Features offered to national coordinators on european events

The French Ministry for Culture coordinates several yearly european events :

• Nuit Européenne des Musées (European Museum Night)
• Rendez-Vous européens aux Jardins (Rendez-vous in European Gardens)
• Journées européennes de l'Archéologie (European Archaeology Days)
• Journées européennes du Patrimoine (European Heritage Days)

The French ministry uses the service of OpenAgenda to gather and broadcast event announcements from local organizers. OpenAgenda provides an online platform with geolocalized agendas open to contributions. Generally there is one agenda per french region, then one for the events out of France, for instance : https://openagenda.com/fr/agendas?network=19802121

Each local organizers can directly announce his events, after a control by an agency working on behalf of the French Ministry the events are published on the european agenda. You can then exports any local part of the agenda and embed it on your website. Here is how to do it for Rendez-vous aux Jardins in Hungary for instance :

• Go to the Rendez-vous aux Jardins agenda page
• Filter on Country : Hungary
• Click on Export > Embed, then select the appropriate options and copy-paste the code on your website editor.

With his solution, the events descriptions are shown in your prefered language.

The languages of the labels ("search", "january", "monday, and son on) on this embeddable agenda are french, english, german, spanish and italian.

With slightly more work, other technical solutions are possible to show the events on your website : web extensions and synchronisation with other tools.

This process and features are freely available for all partners of these europeans events.

Advanced version, optional

We can create a specific agenda for your country, on which the national coordination has administration rights, with a fully translated interface in national language. 

The national coordination can then

• adapt the form for local specificities (such as local typology of venues)
• have a direct contact with the local organizers : build a directory of local organizers, write to them individually and collectively directly from the agenda
• moderate their events
• embed the national agenda on its website with all labels in the local language
• feed the european agenda automatically

The OpenAgenda team will assist the national coordination team for 

• the setting of the national agenda 
• adjustment of the translations if necessary
• technical support of local organizers as well as IT service and IT providers

Here is an example with the italian agenda for RDVJ : https://openagenda.com/appuntamento-in-giardino-2025

This advanced version requires is offered for 2 000 €. In this case, we advice to contact us in advance, in order to have your national agenda ready in the same time as the french one for the next edition, so approximately january 2026.

Updated on: 31/07/2025