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Posted on Thursday December 4, 2025

Updated on Monday December 8, 2025

"Connecting Heritages, Building Futures" – Forum of the Digital in Culture

Hear speakers from Europeana and the European Commission during the first "Forum of the Digital in Culture: Connecting Heritages, Building Futures", organised by the Italian Ministry of Culture – Directorate General for Digitisation and Communication and the Central Institute for the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage – Digital Library.

Event banner in Italian, with a photo of a sculpture superimposed over a digital background
10 December 2025
12:00 — 15:20
(CET)
Online

The two interventions from Europeana and European Commission colleagues are as follows.

10 December - 12:00 - 13:00 (CET)
Verso il Data Space per il patrimonio culturale: Europeana e il dialogo con la Digital Library

  • Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak – Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology European Commission – (DG CONNECT) - Scaling up the data space for cultural heritage: a EU political vision (English)
  • Martina Bagnoli – Europeana Foundation - L’Italia in Europeana e lo Spazio europeo dei dati per il patrimonio culturale (Italian)
  • Harry Verwayen – Europeana Foundation - Development of the data space for cultural heritage: Adopt, Adapt & Achieve (English)

The panel sessions will be broadcast on the Ministry of Culture (MiC) YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/MiC_Italia

For in-person attendees, this session takes place in the auditorium at the National Central Library (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma).

10 December - 14:00 - 15:20 (CET)
Roundtable: Heritage meets technology: Leveraging advanced tech to scale up digital cultural heritage
Moderator: Harry Verwayen

  • Sofie Taes – KU Leuven, Europeana Network Association
  • Marco Medici – INCEPTION s.r.l.
  • Altheo Valentini – European Grants International Academy, Europeana Education Community

For in-person attendees, the roundtable takes place in Sala 1.

The roundtables will be streamed on the Digital Library YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalLibraryMiC

For in-person attendees, the roundtable takes place in Sala 1 at the National Central Library (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma).

The majority of the sessions and speeches will be in Italian.

Find more about the event here.

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