The 4-year programme, proposed by the European Commission, will have a budget of €149m to tackle organisational barriers and promote the take up of cutting-edge technical solutions to improve accessibility and usability of digital material in a multilingual environment.

The programme addresses specific market areas where development has been slow such as geographic content (as a key constituent of public sector content), educational content, cultural, scientific and scholarly content. eContentplus also supports EU-wide co-ordination of collections in libraries, museums and archives and the preservation of digital collections so as to ensure availability of cultural, scholarly and scientific assets for future use.

More information: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm