PAGODE is co-financed by the European Union in the framework of the CEF Connecting Europe Facility program, in a call dedicated to enriching and improving Europeana, the European platform for digital cultural heritage. The consortium was carefully chosen and includes 7 partners, both public and private institutions. PAGODE is open to associate partners in joining the effort of showcasing Chinese cultural heritage objects in digital format. The primary scope of the project is enriching Europeana according to the EU funding programme, but a broader aim is to enable collaborations among European museums and archives, and to foster international relations with Chinese cultural heritage institutions.

PAGODE main objectives:

• bring more Chinese collections into Europeana, finding ways to discover and to curate them through annotations and interlinking;
• exhibit Chinese Cultural Heritage from European content holders and memory institutions, offering critical and participatory review, from historic and contemporary points of view, of experiences of contamination, awesomeness and suggestion;
• opening cultural connections to China, exploring new economic advantages based on a richer reciprocal knowledge of our culturess.