Europeana Cloud: Unlocking Europe's Research via The Cloud

Project Information

eCloud

Grant agreement ID: 325091

Project closed

Start date 1 February 2013

End date 30 April 2016

Funded under

• Competitiveness and innovation framework programme (CIP)(2007-2013)

Total cost € 4 749 583,00

EU contribution € 3 799 661,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING EUROPEANA
Netherlands

Project description

Europeana and creativity

Europeana Cloud is a Best Practice Network, submitted under Objective 2.1.a and coordinated by the Europeana Foundation, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. Europeana Cloud will provide new content, new metadata, a new linked storage system, new tools and services for researchers and a new platform - Europeana Research. Content providers and aggregators, across the European information landscape, urgently need a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure that is capable of storing both metadata and content. Researchers require a digital space where they can undertake innovative exploration and analysis of Europe's digitised content. Europeana needs to get closer to the target of 30 million items by 2015. Europeana Cloud meets these needs.The key objectives of Europeana Cloud are: 1. To provide access, at Europeana, to 1.1m new metadata records and 5m research focussed items from across European Universities, libraries, data centres and publishers; 2. To create a cloud based infrastructure capable of delivering cost-efficient content and metadata storage for stakeholders across Europe; 3. To understand and incorporate the legal, strategic and economic issues of a cloud-based system for content for cultural heritage institutions and domain aggregators; 4. To achieve a broad consensus among European content aggregators and research networks on the advantages of a cloud based solution; 5. To develop a digital platform, named Europeana Research, to discover and use Europeana research content; 6. Via this cloud to provide tools and services for researchers that permit innovative research that exploits digitised content in Europeana. This is a vital project for the Europeana network of content providers and aggregators, moving to an infrastructure that can deal not just with descriptive metadata but actual digitised content as well.

Programme(s)

• CIP - Competitiveness and innovation framework programme (CIP)(2007-2013)

Topic(s)

• CIP-ICT-PSP.2012.2.1 - Europeana and creativity

Call for proposal

CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6
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Funding Scheme

BPN - Best Practice Network

Coordinator

STICHTING EUROPEANA

• EU contribution: € 869 508,00
• Address: PRINS WILLEM ALEXANDERHOF 5 ; 2595 BE Den Haag ; Netherlands
• Region: West-Nederland › Zuid-Holland › Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage
• Activity type: Other
• Administrative Contact: Cristiana Grosaru (Mrs.)
• Total cost: No data

Participants (35)

UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES

Belgium

• EU contribution: € 44 621,00
• Address: AVENUE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT 50 ; 1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
• Region: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest › Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest › Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Christine COURILLON (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

ARIADNE FOUNDATION VZW

Belgium

• EU contribution: € 74 400,00
• Address: Kapeldreef 60 ; 3001 Heverlee
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: JAD NAJJAR (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

Belgium

• EU contribution: € 167 200,00
• Address: OUDE MARKT 13 ; 3000 Leuven
• Region: Vlaams Gewest › Prov. Vlaams-Brabant › Arr. Leuven
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Katleen Janssen (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

NARODNI TECHNICKA KNIHOVNA

Czechia

• EU contribution: € 12 604,00
• Address: TECHNICKA 6/2710 ; 160 80 PRAHA
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Petra Pejsova (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

OPEN KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION DEUTSCHLAND EV

Germany

• EU contribution: € 128 720,00
• Address: SINGERSTRASSE 109 ; 10179 Berlin
• Region: Berlin › Berlin › Berlin
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Daniel Dietrich (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD

Germany

• EU contribution: € 36 800,00
• Address: UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 25 ; 33615 Bielefeld
• Region: Nordrhein-Westfalen › Detmold › Bielefeld, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Iris Litty (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

BAYERISCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK

Germany

• EU contribution: € 33 840,00
• Address: LUDWIGSTRASSE 16 ; 80539 MUNCHEN
• Region: Baden-Württemberg › Stuttgart › Stuttgart, Stadtkreis
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Klaus Ceynowa (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

QUESTA.SOFT - GESELLSCHAFT FUR SOFTWARE-ENTWICKLUNG MBH

Germany

• EU contribution: € 27 600,00
• Address: OFFENBACHER LANDSTRASSE 368 ; 60599 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Wolfgang Klotz (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

DET KGL. BIBLIOTEK

Denmark

• EU contribution: € 37 200,00
• Address: SOREN KIERKEGAARDS PLADS 1 ; 1221 KOBENHAVN K
• Region: Danmark › Hovedstaden › Byen København
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

FUNDACIÓN DIALNET

Spain

• EU contribution: € 31 680,00
• Address: GRAN VÍA 34 1 DCHA ; 26002 LOGROÑO LA RIOJO
• Activity type: Other
• Administrative Contact: MARIA CALLEJA (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

KANSALLISARKISTO

Finland

• EU contribution: € 14 640,00
• Address: RAUHANKATU 17 ; 00171 Helsinki
• Region: Manner-Suomi › Helsinki-Uusimaa › Helsinki-Uusimaa
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Päivi Happonen (Mrs.)
• Total cost: No data

PANEPISTIMIO PATRON

Greece

• EU contribution: € 13 200,00
• Address: UNIVERSITY CAMPUS RIO PATRAS ; 265 04 Rio Patras
• Region: Κεντρική Ελλάδα › Δυτική Ελλάδα › Αχαΐα
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Panagiotis Georgiou (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS

