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Jun
2026
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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.
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Mar
2026
31
Mar
2026
Women's History Month Run 2026
A month dedicated to the women behind the stories
On the occasion of Women's History Month, Europeana Transcribe offers you a chance to disclose less well-known women’s stories and make them more visible and accessible. In this special Run we’ve selected a number of letters, diaries and documents written by women to transcribe and enrich. Prizes will be awarded to participants who transcribe the most!
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!