MAKASH is a partner in the Michael Culture Association established under the leadership of the Ministries of 
Culture of Italy and of France. 

Michael Culture is a network that includes more than
100 public and private institutions from all over Europe. 
Its purpose is the valorization and promotion of digital 
cultural content. It carries out the following activities:

• Management of the network, development of new projects,
  creation of synergies with other networks

• Think-tank for digital cultural heritage field: Strategic watch 
  and prospective, organisation of workshops and working 
  groups.

• Dissemination of the European projects of the Minerva 
  network as a resource centre, promotion of best practices, communication, publications, and guidelines.

• Services platform with innovative services for the general 
  public, new services for research.

The association is related to other European networks 
like Europeana in their joint endeavor to support 
European and national policies in the area of culture. 
It seeks to promote the professional development of 
those that work in digital cultural heritage through 
the MINERVA network.

Following the MINERVA project, in Israel was established 
the MinervaIsrael network that gathers annually 
outstanding professionals from Europe and Israel at the Eva/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on 
Advanced Technologies for Culture.