EUROPEANA NETWORK ASSOCIATION EUROPEANA EDUCATION COMMUNITY WORK PLAN David Leeuw with his Family. Abraham van den Tempel. 1671. Rijksmuseum. Netherlands. Public Domain TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Executive summary 3 2. Steering Group members 4 3. Vision statement 5 4. Terms of reference 6 5. Community Engagement 7 6. Communication Channels 8 7. Community Pro page 9 8. Resources 9 9. Progress report 9 10. Activities till end 2020 10 11. Changes 12 12. Performance indicator 12 13. Budget 13 Europeana Education Community work plan | 2 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The working plan 2020 of the Europeana Particularly, the Steering Group will organize in Education community aims to strengthen the 2020 at least one workshop for CHI educators connection between cultural heritage and and school network representatives and make a educational sectors. The Steering Group will promotional video with testimonies about using work towards this goal by getting a deeper Europeana as an educational tool. understanding of the needs of educators in regards to the use of digital cultural heritage (via surveys, the community communication channels and direct conversations), reaching out to CHI professionals in education and promoting the use of digital culture at the national and regional level. Members of this community will share information and best practices, facilitate collaborations at the intersection of CHI and education, promote the Europeana initiative in events and engage with new potential members. Europeana Education Community work plan | 3 2. STEERING GROUP MEMBERS Chair: Other steering group members: Frederik Truyen, Prof. dr. Faculty of Arts, KU Vera Kriezi, Head of New Technologies and Leuven, Belgium Development, The Friends of Music Society, Greece Co-Chairs: Loa Kristjánsdóttir, EUROCLIO, Iceland Olimpia Curta, Deputy Director, Lucian Blaga Margherita Sani, Project manager, Institute Central University Library, Romania for Cultural Heritage Region Emilia Romagna, Altheo Valentini, European Grants Italy International Academy, Italy Manager: Isabel Crespo, Business Development Coordinator Education, Europeana Foundation, Netherlands Europeana Education Community work plan | 4 3. VISION STATEMENT This community brings together all those who Mainstream the use of digital culture in believe that Europe’s digital cultural heritage has education, especially at a national and an important role to play in education, and want to regional level, but also through pan-European work to embed digital cultural data in both formal edu and Cultural heritage networks - such as and informal education to foster innovation. EuroCLIO, European Schoolnet, EADTU, NEMO, the Network of European Museum This Community aims to strengthen the Organisations, ICOM CECA – International connection between cultural heritage and Council of Museums Committee for Education educational sectors to mutual benefit. More and Cultural Action, European Museum specifically, it will work towards the following Academy, Bundesverband goals: Museumspädagogik, Germany, GEM – The Voice of Heritage Learning, UK, Pedaali - The Get a deeper understanding of the needs of Finnish Association for Museum Education, educators where it concerns their use of etc. digital cultural heritage Reach out to CHI professionals for education Europeana Education Community work plan | 5 4. TERMS OF REFERENCE Its members will: Anyone interested in the Europeana Network Association can join Share information and best practices Anyone else can join (but needs to sign up to Jointly work on issues of common interest the ENA) Facilitate collaborations at the intersection of This community is governed by a chair (a CH and education (especially at national and member’s council -according with the MC regional level) meeting on 6 March 2019-), two co-chairs and Promote the initiative in events and engage a manager (from the Europeana Foundation) with new potential members *568 members (baseline January 2020) Europeana Education Community work plan | 6 5. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (incl. involvement of board members) Approach a youth association in the initiative Collaborate on collecting use cases and best to understand young people requirements to practices. This can be done through our active use digital culture heritage mailing list, personal testimonies, spreading Members of the community can help to reach the word in the members’ educational out to educational professionals in the CHIs practice (the people taking up the role of organizing Write articles about the case studies collected education activities in the CHI’s) and (or invite other experts), previous connecting them to the teacher community consultation and coordination with the active with Europeana. This is important as community manager the CHI’s are the main target for the Spread the news about Europeana resources Europeana Initiative as a whole. for education in