“Migration and Culture: how can our past educate our present?”

The annual presidency event was held on 23 and 24 May in the premises of the Conference centre of Ħaġiar Qim, while Malta is hosting the EU presidency. A high-level strategy meeting, it was primarily targeted at policymakers of EU member states as a means to raise awareness about what Europeana does in culture and education, and how it can help them in their own work. The purpose was to build on the ‘Europeana for Education Policy Recommendations’ designed in May 2015 during the Italian Presidency of the EU, and more specifically ‘Recommendation II. Prioritise the provision of ‘Fit for Education and Learning’ content by cultural heritage institutions and ministries’.

Understanding migration with digital cultural heritage

Our main objective was to come up with concrete suggestions on how cultural heritage institutions and ministries of culture can actively help educate school kids - and more broadly European citizens - about migration, building on ‘Recommendation II’. Progress and reflection on the Italian and Latvian presidencies events (2014/2015), facilitated by the Europeana Foundation, European Schoolnet and EUROCLIO were also evaluated.

Europeana Strategy meeting “Migration and culture: how can our past educate our present”. CCby; Photographer, Sebastiaan Ter Burg