‘I use Europeana as part of a gamified approach to digital archives that enhances creativity in the classroom. Students collect material on Europeana and use it to solve a problem and complete a challenge in the virtual world on Minecraft or in the augmented virtual reality of Mozilla Hubs.’

Our pupils used Europeana’s collections to inspire the design of some robotic sea monsters, as part of an Erasmus+ project for secondary schools called Augmented Age of Inventions. The results are truly original - far from the mainstream manga style that normally influences their art.

I use Europeana to find science resources. My students research anatomical models, ancient drawings and digitised documents as elements of innovative projects focused on Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Mixing Europeana resources and AR or VR enhances student motivation, emotional involvement and promotes active learning and problem-solving skills.

My students of the Interactive Media Design course used Europeana as the theme for their Interaction Design projects: to design a mobile application that makes use of Europeana's content. The resulting prototypes are inspiring and range from games to educational apps.

Europeana is a great source of material for my language classes. I use Europeana sources to make my language classes and practice exercises more interesting and rich. I use the texts and images from Europeana to start discussions in class and to work on language knowledge in general with my students.

I used the data extracted from the Europeana APIs to develop a web application to visualise Soviet posters for my master’s thesis in Digital Humanities. Europeana is a powerful resource that gives access to a rich collection of digitised cultural heritage across Europe and can be used in many creative ways to explore almost any topic.

I used Europeana images, its Twitter feed and blog in my dissertation research. I wanted to discover who uses digital images and why, as well as how we, as digital cultural heritage creators, can help people discover and reuse digital images by raising their ranking in the Google Images Search.

As a sports historian, I use a lot of Europeana material for my research, for my website Sportgeschiedenis.nl and on social media. At the end of 2021 I asked my university students in Mechelen to collect photos from Europeana of the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp to make an online exhibition about the Games.

I use Europeana galleries to support my research. This one is devoted to beaded art from Cameroon. It brings together objects from different cultural spheres and helps me explore iconography, symbolism and meaning, contributing to my research on authenticity and inherent notions of cultural, societal and emotional value.

I’ve been making short and funny animated gifs using free archive images on Europeana for a while now and I’ve created a skill-sharing course showing other people how to do it too. I love the fact you can save your favourite Europeana images to use later. It means you can experiment with ideas.

I have used wonderful paintings from Europeana (and elsewhere) in 'World of Art' - a video game for people who love art and jigsaw puzzles. I created it during the pandemic to bring some peace, joy and education to gamers and non-gamers alike.

Collage artists are perpetually looking for copyright-free, high quality images to work with, and Europeana is an excellent source. I use their images for personal work and the weekly creative challenges of Paris Collage Collective. Placing old images into new contexts teaches us more about who we are than any history book.

My team's editor found a great photograph on a Europeana blog and used it in 'Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History', a documentary for the broadcaster PBS. We used the photograph to introduce the popular game of Monopoly as something that now celebrates capitalism but was initially created to critique it. These kinds of documentaries wouldn't exist without the efforts of institutions that collect, archive and share historic material.

I am a freelance artist from Thailand and I specialise in making artwork about people in history. I really enjoy searching and looking at pictures on the Europeana website. There are all kinds of artworks there to help me to learn about art creation. The things I find on Europeana are interesting and inspiring.

As co-producers of a podcast shining a light on the oft-forgotten history of our Scottish Borderlands, we find Europeana a valuable source of imagery and archive material. The depiction of The Crusades in terms of a chess game is striking and chimes with our narrative. Using Europeana has triggered many ideas for future podcast instalments.

I use Europeana material to create collages for things like New Year cards. I spotted several beautiful pictures from 1920-21 in Europeana. I found maps to create graphic backgrounds as well as landscapes, fashion pictures, graphic elements, stamps, etc. Europeana is really easy to use and it's genuinely interesting and fun to work with these testimonies of the past.