Updated on 19 May 2025
Preserving local newspaper archives
Associate Director Research and Engagement at Coventry University
Coventry, United Kingdom
About
Analogue records are increasingly redundant for the digital local newspaper industry; additionally, the speed of the transformation and contraction of established titles means many of these records are disposed of without consideration of their cultural and heritage value. These records may include photographic collections, cuttings libraries and business records as well as the newspapers themselves
I am leading a project, Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive, funded by The National Archives in the UK to address this. The project will create a toolkit and network to support and amplify the impact of people - both professional and community-based – who are stepping into this area in an effort to salvage, catalogue and make accessible these records. Our partners include professional, community and industry based archives.
This project recognises the significant cultural and heritage value of local newspapers, which can literally document hundreds of years of history. They form a unique record of people and places, but this documentation is threatened by the disposal of this material.The commercial use of these collections is also under -recognised, which contributes to their precarity.
I would like to develop projects which assess and articulate the heritage value of local newspaper archives and which develop practical examples of how they can generate income.
I am based at Coventry University where we have a range of researchers working on cultural heritage, including its preservation, value and digital futures, and creative economies.
Stage
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
Call
- HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage
- HERITAGE-09: Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being
- HERITAGE-02- two-stage: Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience
- HERITAGE-01: Co-funded European partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage
Type
- Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
Access to audiovisual heritage for reuse, research and social impact
- EIT CC Calls
- TMO Synergy Grants
- Completing the consortia
- Consortium seeks Partners
- Other relevant EU initiatives
- HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
- Design - setting the project scope
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
- Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
- Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
- HERITAGE-05: Evolution of culture in a virtualising world
- DEMOCRACY-08: Economic inequalities and their impact on democracy
- DEMOCRACY-12: Community of democracy practitioners and researchers
- DEMOCRACY-07: The autocratic appeal: nature, drivers and strategies
- DEMOCRACY-02: Fostering the consolidation of European science diplomacy
- HERITAGE-09: Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being
- Regional Perspective: Interregional Innovation Investments (I3-Instrument)
- TRANSFO-06: Evaluation and use of evidence in education policy and practice
- HERITAGE-01: Co-funded European partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage
- HERITAGE-04: Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativitydriven innovation
- DEMOCRACY-03: Preparing the EU for future enlargement: challenges and opportunities
- DEMOCRACY-11: Independence of the judiciary as an aspect of rule of law compliance
- TRANSFO-01: Tackling gender-based violence in different social and economic spheres
- HERITAGE-06: Europe as a global powerhouse of design for sustainable competitiveness
- TRANSFO-10: Intergenerational fairness in the context of demographic change in the EU
- TRANSFO-08: Improving mental health outcomes for people in education, training and work
- DEMOCRACY-04: Open strategic autonomy, economic and research security in EU foreign policy
- HERITAGE-03: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases
- TRANSFO-03: Working time reduction: barriers, challenges, benefits and policy implications
- TRANSFO-11: Migration and climate change: building resilience and enhancing sustainability
- DEMOCRACY-05: Countering and preventing radicalisation, extremism, hate speech and polarisation
- DEMOCRACY-09: Fighting against disinformation while ensuring the right to freedom of expression
- HERITAGE-02- two-stage: Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience
- DEMOCRACY-06: Towards a European research hub on contemporary antisemitism and Jewish life and culture
- TRANSFO-05: Improving fairness in the economy through a better understanding of undeclared and underdeclared work
- TRANSFO-02: Historical and regional analyses of industrial transitions and their lessons for ensuring a fair green transition
- DEMOCRACY-01: Advisory support and network to counter disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)
- TRANSFO-07: Impact of the learning environment and the use of digital tools in everyday life on key skills and competence development
- HERITAGE-07: Cultural Strategies for Peace: culture and creativity as catalysts for conflict prevention and post-conflict reconciliation
- TRANSFO-04-two stage: Gender differences in career trajectories of parents and their implications for gender equality and family well-being
- TRANSFO-09: Good practices for increased autonomy of persons with disabilities, including physical, mental, intellectual and sensory disabilities
- DEMOCRACY-10: The role of civic and citizenship education for strengthening civic and democratic participation and support for common European values
- HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage
Johan Oomen
Research agenda at Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Project cooperation
Research and development: Digital for culture and social transformations
- EIT CC Calls
- Other relevant EU initiatives
- Design - setting the project scope
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
- Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
- Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
- HERITAGE-05: Evolution of culture in a virtualising world
- HERITAGE-09: Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being
- HERITAGE-01: Co-funded European partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage
- HERITAGE-04: Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativitydriven innovation
- HERITAGE-03: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases
- HERITAGE-02- two-stage: Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience
- DEMOCRACY-10: The role of civic and citizenship education for strengthening civic and democratic participation and support for common European values
- HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage
Elena Ananiadou
EU Project Manager at La Tempesta
Barcelona, Spain
Project cooperation
Towards a Unified Public Portal for Place-based Photographs
- TMO Synergy Grants
- Consortium seeks Partners
- Other relevant EU initiatives
- HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
- Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
- Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
Bettina Fabos
Director, Kronofoto / Co-Founder of OPAN at Open Portal Archive Network
Leysin, Switzerland