Greece

• EU contribution: € 152 400,00
• Address: ARTEMIDOS 6 KAI EPIDAVROU ; 151 25 Maroussi
• Region: Αττική › Aττική › Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Kika Kalogeropoulou (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

HRVATSKA AKADEMIJA ZNANOSTI I UMJETNOSTI

Croatia

• EU contribution: € 37 886,00
• Address: TRG NIKOLE SUBICA ZRINSKOG 11 ; 10000 Zagreb
• Region: Hrvatska › Grad Zagreb › Grad Zagreb
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Vedrana Juričić (Mrs.)
• Total cost: No data

DEBRECENI EGYETEM

Hungary

• EU contribution: € 13 200,00
• Address: EGYETEM TER 1 ; 4032 Debrecen
• Region: Alföld és Észak › Észak-Alföld › Hajdú-Bihar
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Márta Virágos (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN

Ireland

• EU contribution: € 103 635,00
• Address: COLLEGE GREEN TRINITY COLLEGE ; D02 CX56 Dublin
• Region: Ireland › Eastern and Midland › Dublin
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Jennifer Edmond (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

CINECITTA SOCIETA PER AZIONI

Italy

• EU contribution: € 26 400,00
• Address: VIA TUSCOLANA 1055 ; 00173 ROMA
• Region: Centro (IT) › Lazio › Roma
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Roland SEJKO (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

CINECITTA' LUCE SPA

Participation ended

Italy

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: VIA TUSCOLANA 1055 ; 00173 ROMA
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Sejko Roland (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE

Italy

• EU contribution: € 162 600,00
• Address: PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 7 ; 00185 Roma
• Region: Centro (IT) › Lazio › Roma
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Claudio Montani (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

STICHTING LIBER

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 67 200,00
• Address: PR WILLEM ALEXANDERHOF 5 ; 2595 BE Den Haag
• Region: West-Nederland › Zuid-Holland › Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage
• Activity type: Other
• Administrative Contact: Susan Reilly (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

STICHTING NEDERLAND KENNISLAND

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 156 680,00
• Address: DE RUIJTERKADE 128 ; 1011AC AMSTERDAM
• Region: West-Nederland › Noord-Holland › Groot-Amsterdam
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Paul Keller (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

STICHTING VU

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 52 774,00
• Address: DE BOELELAAN 1105 ; 1081 HV Amsterdam
• Region: West-Nederland › Noord-Holland › Groot-Amsterdam
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Peter Vos (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

ELS JACOBS ADVIES & ONDERZOEK

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 79 360,00
• Address: Prinses Marijkelaan 17 ; 2341VK Oegstgeest
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Els JACOBS (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 39 600,00
• Address: WARANDELAAN 2 ; 5037 AB Tilburg
• Region: Zuid-Nederland › Noord-Brabant › Midden-Noord-Brabant
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Robert Grim (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

STICHTING OAPEN*OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING IN EUROPEAN NETWORKS

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 36 105,00
• Address: PRINS WILLEM-ALEXANDERHOF 5 ; 2595 BE Den Haag
• Region: West-Nederland › Zuid-Holland › Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage
• Activity type: Other
• Administrative Contact: Eelco Ferwerda (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 117 200,00
• Address: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS ; 1011 JV AMSTERDAM
• Region: West-Nederland › Noord-Holland › Groot-Amsterdam
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Petra Links (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK

Poland

• EU contribution: € 249 560,00
• Address: NOSKOWSKIEGO 12-14 ; 61-704 POZNAN
• Region: Makroregion północno-zachodni › Wielkopolskie › Miasto Poznań
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: CEZARY MAZUREK (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET

Sweden

• EU contribution: € 136 123,00
• Address: VASAPARKEN ; 405 30 Goeteborg
• Region: Södra Sverige › Västsverige › Västra Götalands län
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Ulrika Hjelm (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

SEMANTIKA, INFORMACIJSKE TEHNOLOGIJE, DOO

Slovenia

• EU contribution: € 27 840,00
• Address: ZAGREBSKA CESTA 40A ; 2000 Maribor
• Region: Slovenija › Vzhodna Slovenija › Podravska
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Nina Zagoranski (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH LIBRARIES

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 152 592,00
• Address: BOWLING GREEN LANE 40 ; EC1R 0NE LONDON
• Region: London › Inner London — East › Haringey and Islington
• Activity type: Other
• Administrative Contact: Marian Lefferts (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

MDR PARTNERS (CONSULTING) LIMITED

Participation ended

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 159 340,00
• Address: FITZGERALD ROAD MORTLAKE 2B ; SW14 8HA LONDON
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Robert Davies (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 226 720,00
• Address: WALTON HALL ; MK7 6AA Milton Keynes
• Region: South East (England) › Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire › Milton Keynes
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Zdenek Zdrahal (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 47 999,00
• Address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE ; EH8 9YL Edinburgh
• Region: Scotland › Eastern Scotland › Edinburgh
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Angela Noble (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

LLYFRGELLGENEDLAETHOL CYMRU

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 121 989,00
• Address: Penglais ; SY233BU Aberystwyth
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: ALAN VAUGHAN HUGHES (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

• EU contribution: € 140 445,00
• Address: GOWER STREET ; WC1E 6BT LONDON
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Martin Moyle (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data