Newsroom about Digital Cultural heritage

This expert group provides a forum for cooperation between Member States' bodies and the European Commission in the area of digitisation, online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation and gives guidance on Europeana’s annual work programmes under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

The next European Film Forum will take place at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, on 18 October 2018. It will be a unique opportunity to highlight the activities of the European Commission in relation with Film Heritage, such as Film Education activities to provide the young audiences with the tools to access and enjoy masterpieces of the past.

The project will develop tools and techniques aimed at the creative industries to make their contents 'smarter' and to help re-use of existing digital assets for future productions.

ReTV is an EU funded project providing novel solutions for broadcasters and their content partners to publish on multiple media channels with the effort of one.

MeMAD provides novel methods for efficient re-use and re-purpose of multilingual audiovisual content. These methodologies revolutionize video management and digital storytelling in broadcasting and media production.

The EU-funded project FotoInMotion will develop an innovative format that transforms a single photograph into a dynamic, high quality video for storytelling and branding.

In winter 2018, the European Commission service DG CONNECT/"Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education" will organise the evaluation of proposals submitted for the H2020 topic ICT-25-2018-2020 - Interactive Technologies

V4Design aims to reuse and repurpose visual data and texts by developing novel approaches for visual analysis, 3D reconstruction, language understanding and generation of dynamic 3D objects that can be reused as basis for design.

A strong digital economy is vital for innovation, growth, jobs and European competitiveness. Digital technologises have a massive impact on the labour market and on the type of skills needed in the economy and society. The European Commission is promoting various initiatives aimed at increasing training in digital skills for the workforce and for consumers - modernising education across the European Union, harnessing digital technologies for learning and for the recognition and validation of skills together with anticipating and analysing skills needs.

The Horizon 2020 call "Tools for smart digital content in the creative industries" supported novel ways of digital content production and management in the creative industries.