The document discusses Europeana Foundation & Network, which was created through EU funding programs between 2007-2013. It connects over 30 million cultural objects from across Europe. However, future EU funding through the Connecting Europe Facility will decrease, so Europeana must pursue sustainable funding models. Some ideas presented include getting fees from member states for premium services, non-EU countries for basic services, generating revenue through an incubation service, and applying for grants from Horizon2020 and Creative Europe. Costs could also be reduced by developing new shared infrastructure and technologies.

1. Finance & Sustainability
Els Jacobs
Europeana Foundation
Aggregators Forum 22 May 2014, The Hague

2. MFF 2007-2013
CIP-ICT-PSP
created
Europeana
Foundation
&
Network

3. Multi-annual Financial Framework
2007-2013
Competitiveness and Innovation
Framework Programme
ICT
Policy Support Programme
created
Europeana
Foundation
&
Network

5. Europeana Foundation & Network
=
2,500 contributing institutions
connecting over 30 million objects
from all 28 EU Member States
interoperable data model
standard for access rights
creative re-use experiments

6. Multi-annual Financial Framework
2007-2013
Competitiveness and Innovation
Framework Programme
ICT
Policy Support Programme
created
Europeana
Foundation
&
Network

7. Multi-annual Financial Framework
2014-2020
Connecting Europe Facility
(CEF)
Trans-European
Telecommunications
Networks

9. CEF structural funding
for
Europeana’s
1. core service as a platform
+
2. supply infrastructure
= domain aggregation

10. CEF structural funding
will decrease
platform + aggregation infrastructure
MUST
become self-sustainable

11. Europeana benefits
 end user – culture freely available for everyone
 contributing partners – attention + co-creation
 cultural institutions (and by extension Member States)
– visibility + standards + expertise + tools + Cloud + business models
 creative industries
– quality data + creative labs + business models + access to investors

12. Ideas on sustainable funding
 partially CEF structural funding
 Member States fee – for premium services
 Non-EU countries fee – for basic service
 Europeana Inc – incubation service generating revenues
 Horizon2020 + Creative Europe – for projects

15. Ideas on cost reduction
 develop new aggregation infrastructure
 infrastructure of shared clouds
 more mature national infrastructures
 new better technologies

16. Thank you
Els Jacobs
els.jacobs@europeana.eu