Tag: cultural heritage

A female director for the Louvre!

The Louvre is about to get its first female director for the first time since its opening in 1793. Laurence des Cars, current head of the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, was recently appointed by President Macron … Continue reading


Digitisation of the endangered monastic archive at May Wäyni, Ethiopia

Text by Caterina Sbrana. I have already spoken in my blogs about the importance of the digitisation of historical documents in order to enable them to be used and disseminated worldwide through the Internet. There is another reason why digitisation … Continue reading


How can urban culture and creativity be a driver of social impact?

The last December 10, the first of the “Infected Cities” livecasts on creative resilience in European cities was launched by DutchCulture together with Pakhuis de Zwijger in Paris. It was the first of four new livecasts to reflect on how … Continue reading


DANube Urban Brand + Building Regional and Local Resilience through the Valorization of Danube’s Cultural Heritage

DANUrB is a new EU funded project started on July 2020 and leaded by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics of Budapest. It involves 17 Partners coming from 6 East European Countries: Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia. … Continue reading


The first ESACH Talks series: people and heritage. In partnership with Europa Nostra

  Last call to participate in the first ESACH Talk series that will be held online tomorrow, October 6, in partnership with Europa Nostra. The event is planned as an interactive, very fast event (about 45 minutes) during which young … Continue reading


ESACH talks! people and heritage

The ESACH (European Student’s Association for Cultural Heritage) is an international network of European students and young professionals working within cultural heritage. It was established in 2017, on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, to highlight … Continue reading


#Mannheim2020: European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns

Cultural Heritage, Resilience and Sustainable Urban Regeneration are the focus of the session “Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’, which will be held the morning of the third day conference from 9:30 to 11:00 CET. The session will explore how … Continue reading


Cultural Heritage, Resilience and Sustainable Urban Regeneration at Mannheim2020

The 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, is organised as a virtual event from today 30 September to 2 October 2020.  It brings together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions and some of the … Continue reading


Collect & Connect International conference: paper submission deadline extended to September 18 2020

This conference welcomes papers that present, discuss, and reflect upon the technical, social, and institutional challenges that experts and researchers in the field of digital heritage encounter when enriching heterogeneous digitized collections with context. Thematic scope of the conference: Many … Continue reading


International Scientific Conference: RUINS II – protection, use, management

Conference-call-Lublin The aim of the conference is to make a broad review of the problems related to the protection, conservation, use and management of historic ruins. The key assumption of the conference is comprehensive discussing the contemporary principles and forms … Continue reading