Digitalisation and the Cultural Value Chain European Culture Rewired

 Introduction

Annick Schramme and Laura D’Hoore

1.     Cultural policy under the digital condition

Julia Glesner

2.     Digital transformation of the Flemish cultural sector

Edith Leblanc

3.      Going hybrid: Reflections on digital transformation at SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark

Merete Sanderhoff

4.      Digital transformation in the cultural sector: The urgency and the opportunities

Maaike Verberk and Mirjam Verloop

5.      Designing for memory: Vividness, retention, and how you can design a more memorable experience

Michael Neault

6.      Museums and digital content monetisation

Sofia Widmann and Monika Marina Alcántara

7.      The digital transformation in cultural democracy

Johan Kolsteeg

8.      Shortening of the way

Vincent Buyssens

Biography

Annick Schramme is a professor at the University of Antwerp (Faculty of Business and Economics) and program director of the Master in Cultural Management. In 2018, she launched an international Master in Fashion Management (AMS) and the executive program Leadership in Culture (LinC LL) for Flanders and the Netherlands, in collaboration with Utrecht University. Her research focuses on cultural policy, cultural entrepreneurship, governance, and sustainable business models. She is active as a policy advisor and evaluator at the European level, a member of the Flemish UNESCO Commission, and chair of the Strategic Advisory Council for Culture, Youth, Sport, and Media. In 2024, she was appointed holder of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Entrepreneurship and Policy. In addition, she is actively involved in several Horizon projects, including Tracks4Crafts, as well as ECHOES (European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage) and Just Fashion (as coordinating organisation).

Laura D’Hoore holds a master’s degree in Art History from KU Leuven and a Master’s in Cultural Management from the University of Antwerp. Since 2021, she has been a researcher at the Competence Centre for Cultural Management and Cultural Policy (University of Antwerp), contributing to projects on public–private collaboration in the museum sector, international cultural policy, museum governance, cultural philanthropy, sustainable fashion, and the revaluation of crafts. Her work has been presented at international conferences, including The Wallace Collection symposium Rubens’s Great Landscapes (2021), the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (2022), and the ACEI Conference (2025). She is co-editor of Cultural Philanthropy and Entrepreneurship (Routledge, 2025) and coordinates the annual Fund for Cultural Management (University of Antwerp) lecture and conference. In addition, she serves as practical assistant for the Master in Cultural Management at the University of Antwerp and is a member of the Flemish Arts Advisory Committee (Adviescommissie Kunsten).