img: Versailles : la salle du Sénat pendant le vote, National Library of France, Public Domain.

PHOTOCONSORTIUM President prof. Fred Truyen is candidate for the next Europeana elections for the Members Council.

The Europeana network has been evolving and is now an Association; this means it is more transparent and democratic. It also means that its members can elect the people that speak and make decisions on their behalf. These elected representatives make up the Europeana Members Council, currently a group of 30 who sit at the heart of everything Europeana does.

Fred explains his manifesto for the Members Council Election: “I strongly believe in the cultural rights of citizens to access their heritage, which I believe to be Europeana’s core mission. I would work to promote Europeana to the regional, local level, reaching out to education, archives and GLAM institutions offering local communities the empowerment to reappropriate their collective memory.”

Fred is candidate as president of PHOTOCONSORTIUM, and his main sector of expertise is Digital Humanities; while other keywords he most associates with are Archive, Education, Innovation, Creative Industry, Cultural Commons, and of course Photography.

Bio:

Fred Truyen (°1961) is professor at the Faculty of Arts, Leuven University (KU Leuven). He publishes on Digitization of Cultural Heritage, E-Learning and Epistemology. In charge of CS Digital, the mediaLab of the Institute for Cultural Studies. He teaches Information Science and Online Publishing. He was involved in projects on Open Educational Resources, such as Net-CU and OCW EU, and on digitization of Cultural Heritage; EuropeanaPhotography, Europeana Space and CIVIC Epistemologies. Fred Truyen is programme director of the MA in Cultural Studies. He is technical editor of Image & Narrative and president of Photoconsortium, the photography aggregator for Europeana.

More about Fred:

• His blog: http://fredtruyen.com
• LinkedIn: https://be.linkedin.com/in/fredtruyen
• Twitter: @fredtruyen

More on Europeana elections: http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/come-forward-and-become-a-members-council-2016-candidate

Being a Councillor means helping create the annual Business Plan, representing the interests of the Network Association, and  wider professional network, in decision making at Europeana. Voting will begin on 8 November during the meeting of the General Assembly at the Europeana AGM. Europeana members will have a week from then to vote for up to three candidates. Voting is, of course, entirely anonymous.