“The EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual heritage. It brings together clips that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as chronicling important historical events, the EUscreen portal allows you to explore television programmes that focus on everyday experience. EUscreen is also intended to be a resource for educators, researchers and media professionals searching for new audiovisual content from across Europe. The EUscreen portal was built by a consortium of European audiovisual archives, public broadcasters, academic and technical partners. It has been funded by the European Commission. The EUscreen project ran from 2009 – 2012 under the FP7 programme. Its successor, EUscreenXL, began in 2013 and runs until 2016 under the CIP ICT-PSP support programme. The main objective of the project is to aggregate a comprehensive amount of professional audiovisual content. A large number of clips and programmes have been selected by broadcasters and archives from all across Europe. The aim is to engage people with audiovisual heritage content and facilitate the use of videos, photos, audio and images. In the EUscreen project, virtual exhibitions were created in oder to contextualize the collection items. The EUscreenXL project continues this work by further developing MyEUscreen. You can follow our ongoing work at the EUscreen blog…The EUscreenXL delivery strategy involves a dual approach – providing enriched and high quality audiovisual content and metadata to the EUscreen platform’s Core Collection (also findable through Europeana) and the aggregation of a further 1 million data records and linked online content directly to Europeana. The Core Collection will consist of 60,000 items of high quality, enriched and curated content and metadata made available through the EUscreen platform and Europeana. 20,000 items of content drawing on content from television series around Europe or from distinct film andvideo archive collections will be added to the existing content of 40,000 items (selected by historical topic or for specific exhibitions)…”