Are you looking for a creative challenge as 2025 draws to a end? If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️ Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq

Discover how the Beyond Borders hackathon encouraged students to reuse and experiment with digital cultural heritage - and how you can do the same ➡️ bit.ly/3Y0Kbg7

Reflecting on a recent dialogue between Brazilian and European professionals, Digital Media Curator and Communicators Steering Group member Marianna Marcucci explores why decolonisation requires museums to inhabit conflict, respect the ‘Territorial Body’ and look beyond project cycles bit.ly/48VAFzK

It's the last #OnlineArtExchange of 2025 on the festive theme of 'Christmas!' We've chosen this lively image of a Christmas market from the collections of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere 🎄🌟 Thanks @artukdotorg.bsky.social for the lovely exchanges this year! www.europeana.eu/en/item/1320...

We are delighted to announce a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Directorate General for Digitisation and Communication of the Italian Ministry of Culture! It aims to accelerate Italy’s participation in and contribution to the #DataSpace for #CulturalHeritage. Find out more👉 bit.ly/3MIdhhH

✍️ Enter the first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition. Find out more and take part👉 bit.ly/488sVeq

Join two new walking tours in Italy and Poland! Discover the history of Gdańsk, from Hanseatic city to a cradle of late 20th century revolutions, and in Pisa explore lesser-known historical landmarks on a route from Pisa Centrale to the famous Leaning Tower. Find out more: bit.ly/4rFj33T

📣 We're proud to announce that Europeana Foundation has joined #AI4LAM. Read about this important step in our commitment to shape how AI is developed and applied across the cultural heritage sector: bit.ly/4rDfbAd #FF2025 @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social

We are excited to share the newly published Impulse paper: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of #AI, a joint publication by the Europeana Foundation and @openfuture.bsky.social You can read the paper here: bit.ly/3MBQAeY

Join us next Tuesday (9 December) and hear how Musiikkiarkisto - Music Archive Finland used the Europeana Impact Playbook and the Museums of Impact methodology to measure the #impact of a recent project. Secure your place here: bit.ly/47YK5dw

We are delighted to introduce our new high-profile Ambassador Network programme and the pilot in Finland, which will see colleagues advocate for Europeana and the #DataSpace for #CulturalHeritage. Find out more about the programme and meet the inspiring ambassadors behind it! bit.ly/49LdE4G

❄️December is here and our Advent Calendar is back! 📅 Each day, open a new ‘door’ to discover a wintery scene or destination from across Europe, along with stories showing how people have experienced the season throughout history. ✨➡️https://bit.ly/49Pfodg

On the occasion of Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025, we share the progress made by the Working Group on Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage to better support data providers in describing their data. Learn more and check out their Datasheet template - Version 2! bit.ly/3Kgd84n

The 3D BigDataSpace project is delighted to launch a new course on Europeana Academy! ‘Introduction to the 4D Browser’ introduces an innovative tool that allows you to explore historically reconstructed 3D cityscapes across time. Discover why and how to take the course! ➡️ bit.ly/4imEZfF

🗓️ Join our Europeana Academy training course on using and telling stories with collections on Europeana.eu ✍️ Join on 9 December and learn how to find collections on Europeana.eu, and how you can use them to help you reach a range of different audiences. Sign up here: bit.ly/3XdxZrU

The 3 December Europeana Writers’ Room focuses on the theme of climate action, and helps you prepare your entry for the first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award. Join for inspiring writing prompts based on cultural heritage from Europeana.eu. Register 👉 bit.ly/4o4XeHL

Sometimes organisations are afraid of the lack of data to make decisions. Do not worry, data is out there! You might need the right "tools" to analyse it but - remember - that without a curious mind and a solid method even the most advanced technological instruments are useless...

📚 Europe needs a Books Data Commons. Our new paper with @europeana.bsky.social shows how library-controlled infrastructure can unlock digitized cultural heritage for AI—strengthening digital sovereignty and advancing the Data Union Strategy. openfuture.eu/publication/...

📣 The Call for Papers for the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 is now open! 🌐 This year’s event will explore 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 & 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮: 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 & will take place from May 26-29th in Rome, Italy🇮🇹 🚨 Deadline: December 22 ℹ️ www.dariah.eu/2025/11/11/d...

🗓️ Join our Europeana Academy training course on creating with cultural heritage collections ✍️ Join on 12 December and learn what to consider when creating your own blog. By the end of the training you will be ready create your own stories. Sign up here: bit.ly/47Sg8go%22

The Schengen area, consists of 29 countries in Europe, is over 4 million km² and is populated by almost 420 million people. It is the world's largest travel area without internal border controls. Discover how it began, how it works, and the challenges it faces today ➡️ bit.ly/48G9AC7

Join our informal Impact Community Café on 9 December and hear about the experience of Music Archive Finland in using two impact models together. After hearing their perspective, take part in an open Q&A session and share your own perspectives: bit.ly/47YK5dw

📢 @europeana.bsky.social Creative Climate Action Award✨ Write, imagine, and inspire 🌿 The first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award invites you to create a short story or poem (up to 500 words) inspired by cultural heritage and the theme of climate action. 👉 More ℹ️: shorturl.at/rDWPZ

For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's photographic portraiture #OnlineArtExchange we've chosen to share this excellent self(ie) portrait by Josefina Rydholm, from the collections of Bohusläns museum 📸

The @dataconversations.bsky.social project recently invited cultural professionals and creatives to share their perspectives on impact needs and challenges. Discover the findings and the learnings here: bit.ly/43qoCbQ

🗓️ Join our Europeana Communicators Community webinar on 24 November and hear museum professionals across Brazil and Europe explore issues of repatriation, decolonisation, and representation of Indigenous voices. Book your place now! bit.ly/47RBb1m

