I recently returned from a symposium in Luxembourg on the topic of Contemporary History in the Digital Age and will report some of my impressions here. First, I should say that attending the event was a remarkable experience for a number of reasons. The symposium, which was hosted by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) and the University of Luxembourg (Master’s in Contemporary European History program), was multi-lingual and this was a technological and human achievement in its own right. Translators worked in the background to make accessible the French language papers for English speakers, and they were highly skilled. Another reason the conference was so interesting is that it looked at digital innovation in the humanities from a European perspective. As an Australian in Sweden, much of this discussion was very new to me and I gained a great deal from it. The field of digital history tends to be dominated, at least in the research published in English, by the work of a handful of scholars in the US and UK. The CVCE in particular has a lot of experience in digital history projects. It coordinates and produces La référence multimédia sur l’histoire de l’Europe, one of the long-running digital resources on European history and integration. One of the main points for discussion at the symposium was the decision to re-design this online resource, and papers compared the earlier verion with the upcoming version from different perspectives (technical, conceptual, philosophical). However, I should say that the focus on practical experiments (in interface design, content management, interrelationship of institutional resources etc) was arguably eclipsed by one main issue: training the next generation of researchers/technicians. Indeed, this need was identified by nearly all the presenters. It seems that the digital humanities are at the start of what is likely to be a rapid rise to a more central place in universities but that what is lacking is the people to facilitate this transition.