Build a cultural passport for your city, museum, NGO or event, or bring Emblem into a European cooperation project. Explore examples, responsibilities, costs and next steps.
Partner with Emblem
Connect the places and stories your organisation cares about through a Cultural Passport. Your visitors discover real places, collect original digital souvenirs and keep the experience in the Emblem app.
Commission a local experience
For cities, tourism organisations, museums, cultural venues, event teams and companies: start with one Emblem, a compact route or a multi-place Cultural Passport. Emblem provides the existing app, location setup, publication and agreed launch support.
A written proposal defines the deliverables, creative work, budget, responsibilities and support. You do not need to commission a separate app to run your passport.
Bring Emblem into a cooperation project
For NGOs, municipalities, cultural organisations, universities and project coordinators: discuss how a Cultural Passport could support local storytelling, youth participation, heritage interpretation or exchange between places.
You can approach Emblem with an existing project or explore the Digital World Expo proposal: a network of locally authored Cultural Passports. That proposal is in partner development; it is not an awarded European grant or a confirmed consortium. Participation, eligibility and the appropriate contractual role must be checked for each call.
A project coordinator can lead the wider programme while Emblem contributes the agreed digital experience and implementation. Each local partner helps shape its own stories and participation activities.
What visitors experience
1. Discover: choose a passport and find its cultural places on the map.
2. Visit and collect: visit a participating place and use the app's location check to collect its Emblem, with artwork, creator credit and a local story.
3. Keep exploring: build a continuing collection across places. Quizzes and partner rewards can be included when agreed for the project; each reward has its own conditions.
Who does what
Emblem: the existing digital platform, agreed passport and location setup, content integration, collection testing, launch material and project reporting.
Local partner: a project contact, the local theme and places, cultural fact checking, access and permissions, community connections and local communication. A reward provider fulfils the rewards it offers.
Creators and content contributors: original artwork or approved existing material, credited authorship and agreed permissions. Commissioning, payment and reuse are settled in the project scope.
From an enquiry to an agreed project
Start by describing your organisation, places, audience and intended outcome. An early idea and an undecided budget are enough for an initial conversation.
Together we identify a manageable first experience, the material already available, the work still needed and the proposed funding route. A written scope and quote follow discovery.
Production starts after the relevant scope, agreements and financing are confirmed. A grant-dependent project also needs an agreed approach if funding is delayed or unsuccessful. Expressing interest does not confirm a consortium role or commit either party to production spending.
Examples you can inspect
Luxembourg Passport YFP shows a published collection connecting cultural places and locally authored Emblems. Its creator and Emblem directories let you inspect the actual content.
The Bernard-Massard case study describes a location-based collection and partner reward journey. The Jacques Schneider case study shows a passport built around a creator's work.
These examples demonstrate project formats. Published location and artwork counts are catalogue scope, not evidence of visitor growth or sales. Use the Research & Public Data page for measurement boundaries; project results should always state their period and source.
Tell us what you would like to create
Organisation and website
Country or region
Places, audience and intended outcome
Existing project or new passport
Funding or budget status, including not yet known
Preferred timing and a contact person
danielmichels@emblemdigitalsouvenirs.com
Emblem: Digital Souvenirs S.à r.l.-S, Bertrange, Luxembourg
Partnership information updated 9 September 2026. Project-specific terms are confirmed in writing.
Quick answers
Can we use Emblem in a project we already run?
Yes. Bring your existing route, exhibition, festival, educational activity or cooperation proposal. We will assess whether a Cultural Passport fits the audience, places, resources and intended outcome, then agree Emblem's role.
What does a partnership cost?
There is no universal project price. The quote depends on locations, artwork, writing, translation, collection and reward setup, reporting and ongoing support. Staff input, creator fees and any project co-financing need to be identified before commitment. An enquiry is not an order.
Is European funding already secured?
No European grant award is being claimed for the Digital World Expo proposal. It is a partnership-development concept. Any application, partner eligibility, budget and timetable must follow the relevant published call. A commercial project can be scoped separately with its own financing.
What happens if a grant is delayed or refused?
Grant-dependent production should not start automatically. The parties need to agree whether to revise, defer or stop, and who bears any preparation costs. Reimbursement by a future grant is not promised. These arrangements belong in the written project agreement.
Who owns the artwork, stories and content?
Ownership and permitted uses are defined in the agreements with creators and partners. The scope should identify who can publish, adapt, translate and reuse each contribution, for how long and with what credit. Supplying content does not itself settle a transfer of ownership.
What data and results can partners receive?
Agreed reporting can cover aggregate collections, collectors, route completion and reward activity where available for the project. Metrics need a defined scope and reporting period. Personal data access is not included by default; any data roles and permitted use must be agreed in line with the privacy policy.
What should the agreement cover, including leaving the project?
Before production, agree deliverables, approvals, payments, content licences, credit, data roles, support duration and responsibilities. It should also explain cancellation or exit, what happens to published content and access, and any retention or export arrangements. Those terms are project-specific, not assumed from this page.
How long does it take, and what do we send first?
Timing depends on the agreed scope, content readiness, permissions and testing. Send your organisation and website, country or region, audience, places or theme, budget or funding status, and preferred timing. Existing images and stories help us assess the work; you do not need a finished proposal to get in touch.
Does programme support make Emblem an official institutional app?
No. Luxembourg Passport YFP received support through the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme. That specific programme relationship does not make Emblem an official UNESCO app or imply endorsement of every passport or proposed partnership.