the member's networks Organize at least one workshop -online or (if Post and share best practices in the possible) physical- a year (Teachmeet) for CHI Europeana Education Facebook group educators and teachers using Europeana to (focused on teachers) and LinkedIn group share best practices. We will organize one at (open to all professionals on education) Leuven or The Hague this year. Besides Find associations or active communities of inviting people from the ENA and EAF, we teachers and/or educators in the member’s would like to invite CHI education actors and country school network representatives. Europeana Education Community work plan | 7 6. COMMUNICATION CHANNELS Contribute to video testimonies about using LinkedIn group Europeana in the classroom or for a cultural Facebook Group heritage audience Basecamp group (only for the steering group) Help to translate in the national languages of Mailing list for community updates and specific the community members some resources calls to action (e.g. Guide to Using Europeana in Education or the most popular learning scenarios) Sharing good practices and examples among each other using the mailing list. Europeana Education Community work plan | 8 7. COMMUNITY 9. PROGRESS PRO PAGE REPORT The community page will be updated in a See here the document. consistent way with the other communities’ pages. It will feature a short community introduction, the current community board as well as the latest blogs related to educational use of digital cultural data. 8. RESOURCES In 2020, the SG would like to plan a physical or virtual meeting combined with the workshop and the production of a promotional video(s). A preliminary budget forecast has been foreseen. Europeana Education Community work plan | 9 10. ACTIVITIES TILL END 2020 Community growth & profiling Outreach Identify potential community members Further development of Teaching with within ENA and/or outside the network Europeana (e.g. through members’ local (https://teachwitheuropeana.eun.org/) communities) Collect and showcase case studies of reuse Identify and better understand the of digital cultural data in education motivations and needs of the community provided by the community members members - using our mailing list - Facilitate connections between Europeana potentially also targeting more specific and local educational players and audiences through other means stakeholders as well as between We would like to add at least one major community members network to our existing partnerships in Organise a series of workshops and / or 2020 webinar bringing together CHI and Taking steps to have a more educational professionals to learn from representative coverage of European and about each other member states and regions. We will set Collaboration and follow-up of the regional targets, e.g. in relation to the Europeana Tech community to learn and rotating European Council of Ministers promote available educational tech useful presidency. for teaching with Europeana. Europeana Education Community work plan | 10 Advocacy & Awareness raising Admin & Operational (For community members) Advocate for Regular communication with the steering improvement of the cultural heritage data group on Basecamp for educational purposes in their CHIs Regular online meetings with the steering Present community developments and group - normally every two months achievements at the Europeana annual conference and other relevant forums Working on a policy brief to include Europeana in school curricula Collaboration with the communicators community to help target the broader educational field Europeana Education Community work plan | 11 11. CHANGES 12. PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (Overall: a growing and active community) Community growth: Minimum 15% increase of ENA Education Deep understanding of the needs of community members by the end of 2020 educators with regard to reuse of digital Outreach: cultural data - both teachers in formal 10 case studies of reuse of digital cultural education as well as educators in CHI’s collections in education, Educators digital skills up-scaling: promotion Organisation of a pilot workshop, of existing tools that can enhance teaching Recording of testimony videos, with digital sources such as Europeana in the Establishing a liaison with a Europe-wide classroom or the CHI stakeholder community Better awareness of the value of digital Advocacy: cultural data in education - members will be Publishing a policy brief on curriculum asked to showcase examples on how integration of Europeana Europeana can complement existing Admin: schoolbook content and curricula Two-monthly meetings with the SG For CHI professionals within the community: advocate internally to make CHI content available for educational purposes (i.e. licensing conditions, …) and showcase of best practices Europeana Education Community work plan | 12 13. BUDGET Europeana Education Community work plan | 13 europeana.eu @EuropeanaEU.