The project CAPTCHA_Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives creates via a Europe-wide exchange of experiences and teamwork of media-producers and –scientists the basis for a long-lasting, forward-looking collaborative cross-border project. Center of attention is the interactive work on a living and creative solution to uncomplicatedly present content that can easily be discovered.Producers, artists and scientists will together develop a multimedia-archiving-tool with the aim for making content of this archive (and therefore to culture) better accessible. Different ways of data-visualization (temporal via timelines and narrative presentations/spatial via geotagging, open-street-maps/semantic, time-layered maps) will be tested, presenting a series of authentic video- and audio-productions. The prototype will offer performers, multi-media producers and Community-Media-protagonists an incentive to present their productions creatively and to arouse interest in experiencing culture, past and present.To guarantee a successful implementation, the consortium of networked partners in the project will introduce the intention and results of the project to cultural protagonists, public-law-media-producers and discuss functional archiving solutions, debate qualitative aspects of editing und uploading just as knowledge about legal questions that still differ from country to country will be exchanged. An extensive research will analyze existing cross-border initiatives regarding positive/negative experiences and present the results via an interactive project-website and hard copies/leaflets. The project builds on the participation of volunteers and offers assistances in various formats (print and online) that become relevant for multimedia-performers, and people active in media of any kind that want to present their products to a world-wide public just as for cultural studies. A widespread dissemination (printed series on the project, press-releases, social media public