilhelm flees to the Netherlands.
2. Migration in the Arts & Sciences - Europeana will launch a collection of curated material showing both the famous and lesser known results from people moving countries. We will look to extend the French Mission du Centenaire idea of a march or gathering of descendents from 31 countries, who are in France as a result of WW1 - to each country in Europe, collecting the stories (audio and memorabilia) of people who attend the marches. Alongside the physical marches we will look at creating an online “march” relating rewarding the sharing or annotating of personal stories. This will be supported by a GLAMWiki Supports Migrants - challenge, where wikipedians will use the resource to help find new ways to visualise and connect data to educate and inform both immigrants and the general public. [We are talking to the House of European History to see how we use their https://my-european-history.ep.eu/ as part of this]
A PR campaign will pull in press attention for each event aiming to raise awareness of our rich, shared cultural heritage in the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
Cultural heritage should not be a museum, but a living, vibrant, shared experience... Culture should be open and therefore accessible ..... delivering its own sustainable future