15

Jun

2026

30

Sep

2026

Europeana Science Run 2026

A New Run for a Productive Summer!

Europeana is celebrating the theme of Science this year through editorials and creative events. Europeana Transcribe offers you a chance to discover a diverse range of scientific manuscripts, letters and images throughout history over the period of 3 months this summer, starting from June 15th, 2026.

16

May

2025

Berlin 1945 / Peace in Europe

New Crowdsourcing Campaign - Memories of the End of WWII

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Berlin State Library and Facts & Files have launched a citizen science project in which private documents and photos from the post-war period (1945–1950) had been digitised and made available online. On 16 May 2025, a collection day was held at the Berlin State Library, during which letters, photos, diaries and other personal documents could be digitised. Over 95 contributions with nearly 2000 pages were uploaded. Together with information about the events and people documented in them, they were made publicly available on 1945.transcribathon.eu.

09

Oct

2024

AI4Culture Workshop

New Workshop announcement

This workshop will be held on 9 October 2024 from 14:00 to 17:00 CET. Co-organised with CrossLang, Austrian Institute of Technology, and Facts&Files, it focuses on the use of OCR tools. Participants will learn how to upload transcriptions to a repository and display them on the AI4Culture platform. The workshop will also include practical exercises to guide attendees through the process of translating their transcriptions, making them accessible in multiple languages.

01

Sep

2024

Stories of the Month

The winner of our longest-running competition is announced

The online run "Stories of the Month", which started in July 2021, has come to an end! We would like to thank all participants. Our champion transcriber Wolfgang Dekeyser took first place, transcribing 130,767 characters, adding 349 Enrichments and running 731 miles. Congratulations to Wolfgang and runners-up Sophie Jouglard and Torsten Salzer! All stories from the run will remain available for transcription indefinitely. However, achievements will now only be added to your personal statistics and Europeana Transcribe's overall progress.

06

Jun

2024

AVI 2024 Conference

Transcribathon in Arenzano

Sergiu Gordea (AIT) and Frank Drauschke (Facts & Files) presented Transcribathon at the 17th International ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces in Arenzano (Genoa), Italy (https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it), which was attended by leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world.

06

Jun

2024

Transcribathon Webinars

Subscribe and join!

On 6 June 2024, Frank Drauschke hosted Facts & Files webinar #3, where he presented the features and functionality of the Transcribathon platform and demonstrated how Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) can engage their audiences and work together to transcribe and enrich historical documents from Europeana. The webinar series is inspired by the 25th anniversary of Facts & Files and provides an insight into the projects and work. To find out about upcoming webinars, subscribe to the Facts & Files newsletter.

23

May

2023

Europeana Transcribe at EU Prize for Citizen Science

Honorary Mention of "Europeana Transcribe"

We are proud to announce that "Europeana Transcribe" received a honorary mention at the first European Union Prize for Citizen Science! The statement by the Jury reads as follows: "This hard work is designed as a creative, fresh as well as thought-provoking process, that in an unorthodox way empowers us to critically engage with our cultural heritage."

31

Mar

2023

Women's History Month: Run Results

First Women's History Run on Transcribathon

This March, we have introduced our first Women's History Run with documents from lesser known women scientists, writers, activists, and more. The Run concluded with a win for our multiple champion Wolfgang Dekeyser, who transcribed 158,188 Characters in this campaign. Congratulations to our winner and runners-up!

31

Jan

2023

19th Century Unlocked!

Results of the run

The 19th Century Run successfully concluded, and the results are in. In the first place is Wolfgang Dekeyser with 1270 miles run, in the second place is Chris S with 848 miles, and in the third place is Maciej Rajski with 319 miles. Our congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to all participants!

15

Dec

2022

31

Jan

2023

19th Century Run

Relive the 19th century

Starting from 15 December, you will have a chance to take part in our new international competition with prizes and awards. Transcribe, enrich and annotate stories from our 19th Century collection to enter. Documents are ranging from personal diaries and correspondence to official archival material and scientific papers written by composers, writers, scientists, politicians of the 19th century.