Digitization Projects: European Commission Announces €125.7m in Funding for Digital Projects
From Collections Link:
The European Commission has announced the latest funding call (call 7) in the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP), offering up to €125.7m [$166.6 million/USD] in new funding for digital projects across Europe. [Our emphasis] Of this, €36m is allocated to a strand which directly addresses the digital work of museums, archives, libraries and creative media organisations.
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Opportunities are under Strand 2 of this funding call:
Europeana and Creativity
€16m in Funding
Open Data
€8m in Funding
ICT for Learning
€6m in Funding
Digital Content Technologies for a Better Internet for Kids
€3m in Funding
eArchiving Services
€3m in Funding
Additional details about the funding program can be found in the Collection Link article as well as this set of materials from the EC.
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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