Deadline: 27-May-22
Proposals are now called for the Europeana 2022 to explore how we can collaboratively build a common data Space for Cultural Heritage and raise voices from across the sector to empower digital transformation and explore the role digital cultural heritage plays in today’s and tomorrow’s world.
Europeana 2022 will be their first truly hybrid conference, and they hope to welcome cultural heritage professionals from around the world both in person to the KB, National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, and digitally. Building on the success of last year’s virtual conference, they are excited to organize a hybrid event to inspire and inform you whether you can join them in the Netherlands or wherever in the world you will be.
Themes
They are looking for your proposals for an interactive and engaging session or intervention to be held during Europeana 2022. They want to invite the best ideas to take the stage, and open up their platforms to new voices and subjects around the following themes.
- Common Data Spaces
- Proposals in this area to share and showcase how the digital transformation of their sector contributes to such a thriving public digital space, to sustainability, accessibility, and inclusivity, and to help ensure that culture is always represented in discussions on the development of policies and programmes linked to digital public spaces.
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Proposals related to any aspect of diversity and inclusion. This could be around access, reinterpreting or reimagining practices and discourses, or looking at the ways people work and operate individually, within their organizations and as a sector.
- Participation and Collaboration
- Proposals that help engender participation and that cover participatory practices, standards, platforms, tools and more. Proposals that support collaborations for a European cultural sector which places digital cultural heritage at the heart of society.
- Climate Action
- Proposals that support and contribute to the European Green Deal and New European Bauhaus, creating a greener, more sustainable society. They want to hear about innovative and new ways they can work together to tackle and raise awareness of the climate emergency. The proposals could cover individual actions they can all take to ‘green-up’ their practices, or activities that organizations can carry out to proactively make a positive difference.
- Storytelling
- They want to hear about your storytelling work – how do you find and tell stories with digital cultural heritage that capture imaginations, and create memorable and meaningful experiences for audiences.
- 3D, multilinguality and AI
- If you have work in this area which can help contribute to the common data space, or you have created something you want the sector to hear about. If it’s related to 3D, multilinguality and AI and digital cultural heritage, send them your proposal!
- European Year of Youth
- Proposals that relate to digital cultural heritage and students, young people and those new to working in the sector. If you have ideas on how they can support these groups or facilitate intergenerational exchange within the sector, examples of innovative ways to reach and communicate with young people around cultural heritage, something to showcase from the European Year of Youth, or are a new professional who wants to make a difference to their sector and the societies they live in – they’d love to hear from you.
Selection Criteria
- Their selection criteria is designed to enable a broad and diverse selection. In order to open up the conference to new voices, they want to facilitate a more inclusive and equitable call, and on the submission form applicants have the opportunity to tell them how they can support your proposal if it is selected. The submissions will go through the initial selection process without this information being seen, and the final decision will be made by the programme committee.
- The selection process will begin when the call for proposals opens. They will review proposals in order of submission.
- The selection committee might contact you, before or after the first notice, with a request to merge or combine your proposal with another proposal. This will only be done if there is overlap between the proposals.
- The proposals will be reviewed on the following:
- To what extent does the proposal make it clear what outcomes the participants should be able to get out of the session?
- To what extent does the proposal speak to, involve, or collaborate with one or more of the conference target audiences?
- To what extent does the proposal offer something interesting, useful, innovative, or important to the event?
- To what extent do the topics proposed represent diversity in the themes?
- Once the proposal is submitted you will receive a confirmation email – make sure you check your spam folder if you don’t have this message in your primary inbox.
For more information, visit https://pro.europeana.eu/page/conference-call-for-proposals
