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Europeana Education Community

Who we are

The Europeana Education community brings together professionals dealing with digital culture and learning in cultural heritage institutions, educational organisations, schools, NGOs, ministries, local government, and the private sector.

What we do

We work to embed digital cultural heritage in both formal and informal education and foster innovation.

Why join?

  • Meet your peers and network at the Europeana annual conference and other relevant events
  • Stay informed and get the latest news about education and the cultural heritage sector through our dedicated communication channels
  • Grow your network and participate in European projects
  • Contribute to digital transformation in education with culture

Activities and resources

Historiana Teacher Training Guide
Title:
A classroom with children sitting at long tables and a teacher standing with a book in her hand
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

Historiana Teacher Training Guide

EUROCLIO and Europeana have worked together to produce an updated training guide on how to use online tools promoting historical thinking.

Education
Title:
Esbjörn at the study corner
Creator:
Carl Larsson
Institution:
Nationalmuseum Sweden
Country:
Sweden

Education

Resources and information to help educators reuse cultural heritage data and collections in their classrooms and institutions. 

Education Community Work Plan
Title:
Tytöt tietotekniikan tunnilla
Creator:
Kiuru, Sakari
Date:
1999-11-22
Institution:
Helsingin kaupunginmuseo
Country:
Finland

Education Community Work Plan

The Europeana Education Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2024.

Meet the steering group

Latest news

Supporting educators with the Open Content Toolkit
Title:
Panó Dívka s kopretinou
Creator:
Mucha Alfons Kocourek Ondřej, Urbánek Gabriel
Date:
1801-1-1
Institution:
Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze
Country:
Czech Republic

Supporting educators with the Open Content Toolkit

Created: 13 April 2021

The Open Content Toolkit highlights openly licensed digital resources and content from around the world and encourages educators to use them in the classroom. We interview its creator, Europeana Education community member Theo Kuechel, about how the Toolkit can be used by teachers and the inspiration that he draws from Europeana. 

#reinventingBeethoven: creativity in education with digital cultural heritage
Title:
Indian musicians playing their instruments. Gouache drawing.
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

#reinventingBeethoven: creativity in education with digital cultural heritage

Created: 4 February 2021

We take a closer look at some of the entries to the #ReinventingBeethoven competition to explore how the it encouraged students and teachers to engage with new tools and digitised cultural heritage.  

Upcoming events

Watching Videos Like a Historian 2nd episode: Evaluating and Judging
Title:
Watching videos like a historian webinar series 2nd episode
Creator:
EuroClio
Date:
2024
Institution:
EuroClio
Country:
The Netherlands
6 November 2024
16:30 — 17:30 Online

Watching Videos Like a Historian 2nd episode: Evaluating and Judging

This webinar - organised by EuroClio as part of the Watching the Videos Like a Historian project - will focus on supporting students' evaluation and judgement of historical media, using a toolkit developed by the project.

Watching Videos Like a Historian 3rd episode: Creating and Presenting
Title:
Watching videos like a historian webinar series 3rd episode
Creator:
EuroClio
Date:
2024
Institution:
EuroClio
Country:
The Netherlands
3 December 2024
16:30 — 17:30 Online

Watching Videos Like a Historian 3rd episode: Creating and Presenting

This webinar - organised by EuroClio as part of the Watching the Videos Like a Historian project - will focus on supporting the creation and presentation of historical media, using a Toolkit developed by the project.

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