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!

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!