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Europeana Impact community

Who we are

We are a community of professionals interested in the impact of the cultural heritage sector on the people who interact with its actions and services. As a group we are eager to discuss the value of impact and the challenges we face when assessing it. We aim to constantly improve our daily work so that it is in line with the needs of our audiences and other relevant stakeholders.

What we do 

We support our members to develop and refine their practice of impact assessment and awareness. We contribute to the ongoing development of impact practitioners and transfer knowledge and share skills, tools and resources around impact. We communicate to our networks, and audiences beyond our Community, the importance and value of impact assessment and the utility of the Impact Toolkit and Playbook.

Why join?

  • Use our community channels to keep informed, expand your network, share best practice and promote your activities with other dedicated professionals from around the world
  • Contribute to our yearly work plan to shape the future of the community activities 
  • Represent and set the agenda at Europeana's annual conference

Activities and resources

Impact
Title:
Impact Workshop EDCR Glasgow
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
December 2016
Country:
The Netherlands

Impact

The Impact Playbook, inspiration, practical resources and a community to help develop and refine impact practice.

Impact Community Work Plan
Title:
Marmortreppe im Palazzo Bonagia in Palermo
Creator:
Friedrich Alois Schönn (Künstler/in)
Date:
1878 oder 1880
Institution:
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Country:
Austria

Impact Community Work Plan

Explore our Community Work Plan for the coming year. 

Impact webinars
Title:
Ballando in città
Creator:
Alice Pasquini
Date:
2013
Institution:
Associazione culturale GoTellGo
Country:
Italy

Impact webinars

Webinars to support cultural heritage professionals in using the Impact Playbook

inDICEs
Title:
Logo inDICEs project
Date:
2020

inDICEs

InDICEs ‘Measuring the impact DIgital CulturE’ was a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme.

Meet the Steering Group

The impact community is represented by the Chair, Vice-Chair, Manager and three members of the community

Latest News

Europeana Impact Surgery:  the case of the ‘To Write Freely’ digital portal
Title:
Operation på Östhammars lasarett, Uppland 1916
Creator:
Skötsner-Edhlund
Institution:
Upplands Museum
Country:
Sweden

Europeana Impact Surgery: the case of the ‘To Write Freely’ digital portal

Created: 28 May 2025

Last year, the Europeana Impact Community organised an online ‘Impact Surgery’, using a digital project to showcase how to use the Europeana Impact Playbook. Tamara Štefanac from the ‘To Write Freely’ portal - the Surgery’s ‘patient’ - describes the experience and explains why you should volunteer for future surgeries’!

Foresight thinking and futures scenarios with the Europeana Initiative
Title:
A Celectial Sphere, Sextant and Equinoctial Sphere
Date:
1860
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

Foresight thinking and futures scenarios with the Europeana Initiative

Created: 7 November 2024

In 2024, the Europeana Initiative launched a strategic foresight process to help us explore possible futures for our long-term vision and strategy. Read on to discover more about foresight and futures thinking, what emerged from our work in this area and how to embed futuring into your own planning and preparations.

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