Join us for the annual EUscreen Symposium on 8 and 9 April in Warsaw, Poland!
This year’s symposium is co-hosted by EUscreen
and Filmoteka Narodowa Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA).
EUscreen Symposium 2026
During the “Reframing Openness: Empowering Authenticity and Reuse in Audiovisual Heritage” symposium we will discuss how, in a rapidly evolving social and technological landscape, film and audiovisual heritage institutions face urgent questions about how to preserve the authenticity of the archive and its collection while embracing openness, innovation, and reuse. This symposium will bring together professionals, scholars, rights experts, technologists, and community practitioners to explore critical intersections between archival integrity, public access, and participatory practices.
The symposium will address the shifting definition of “openness” in the context of copyright constraints, AI-generated content, and co-creation, and examine how reuse strategies need to be reimagined to balance legal, ethical, and cultural responsibilities. Special attention will be given to the transformative potential — and risks — of artificial intelligence in archival description, access, and interpretation, as well as to the role of inclusive, community-driven approaches that promote plural narratives and empower users as co-stewards of AV heritage, archival integrity that relies on trust and quality and necessary competences in the sector to allowing it to face the new realm.
📅Wednesday 8 April
🕐13:00 – 17:00h
📅Thursday 9 April
🕐10:30 – 14:30h
📍Filmoteka Narodowa Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA)
📍Warszawa, ul. Wałbrzyska 3/5
🏢Ziemia Obiecana hall
Programme
Wednesday 8 April
TIME
PROGRAMME
13:00 – 13:30
Registration with coffee and bites
13:30 – 13:45
Words of welcome
- Johan Oomen (EUscreen Foundation Chair) & Tomasz Kolankiewicz (Director FINA)
13:45 – 14:30
Keynote
- Alek Tarkowski (Open Future Foundation)
Audiovisual heritage and new cultural loops
14:30 – 15:30
Panel Public Access & Copyright Law chaired by Bart Meletti
- Stef van Gompel (VU University Amsterdam)
Digitization, AI and public access: challenges for audiovisual archives - Adelheid Heftberger (German Federal Archives)
We must imagine Sisyphus as a happy man” – Our Journey with Rights Assessment in the Bundesarchiv - Ksenia Kakareko (University of Warsaw)
Preservation, Access and Reuse: What EU Copyright Law Allows Audiovisual Archives to Do
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
Panel Integrity of Audiovisual Content in the Age of AI chaired by Elżbieta Wysocka
- Joanna Kaliszewska (FINA)
How AI can improve workflows in Film and Audiovisual Archives - Marta Materska-Samek (Jagiellonian University)
Archive or Algorithm? Who Curates Our Audiovisual Memory - Ilana Diamant (independent producer)
The Protection of Historical Truth in Documentary Storytelling - Fabio Paul Bedoya Huerta (Trust in Archives)
- Montse Bailac (3Cat)
Implementing Responsible AI in Archival Practice
Thursday 9 April
TIME
PROGRAMME
09:00 – 10:30
EUscreen internal network meeting (EUscreen members only)
10:30 – 11:00
Registration with coffee and bites
11:00 – 12:00
Panel Collaboration & Participatory Practices chaired by Marco Rendina
- Jolė Stimbirytė & Laura Kerušauskaitė (Lithuanian Central State Archive)
Virtual audiovisual archive E-kinas: one place for all your audiovisual needs - Żaneta Żegleń (IMPULSE)
From Archive to Experience: New Impulses for Reusing Digital Heritage - Daniel Chavez Hera (King’s College Londen)
Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives: Investing in Knowledge, Not Tokens - Elspeth Vischer (Nerve Centre)
Northern Ireland Now : A Case Study of The Contemporary Collecting of Belfast Stories on Screen
12:00 – 12:30
Coffee break
12:30 – 13:30
Panel Upskilling the Archives chaired by Maja Drabczyk
- Agata Krawczyk (Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage)
- Virginia Bazan-Gil (FIAT/IFTA)
- Marco Rendina (Istituto Luce – Cinecittà)
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch and goodbye
Practical information
The symposium is entirely free of charge and open to anyone interested in data policy, digital public spaces, archiving, audiovisual heritage, cultural heritage and media. Are you a full member of the EUscreen network? Then your travel and lodging expenses are co-financed by the network for up to two people from your organisation!
The EUscreen network would also like to invite its members to a closed network meeting on Thursday 9 April from 09:00 – 10:30 where we will discuss matters pertaining to the EUscreen Foundation, such as strategic plans and finances. Registration for the EUscreen network meeting can be completed in the same form for the symposium ticket.
The programme and other practical information will be available closer to the symposium. Should you have any questions about the symposium, programme, tickets or any other (practical) information. Reach out to info@euscreen.eu and we will be in touch!
Please note that the symposium is only available to attend in-person and will not be livestreamed.