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03/06/2026

🚲 Happy World Bicycle Day!

The UN declared today to celebrate the bicycle as a simple, affordable, clean and sustainable means of transport, and honestly, Europeans have needed no convincing. Our collections are full of proof.

We've gathered 66 images of bikes and bikers from across Europeana: portraits, caricatures, race photographs and countryside rides. Turns out the love for cycling is very well documented!

👉 Full gallery: https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/9143-cycling

29/05/2026

Are you involved in preparing, managing, or delivering cultural heritage metadata for publication on Europeana.eu?​ If you're a cultural heritage professional, data provider, or aggregator, you know that the quality of your metadata is key to making your collections findable, usable, and impactful. ​

J​oin our training course​ on the Europeana METIS Sandbox.​ The Metis Sandbox is a test environment for your data. It consists of a set of tools with which you can simulate ingesting and running the Metis workflow on your data, see what your records would look like on Europeana.eu, and get insight into the quality of your records.

During the training, you’ll mostly be working with data that we have prepared specifically for the purpose of this training. But you will also have the possibility to run your own data and analyse the results. If you are interested, please prepare a collection of at most 50 records that satisfy EDM specifications.

The training will take place online on Zoom and will not be recorded. You will receive a link a few days before the training.​ Each training is an intensive and interactive exercise.

​Whether you're preparing a new dataset or looking to improve existing records, this course will help you generate better visibility and greater engagement for your institution’s collections. ​Order your FREE ticket now! https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/metissandbox-june2026/

28/05/2026

As part of the , a Manchester City of Literature project MCRCityofLit, join our event ‘Inspiring new writing with Europeana.eu’

Find out how to use Europeana.eu’s vast database of European digital culture heritage to enhance your writing and research practice. Choose from millions of images, sounds, videos and texts to create inspiring writing prompts, or search the database to find answers to your research questions.

And as the Festival of Libraries is partnering with the city of Barcelona this year, we’ll also explore some Barcelona-inspired creative writing prompts together - join in via your smartphone or web browser.

🗓️ Thursday 11 June, 12–1pm
💻 Online
🆓 Free
👉 Register: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/Inspiringnewwriting-june2026/

27/05/2026

📢 This June, take part in two live online training sessions from Europeana Academy, created to help professionals, researchers, educators and communicators unlock the full potential of the collections available through europeana.eu and the ! 🌍✨

👉 16 June 2026 — Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
Learn practical ways to search, use and share data, while engaging effectively with audiences on the platform.
🔗 Register: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/collections-and-stories-June2026/

👉 18 June 2026 — How to tell great stories and write for Europeana.eu
Explore techniques for and start shaping your own editorial concepts with confidence.
🔗 Register: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/tellgreatstories-June2026/

Both sessions are held online as part of the Europeana Academy programme. Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your skills and connect with fellow heritage professionals across Europe! 🎓🌐

26/05/2026

🌟 We're looking for three new members to join the Europeana Foundation Advisory Board!

We're seeking passionate, visionary people with expertise in:

🤖 AI technology, ethics and policy
🌐 Network building, advocacy and change
💶 EU funding and strategic diversification

These are voluntary positions for people who care deeply about digital cultural heritage as a public good — and who want to help shape the future of Europe's cultural heritage in a moment of significant change.

The Advisory Board meets once online and once in person per year, with occasional additional online meetings.

👉 Interested? Read the full profiles and apply: https://pro.europeana.eu/job/draft-advisory-board

📌 Positions are open until filled — applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

22/05/2026

✍️ Are you aged 14–25 and curious about poetry?
Join us and Young Poets Network (The Poetry Society) for a free, hour-long online poetry writing workshop.

Europeana's Dr Beth Daley will guide you through creative prompts to inspire your entry to the Getting Curious Challenge! no experience needed, just curiosity.

After the workshop, you're encouraged to keep editing and submit your poem to the challenge, open until 14 June.

🗓️ Friday 29 May, 5–6pm (BST)
💻 Online
🆓 Free
👉 Register: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/ypn-europeana-workshop/

21/05/2026

📚 Join the June edition of our Europeana Writers’ Room on Wednesday 3 June!

June is Pride month in many parts of the world, so this month’s writing workshop will explore q***r lives through LGBTQ+ cultural heritage. We’ll share stories of q***r figures from antiquity to more recent history and explore ideas about identity and pride with simple creative writing prompts.

Open to writers of all levels, each session has a dedicated theme to help spark new ideas each month, and we share examples of poetry or prose related to the theme.

🗓 3 June 2026
📍 Online

Register now: https://www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/en/news/join-the-europeana-writers-room-monthly-creative-writing-workshops

20/05/2026

UPDATE: We have received an overwhelming amount of interest, so we have decided to close the applications for now. We are often searching for support in translations, so please keep an eye out for our next call!

✨ Internship opportunity ✨

We are recruiting for Summer Translation Internships!

We are looking for interns to support us in our multilingual editorial publishing. Interns will be working on translating texts for Europeana, including stories/articles, interface texts on the Europeana website and other texts.

The length of the internship is 1 month, starting in July 2026, and we encourage translation studies students working in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and/or Swedish to apply.

🔗 Find out more and apply

19/05/2026

✨ Internship opportunity ✨

We are recruiting for Summer Translation Internships!

We are looking for interns to support us in our multilingual editorial publishing. Interns will be working on translating texts for Europeana, including stories/articles, interface texts on the Europeana website and other texts.

The length of the internship is 1 month, starting in July 2026, and we encourage translation studies students working in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and/or Swedish to apply.

🔗 Find out more and apply!

We are looking for two to three interns to support us in this work, and in turn, to offer them the experience of working on topics of relevance to the…