Europeana is developing a common multilingual access point which will make it possible to search Europe’s digital cultural heritage online. EuropeanaLocal Network played an important role in ensuring that the enormous amount of digital content provided by Europe’s cultural institutions at local and regional level is represented in Europeana, alongside that held at national level. Such involvement not only brings together a rich diversity of content of all types, cultures and languages but also people, making it possible to establish integrated services with great richness and added value for communities and individual users.

The Best Practice Europeana Network and the AccessIT project seeks to deliver a unique package of practical training and skills development, supported by clear guidance, to enable smaller, local cultural organizations in countries where progress in this area is currently limited, to maximise the opportunities provided by the new technologies (combined with major policy implementations such as the Digital Libraries Initiative) to most effectively deliver and disseminate arts and cultural offerings to the citizens of Europe. These projects and their institutional partners -different for each country member- aim to promote Europeana's stadarts and organize digital content of libraries, local agents and bodies, archives etc.

The Symposium aims to inform interested partners, institutions -agents who collect or digitize content of cultural value -at a local or regional level- about the projects' actvities. It also points out to new challenges (business and economic) addressed to institutions for the intergration of their cultural content in Europeana. The Symposium presents activities programmed in the frame of both projects (EuropeanaLocal  and AccessIT) and invites the scientific and cultural world (content providers, libraries, museums, archives, etc) and their personel, cultural institutions, organizations and bodies that develop or aim to develop digital content, as well as public organizations, private bodies, policy makers, academics and students. Entrance is free.