Newsroom about Digital Cultural heritage

V4Design is an EU co-funded H2020 research and innovation project launched in January 2018 and coordinated by the Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece. The project 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 H2020 call on "Tools for smart digital content in the creative industries" supported novel ways of digital content production and management in the creative industries such as advertising, architecture, performing and visual arts, craft, design, fashion, films, music, press, publishing, radio, TV and video games. 5 Projects have now been selected.

The public consultation on Europeana, Europe's digital platform for cultural heritage, was held between 17 October 2017 and 14 January 2018. Its results will contribute to the evaluation of Europeana and will help direct its future development.

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 EU-funded project E-ARK was rated as "Excellent" after its final review and was described as a "A European Showcase Project".

The conference took place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, on 26-27 March and was co-organised by the Bulgarian Presidency and the European Commission in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.

This event, organised in Brussels on 20 March 2018 in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, showcased the dialogue between contemporary European society and the most promising innovations in the field of cultural heritage that European policies and funds have supported. The conference was organised by the European Commission Directorate General for Research and Innovation, in close cooperation with Directorates General for Education and Culture and for Communications Networks, Content and Technology.

The first out of three rounds of 2018 Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) calls has been launched to finance projects in the areas of eIdentification and eSignature, Europeana and Safer Internet.

The Commission is launching the second edition of the EU Film Contest today. Participants can test how much they know about European films for a chance to experience the Cannes Film Festival and discover the European audiovisual industry at work.