Europeana Foundation

The statutes, or Articles of Association, are the formal legal statements governing the operation of the Foundation.

They include the objectives of the Foundation:

• to provide access to Europe's cultural and scientific heritage by way of a cross-domain portal
• to facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives, audiovisual archives and libraries on how to co-operate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal
• to stimulate and facilitate initiatives to bring together existing digital content
• to support and facilitate digitization of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage,