Europe at Work, Europeana's season in autumn 2019, shares the story of Europe through our working lives in the past and the present.

In partnership with museums, galleries, libraries and archives across Europe, Europeana aims to show that the working world we inhabit today is rich and varied and is the result of a series of technological and societal changes over time. 

Europe at Work brings stories of our personal working lives together with archive material on industrial and labour-related heritage. Because work isn’t just what we do. It’s often who we are and where we’ve come from. It’s an integral part of our cultural heritage.

From September to November 2019, Europeana along with museums, galleries, libraries and archives across Europe, will run a series of collection days which will record the stories of the people who have worked at industrial heritage sites across Europe.

People across Europe can join in online, by submitting a story about their working lives, or at events to which they bring their stories along with material such as pictures, diaries, videos and letters.

Dedicated editorials will illustrate the story of our working lives in the past and the present through cultural heritage content on Europeana.

At a Europe at Work Collection Day, people are invited to share their stories and material relating to their working lives. Collection Days will take place in museums, libraries, galleries, archives and other cultural heritage institutions and are an opportunity for the public to share their own individual or family stories.

How Europeana can help with your Collection Day:

• We'll provide expertise and knowledge of running Collection Day events, including 'how-to' tutorials and an online tool for capturing data
• We'll give you press and marketing material templates 
• We'll give you access to our user-generated story contribution platform
• We'll help provide visibility for your collections / organisation
• You'll be connected to our network of 3,500 cultural heritage institutions

If you are interested in running your own Collection Day event to digitise and add material for Europe at Work, you can find help and advice on how to do that in the following documents.

Events in 2020

• 17-19 January 2020, Dias da Memória Indústria de Sao João da Madeira, Portugal (with partners Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• May - September 2020, online collection; 25-26 September 2020, physical collection day, Ardnacrusha Memories: collecting stories about the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland (with partners ESB Archives and EuropeanExpo2020).  

Events in 2019

• 28-29 September 2019, Journées de collecte luso-luxembourgeoises / Dias de coleção Luso-Luxemburguesa, Gare-Usines de Dudelange, Luxembourg (with partners Centre de Documentation sur le Migration Humaine and Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
   
• 13 October 2019, A World of Diamond: Diamond Workers in Belgium, The Netherlands and France 1895-2000, La Fraternelle, Maison du Peuple, Saint-Claude (Jura, France), (with partners Amsab Institute for Social History)
   
• 26 October 2019, Ostiense, Rome, Italy 
   
• 30 October 2019, Fiskars Museum, Fiskars, Finland  (with partners National Library of Finland)
   
• 31 October - 1 November 2019, Europe at Work: Arbeitswelt im Wandel [Changing work environments], Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg (with partners Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg)
   
• 9 November 2019, 'Working away', EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, Dublin, Ireland
   
• 28 November 2019, Museums of Varkaus, Varkaus, Finland
   
• 28 November 2019, Tekniikan Museo (Museum of Technology), Helsinki, Finland
   
• 1 December 2019, A World of Diamond: Diamond Workers in Belgium, The Netherlands and France 1895-2000, De Burcht van Berlage, Amsterdam (with partners Amsab Institute for Social History)
   
• 7 December 2019, event organised by Kiviks Museum, Kiviks, Sweden (with partners Swedish National Heritage Board and SPF Kivik - The Swedish Association for Senior Citizens in Kivik)