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[Alek Tarkowski <alek AT creativecommons.pl>]

Dear all,

John, sorry for a late reply - but as expected, this was a bit too tight of a deadline - we did not manage to fully discuss this internally.

I talked with Paul and we a good Europe-wide highlight is Europeana data showing that over half its collection is now either PD or CC licensed, making it a huge repository for the Commons. Paul has the details.

Second, we can always highlight the open licensing rules in Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+, although that’s a bit of old news, and the Erasmus+ rules are very vague.

Third, by now several European countries have Open Education Coalitions: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Scotland (but as with any such lists, I might be missing something)

With regard to Poland, we have two possible highlights:

- a recent decision of the Ministry of Development introduced an open licensing requirement to programs from the European Social Fund, covering a funding source of approx. 10 billion Euro

- open strategies in heritage institutions: such strategies were implemented last year by the Museum of Polish History and Virtual Museum of Malopolska, a digitisation consortium of 35 regional museums in the South of Poland (maybe there are more examples from Europe and these could be framed as a Europe-wide phenomenon?)

But my general thought is that we should try to collect, in addition to the SOTC, a full list of highlights, including very country. These don’t need to be huge successes, just some intteresting stories and even small victories. We could crowdsource among ourselves simple videos, recorded on our phones / computers, highlighting such stories. and we could then edit them into a single, cool video - I could find some funding for such post-production. what do you all think?

best,

Alek

On 11 Nov 2015, at 16:05, John Weitzmann <johnweitzmann AT creativecommons.org> wrote:

Dear CC Europeans,

for the upcoming "State of the Commons Report" (SOTC) we call on you to let us know which developments / projects / events in your country or field were the CC highlights of the year for you. We will then try to get some of them included in the report.

As the space in the report is extremely limited (it's meant as a quick-read instrument for the end year funding campaign), we will only be able to choose 2 or max 3 highlights per region.

The good side of that is: There's no need for extensive drafting of descriptions, so just tell us by Friday afternoon about the key facts of your highlights and we'll get back if we can fit it in and will do the drafting – of a paragraph or so – for and with you.

Yours 

John & Gwen

Regional Coordinators Europe

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