Stichting Archives Portal Europe Foundation

Acronym: APEF

General Information

Identification Code: 393578247967-97

Website: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/about-us/

Entity Form: Stichting (Foundation, not for profit)

Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Registration Date: 10/24/2022

Last Update: 5/13/2024

Mission & Interests

Goals: Archives Portal Europe Foundation (APEF) is the organisation behind Archives Portal Europe (APE), a comprehensive and open resource on archives from and about Europe, enabling new knowledge and new connections to be made. The portal information about nearly 7,200 institutions, over 1,200 of which actively provide content. Users can search in more than 650,000 archival collections including more than 300 million items with and without digital representations. During the past decade, APE has established a growing network of regional, national, and thematic aggregators of archival content next to working with cultural heritage institutions directly, where the route via an aggregator might not exist yet. Originally funded under ICT-PSP, APEF is now running mainly on membership fees. It is part of the projects for deploying the common Europeana Data Space for Cultural Heritage (Digital Europe) and the Cultural Heritage Cloud (Horizon Europe).

Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests

Interests:

Culture
Culture and media
Digital economy and society
Education and training
Research and innovation

Levels of Interest:

european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: APEF has been part of the Europeana DSI initiative in the framework of the CEF programme and is currently a member of the common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage consortium. As such, APEF is following the new Digital Europe Programme (DEP), with a particular attention to area 5 "Ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society", pillar 5 "Education and culture". Furthermore, APEF will be a member of the consortium that will work on the development and the deployment of the Cultural Heritage Cloud under the Horizon Europe programe.

Communication Activities: APEF regularly promotes activities in the context of the Europeana DSI - now the Data Space for Cultural Heritage - and will do so as well in the context of the Cultural Heritage Cloud. Furthermore, APEF more widely emphasises the importance of access and reuse of digital cultural heritage, with a special focus on archival heritage, through its blog and its social media. The foundation also runs the international archives domain aggregator Archives Portal Europe and promotes related activities of and through its network members.

Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20

Post Code: 2595 BE

City: Den Haag

Country: NETHERLANDS

Phone:

Indic Phone: 31

Phone Number: 703315400

EU Office

Address: Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20

Post Code: 2595 BE

City: Den Haag

Country: NETHERLANDS

Phone:

Indic Phone: 31

Phone Number: 703315400

Financial Data

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EU funding
Member's contributions

Contributions:

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Currency: €
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Total Budget: 264215

Grants:

Source: European Data Space for Cultural Heritage (Digital Europe Programme)
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Source: DE-BIAS (Digital Europe Programme)
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Complementary Information: Funding by the European Commission is indirect as a result of APEF's membership in the Europeana DS4CH and the DE-BIAS consortia.

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 2

Members25 Percent: 1

Members: 5

Members F T E: 2.450000047683716

Info Members: APEF works with a small team of two full time employees (APEF Manager, APEF Research and Engagement Coordinator) and three part time contractors (APEF Data Specialist plus System Administrators).

Structure

Structure Type: Structure

Is Member Of: European Branch of the International Council on Archives (EURBICA, https://www.ica.org/en/about-eurbica), via various of APEF's Governing Board members and associates European Archives Group (EAG, https://ec.europa.eu/info/about-european-commission/service-standards-and-principles/transparency/freedom-information/access-documents/information-and-document-management/archival-policy/european-archives-group_en) and European Board of National Archivists (EBNA), via APEF's associates Expert Group on a common European data space for cultural heritage (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/expert-group-common-european-data-space-cultural-heritage), via one of APEF's Governing Board members Society of American Archivists (SAA, https://www2.archivists.org/groups/technical-subcommittee-on-encoded-archival-standards-ts-eas), via APEF's COO

Organisation Members: Europeana Aggregators Forum (https://pro.europeana.eu/page/aggregators) Time Machine (https://www.timemachine.eu/members/)