Europeana in Education: Re-use our Digital Cultural Heritage for the eLearning Awards

BRUSSELS, August 16, 2010 - Europeana and European Schoolnet are pleased to invite teachers to build
learning resources based on Europe's digital heritage, as part of this year's
eLearning Awards (elearningawards.eun.org).

Europeana.eu is Europe's online museum, library and archive. It brings
together digitised content from Europe's cultural and scientific heritage
organisations, and makes that content accessible to Europe's citizens and to
the wider world. All the countries of the European Union are submitting
digital material from museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual
collections, most of which is available for free.

The subject range is vast, and includes art and photography, music and
composers, medieval and Renaissance Europe, biodiversity, maps, politics,
football, war and peace. A search on Mozart, for instance, reveals pictures
of him and his family members, letters to his wife and parents, the birth and
death certificates of his children, together with his music scores, videos
and recordings of famous musicians playing his music, including Daniel
Barenboim giving an impromptu concert at the fall of the Berlin Wall.

We invite teachers to make creative use of the content accessible via
www.Europeana.eu as a teaching resource. This could include the use of
the material in a lesson plan, the development of a virtual exhibition on a
curriculum topic or its use in teaching technology such as the development of
a blog, digital lesson plan, Facebook site or even a mobile application.

The site allows multilingual access, so you can work in your own
language, but sources are in their native languages. You can register and
save your searches or copy and paste them into your creation. We can provide
HTML for embedding items in a blog or Facebook. What you submit is entirely
up to you. Entries will be judged on the basis of innovation, potential for
use in collaborative work and didactic quality, among other criteria (full
list available at:
elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards/rules.htm)

Winning entries will be included in the ThoughtLab (
www.europeana.eu/portal/thought-lab.html) of Europeana and maybe
developed in a future release or in partnership with European Schoolnet, and
also made available for the whole of Europe via the Learning Resource
Exchange.

To register for the eLearning Awards, and submit your entry, visit:

elearningawards.eun.org.

The deadline is 28 September 2010.

About Europeana

Europeana (www.europeana.eu) is run by the European associations
representing cultural heritage organisations and is a legal Foundation set up
in 2007. The website is the flagship of the European Union's Digital
Libraries Initiative and gives access to over 10 million digitised books,
paintings, films and sounds. It offers a trusted, authoritative portal for
cultural and scientific heritage provided by organisations throughout Europe.

About the eLearning awards

Since 2001, the eLearning Awards competition has been run by European
Schoolnet and supported by key industry partners. Ten years after its launch,
the eLearning Awards remain Europe's leading competition to reward excellence
for the best use of technology in education. See
elearningawards.eun.org

About European Schoolnet

European Schoolnet (www.europeanschoolnet.org) is a network of 31
Ministries of Education in Europe and beyond. EUN was created more than 10
years ago with the aim to bring about innovation in teaching and learning
through the use of ICT for its key stakeholders: Ministries of Education,
schools, teachers and researchers.

For more information, contact: Marie Le Boniec - marie.leboniec at eun.org, Tel. +32(0)2-7907587