About EUscreen

Although audiovisual content is now being digitised and some of it is already available online, access to audiovisual archives, television in particular, remains fractured and scattered. EUscreen has developed a content selection policy and metadata framework that aligns the heterogeneous collections held throughout Europe and encourages the exploration of Europe's rich and diverse cultural history and European television history in particular. As one of the main audiovisual content aggregators for Europeana, EUscreen and its collection is also connected to an online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries and archives.

The project consortium is made up of 28 partners and 9 associate partners from 20 European countries. The project partners are major players in the field of audiovisual archives, research and software technology. If your organisation wants to become part of the EUscreen network please contactthe project co-ordinator.
Contact project co-ordinator
View the list of partners

The EUscreen content selection policy has been divided into three parts, and these will be developed over the coming months to allow visitors the opportunity to investigate, explore and watch clips and programmes in a number of different ways.

Historical Topics:
The vast majority of EUscreen content will be made up of clips and programmes that have been selected to explore 14 Historical Topics. The partners in EUscreen will be providing content for each of these historical topics between now and August 2012. So if you cannot find the topic you are looking for now, please visit us again in the future.

Content Provider Virtual Exhibitions:
As part of the EUscreen project, EUscreen archives and broadcasters will be developing their own Virtual Exhibitions on themes that they have selected themselves. Each exhibition will be accompanied by a range of resources such as photographs, documents, audio and written text to explore and investigate specific themes in depth.

Comparative Virtual Exhibitions:
These will include clips and programmes from all the EUscreen archives and broadcasters to explore three themes comparatively across Europe. These small exhibitions will be designed by curators in EUscreen to show how events have been seen from different European perspectives and to explore how television has developed in diverse ways in different European countries.

Virtual Exhibitions
The Virtual Exhibitions will be launched at different times between now and August 2012, so please come and visit us and look out for news updates.

Contact
EUscreen is always willing to cooperate with institutions, networks and projects that operate in the field of audiovisual heritage. Interested? Please contact the project co-ordinator or technical co-ordinator:

Prof. dr. Sonja de Leeuw
Project co-ordinator
j.s.deleeuw@uu.nl
Utrecht University

Johan Oomen, MA
Technical director
Joomen@beeldengeluid.nl
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision