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Cultural Heritage in Education Festival – Florence

Festival in:

Explore and highlight the educational potential of cultural heritage as a powerful tool for interdisciplinary learning.

This festival brings together initiatives that foster key skills, encourage intercultural and intergenerational dialogue, and strengthen a sense of belonging and active citizenship.

Festival Key Features

📅 When: 18-19 March 2027

📍 Where: Florence, Italy

🎓 What: Festival with keynotes, panels, networking events, and awards

🎤 Inspiring activities: Attend keynote speeches and participate in workshops exploring the educational potential of cultural heritage and the innovative ways in which educators can bring it into their everyday teaching.

🌐 Networking and collaboration: Connect with participants and educators from all over Europe, expanding opportunities to build partnerships, exchanges, and Erasmus+ mobilities and projects.

🏆Cultural Heritage in School Competition: Opportunity to participate in the Best Application of Cultural Heritage in School competition, with prizes up to €1000.

🎨 Special plus: The festival coincides with Florence Design Week, giving participants an additional chance to explore the city’s dynamic design and creative scene.

🍽️ Social events: Conference lunch, final presentations, and an award ceremony.

Schedule

📅 Thursday Afternoon, 18th March

📍 Florence (Location: Piazza delle Murate, 50122 Firenze)

15:00
Welcome
15:15
Plenary Speech “Cultural Wellbeing and Art Education: Learning through Emotions” – Marta Mandolini, Psychologist, Academy Director and Teacher Trainer
16:15
Presentation of Cultural Heritage in Education – School Competition submissions
16:30
☕ Networking Coffee Break: visit of the school project dissemination and exhibition by Florence schools of Arts & Crafts
17:45
🏆 Award Ceremony: Winner of Cultural Heritage in Education – School Competition

📅 Friday Morning, 19th March

📍 Florence (Location: Piazza delle Murate, 50122 Firenze)

10:00
Keynote Talk “Education Must Be Rooted in the Cultural and Social Life of Each Community” – Pamela Giorgi, researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione, Innovazione e Ricerca Educativa (INDIRE)
11:00
Plenary Presentation “Digitalization as a Means of Widening Access to Cultural Heritage” – Marco Cappellini, CEO of ArtCentrica
11:50
Course groups present their results and receive certificates
13:00
🍽️ Light Buffet Lunch (free for teachers on Erasmus+ mobility)
14:30
Erasmus Teachers Cultural Activities (guided tours or experiences)
Participants can choose one of the following:
  • Design Walk – a walk through Florence city centre, visiting artists’ and artisans’ workshops (about 1.5 hours)
  • Cooking Class – making tagliatelle together, a cornerstone recipe of Italian cuisine, recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage (about 1.5 hours)
  • Museo degli Innocenti – the world’s oldest orphanage and the first Renaissance building in Florence, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi (about 2 hours)
  • Liceo Artistico di Porta Romana – one of Italy’s oldest public art schools, housed in the former Royal Stables of Palazzo Pitti, home to one of Italy’s largest and finest Gipsotecas, with plaster casts from the 14th to the 20th century (about 3 hours, including a 40-minute walk through the city centre)

*The detailed festival agenda will be shared two weeks before the event.

School Competition

During the festival, teachers and schools from across Europe will present their projects, showing how they bring heritage into their everyday teaching. 

Projects focusing on both tangible and intangible heritage will be eligible for the competition! 

Each school may submit a video (max. 5 minutes) 

During the festival, we’ll screen the videos in a dedicated session, followed by an Award Ceremony celebrating the best projects.  

  • 1st Prize: 1000 Euros
  • 2nd Prize: 500 Euros
  • 3rd Prize: 250 Euros

Schools can use the prize money for digital tools, educational app subscriptions, equipment or other teaching materials, or receive it directly to fund planned purchases that support teaching and learning. 

Submission deadline: 25 February 2027
Videos should be submitted to: [email protected]
Subject: Cultural Heritage in School Competition

The projects will be judged based on the following criteria:

  • Creativity in approaching cultural heritage
  • Clarity of the project
  • Ability to foster an intercultural, inclusive, or intergenerational perspective
  • Ability to engage students
  • Quality of the video
  • Transferability to other schools

By submitting the video, schools consent that Europass Foundation and Europass SRL will publish the video in part or in full on social media and on their websites.

How to Register

If you want to attend the festival activities, you can register here.

During the festival week, 15-20 March 2027, various professional development courses on Cultural Heritage in education will run in parallel, with shared sessions of collaboration.

The courses will explore various approaches to cultural heritage, highlighting its interdisciplinary nature and its role as a vehicle for knowledge. They are designed to be practical, with the aim of providing teaching activities that can be applied in the classroom.

Register directly for the course that interests you the most among those below; festival activities will be automatically included, with no extra charges.

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You can register for any date, even if it's not yet confirmed, especially if you're interested in courses several weeks away. Once we have a few more enrollments, we will confirm the date. If we are unable to confirm it, we will offer you alternative options.

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*A 60 € late registration fee will be applied if you register less than 8 weeks before the course start date.
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