International Cooperation

International Cooperation

European Initiatives: EPICo (European Print Initiatives Collaboration)

Kuopio Conference

Since its launch in 1999 by Pentti Vattulainen of the Finnish National Repository Library the Kuopio Conference has gained an ever growing audience of international experts within a well-established network through IFLA, LIBER and other initiatives.

At its 6th meeting in 2018 in Basel, Switzerland, the conference came under the umbrella of EPICo, the European Print Initiatives Collaboration and a series of biannual events was planned across Europe, starting with the 2022 Kuopio conference in Vienna. The conference was organised and hosted by University of Vienna and Shared Archiving Austria.

Under the main title “Importance of Print in a Digital World“ at the Universitat de Barcelona, library professionals, scientists and representatives of major Publishers presented their approaches to challenges like preservation policies, evaluation of archiving projects, economic models, metadata and other related topics.