The DigCurV project began life in 2010 as a proposal to the European Commission's Education and Training agency for a project to address the gap in the education and training available to people working in cultural institutions and managing digital collections. We proposed to build a stakeholder network involving leading individuals and organisations in establishing a curriculum framework as the base from which programmes of vocational education and training could be developed in future. The project was funded by the Leonardo da Vinci programme and work got underway in January 2011 at a kick-off meeting in London where the members of the consortium -.HATII, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Goettingen State and University Library, Trinity College Dublin, Vilniaus Universiteto Biblioteka, MDR Partners and the University of Toronto - met to plan the project's activities.