Elisavet Vlachou
Project and Pedagogical Coordinator , European Schoolnet
Giuseppe Mossuti
Project Manager , European Schoolnet
Over the past year, the collaboration between European Schoolnet and Europeana Foundation has continued to bring digital cultural heritage into the professional lives and practices of thousands of educators. Discover the achievements!
From 2024 – 2025, the collaboration between European Schoolnet and Europeana has seen us reach new audiences, foster fress connections and spark the creative reuse of Europeana's digital cultural heritage resources. Implementing a diverse set of activities at a local, national and international level in several countries, we reached more than 3,200 educators, opening access to the Europeana’s diverse digital cultural heritage resources. As a result, more than 38,400 students were indirectly reached and inspired.
This year, we continued to spotlight the reuse of high-quality digital cultural heritage resources, with activities spanning from Train-the-Trainers workshops to national and international initiatives. All the activities were designed to enhance educators’ skills, inspire innovative teaching practices, and deepen engagement with cultural heritage.
This year, European Schoolnet onboarded 50 educators—primarily from formal education, but also from non-formal education sectors— to lead national activities and peer training in their countries. The Master Trainers were introduced to Europeana and resources from the common European data space for cultural heritage, with a strong emphasis on the reuse of cultural heritage data in education and their responsibilities as trainers.
The European Schoolnet team organised four dedicated workshops to train these 50 educators from 14 European countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain.
Participants highly appreciated the Europeana Master Trainers workshops/ They valued the opportunity to explore Europeana resources, connect with peers, and collaborate in a friendly, professional setting. Many described the experience as enriching and beneficial for their professional development.
The Europeana Master Trainers carried out over 140 national activities, reaching more than 3,190 educators across Europe. Through these initiatives, they trained their peers on how to creatively reuse Europeana’s digital resources and actively engaged them in meaningful, heritage-based educational activities.
Educators expressed strong confidence in applying what they learned in their professional practice and high satisfaction with the overall training experience, valuing the trainers’ expertise, the quality of the materials, and the practical approach.
The Scientix Cultural Legacy Award, supported by Europeana, honoured both formal and non-formal educators whose submissions showcased how they reused Europeana resources in educational settings. Educators could choose between two formats: a micro-story, briefly indicating which resources they used from Europeana.eu or Teaching with Europeana, how they applied them, and what outcomes they achieved for themselves and their students; or a standard story, describing in more detail how they implemented a Europeana learning scenario and made effective use of Europeana’s digital cultural heritage content.
The Award was developed as part of the 2025 STEM Discovery Campaign. Educators from around the world—representing approximately 50 countries—submitted over 6,500 STEM-related educational activities to the campaign. Of these, 294 were relevant to the Cultural Legacy Award. Following a structured evaluation process, 152 activities were shortlisted as valuable stories of implementation. The stories are mainly written in English, though there are stories in Greek, Italian, Spanish and for the first time in Bulgarian. Among these stories, five were selected as winners while seven were chosen as runners-up. The authors of the winning stories were awarded a trip to Brussels to attend the Science Project Workshop (described below).
From November 2024 to June 2025, more than 12, 000 users visited the blog, leading to over 42,000 page views. Readers were able to access a diverse set of resources, including learning scenarios developed by educators for educators, stories and micro-stories showcasing the implementation of available Europeana resources, and thematic Uupdates addressing educational topics and project developments.
This year, the blog was enriched with four new thematic updates. In addition, stories developed by the winners and runners-up of the Scientix Cultural Legacy Award were published, serving as best practices for the reuse of Europeana digital cultural heritage resources. The stories can be found on the relevant webpage of the blog: Stories of Implementation - Teaching With Europeana.
The 2025 Science Project Workshop aimed to discuss educational technologies and Integrated STEM Teaching and Learning as tools to improve the teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The workshop contextualised Europeana resources, among others, for educators within broader frameworks of teaching skills and competencies for ‘Active Citizenship’, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Competence frameworks in place by the EU (i.e. GreenComp, DigComp for Citizens, DigComp for Educators, LifeComp). Among the 33 participants, the five winners of the Scientix® Cultural Legacy Award were invited to and attended the event, where they actively engaging with their peers and codesigned Active Learning activities focused on Active Citizenship case studies.
To highlight their achievements from the academic year, European Schoolnet and Europeana Foundation have produced an illustrated summary titled 'Europeana Education: Activities' for 2024-2025 - explore it below!
Are you an educator, policymaker, or cultural heritage professional interested in exploring innovative teaching approaches and the role of digital cultural heritage in education? Look at the slides above and discover more resources on Europeana Classroom and Teaching with Europeana. You can also join the Europeana Education Community to hear about new initiatives and work relevant to educators, or contact education@europeana.eu.
