This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. By clicking or navigating the site you agree to allow our collection of information through cookies. Check our Privacy policy.

About

Every year, the Europeana Initiative runs the Digital Storytelling Festival. The international event encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring culture. We hope to inspire participants to create connections between art, culture and history and the contemporary world.

Check this page for the latest news about the next Digital Storytelling Festival and information about previous years!

Residency programme

Since 2023, a key part of the Digital Storytelling Festival has been our Online Creative Residency, which brings students and new professionals who want to gain storytelling skills in a professional setting together with experts. Working with these experts, residency participants develop stories with cultural heritage in different digital formats.

The theme for 2024 was ‘journey’ and, to add to writing, social media and animation, introduced two new formats - collage art and storytelling with 3D. 3D was also in focus as we are also encouraging participants to use a new set of 3D items from the Twin it! campaign in their stories. 

Explore the results from previous residencies below!

Previous editions

News

How we are exploring digital cultural heritage as a resource for writing networks
Title:
Dame mit zwei Kanarienvögeln
Creator:
Jacob Weiner
Date:
1900
Institution:
Albertina
Country:
Austria

How we are exploring digital cultural heritage as a resource for writing networks

Created: 10 September 2024

Over the summer of 2024, we talked to a range of fascinating and enthusiastic people about how they - and the organisations they represent - could use Europeana.eu as a resource for inspiration and research, specifically for writing. Discover how we approached this audience.

Take a journey through the stories of the Online Creative Residency 2024
Title:
Road to Nikko
Creator:
Lübeck, Oswald
Date:
1913
Institution:
Deutsche Fotothek
Country:
Germany

Take a journey through the stories of the Online Creative Residency 2024

Created: 3 September 2024

In May - July 2024, 13 participants took part in the Online Creative Residency from Europeana’s Digital Storytelling Festival. Exploring the theme of 'journey', participants worked with mentors in animation, social media, collage art, storytelling with 3D and creative writing.

top