HOPE is a Best Practice Network of archives, libraries and museums of social and labour history institutions across Europe. It aims to improve access to the vast amount of highly significant but scattered digital collections on social history. It proposes to achieve this by promoting the adoption of standards and best practices for digital libraries amongst its partners, by ensuring that the metadata and the content become available through Europeana and by implementing a full scale discovery-to-delivery model. 

In this way HOPE aligns with Objective 2.2 of the European Digital Library ICT-PSP programme – i.e.  to increase the quantity of quality content available through Europeana.