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About Built with Bits

This Europeana Initiative mentoring programme and educational challenge contributes to the New European Bauhaus movement by inviting students and educators to design beautiful and sustainable spaces with Mozilla Hubs.

You can explore the activities and winners from previous Built with Bits editions below.

The programme

Imagine your students not just sitting through their lessons, but virtually building the experiences they are learning about! And imagine if, in the process, they could contribute to a more beautiful and sustainable future for Europe.

The Built with Bits mentoring programme helps educators and teachers to achieve this by combining collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies with the values of accessibility, inclusivity and sustainability that are at the heart of the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus movement.

The programme explores how virtual experiences can be used within education and is designed for teachers and educators working with students in secondary education in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. This online programme helps teachers to:

  • Explore virtual and extended reality technologies

  • Learn how to create virtual spaces with Mozilla hubs, a virtual collaboration platform that can be run in any browser, from any device.

  • Learn how virtual spaces can be used in collaborative processes

  • Discover existing projects and examples of immersive spaces using cultural heritage that will inspire you and spark your students’ imaginations.

Europeana education and the New European Bauhaus

The European Commission’s New European Bauhaus movement looks to shape future ways of living that answer the challenges we face today. Think green, sustainable and affordable, alongside accessible, inclusive and beautiful.

The Europeana Education community aims to build an international community of engaged educators that uses disruptive pedagogical practices to help Europe move towards new ways of thinking, creating and living together sustainably.

This mentoring programme and challenge brought teachers, non-formal educators and students across Europe together to develop innovative and immersive spaces, incorporating the principles of New European Bauhaus (togetherness, beauty, sustainability) and supporting educators and students to develop new digital skills.

Outcomes for students and teachers

Through this mentoring programme, student and teachers have:

  • Contributed to the New European Bauhaus movement by becoming active participants in the discussion of the future of Europe.

  • Learned about Europeana open content and the educational value of cultural heritage.

  • Discovered new digital technologies for teaching and learning, and increase your digital skills, creativity and innovation using Mozilla Hubs.

  • Increased problem-solving and collaborative skills by interacting with peers.

  • Gained a new appreciation for the importance of individual and group contributions for a more sustainable, diverse, inclusive and equitable space for all.

Built with Bits 1

All of the virtual spaces created as part of the programme in 2021 were entered into a challenge, and the winners were offered the chance to take part in a masterclass with Daniel Llamas and David Mingorance from the Macedonia initiative to develop their project further. The winners were announced at a ceremony in January 2022. You can watch the full ceremony and explore the winners below!

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: best New European Bauhaus project
Title:
Biodiversity Pavilion
Creator:
Maria Luisa Onida
Date:
2021
Institution:
IS Leonardo da Vinci of Lanusei
Country:
Italy

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: best New European Bauhaus project

Europeana’s ‘Built with Bits’ programme invited students and educators to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies with the values at the heart of the New European Bauhaus movement. We interview the winner of the programme's 'best New European Bauhaus project' category about their experience.

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: best Europeana project
Title:
The 'Living on my Moon' project in Mozilla hubs
Creator:
Daniela Brogna
Date:
2021
Institution:
IC Pimentel Fonseca
Country:
Italy

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: best Europeana project

Europeana’s ‘Built with Bits’ programme invited students and educators to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies with the values at the heart of the New European Bauhaus movement. We interview the winner of the programme's 'best Europeana project' category about their experience.

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Greece winner
Title:
The 'Children's Games' project in Mozilla hubs (in copyright)
Creator:
Sofronia Maravelaki
Date:
2021
Institution:
Iraklia’s Junior High School
Country:
Greece

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Greece winner

Europeana’s ‘Built with Bits’ programme invited students and educators to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies with the values at the heart of the New European Bauhaus movement. We interview the winner of the programme's 'Greece' category about their experience.

