Hope project : presentation
Génériques, together with 12 other institutions from 10 European countries, is part of the European funded project: Heritage of the People of Europe (HOPE).
Hope started in May 2010. It is cofinanced by the European programme ICT/PSP (ICT Policy Support Programme).
This best practices network on digitalization aims at posting on line nearly 880 000 digitalized documents related to the European labour and social history of the last two hundred years.
In this purpose, Génériques will be able to make its own digital collection accessible to research and free consultation via the multilingual portals Europeana and Labour History.
Europeana
The digital library Europeana proposes a unique access to an unified European cultural Heritage dispatched in numerous institutions (archive centres, libraries, museums, research institutes). It offers users a direct access to more than 10 millions of digitalized documents related to the history and the culture of Europe.
Partners
- Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (International institute of social history), The Netherlands
- Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Amsab-Institut of social history), Belgium
- Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (Italian General Confederation of Labour), Italy
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Friedrich Ebert Institute), Germany
- Fundação Mário Soares Arquivo & Biblioteca (Mario Soares Foundation: archives and library), Portugal
- Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (Swiss Social Archives), Switzerland
- Työväen Arkisto (Labour Archives), Finland
- Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Institution for the history of Labour), Autria
- Nyílt Társadalom Archívum, Hungary
- Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (Institute for science and information technology), Italy
- Europeana Foundation, The Netherlands
- Centre d’ Histoire Sociale du XXe siècle - Université Paris1-Sorbonne (Centre for XXth century social history- Paris 1 Sorbonne University), France
- Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC- International Contemporary Library), France
- Maison des sciences de l'homme de Dijon (Dijon’s House for Human Sciences), France
