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Cultural Heritage in Education Festival – Florence

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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

💰 Price: €50 (certificate of attendance, buffet lunch, and participation in School Competition Awards included)

🎤 Exclusive events: Inspiring keynote speeches, expert panels, and discussions on the educational potential of cultural heritage; presentations of innovative school projects from across Europe as part of the Cultural Heritage in School Competition; networking activities, an award ceremony, and a closing session on the future of cultural heritage and digitalisation.

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

🌐 Networking and collaboration: You connect with participants and trainers from up to 10 Cultural Heritage-related courses running simultaneously.

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

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

🌟 Big-picture perspective: Rather than focusing on a specific angle, the festival offers a broad overview of the educational potential of both tangible and intangible heritage.

Schedule

📅 Thursday Afternoon, 18th March

📍 Florence (Location: to be confirmed)

15:00
Welcome
15:15
Keynote Talk “Education must be rooted in the cultural and social life of each community”
16:00
Teacher and Student Survey results
16:30
☕ Coffee Break
16:45
Cultural wellbeing and art education: learning through emotions
17:45
Presentation of Cultural Heritage in Education Schools Competition submissions

📅 Friday Morning, 19th March

📍 Florence (Location: to be confirmed)

12:00
Course groups finalise their presentations (at the Europass Academy)
12:45
Course groups prepare the exhibition of their results
13:00
🍽️ Networking Buffet Lunch
13:45
🏆 Award Ceremony – ERASMUS in School Competition
14:00
Course groups present their results and receive certificates
15:45
☕ Coffee Break
16:00
The Future of Cultural Heritage: Digitalization as a Means of Widening Access to Cultural Heritage
17:10
Closing of the Festival

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

School Competition

During the festival, teachers and schools from across Europe will have the opportunity to present their projects. The aim is to demonstrate how schools and teachers integrate themes relating to tangible and intangible heritage into their practice.

Projects focusing on both tangible and intangible heritage will be eligible for the competition; furthermore, both projects centred on acquiring heritage knowledge and those in which heritage serves as a tool for acquiring knowledge in other subjects will be accepted.

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

On Thursday afternoon during the festival, we will screen these videos as part of a dedicated session. This will be followed by the award ceremony, where the best projects will be recognised with the following prizes:

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

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 for a fee of 50 €.

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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Dates and locations

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.

Each Academy within the network operates independently and is legally established in the country where its courses are delivered.

*A 60 € late registration fee will be applied if you register less than 8 weeks before the course start date.
All prices are VAT included or not due.