Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015 Published

Jill Cousins, the Executive Director of Europeana, comments: "This week the Comité des Sages released their report about cultural heritage online, The New Renaissance, to the Commission. The report recommends that Europeana ‘should become the central reference point for Europe’s online cultural heritage’. We welcome this endorsement. The report also says that a clear plan is necessary for the further development of Europeana. We offer this Strategic Plan as the first response to that advice.

Our initial focus has been on aggregating Europe’s heritage. The Strategic Plan reflects our commitment to make this heritage as accessible as possible to users. In so doing, we want to give people new insights, stories and interactions. We will facilitate innovation in Europe’s memory organisations so that together we can engage new generations with their cultural heritage.

Europeana is the result of a strong and vital network of museums, libraries, archives, audiovisual collections, universities, research institutes and software developers in every Member State. Their collaboration supports the Digital Agenda for Europe by working with technology in ways that will foster social and economic growth while providing new forms of access to culture.

I hope you will find Europeana’s Strategic Plan 2011-2015 both realistic and practical. If you have any comments or suggestions to make, please get in contact with us at info@europeana.eu".

Download the Strategic Plan: colour version and black and white print version.