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Presentation by Luca Martinelli about funding opportunities at EU level for the digitisation of cultural heritage at the Second EUscreen International Conference on Use and Creativity, which took place at the National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, on September 15-16, 2011.
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Digitisation of cultural heritage:funding opportunities at EU
level
Luca Martinelli European Commission
DG Information Society and Media
EUscreen Conference Stockholm, 16 September 2011
A Digital Agenda for Cultural Heritage:Where are we?
2005-2010: i2010 Digital libraries initiative• The issue of Digital Libraries has raised a high level of
political attention• Europeana• Improved basic conditions for digitisation, online accessibility
and digital preservation
2010- 2020: European Digital Agenda• Continued effort to bring our cultural heritage online• “…A sustainable financing model for Europeana and
digitisation of cultural heritage…”• Other actions on: orphan and out-of-commerce works,
update Recommendation to Member States, research and innovation, PSI/open data and cultural sector
The work of the Comité des Sages
• Appointed by Commissioners Kroes and Vassiliou in April 2010
• Three personalities–M. Lévy (CEO Publicis)–E. Niggemann (DG German national library)–J. De Decker (Journalist and writer)
• Report presented to the Commission on 10 January 2011
• Stresses the economic aspects next to the cultural aspects
• ‘Access’ is the central concept
Comité des Sages on Europeana
The issue• Europeana central in the strategy
• Should be strengthened to become the reference point for European culture online
Key recommendations:
•Financial and political efforts should be concentrated
•Public funding for digitisation conditional on free accessibility through Europeana
•By 2016 all public domain masterpieces accessible through Europeana
•Europeana to be actively and widely promoted at all levels
Key recommendations:
•Financial and political efforts should be concentrated
•Public funding for digitisation conditional on free accessibility through Europeana
•By 2016 all public domain masterpieces accessible through Europeana
•Europeana to be actively and widely promoted at all levels
Funding issues
The issue• Cost of digitising European cultural heritage is 100 bn euros • Mass-digitisation susceptible to efficiency gains due to scale • Digitisation: an opportunity for new business
Key recommendations : •Step up public investments. The crisis cannot be ignored, but cannot be a reason for not acting
• Involvement of private partners to be encouraged
• Funding of digitisation and of Europeana is a package: MS pay for digitisation, EU pays for Europeana
• Turn digitisation into new development opportunities for European firms
Key recommendations : •Step up public investments. The crisis cannot be ignored, but cannot be a reason for not acting
• Involvement of private partners to be encouraged
• Funding of digitisation and of Europeana is a package: MS pay for digitisation, EU pays for Europeana
• Turn digitisation into new development opportunities for European firms
Public-private partnerships
The issue• Private funds for digitisation are necessary• Cultural institutions enter partnerships ‘unprepared’ and
‘unequipped’
Key recommendations:• Conditions for partnerships:
- Agreements to be made public- Digitised public domain material freely accessible and available in all MS- Same quality of files for cultural institutions
• Maximum time of preferential use is 7 years
• Create favourable conditions for the involvement of European
players in PPPs
Key recommendations:• Conditions for partnerships:
- Agreements to be made public- Digitised public domain material freely accessible and available in all MS- Same quality of files for cultural institutions
• Maximum time of preferential use is 7 years
• Create favourable conditions for the involvement of European
players in PPPs
Commission Recommendation on the digitisation and online
accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (2006)
• Planned update to take into account:– Evolution of Europeana;– Report by CdS;– Proposal for an Orphan Work
Directive
EuropeanaMore content wanted!
• Still big quantitative difference between Member States in terms of contribution
• Different types of contributions from Member States
• Audiovisual content still too low (~3%)!
