Newsroom about Digital Cultural heritage

The European Media Literacy Week is a new initiative by the European Commission to underline the societal importance of media literacy and promote media literacy initiatives and projects across the EU. From 18 to 22 March 2019, various events around the topic of media literacy will take place in Brussels and in Member States.

This year's first event of the European Film Forum 2019 took place during the Berlinale. With Creative Europe MEDIA and Horizon 2020 supporting a number of subtitling projects, the debate focused on how to use technology to make European films travel across Europe and beyond by discussing the possibilities that exist for subtitling and dubbing.

VI-SEEM, an EU-funded project, creates the necessary infrastructure and user training to enable local scientific communities to conduct groundbreaking cross-border research spanning many areas.

A breakthrough in handwritten text recognition, layout analysis and keyword spotting has been made. A service platform helps reveal European and international cultural heritage and search for centuries-old documents.

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.