Our research project has received the Europeana Special Prize 2021
We are delighted that our #Collectionteaching project has received ‘Europeana Special Prize 2021’ funding from Europeana Research for the creation of video tutorials for those who are planning to teach with digitised collections.
The Europeana Research Grants Programme provides financial support for the organisation of events which engage scholars and cultural heritage professionals to reflect on a given theme. Their work results, for example, in reports, white papers and video interviews for the benefit of museums, libraries and archives in the process of their digital transformation. The 2021 call focused on crowdsourcing and research.
Overall, the proposals we received offered an enlightening overview of the variety of approaches to crowdsourcing alongside digital practices in Europe from the perspective of universities (46% of the proposals), cultural heritage institutions (24%) and research institutions (16%). We were delighted to award the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum and the University of Warsaw a research grant.
In the first half of 2022, Europeana Research will work in collaboration with these institutions to explore the value and reusability of data generated or enriched through crowdsourcing (also known as ‘crowdscience’), looking specifically at how this can then be used in research contexts.
Additionally, Europeana Research awarded two special prizes which will support the creation of video tutorials designed to complement Digital Humanities courses in Higher Education. They will invite university students to experiment with digital resources, practices and tools. Find out more about these events and video tutorials below.
Special Prizes
University Museums in Scotland: Teaching and learning online with digitised collections
Project leader: Dr Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews), in collaboration with Dr Kamila Oles (University of St Andrews), Professor Maria Economou (University of Glasgow), Neil Curtis (Aberdeen University), and Susannah Waters (Glasgow School of Art).
Thanks to funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council’s COVID-19 Urgency scheme, members of the University Museums in Scotland (UMIS) group are working together on the project: Online teaching and learning with digitised collections in Higher Education contexts. The research team is identifying best practice and case studies from the last two years, to understand what is currently possible, and what is needed next to support online teaching and learning with collections.
These tutorials will share the results of this one-year research project so that the international GLAM sector can learn from its findings, and prepare for the post-pandemic future.