May
FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission and BBC invite you to the 12th edition of FIAT/IFTA’s “Changing Sceneries, Changing Roles” Seminars, focusing on media management, metadata, emerging and evolving technologies and changing skillsets. This edition’s theme is:
AI and Human Collaboration: Partners in Archiving?
Gain insights from global experts in the media management field on emerging challenges in the digital archiving and broadcasting sectors.
- 6 - 8 MAY 2025
- Cardiff, Wales
- All day
- From € 150,-
Every year, the Europeana Initiative runs the Digital Storytelling Festival. The international event encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring culture.
A two-day event with talks, showcases and hands-on workshops to create connections between art, culture and history and the contemporary world.
- 13 - 14 MAY 2025
- Online
- 10:10 - 15:00 CET
- Free of charge
On Wednesday 21 May, EUscreen invites you to engage in a responsible, user centered approach to Generative AI. We will address the implications for archives, we will take a step into the newsrooms that work with these tools on a daily basis, and we will take a deep dive into the world of Generative AI. Today, we can generate anything and everything. When does this create added value and when does it create a confusion of facts?
With expert talks from Jacobo Castellanos (WITNESS) and Xavier Eutrope (Institut national de l’audiovisuel).
- 21 MAY 2025
- Online
- 17:00 - 18:00 CET
- Free of charge
The Audio Storytelling Festival is an annual gathering of professionals working with radio and audio content. Produced by the Audio Storytelling Group, the event is open to staff of EBU Member organizations as well as independent radio producers.
The Festival theme for 2025 is Community and Connections – both of which make us better storytellers. The four-day festival agenda will incorporate unique insights into the Lithuanian audio storytelling scene, alongside group listening sessions and facilitated discussions, the “How I made it” masterclasses by the award-winning authors, and many more talks around the best practice and craft of audio storytelling, as well as carefully curated cultural evening events.
- 25 - 28 MAY 2025
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- All day
- Free of charge
June
The Media Summit is a platform to network, learn and exchange experiences among peers.
This year’s Summit focuses on exploring why, what, and how people watch, with a particular emphasis on the evolving role and relevance of public service media (PSM) in a changing media landscape. We’ll also discuss the future of PSM and examine how we can ensure that its content remains relevant, engaging and valued by audiences.
- 3 - 4 JUN 2025
- Yerevan, Armenia
- All day
- Members only
We are excited to announce that Europeana 2025 will be held on 11-12 June 2025 during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU! It will be organised in collaboration and partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, hosted by POLIN Museum in Warsaw.
We invite you to save the date, and, to be the first to hear about the conference, including the call for proposals and access to early-bird tickets, to register your interest.
- 11 - 12 JUN 2025
- Warsaw, Poland
- All day
- From € 150,-
AVA_Net is the (knowledge) network for audiovisual collection holders in the Netherlands and anyone interested in this heritage and aims to strengthen the position of AV heritage in the Netherlands.
For next June AVA_net is again putting together a wonderful program, so put it in your calendar already. On June 19 we will all come together to exchange and discuss everything about the audiovisual heritage of the Netherlands.
- 19 JUN 2025
- Hilversum, Netherlands
- All day
- Free of charge
The DARIAH Annual Events is the annual gathering occasion of the DARIAH community to meet, discuss and present research on the year’s set topic. Topic of this year’s event is The Past.
The Past encompasses a wide range of topics in the Digital Humanities, ranging from the study of ancient cultures to contemporary history.
- 17 - 20 JUN 2025
- Göttingen, Germany
- All day
- Free of charge
October
In 2024, FIAT/IFTA explored the provocative statement, ‘Everything was possible and nothing was true’. As we gather again in 2025, we will delve deeper into this concept, recognising its increasing relevance in our rapidly evolving media landscape.
For everyone working with media archives: managers, archivists, researchers, developers, planners, and service and goods providers.
- 28 - 31 OCT 2025
- Rome, Italy
- All day
- Prices available later