Today, @cop30brazil.bsky.social is discussing #culture. On this day, #Europeana is delighted to launch our first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition. Find out more and take part 👉 bit.ly/488sVeq

🎮🗓️ Video games are an engaging way to interact with cultural heritage. Join us and speakers from @efgamp.bsky.social on 26 November as we explore the video game as a cultural artefact in its own right. Sign up now 👉 bit.ly/4p9fYqF

Every historical recipe tells a story - not just of ingredients and techniques, but of cultural exchange, social aspiration and the everyday lives of people who lived centuries ago. Learn how trade, innovation and tradition shaped our culinary heritage: bit.ly/4nSTHfJ

There's still time to register for the Europeana Network Association's Annual General Assembly! 📅 13 November 2025, 9.30 - 11.00 CET 📍 Online 💡 This year's AGM has a special focus on #ArtificialIntelligence 👤 The AGM is for ENA members 🔗 bit.ly/4377uHP See you there!

Join our Europeana Café on 18 November. Speakers will introduce case studies from various perspectives around digitised heritage and data belonging to minority, indigenous and other communities. There’ll also be a Q&A and open discussion. Find out more and sign up here: bit.ly/4nH0aKG

📣 Funding opportunity 📣 Are you a professional or researcher working with #3D cultural heritage? Apply now for the #3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call, which focuses on on transforming 3D heritage data into public-facing outreach experiences. Get the full details & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3LrE8xP

The #Heritage of ancient Greece is commonly recognised as a ‘pillar’ of European culture and identity. But the complex historical processes of cultural reception & appropriation that have shaped this idea are not yet fully understood. @michaelcultureasso.bsky.social explores ➡️ bit.ly/3KreRDx

How can nature and related archival material inspire textile design? OpenUp! (Europeana's natural history aggregator) talked to Susanne Huber - artist and farmer, and founder of Austrian fashion label Peaces - to find out 👉 bit.ly/4mCwlu0

Joseph, born into enslavement in Saint-Domingue, became a world-renowned model in Paris thanks to Géricault's 'The Raft of the Medusa'. What do we know about his life? @fondationme.bsky.social tells his story ➡️ bit.ly/47CF1Lv

Collecting data without an adequate strategy is like eating a bland soup that doesn't give you the results you expected. Data doesn't guarantee useful results, if it's not contextualised. How data can fit your purposes? Follow us on: 📌 dataconversations.eu/blog/a-matte...

Planet Africa shares the outcomes of archaeological research through an exhibition that brings together new art with digital engagement. Its vibrant visuals were created by African artists and designed by notwendiges übel, a German company. Discover its achievements! ➡️ bit.ly/47vp3Tr

Explore the collage pieces created through our Online Creative Residency, which respond to the fascinating and festive experience of eating oysters at a Christmas market in Riga bit.ly/46Vcl13 #DigitalStorytelling #FoodHeritage

A growing number of cultural institutions have recently closed entire galleries or covered display cases containing sacred and funerary objects. This is not an act of censorship or erasure. It is an act of listening. Samba Yonga tells us more ➡️ bit.ly/4oan5yN

The worlds of fashion and Surrealism have a rich and fascinating history of cross-pollination. From the 1930s onwards, fashion became a fertile ground for Surrealist creativity. Find out more in this story from the European Fashion Heritage Association bit.ly/4gH0qao

Ever wondered what an internship at Europeana is like? Sevasti Mouteveli shares her experience working on data acquisition and engaging with cultural heritage institutions bit.ly/47cqGq7

Spice Roots, Meal Times and Discovering Home are stories from the video strand of a Europeana creative residency. They explore how food, family, and migration shape identity and culture. Discover them here ➡️ bit.ly/4nLZgwB #DigitalStorytelling #FoodHeritage

Today is World #AudiovisualHeritageDay! Celebrate with a journey into Europe’s film history and check out this gallery on 'Cinema - a hundred years ago' curated by the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum 🎦📺🎤 bit.ly/4huX1vH

Registration is open for our #EuropeanaAcademy course on the Metis Sandbox! Learn how to check #DataQuality and preview it for inclusion in Europeana.eu. Test your own data or use prepared datasets to analyse results. Taking place on 17 November - register today 👉 bit.ly/45AzOE6

Bread, a staple food in the Mediterranean diet, has taken on a significance over the centuries that goes beyond mere nutrition. In art, bread is often represented as a symbol of life, sharing and spirituality. Find out more in this story from @michaelcultureasso.bsky.social 🥖 bit.ly/46ryofL

GIF IT UP closes on 31 October but it’s not too late to submit your entry! Whether you’re an experienced GIF maker or never made one before, GIF IT UP is an opportunity to get your creative juices flowing and most importantly have some fun. Find out how to take part here: gifitup.net

Pauline Villeneuve, was an 18th century Guadaloupian woman whose successful fight to free herself from enslavement in Nantes raised legal arguments about the situation of enslaved people in the Kingdoms of France. @fondationme.bsky.social shares her story with us ➡️ bit.ly/3WFSMEl

To mark 150 years since the birth of the Black British mixed race composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, The Mixed Museum launched a podcast series on his life and travels. Discover the podcast and the team’s innovative approach to storytelling ➡️ bit.ly/48Es8CQ

Number of visitors, social interactions, ticket sales... Data can be collected in massive quantities but if this data isn't contextualised it remains an unusable block. How to recognise these traps and move towards a better usage of data? Read on: 📌 dataconversations.eu/blog/too-big...

For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's autumnal #OnlineArtExchange we've chosen to highlight this lovely landscape by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, held in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery 🍂 www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021...