At C.R.E.A. Cultura 2026, Europeana Foundation hosted its second Digital Creativity Lab for the cultural heritage, tech and creative thinking festival, coaching teams of European students to create original digital projects inspired by their local heritage. Read the full article: bit.ly/4pY96xJ

Digital Creativity Lab at C.R.E.A. Cultura 2026: bridging classroom learning with digital cultural heritage

At this year’s C.R.E.A. Cultura, Europeana hosted the Digital Creativity Lab, a capacity-building programme where 75 secondary vocational school students from Hungary, Bulgaria and Spain developed dig...

bit.ly

Join Europeana's Beth Daley for a quiet writing hour with the Shut Up & Write! community. Enjoy a slow carousel of hand-picked cultural heritage artworks from Europeana.eu on screen to inspire you – a new visual every 10-15 minutes. 🗓️ 7 August at 11:00 CEST | Online | Free 👉 bit.ly/4yVwAYz

Are you interested in using Europe's vast digital cultural heritage to power your creative project? Then join our live training course on 17 August; Introduction to Europeana APIs! Join and learn how to access rich cultural heritage data from thousands of institutions across Europe: bit.ly/4bMdPNa

How can engaging with digital spaces critically and creatively support digital wellbeing? As part of the 2026 All Digital Weeks, our session 'Digital Wellbeing: Building Critical Digital Spaces' explored the connection between digital wellbeing and digital spaces. Read the article: bit.ly/4gUAydq

Exploring digital wellbeing through critical and creative engagement with digital spaces

How can engaging with digital spaces critically and creatively support digital wellbeing? Daniel Llamas, creator of Build with Bits, and Anna Johansson, founder of MagnificentH, explore turning intera...

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu

A fundamental question in data analysis is: 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁? Often the reports have a few readers because... there is a no a "single report" 📌Discover how to tailor the way you present your data by adopting an audience-centric approach dataconversations.eu/blog/turn-da...

Are you a happily ever after person? Do you like a big reveal, a cliff-hanger, or a twist in the tale? Join The Europeana Writers' Room on 5 August and explore the theme of 'Endings'. We'll use cultural heritage artworks and objects, and examples from literature to inspire you. bit.ly/44LHYsg

Join the Europeana Writers' Room monthly creative writing workshops

Taking place on the first Wednesday of each month, the Writers' Room offers you a dedicated hour for writing and creativity.

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu

Read Marianna Marcucci's reflections on the second webinar in the Decolonising Museum Practices series, exploring how metadata, memory, restitution and community input shape more inclusive cultural heritage practices, and why this is more urgent in the age of digitisation and AI. bit.ly/4b5xFTw

Decolonising the invisible: memory, metadata and community voices in museum practice

Reflections on the second webinar in the Decolonising Museum Practices series, exploring how metadata, memory, restitution and community input shape more inclusive cultural heritage practices, and why...

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu

Joining this week's #OnlineArtExchange by @artukdotorg.bsky.social with Eckhout's "Study of Two Brazilian Tortoises" (1640). This remarkable painting was made during the Dutch colonial period in Brazil. Explore the artwork and the context in which it was created 👇 www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021...

👷‍♂️ Five years of Build with Bits💡 From virtual museums, archaeological reconstructions & educational escape games - to augmented reality heritage trails and sustainable futures, explore how participants applied digital cultural heritage in innovative ways to address local challenges: bit.ly/44ANSMP

Build with Bits: five years of exploring digital cultural heritage through immersive technologies

Build with Bits (BWB), an international online collaborative learning environment where participants design virtual spaces addressing real-world challenges linked to their local realities, has reached...

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu

Discover how the AISTER project used AI, human participation, ethical assessment and data insights to improve ways of discovering Ukrainian folk art - resulting in the enrichment of an ethnographic collection on Europeana.eu through 55,000 annotations and 6,000 new metadata tags. bit.ly/4funSHP

Discovering Ukrainian folk art together: a human-in-the-loop crowdsourcing pilot

How can participatory research preserve cultural heritage at risk? How can we leverage the contribution of communities in higher education? And how can crowdsourcing and AI tools help enrich collectio...

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu

Historical women with disabilities Four women in history who helped change the world we live in by Marijke Everts (from the archives) via @europeana.bsky.social www.europeana.eu/en/stories/h... #DisabilityPride #history

Subscribe to the INFINITY Newsletter to receive updates on our project's progress. Click the link in our bio and connect the dots with us! Image credits: Olivetti typewriter di Pulkkinen, Kari Rainer Institution: Finnish Heritage Agency via @europeana.bsky.social #InfinityProject #ECCCH

Jumping into vacation mode like 🏊‍♀️🏖️ This week, we are joining @artukdotorg.bsky.social  and their #OnlineArtExchange to celebrate the topic of ‘summer’. The "Sea's Queen" print dates back to the 1870s or 1880s. It's entered the Public Domain so it's freely available for reuse!

