The international research project SiFTI analyses production cultures in sustainable film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, Great Britain and the Netherlands. The goal is to produce new knowledge about how actors in the film and television industries operate in order to survive in the market place and to improve their competitiveness. The project is based on case studies of companies that have been active for at least five years and have produced popular and/or critically acclaimed films or television programmes. SiFTI has also an historical dimension that studies the growth and fall of influential film companies in Norway on the basis of archival material. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council for the period 2013-2016.

EUscreenXL is a three-year project that aggregates a comprehensive amount of professional audiovisual content and makes it accessible through Europeana. The consortium brings together 32 partners from 21 EU member states and has established formal links with external stakeholders including the Europeana Foundation, FIAT/IFTA and IASA. EUscreenXL as the Pan-European aggregator of audiovisual heritage provides Europeana with at least 1.000.000 metadata records linking to online content held by 22 leading audiovisual archives, and 20.000 high quality contextualized programmes for public access and engagement on the EUscreen portal. The project promotes and maximises awareness for a shared Pan-European audiovisual content policy among archives, heritage institutions and broadcasters across Europe – and, in effect, substantially increases the online presence of digitised audiovisual heritage in Europeana. It thus enhances the visibility of the 20th century represented in audiovisual heritage and provides strategies for durable use, raising broader awareness of Europeana content for diverse groups of users. See the project website: htp://www.euscreen.eu

• prof. dr. Eggo Müller
• prof. dr. Sonja de Leeuw

• Johan Oomen - Beeld & Geluid Hilversum
• dr. Berber Hagedoorn - RUG
• dr. Dana Mustata - RUG