#Allez Culture - Join our Fight for Europeana's CEF Funding
Dear Friend of Europeana
You’ve probably heard that a drastic cut was made in the budget for the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) from 9 billion to 1 billion euros.
Many of you responded to our recent request to send letters to your MEPs, to national contacts in Brussels and to your own government ministers and we thank you hugely for that.
Europeana is now being asked to put the case for funding under the revised guidelines for CEF, which were issued yesterday. Europeana is identified as an eligible digital service infrastructure in the Annex of the Guidelines but will face severe competition for the available funding from other digital service infrastructure such as e-Justice, e-Health and Safer Internet.
We need your help to fight for Europeana's future funding.
This week, we’re launching the #AllezCulture campaign. Please join us.
We’re asking you to do two things:
- Use the leaflet 'Europeana - The Case for Funding' in any way you can to support the #AllezCulture campaign. Translate, distribute, publish and blog the leaflet or its messages to your network and contacts, including the people you sent letters to earlier this year.
- Use our dedicated hashtag #AllezCulture to tweet your own examples of how Europeana supports economic growth, connects Europe and makes Europe's culture available to every one - and retweet our #AllezCulture messages.
Please tell us what you have done via the #AllezCulture Facebook group - which will go live later this week - or by sending an email to AllezCulture@europeana.eu.
Knowing what you are doing means we can use your efforts to inspire others.
Allez!
Best
Jill
Jill Cousins
Director, The European Library
Executive Director, Europeana
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UPDATE:
The CEF is being amended until 25 June, with a vote being scheduled on 9 July. Our community needs to make its voice heard to protect the past five years of investment in digital cultural programmes across Europe and to look ahead to new partnerships and opening up collections to new audiences.
We need to keep spreading the word that Europeana connects people across Europe; makes culture available to everyone and supports economic growth.
Already many of you have tweeted and blogged those messages with postings such as this one:
http://researchkb.wordpress.com/?s=europeana+blog
Or tweet letting others know how Europeana and European partnerships have added value for you and your organisation.
Please keep this pressure up!
Suggestions on other actions you can take:
Use Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AllezCulture/
Here you'll find inspiring examples of the sort of things that others are celebrating about Europeana and logos, images, videos, texts and other tools that can help you do the same.
https://www.facebook.com/Europeana
Use Twitter:
Use LinkedIn:
* Share, comment and discuss on the main Europeana group - how can we make the case for investment in the future of digital heritage http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=134927&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
or the Europeana Network group http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4143376&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
Use Google+:
* Share and comment on Europeana's posts. You can find them at https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/115619270851872228337/
What should you share?
Other people's or organisations social media posts, blogs etc. for example,
Please tell us what you're doing.
Raise your voice and celebrate our success and value in all its forms, in as many ways as possible.