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Europeana is Europe's digital platform for cultural heritage, which collects and provides online access to tens of millions of digitised items from libraries, archives, audio-visual collections and museums across Europe. Europeana’s wider network represents more than 2,500 cultural heritage organisations and a thousand individuals from these and other walks of life including the creative and technical sectors, passionate about bringing Europe's vast wealth of cultural heritage to the world.
This week Europeana is in Latvia for the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, working with policymakers, educators and creatives from across Europe on how Europeana can provide content for re-use in education and the creative industries.
The event “Europeana for Education and the Creative Industries” is aimed at education policymakers, and its purpose is to complete education policy recommendations for implementation at European and national levels. The recommendations are designed to increase the use of Europe’s digital cultural heritage in education.
During the event, there will be a number of speeches about the use of cultural heritage material in education by Ms Catherine Magnant, Deputy Head of Unit Cultural Policy and Intercultural Dialogue, European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture, and members of the creative industries. There will also be a talk about Europeana and re-use by Europeana’s executive director Ms Jill Cousins. The final recommendations on the use of “Europeana for Education” will be drawn up at the event.
Over the last five years Europeana has been steadily building a resource that makes available the digital content of Europe’s libraries, archives, museums and audio visual collections, under clear copyright conditions.
The “Europeana for Education and the Creative Industries” event is organised by Europeana, the National Library of Latvia with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia under the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with help from European Schoolnet to frame the discussion.