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Portugal winner
Title:
Historical monuments of Tomar
Creator:
Cristina Paula Marques
Date:
2021
Institution:
Agrupamento de Escolas Nuno de Santa Maria
Country:
Portugal

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Portugal winner

Europeana’s ‘Built with Bits’ programme invited students and educators to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies with the values at the heart of the New European Bauhaus movement. We interview the winner of the programme's 'Portugal' category about their experience.

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Italy winner
Title:
Anatomical Open Air Museum in Mozilla hubs - CC-BY-NC-ND
Creator:
Luigia Palumbo
Date:
2021
Institution:
Capozzi-Galilei School
Country:
Italy

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Italy winner

Europeana’s ‘Built with Bits’ programme invited students and educators to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies with the values at the heart of the New European Bauhaus movement. We interview the winner of the programme's 'Italy' category about their experience.

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Spain winner
Title:
Inside the Mozilla hub designed by CODEMA students
Creator:
Rafael Montero
Date:
2021

Built with Bits – an educational challenge: the Spain winner

Europeana’s ‘Built with Bits’ programme invited students and educators to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies with the values at the heart of the New European Bauhaus movement. We interview the winner of the programme's 'Spain' category about their experience.

Built with Bits 2

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part III
Title:
Rediscovering Arbatax Red Rocks’ space on Mozilla Hubs
Creator:
screenshot. ML. Onida
Date:
2022

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part III

If you are a cultural heritage professional and wonder what immersive technologies have to do with education, or how they can help you to engage with young audiences, look no further than this Pro news series! Over three posts and through a focus on Europeana’s Built with Bits programme, we answer the question: why use immersive technologies in education?

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part II
Title:
Caprera War and Peace Museum’ space on Mozilla Hubs
Creator:
screenshot. L. Palumbo
Date:
2022

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part II

If you are a cultural heritage professional and wonder what immersive technologies have to do with education, or how they can help you to engage with young audiences, look no further than this Pro news series! Over three posts and through a focus on Europeana’s Built with Bits programme, we will answer the question: why use immersive technologies in education?

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part I
Title:
‘Bologna Untold’ space on Mozilla Hubs' screenshot
Creator:
D. Federici
Date:
2022

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part I

If you are a cultural heritage professional and wonder what immersive technologies have to do with education, or how they can help you to engage with young audiences, look no further than this Pro news series! Over three posts and through a focus on Europeana’s Built with Bits programme, we will answer the question: why use immersive technologies in education?  

Built with Bits Brussels kicks off at Festival of the New European Bauhaus
Title:
Built with Bits Brussels Workshop 11 June 2022
Creator:
Europeana Foundation
Date:
May 2022
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
The Netherlands

Built with Bits Brussels kicks off at Festival of the New European Bauhaus

Built with Bits Brussels kicks off on Saturday 11 June 2022 as part of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus. This educational challenge invites students, educators and residents of Brussels to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies to imagine improvements to real spaces in Brussels.

Built with Bits 3

The third Built with Bits competition kicked off in 2023, coinciding with the Spanish Presidency of the European Union. Built with Bits became a proud Twin It! label carrier for furthering learning about immersive tech in secondary education.

Nine teams created inspiring projects which they presented at the final event in May 2024. Discover the event, watch the recording, and read about the projects below. 

How to create virtual spaces to teach media literacy and digital skills
Title:
Keskustakirjasto Oodi, Arkkitehtitoimisto ALA 2018, Töölönlahdenkatu 4
Creator:
Eweis, Yehia
Institution:
Helsinki City Museum
Country:
Finland
News Created: 15 August 2024 Daniel Llamas

How to create virtual spaces to teach media literacy and digital skills

Built with Bits is a mentoring programme which invites students and educators to develop digital skills and engage with cultural heritage by designing virtual spaces. Discover the spaces designed in the most recent edition, and what they can teach educators about creating virtual spaces to teach media literacy and digital skills.

Facilitators

Tutorials

Would you like to follow the Built with Bits programme in your own time? Then explore the video tutorials! They take you step by step through how to work with Mozilla hubs and explore virtual and explore bringing extended reality technologies into the classroom. You can find videos below and more resources on the programme’s website Notion for the first and second editions.

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