The Europlanning Guide highlights the most interesting videos and webinars for Europlanners: but on official channels there are ones for all sectors and all needs.
Europlanning, an increasingly effective tool
Videos and webinars are increasingly popular and appreciated tools for exchange and training. Technologies, interfaces, and platforms (“social,” but not only) enable increasingly user-friendly enjoyment. Also the our recent survey found great interest among our readers for multimedia forms of in-depth study, including precisely, in particular, videos and webinars.
The Guide follows its users and the potential offered by these tools, devoting to them a new, entire section of the site .
The launch event of the new Guide was recorded and made available on our homepage : a great way to explore the main features of the 2021-2027 programming and the new organization of our pages.
We will be proposing new content in the coming months and, in the meantime, we have enriched and will gradually enrich this new section with the most interesting content made available by EU institutions and other “first-hand” sources related to the world of europlanning.
A growing availability
The availability of quality videos and webinars on topics related to europlanning has grown over time: our section dedicated to the In-depth guides has taken up a lot of cues in this regard, offering access platforms to webinars and multimedia content, in-depth online courses, YouTube channels and more. These proposals remain topical and can be a source of new discoveries: if (for example) SALTO-Youth, EUvsDisinfo. , Capacity4Dev , Devco/Intpa Academy , the platforms of Interreg Europe and InterAct or the YouTube Channels of major institutions are not yet familiar to you, it is worth taking a look at our previous posts on the subject .
European institutions have further organized themselves to provide easily accessible update and training video materials for users and citizens, not only on europlanning topics but in all areas.
Europlanning some interesting news
Let’s start with those that are not real news, but may provide interesting new insights.
I YouTube channels, especially of the main Directorates General and Agencies of the European Commission, can be a particularly effective tool for keeping up to date on major programs. Their content is increasingly up-to-date and comprehensive. For example, to refer to news we have recently discussed, the YouTube channels of the DG ENV and of the DG RTD provide easy access (respectively) to all video content from Green Week (May-June 2021) and Horizon Europe Info Days (June-July 2021).
Associations and organizations particularly reliable also increasingly offer videos and webinars of great interest. This is the case for example:
- From Top-IX Consortium. , whose seminars on Horizon Europe and Digital Europe have been highlighted in our previous posts ;
- Of the European Foundation Centre (EFC), which makes available many interesting resources (videos and webinars are easily found through a special filter);
- Of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA), which offers an interesting calendar of events online;
From thematic organizations, such as the Europeana Foundation in the field of culture, which offers a wide range of webinars .
The audiovisual portal of the European Commission
We continue with another tool that we have already discussed , but from a different perspective (regarding “ how to communicate European projects “).
The Audiovisual Portal of the European Commission is not only a tool for finding useful elements for communicating European projects, but it is also a binder of in-depth videos on various interesting topics.
I main in-depth content should be searched in the “Clips” category, which is browsable by themes, keywords and other parameters.
Any examples?
- A series dedicated to the European “Green Deal” (forests, buildings, energy, transportation, emissions, generally – July 2021);
- A series dedicated to the main priorities of the European Commission of this period (digital, democracy, green deal, world, economy, values Europeans-June 2021);
To mention only the most interesting and the most recent.
The European Commission’s streaming service
It has been active for some time now a service expressly dedicated to streaming content from the European Commission . It has lately gained considerable content availability, as this tool has now become the norm in events organized by European institutions.
It still has some limitations: for example, it requires a careful selection of content, which is very numerous and not all of interest to our readers; and the search functions are still limited, for example, they do not allow to go back in time beyond a certain date. We hope that the tool will be improved, but in the meantime we will not fail to give visibility to the most interesting content through the appropriate section of our Guide.
Any examples?
- A long technical seminar dedicated to 2021-2027 programming of funds for regional development (June 16, 2021: here more materials , for those interested);
- A seminar dedicated to the common mistakes to avoid in webinars and with other digital communication tools (July 13, 2021: a topical issue on which we have already published in the past some useful elements);
- A seminar on the strategies in place to combat misinformation on issues of European relevance (July 22, 2021: a topical issue to which we hope the Guide will make an active contribution and on which we have spoken in the past, e.g. here e here );
To mention only the most interesting of those now available.
The events portal of the European Commission
Finally, the European Commission proposes a portal where one can search for all events , past and future, with filters by date, topic, country, organizing DG and keyword. The system also allows you to select only online events and/or events with live streaming.
It is a great tool for keeping up to date-even for those who (for obvious reasons) do not have the opportunity to follow events directly from Brussels-or for those who may have missed interesting events already organized.
A search for the most recent and interesting events (and available online) results in many of the initiatives we have already publicized in the pages of our Guide, such as the Horizon Europe Info Days or the Research and Innovation Days: but of course there is much more.
We welcome your reports on europlanning
There are an increasing number of video materials and webinars, but it is not easy to stay abreast of everything that is happening in Italy and Europe, in so many different areas. It is also important to select those that may be of greatest interest and proven quality.
Help us find them and give them visibility with your reports.
