Project - WEAVE -- Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana

WEAVE aims to develop a framework to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage which they represent.

Financed by: Connecting Europe Facility
Duration: 2021-2022
Keywords: Culture Storytelling

Overview

WEAVE will contribute to preserving for future generations the richness of the European identity and its cultural plurality. In particular, the project will aggregate over 5,200 new high-quality records to Europeana related to the rich and invaluable cultural heritage of minority cultural communities, and showcase these collections in a set of engaging editorials on the Europeana website.

In particular, the project will aggregate over 5,000 new high-quality records to Europeana, and showcase these collections in a set of engaging editorials and a virtual exhibition. The project will carry out several capacity building activities to develop a closer connection between cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), minority cultural communities and Europeana.

Additionally, WEAVE builds upon the results of CultureMoves and 50s Kaleidoscope Generic Services Projects and will develop a set of open and reusable tools to allow the management of annotations, semi-automatic recognition of specific gestures and movements and visualisation of performances and 3D models.

The project will carry out several capacity building activities to develop a closer connection between cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), minority cultural communities and Europeana. It will offer training, mentorship and guidelines with a focus on proper handling of immaterial cultural heritage and working with vulnerable and marginalised communities.

The consortium partners span the entire value chain including partners with long term expertise in the collection, preservation and curation of intangible cultural heritage and the heritage of cultural communities at risk, some of which also having academic relevance in the interpretation and consideration of the value of these resources in the landscape of European heritage. Alongside IN2, as the coordinator, the consortium consisted of:

European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture e.V., Germany
PHOTOCONSORTIUM - International Consortium for Photographic Heritage, Italy
Coventry University, United Kingdom
CRDI - Ajuntament De Girona - Centre De Recerca I Difusió De La Imatge, Spain
PédeXumbo - Associação para a Promoção da Musica e da Dança, Portugal
TOPFOTO - Topham Partners LLP, United Kingdom
ARCTUR d.o.o., Slovenia
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Think Code Ltd., Cyprus
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Europeana Foundation, The Netherlands

Links:

Project page on Europeana Pro

The project is co-financed by the European Union under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Programme (Grant Agreement no. INEA/CEF/ICT/A2020/2288018).