Growing together: exchange and networking among teachers with Europeana
Teaching is a very creative profession but sometimes lack of time and overcrowded curricula can discourage teachers to think outside the box. Venturing into a new topic or experimenting with innovative pedagogies can feel isolating and quite challenging, especially without the right support system. That’s why connecting educators across Europe so they can learn from one another is a core ambition of the Europeana and European Schoolnet longstanding collaboration!
Building strong networks among teachers, spaces where practice, resources and ideas can be exchanged, is one of the most powerful ways to break that isolation and to keep professional learning alive and relevant.
Never too early to STEM!
A recent example is the 2026 Scientix® Science Project Workshop (SPW) “OUTSTE(A)M Dissemination Workshop for teachers including ECEC and primary teachers – Never too early to STEM!”, a week-long professional development event which took place in July 2026 and brought together 65 educators from 19 countries at the Future Classroom Lab (European Schoolnet, Brussels).
The workshop, which saw the participation of the 2026 Scientix Cultural Legacy Award winners, gave participants the chance to explore pedagogical resources from a selection of European-funded projects, experiment hands-on with educational technologies, and exchange directly on their everyday practice with peers from very different school systems and age groups.
Connecting Europeana resources to bigger goals
The workshop placed Europeana resources within the wider frame of transversal STEM skills and competences for active citizenship. It also helped align the use of Digital Cultural Heritage with the Sustainable Development Goals and with EU competence frameworks such as GreenComp, DigComp for Citizens, DigComp for Educators and LifeComp. Using a problem-based approach, participants worked together to design Active Learning activities around themes including Environmental Sustainability, Digital Literacy, Citizen Science and Inclusive STEM education, turning shared discussion into concrete classroom ideas.
Time was set aside for participants to actively explore the educational resources on offer – among which Europeana’s ones – before mapping out how they could bring them into their own teaching. Each educator left with a personal “toolbox” of resources suited to their context, and with a learning activity ready to use in class, developed collaboratively but designed to work well beyond the walls of the course itself.
Stay tuned for more opportunities like this!
The Teaching with Europeana community will continue to support and highlight opportunities like this one, where educators can connect, share and grow together. Stay tuned with the project and don’t miss the chance to participate in the next initiatives!
Public Domain: the featured image used to illustrate this article has been found on Europeana and has been provided by the Rijksmuseum .