Celebrating best practices-Scientix® Cultural Legacy Award results

Sharing good practices is essential in the teaching profession. Initiatives that encourage this not only help improve student outcomes but also enhance professional growth and contribute to a positive, collaborative learning environment.

Within the framework of the 2025 STEM Discovery Campaign, over 6,500 activities were shared by STEM enthusiasts from around the world—celebrating STEM, exchanging innovative ideas, and fostering cross-border collaboration.

To recognise and celebrate the most impactful contributions, the Scientix® Awards highlight outstanding achievements in science education across a wide range of themes and domains.

The Scientix Cultural Legacy Award, supported by Europeana, honours educators who submitted Stories of Reuse (standard Stories of Implementation or micro) that made exemplary use of Europeana’s digital cultural heritage resources. Submissions were encouraged to feature resources from Europeana.eu or Learning Scenarios from the Teaching with Europeana blog.

Winners of the Scientix Cultural Legacy Award 2025:

• Aikaterini Spitsa (from Greece), for the entry “Feelings in Color: Exploring Emotions Through Art, Music, and Technology”.
• Ana Šuman (from Croatia), for the entry “Story of implementation of Europeana Learning Scenario Biodiversity (EN-CUR-162)”.
• Despina Chatzivasiliadou (from Greece), for the entry “The Modiano Market of Thessaloniki”.
• Ljiljana Štanfelj (from Croatia), for the entry “Story of Implementation “Places in Stamps”.
• Nevin Bilgiçli (from Türkiye), for the entry “MATHEMATICAL AND VISUAL SYNTHESIS OF HISTORICAL STRUCTURES WITH STEAM”.

Runners-up:

• Andreea Goldschmidt (from Romania), for the entry “Why board games?”.
• Margarita Dakoronia and Chrysoula Georgakopoulou (from Greece), for the entry “Children Discussing with Art–Refugees and Immigrants”.
• Mirko Andrić from Croatia), for the entry “AI travel to Africa for all!”.
• Nela Slezenkova Nikovska (from North Macedonia), for the entry “We play as artists – Mondrian in the yard!”.
• Panagiota Bali (from Greece), for the entry “Ocean acidification is here”.
• Pedro Manuel Mimbrera Izquierdo (from Spain), for the entry “Implementation of ”Yes, you can!” (SoI-GR-570)”.
• Željko Predojević (from Croatia), for the entry “Exploring Early Space Exploration with Europeana Resources”.

Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up! The stories created by the winners and runners-up will be published on the Teaching with Europeana blog. The winners also had the opportunity to attend the 2025 Science Project Workshop at the European Schoolnet premises in Brussels, where they engaged in exchange, collaboration, and peer learning with fellow educators.

Alongside the winners and runners-up, we are also pleased to acknowledge the contributions of over a hundred educators who shared their Europeana stories of reuse as part of the 2025 STEM Discovery Campaign. Their collective efforts reflect the strength of the teaching community and the powerful impact of sharing educational practices at scale, but also the broad and creative use of Europeana’s rich resources in education.

PDM 1.0: the featured image used to illustrate this article has been found on Europeana and has been provided by the Bohuslän Museum.