Sound & Vision leaves location Zeestraat, The Hague

TEMS - which stands for Trusted European Media Data Space - is a joint undertaking of 43 organisations representing hundreds of stakeholders from 14 countries in the cultural and creative sectors, which aims to conceive and implement a common media data space across Europe.

Sound & Vision is a key partner of the ekip consortium that has been awarded a grant of €6 million from the European Commission to develop innovation policies for the cultural and creative industries.

The supervisory council of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has appointed Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer (1964) as managing director. Van Nispen tot Sevenaer has a great deal of experience as a director in the journalism, heritage and broadcasting sectors. For the past seven years, he has been the director of Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek (CPNB). As managing director, he will be responsible for the vision, strategy and policy of Sound and Vision, where the focus is on media culture. Van Nispen tot Sevenaer succeeds Jan Müller, who left his position as director on 1 October 2017.

Jan Müller has been appointed chief executive of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Jan Müller (1967), currently the CEO of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, will begin his new job October 1.

Sound and Vision first national audiovisual archive in the world to receive the Data Seal of Approval