Alba Irollo

Audience Engagement

Research Coordinator Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL

alba.irollo@europeana.eu

Alba is in charge of Europeana Research, the bridge between the Europeana Foundation and researchers, research institutions and infrastructures. She coordinates the Research Advisory Board's activities and is the Europeana Research Community manager. Besides being responsible for the Research Grants Programme, she contributes building partnerships competitive within the Horizon 2020 Programme and the European Science Cloud. She has a PhD in History of Art and is active as a researcher also in the fields of Heritage and Museum Studies. More recently, she has developed a particular interest in Cultural Policy.

News posts

Title:

Das Universitaetsgebaeude in Goettingen

Creator:

Höfer, E (Stecher)

Date:

1850

Institution:

City Museum Berlin

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 5 September 2024 Alba Irollo

Exploring digital cultural heritage as an emerging university subject

Academic Research

Europeana Research has been investigating how digital cultural heritage is emerging in university education. At the start of the new academic year, we invite you to discover and contribute to this research and its findings!

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Title:

Ungdom

Date:

1933 - 1934

Institution:

Blekinge Museum

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 12 August 2024 Alba Irollo

20 initiatives for students, young people and new professionals in the cultural heritage sector

New-professionals Internships

On International Youth Day, we want to highlight initiatives for students, young people and new professionals who are looking for a career in cultural heritage or opportunities to participate in meaningful programs across the sector. Discover 20 suggestions from Europeana Research!

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Title:

EU Datathon '22

Creator:

Publications Office of the European Union

Date:

2022

Institution:

Publications Office of the European Union

Country:

Belgium

News Created: 18 March 2022 Alba Irollo Nuno Freire

Europeana datasets available for reuse in EU Datathon competition

Data publication Academic Research

A total prize fund of €200,000 and a Public Choice Award are available for winners of open data competition EUDatathon 2022. We find out more about this opportunity to experiment with Europeana resources.

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Title:

Vänersborgs museum, Nordiska djursalen. Dokumentation av arbetet med att utveckla de permanenta utställningarna.

Creator:

Panser, Anna

Date:

2019-08-06

Institution:

Vänersborgs museum

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 1 November 2021 Alba Irollo

Meet the winners of the Europeana research grants and prizes 2021

Academic Research Europeanaresearcheventgrants Crowdsourcing

We are delighted to announce the winners of the fifth Europeana Research Grants Programme call. Three projects on crowdsourcing and research received a grant and two projects for video tutorials for Higher Education were awarded a special prize. Read on to find out more.

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Title:

Engineering: a hoist in use at an arsenal. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after Leonardo da Vinci.

Creator:

Leonardo da Vinci

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 16 April 2021 Alba Irollo Nicole McNeilly

Join our symposium - ‘Research and digital cultural heritage: new impact horizons’

Academic Research Impact Events Impactplaybook Digital-cultural-heritage

On 11 and 12 May 2021, Europeana will bring together cultural heritage professionals, policy makers, academics and researchers to discuss impact horizons of research when nurtured by digital cultural heritage. The organisers explain where the idea of a symposium came from and how its programme took shape.

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Title:

Friends

Creator:

Hanna Hirsch-Pauli

Date:

1900/1907

Institution:

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 1 April 2021 Alba Irollo

Europeana Research Grants: the 2021 call is out!

Funding Academic Research Europeanaresearcheventgrants

It is time to launch the fifth call for proposals within the Europeana Research Grants Programme to support events around the theme Crowdsourcing and Research. This year, part of the programme’s budget (EUR 25,000) is allocated to special prizes for tutorials showcasing innovative ways to use digital cultural heritage in Higher Education.

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Title:

Detail of Planets from BL Harley 2633, f. 37

Creator:

Macrobius

Date:

1125 - 1174

Institution:

British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 10 February 2021 Alba Irollo

Announcing our call for the Europeana Research Community video series

Network Academic Research Challenge Research-case-studies video

We are delighted to launch a new initiative for the Europeana Research Community: a call for videos that showcase cutting edge projects and collaborations developed across the research and cultural heritage sectors. Approximately eight proposals submitted by 31 March 2021 can receive financial support of up to €300 each.

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Title:

An armillary sphere (part.)

Date:

19th century

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 28 November 2019 Alba Irollo

Announcing the winners of the Europeana Research Grants Programme 2019

Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Europeanaresearcheventgrants Grants-programme

It is with great pleasure that we announce the institutions and proposals awarded a Europeana research grant this year! Read on to find out more about the events that we will support in 2020.

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Title:

An armillary sphere. Coloured engraving.

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 3 September 2019 Alba Irollo

Europeana Research Event Grants: the 2019 call is out!

Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Grants-programme Funding submissions-2019

We are delighted to be launching the fourth call for proposals within the Europeana Research Grants Programme. We invite you to send in your submissions for organising events that bring together cultural heritage professionals and researchers.

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Title:

Military band

Creator:

photographer unknown

Date:

1915

Institution:

Ralf Kranz/Europeana 1914-1918

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 5 September 2018 Alba Irollo

Europeana Research Grants Programme: the new call is out!

Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Grants-programme Submissions-2018 1914-1918

The third Europeana Research Grants Programme is now open for submissions. The focus for this year’s grant proposals is the First World War.

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Title:

The 'Venetica' Visual Gallery on the Venice Scholar

Creator:

Matteo Romanello

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 30 August 2018 Alba Irollo

Enriching user experience with dynamic retrieval and display

Funding Academic Research Grants-programme

Hear from 2017 Europeana research grant winner Matteo Romanello, post-doctoral researcher in the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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Title:

University of Barcelona

Creator:

University of Barcelona

Date:

2018

Institution:

University of Barcelona

Country:

Spain

News Created: 11 July 2018 Alba Irollo

It's time to raise the profile of Open Science in the Humanities

Data standards Network Academic Research Open-data Research Conference humanities open-science

A June conference in Barcelona saw intense debate on some of the major issues that researchers face when applying Open Science principles to the Humanities.

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