Step into the Twin it! Part II Immersive exhibition, explore Europe's rich digital cultural heritage, and discover how these high-quality 3D assets can continue to inspire new stories and new experiences. https://bit.ly/3RpddWS #3DforCulture #3D #TwinIt

Explore the Twin it! Part II immersive exhibition

The Twin it! Part II immersive exhibition is now available online, offering a new way to discover the remarkable collection of 3D cultural heritage assets submitted during the campaign.

bit.ly

Are you interested in creating interactive experiences with 3D cultural heritage? Join our webinar and get practical tools, understand important principles and get inspired to transform 3D cultural heritage into your own interactive experience! Sign up now

Creating Interactive Experiences with 3D Cultural Heritage from Twin it! Part II

Mon, Aug. 3, 2026

bit.ly

Discover how translation studies student projects are boosting multilingual access to the data space for cultural heritage, offering them real-world practice and experience in translation making it easier for people to benefit from our rich and diverse cultural heritage

How student projects contribute to translating multilingual stories

Translating narrative stories requires skills in both source and target languages, as well as in meaningful storytelling – something machine translation doesn’t always grasp. Read how translation studies student projects are boosting multilingual access.

bit.ly

👀 Discover the art of slow looking - how spending a bit longer with a cultural heritage object can spark curiosity, creativity, and deeper understanding. It's increasingly being used in educational contexts to support wellbeing, creativity and emotional engagement. Read more: https://bit.ly/4pdPwNz

Do you manage image collections? Applying the #IIIF helps you showcase your collection online in the best possible quality. Join this Europeana Academy live training course on 29 July and learn how to prepare your images for IIIF. There are limited spaces to join, secure yours: bit.ly/4vVaS4Z

Bring Cultural Memories to Life: Create Holographic Postcards with XRCulture!📬 Join us for an interactive session exploring hologram postcards: innovative digital souvenirs that bring cultural heritage and tourism experiences to life in a unique way. Register here:

Bring Cultural Memories to Life: Create Holographic Postcards with XRCulture and Twin it! Part II

Tue, July 21, 2026

bit.ly

July is Disability Pride Month 💛 We're celebrating the rich and diverse histories of people with disabilities across Europe: trailblazers, artists, athletes and activists whose stories are part of our shared cultural heritage. 👉 Explore the stories, exhibitions and galleries: bit.ly/4vjbHDC

Disability Pride Month

Rich and diverse histories of people with disabilities from across Europe.

europeana.eu

Read the feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons and discover the next steps! Explore how European libraries can make the full text of millions of digitised books available for research, innovation and contribute to a European AI infrastructure built on public values: bit.ly/4gs09tY

Feasibility study paves the way for a European Books Data Commons

The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and the Europeana Foundation have just published a feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons (EBDC).

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu

🦖 From fossils to digital! The Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg is creating 3D models of fossils that support research and conservation, and make fragile specimens accessible to global audiences. Find out more about their contribution to Twin It! Part II: bit.ly/3QFmgCT

From fossils to digital: Luxembourg’s natural heritage goes 3D

How the Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg’s embrace of 3D digitisation allowed its Ichthyosaurus to join Twin it! Part II.

bit.ly

The data space for cultural heritage aims to enable new ways to connect people with history in more personal and interactive ways - Find out how Fornland is using Europeana APIs to do this - making cultural heritage data not only accessible, but meaningful, social, and alive. 🔗 bit.ly/4xZbSql

Mapping local heritage in a global world: discovering the past through Fornland

In an increasingly globalised world, many people are looking closer to home for a sense of connection and identity. Across Europe, renewed interest in local heritage is reshaping how people engage wit...

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu

Need an hour to just write? ✍️ Join Europeana's Beth Daley for a quiet writing session with the Shut Up & Write! community. Cultural heritage artworks on screen, no pressure, just space to write. 🗓️ 10 July at 11:00 CEST | Free | Online 👉 https://www.meetup.com/shutupandwriteonlineevents/

Hackit!4EU brought together professionals and students from across the world to explore new ways of reimagining 3D cultural heritage data. Find out more about the resulting projects that showcased the potential of 3D data in supporting access, engagement, tourism and education: bit.ly/4ggSRcw

Hackit!4EU: inspiring creative reuse of Twin it! 3D cultural heritage

Hackit!4EU was a two-day hackathon which took place in Limassol, Cyprus as part of the Digital Heritage Summit Event under the Cypriot presidency.

bit.ly

CommonsDB has a new dashboard that offers the first comprehensive view of more than three million registry declarations from @wikimediase.bsky.social and @europeana.bsky.social. Learn more about our registry for public domain and openly licensed works: www.commonsdb.org/blog/visuali...

Visualizing the registry: CommonsDB Explorer gets a dashboard

CommonsDB's new dashboard provides the first comprehensive view of data in the registry

commonsdb.org

The Europeana Writers' Room is a monthly creative writing workshop which uses illustrations and imagery from digitised collections to inspire participants to write. Join this Wednesday and explore 'light and dark' with Ivana Šalinović from the Croatian Storytelling Society: bit.ly/3SRchea

Join the Europeana Writers' Room monthly creative writing workshops

Taking place on the first Wednesday of each month, the Writers' Room offers you a dedicated hour for writing and creativity.

bit.ly

The Open Heritage Statement calls for an international standard to ensure that heritage in the public domain stays freely accessible when it goes digital. In our next Copyright Office Hours we're covering the statement, why it matters, and what happens next: bit.ly/4vOeKVD bsky.app/profile/crea...

The Twin it! Policy Roundtable: 3D and AI for Europe’s culture and heritage, recently brought together policymakers, technology specialists and cultural heritage experts to outline a vision of a holistic ecosystem that guards values and empowers people. Find out more: bit.ly/4b8fcW5

Highlights from the Twin it! Policy Roundtable: 3D and AI for Europe’s culture and heritage in Limassol

Against the stunning historic backdrop of Limassol, the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, played host to an important conversation on the use of advance...

bit.ly

Read our newly published paper on AI 'The case for Public AI: making it happen with cultural heritage.' 400+ professionals, one shared position - cultural heritage should shape AI, not just feed it. 👉 bit.ly/4xLdyU3 #PublicAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CulturalHeritage #DataSpace

Making Public AI reality: How cultural heritage can lead the way

After months of collaborative development and iteration with the data space community and the Europeana Initiative, we are excited to share the newly published paper, ‘The case for Public AI: making i...

dataspace-culturalheritage.eu