Europeana Book Month campaign
img. from Europeana. For the month of April 2021, Europeana Education has launched the #EuropeanaBookMonth campaign. This initiative aims to highlight the History of World Literature through the collections, editorials, and educational resources available on...
The Pill Expo: Contraceptive Pill as a 20th Century Game-Changer
img. The Pill Expo website. Why was the birth control pill a game changer in the twentieth century and why has it become even more controversial today? These are the central questions that The Pill Expo will address. The rights and choices of today weren’t given but...
Survey about digital cultural heritage education
img. Gezin met 10 kinderen gaan emigreren, Gooi en Vecht Historisch, CC BY-SA via Europeana. As part of the participation of the stakeholders in The Digital Heritage Education project, it was launched a survey for teachers, museum educators, museum content producers,...
Euro Noir: Transcultural Identities in European Popular Crime Narratives
img. from DETECt website. Learn how crime novels, films and television dramas can help investigate European cultural identity. A new MOOC hosted by KU Leuven and realized in the context of EU funded project DETECt. The crime genre, arguably the most popular narrative...
Survey on use and reuse in Digital Cultural Heritage
img. from survey home page. Within the #ERA_CHAIR_Mnemosyne project it is currently running a "Survey on use and reuse in DCH" that aims to collect information from all those who use and reuse data related to the cultural heritage domain, including...
Virtual tours of troubled pasts in Europe
img. from the Cyprus virtual tour in Nicosia. An interesting series of virtual tours in European cities, by REPAST, a Horizon 2020 funded project that aims at investigating how European societies deal with their troubled pasts today. Through the analysis of conflict...
Digital Humanites at KU Leuven – Interview with prof. Fred Truyen
img. from archives: Fred Truyen presenting Europeana Photography project at ICA congress in Girona (2014). Recently, KU Leuven Library published a nice interview by Merisa Martinez to prof. Fred Truyen, Programme Director of the Advanced Master's in Digital Humanities...
EUstudents in EUwonderland – snapshots from Bulgaria
img. from the Emaze album. Students of ''Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev" Primary school, Razgrad, Bulgaria are happy to present their country in 1970s-80s and its Cultural Heritage through black-white photos, under the support of Erasmus + programme KA 201 "EUstudents in...
Digital education with cultural heritage – Europeana MOOC 2021
img. from Europeana Education. Starting in March 2021, a new online course by Europeana in collaboration with European Schoolnet Academy, aiming at empowering the connection between #culturalheritage and the digital world, and enhancing teaching practice concerning...
Lest We Forget – webinars on remembrance education
img. from EuroClio - European Association of History Educators. If you asked a hundred people what remembrance education is, you’d get a hundred different answers. What all these answers seem to agree on, however, is that remembrance education is about learning from...