Creating Lessons with Cultural Heritage

We are opening a call for participants for a new initiative launched by EuroClio and Europeana to promote the use of cultural heritage in education. 

In ‘Creating Lessons with Cultural Heritage’ we will dive into the untapped wealth of cultural heritage available through museums, archives and other cultural institutions to create ready-to-use materials for the classroom

How will we do this?

We will work with teacher leaders and cultural heritage professionals from five different countries on the co-creation of ready-to-use eLearning activities that make use of digital cultural heritage collections. 

Participants will have the opportunity to attend a fully-funded 1.5 day co-creation programme in The Hague on 16th-18th May, 2025. 

Participants will be introduced to a range of teaching and learning strategies, and work with facilitators to adapt these to their local context and language. Having developed new activities that promote digital cultural collections in the classroom, participants will then host active workshops to introduce these resources to at least 20 educator peers in their respective countries.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for enthusiastic educators and cultural heritage professionals who would like to take part in this exciting new initiative to develop classroom activities that make use of digital cultural sources, and who are willing to take on a leadership role in sharing these activities with educator peers in their own country. 

The educator leaders will be expected to:

• Participate in a 1.5 day co-creation programme 16th-18th May (a working level of English is necessary).
• Prepare for the co-creation programme by bringing their own sources.
• Following the co-creation programme, host national workshops to introduce their eLearning resources to educator peers.

What do we offer?

• Opportunity to meet with like-minded people and organisations.
• A hands-on, collaborative programme that will introduce teacher leaders to eLearning activities and help them to create their own.
• Fully-funded residency (travel and accommodation) in The Hague.

How to apply

Please send a CV and motivation letter to annaroizes@euroclio.eu.

Your motivation letter should include:

• Your background, including your professional work and country of residence.
• The digital cultural heritage collection you would like to use for the creation of classroom activities.
• A plan detailing how you will disseminate the eLearning activities to at least 20 educator peers in your country of residence through hosting a workshop, adapting resources to local needs.

It would be beneficial for applicants to have the support of a cultural heritage institute, but this is not required if you have a distinct digital cultural heritage collection in mind. 

The application will include a round of interviews.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 9th April at 18:00 CET.