Europeana portal updated for a fresh experience!
image from Europeana - Ajuntament de Girona/CRDI, Public Domain. After much work on improving the beta version, the updated Europeana collections website is now live and available. VISIT! www.europeana.eu As the Executive Director Harry Verwayen just said "We now feel...
Case Study: Hungary in the Fifties
image: A Ruined street in Budapest, OSZK, CC-By-NC-ND. In the framework of the EU-funded project Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope, the Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (OSZK, the National Library of Hungary) represents the only Eastern European partner in the consortium and...
Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage community MOOC – Enrol now on edX
img. KU Leuven. Do you want to know what happens behind the scenes of museums, archives and libraries? Have you ever wondered what these organisations do to share their collections with audiences? Would you like to learn how to build a strong digital community for...
Europeana celebrates Women in Science day
img. from Europeana website. Happy #WomenInScienceDay!🧪To celebrate, visit the online exhibition Pioneers and learn about life and achievements of brilliant women scientists: Marie Curie, Maria Sibylla Merian, Aletta Jacobs and others Pioneers highlights the lives and...
New strategies for user engagement and digitised photographic heritage
img. Kaleidoscope project The final conference of the CEF project "Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope" is organized in Berlin by SPK – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The conference is dedicated to “New strategies for user engagement and digitised photographic...
Kaleidoscope MOOC – enroll now!
img. KU Leuven/Kaleidoscope project The MOOC jointly realized by Kaleidoscope and CultureMoves projects is now available for enrollment. In this MOOC professionals and volunteers in cultural heritage institutions as well as teachers, students and amateurs can learn...
Colonial Contributions to WWI – from Historiana
The Bikaner Camel Corps, also known as the Ganga Risala, were formed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the Indian state of Bikaner. They played a key role in defending the Suez Canal in 1915. Img. from Historiana website. EUROCLIO has recently published a source collection...
A new learning scenario about the 1950s
img. from Teaching with Europeana blog. In the Teaching with Europeana website, hundreds of teachers from across Europe and beyond are creating learning scenarios in order to use cultural heritage materials from Europeana in their classrooms. The aim is to encourage...
Kaleidoscope MOOC in the fast lane: progresses and updates
img. KU Leuven/Kaleidoscope project In the recent project meeting in Pisa, partners of the Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope project - that is focused on offering compelling material about the 1950s in Europe to enrich Europeana and boost users' interaction with digital...
How to create multilingual classes with digital cultural heritage
img. courtesy Europeana. A blog recently appeared on the School Education Gateway highlights the effort of Europeana Education to support CLIL (content and language integrated learning), by offering multilingual resources for teaching and learning with the support of...