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 the 2021 and 2022 Built with Bits editions below.
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.
In 2021, our eight-week mentoring programme helped 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 explored 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 helped 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teacher
High School Liceo Diaz, Caserta
Teacher
Public School
Strategic designer, facilitator and trainer
The 'Macedonia' Studio
XR Creator & Phygital Innovation
The 'Macedonia' Studio
Agrupamento de Escolas da Batalha
Find out more about the kick-off of the competition in 2022, watch the final ceremony and read about the winners!
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
This introductory tutorial from the Built with Bits programme covers how to build custom spaces in Mozilla hubs.
These tutorials from the Built with Bits programme covers how to build custom spaces in Mozilla hubs.
These tutorials from the Built with Bits programme cover how to use external resources on Mozilla hubs.
These tutorials from the Built with Bits programme cover how to design spaces in Mozilla hubs.