Image credits: Europeana DCH impact evidence bank workshop. Sebastiaan ter Burg, 2018. CC BY.
❓ | Understand what impact means and why it’s important |
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What is impact?
Impact is the change XXX
See more about what impact means here.
Why impact?
It’s important to ask ourselves why it’s important to think about impact. Some high-level reasons for Europeana, for example, include demonstrating the value we create for the heritage sector and progressing our understanding of the digital transformation of the heritage sector. At a more micro-level, it will be to understand how we bring value through specific projects and to learn how we can improve.
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Read more about why institutions are thinking about their impact
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The Europeana Impact Playbook: a history
By developing a shared language about impact, as proposed in this methodology, we believe that we can not only show our value, but speed up innovation and increase our relevance to society.
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts"
William Bruce Cameron
The Impact Playbook has been developed with the expertise of many, many professionals from across Europe since 2015, building on conversations that started in 2012. It has been developed iteratively, released stage by stage, beginning with Phase one in 2017. Phase four, the last phase, was published in 2022. Revisions to the content have been published in this resource.
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