• Importance of classics and masterpieces
• A Roadmap with recommendations to increase accessible content is being developed by Commission and Member States
EuropeanaFunding 2008-2013
• eContent plus Programme and Competitiveness and Innovation (CIP) Framework Programme:
• Co-financing available for projects on content aggregation and digitisation
• AV projects:– EFG, EUscreen, Videoactive,…
2014-2020 Connecting Europe Facility
• June 2011: Commission proposal EU budget 2014-2020
• Infrastructure Connecting Europe Facility: energy, transport and digital networks
• 2014-2020: € 40 billion– Energy €9.1 billion– Transport €21.7 billion– ICT/Digital €9.2 billion
Europeana 2014-2020 • Broadband and 9 European Digital
Infrastructures, including:• Enabling access to digital
resources of Europe's culturalheritage – Europeana:
• “Service infrastructure to explore thedigital resources of Europe's museums,libraries, archives and audio-visual
collections”
ICT Research for Cultural Heritage
• Long body of ICT research for culture from 5th to 7th Framework Programmes: access to culture, competence centers on digitisation, digital preservation research
• R&D projects focussed on AV content: Prestospace, Prestoprime, Axes, …
• 2014-2020: Horizon 2020, framework for Research and Innovation (merging of FP, CIP and ETI)
Other EU Programmes 2007-2013
• Culture Programme, in particular cross-border cooperation for cultural actions/cultural heritage
• Media Programme (support to audiovisual industry): possible pilots on digitisation
• 2014-2020: Creative Europe (€ 1.6 billion): Commission proposal
Cohesion policy – Structural Funds
• Community Strategic Guidelines for Cohesion Policy for 2007-13. The priorities are: – Making EU regions more
attractive places to invest and work,
– Improving knowledge and innovation for growth,
– Creating more and better jobs.
Fields for Regional Policy intervention (ERDF)
Transport
RDT &
innovation
Environment
Social infrastructure
ICT
Energy
1 Transport 28%
2 RTD & innovation 24%
3 Environmental protection and riskprevention 19%
4 Investment in social infrastructure 6.2%
5 Information society 5.6%
6 Energy 4%
7 Urban and rural regeneration 3.8%
8 Technical assistance 3%
9 Tourism 2.4%
10 Culture 2.2%
11 Strenghtening institutional capacity atnational, regional and local level 0.6%
12 Improving access to employment 0.4%
13 Improving human capital 0.4%
14 Adaptability of workers and firms 0.3%
15 Reduction of additional costs hinderingthe outermost regions development 0.2%
16 Reforms in the fields of employment andinclusion 0.1%
17 Improving the social inclusion of less-favoured persons 0.1%
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No specific allocations for the digitisation of cultural heritage
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF):
support to Information Society
Reasoning: • ICT is a catalyst for many forms of innovation
and a key element of the knowledge economy In all regions, SF support is possible for:• Promoting the access to, take up, and efficient
use of ICTs by SMEs• Development of e-services and applications • Action plans for small enterprisesIn Convergence regions, it is also possible
for :• Content, services and applications• Improvement of secure access to and
development of on-line public services
European Social Fund: support to digitisation of cultural heritage
(possible in all EU regions)
• Training actions to adapt/create skills on digitisation and digital preservation technologies. Target: staff employed by cultural institutions (libraries, archives, museums), or unemployed persons.
• Education actions: creation of university curricula and diplomas on digital curation (experts in management of the full life cycle of digital assets), in order to create necessary skills and promote employment in this field.
• Actions to fight unemployment: creation of employment opportunities for unemployed people, as participants in digitisation projects.
European Investment Bank: are digitisation projects eligible? • Memory institutions’ digitisation efforts are
eligible for EIB support under its knowledge economy - i2i initiative (innovation and ICT infrastructure, including e-content)
• Primary goal: to resolve bottlenecks for innovation and ICT investments due to market imperfections
• The EIB can finance maximum 50% of the total project cost. Eligible are• tangible assets (hardware, equipment, buildings) as well as • intangible assets (software development costs, training
costs, …)
European Investment Bank: are digitisation projects eligible?
• Both public promoters (local authorities, regional and central government) and private promoters – or a combination of both – are eligible
• Combination with other EU or national funds is possible
• EIB undertakes an economic and technical due diligence for projects exceeding 25 million Euro
Digitisation of cultural heritage:Overview of EU funding opportunities
• EU programmes:– Innovation: CIP-ICT-PSP– R&D: ICT research- Culture: MEDIA and Culture
Programme- (Infrastructures: Connecting
Europe Facility)
• Structural Funds• European Investment Bank
Comité des Sages – the new Renaissance
• “Digitisation is more than a technical option, it is a moral obligation”
Every European digital