1. Current Funding
Challenges and Impact on
Europeana
Funding digitisation: Can accessible cultural
heritage fuel social and economic growth?
Dublin, 21 June 2013
Gudrun Stock
CNECT/G2 – Creativity

2. EU Support for Europeana to Date
• eContentplus (2005-2008)
 Support for aggregation/accessibility of cultural heritage
 Launch of Europeana in 2008
• ICT Policy Support Programme (2009-2013)
 Support for further development of Europeana
 More content & targeted digitisation
 User-friendly services
 Re-use of Europeana content for creativity
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3. Europeana Today
www.europeana.eu
• Well established brand
worldwide, e.g. model
for DPLA
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4. Future EU Support for Europeana
• KA 15 of the Digital Agenda for Europe
 propose a sustainable model for financing Europeana
and digitisation of content
• Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/connecting-europe-facility
Inclusion of Europeana
as one of the Digital
Service Infrastructures
(DSIs) in the
(2014-2020)
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5. CEF: The Original Proposal
• Overall budget envelope: 50 bn
EUR
• Trans-European networks in the
fields of
• Transport: 31.7 bn EUR
• Energy: 9.1 bn EUR
• Telecommunications: 9.2 bn EUR
 High-speed broadbank networks – 7 bn EUR
 Digital Service Infrastructures – 2.2 bn EUR
In MFF
discussions,
European Council
cuts budget for
CEF Telecom
from 9.2 to 1 bn
EUR
Commission has
to amend its
proposal
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6. CEF Architecture
Connecting
Europe
Facility
Transport
Guidelines
Energy
Guidelines
Telecom
Guidelines
(CEF Digital)
Provides
the budget
Identifies the
projects for
community
support
Amended
proposal
submitted to
Council &
Parliament at
the end of
May
Policy
Framework
Financing
Framework
(2014-2020)
 Broadband
 DSIs
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7. CEF: Purpose of Amended Proposal
• Adapt Guidelines to budget cut from EUR 9.2 bn
to EUR 1 bn
 reducing the number of DSIs
 introducing priorities for eligibility of DSIs for financial
support
 limiting the scope of broadband support to "seed
funding" for financial instrument(s)
• Cultural Heritage Resources/Europeana still in,
BUT …
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8. CEF funding
needs in-
creasingly to
be comple-
mented by
funding sources
other than CEF,
'as
demonstrated
by a feasibility
and cost-
benefit
assessment'
CEF: The Amended Proposal re DSIs
• Priorities
 1st: Building block DSIs (eID, eDelivery,
eInvoicing, Cyber Security, Multilingual)
 2nd: DSIs supporting specific provisions of EU
legislation and using building blocks
 3rd: Any other DSI (i.a. CH resources/Europeana)
• Requirements for DSIs
 be mature, i.e. ready for deployment
 Long-term sustainability
 contribute to achievement of single market
 comply with agreed standards and specifications,
reuse existing solutions
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9. Challenges arising from CEF
• Severe competition for budget
 5 building-block DSIs, 7 other DSIs (incl. Europeana) +
initiatives from other DGs (e.g. eJustice, ODR, EESSI)
• Strict hierarchy of priorities for eligibility for
funding
• Need for concrete sustainability plan to ensure
long-term operation
 Financial assistance under CEF to be phased out,
whereever possible
 Funding from sources other than CEF to be mobilised
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10. Impact on Europeana
• Former levels of EU support cannot be maintained
 Funding of Europeana core service until mid-2015
• Alternative sources of funding must be found quickly
• Explicit and active support from Member States,
cultural institutions and other beneficiaries of
Europeana very helpful towards
 Council (AV WG to liaise with Telecoms WG)
 European Parliament
 ITRE = resonsible Committee, rapporteur Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ
 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?id=596794
 Commissioner Kroes
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11. Opportunities for Europeana?
• Rethink existing relations Europeana/Member
States/content providers to optimise mutual
benefit
 E.g. DK using Europeana as National Aggregator
• Form new relations
 With private content providers or sponsors
• Explore new types of services, e.g.
 content repositories
 assistance with rights clearance or
 licensing technologies
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12. In conclusion:
Enrich &
diversify
collections
Bring
Europeana
to users'
doorstep
Data hub
for
creative
re-use and
apps
Governance
structure
tailored to
the future
Europeana
Portal
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13. Conclusion cont'd:
• Budget cut is nobody's fault, it is a result of the
crisis
• Absolute need for co-financing, ideally from a
mix of sources
 the more alternative sources of funding, the stronger
the case for complementary CEF funding
 current sustainability study of utmost importance
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14. Conclusion cont'd:
• Member States' and stakeholders' support for
Europeana is indispensable
 Now - prior to CEF adoption
 When drafting annual work programmes
• Current EU-funding for Europeana core service
ensured until mid-2015
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15. Alternative Funding Opportunities
Horizon 2020
(http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm)
• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
(LEIT)
 Content technologies and information management: ICT for
digital content and creativity
• Societal Challenges
 activities enabling the study of European heritage, memory,
identity, integration and cultural interaction, including its
representations in cultural and scientific collections, archives
and museums, to better inform and understand the present
by richer interpretations of the past
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16. Alternative Funding Opportunities
• Creative Europe
(http://ec.europa.eu/culture/creative-europe/)
 designed to help the cultural and creative sectors to
seize the opportunities of the ‘digital age’ and
globalisation
All new funding programmes currently in the legislative procedure –
adoption expected by autumn this year
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