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Check out the winning Stories of Reuse from the 2026 Scientix® Cultural Legacy Award!
Check out the winning Stories of Reuse from the 2026 Scientix® Cultural Legacy Award!
The 2026 Scientix® STEM Discovery Campaign was our biggest edition yet, with over 9,000 entries, more than 1 million participants, and contributions from over 50 countries.
Among the highlights was the Scientix Cultural Legacy Award, supported by Europeana, which invited educators to submit a "Story of Reuse" showing how digital cultural heritage items from Europeana.eu or resources from Teaching with Europeana were brought into classroom activities.
More than 100 educators submitted Stories of Reuse featuring Europeana, and the ten winning and runner-up entries are now available as teaching materials in the Scientix Resources Repository through the links below:
Winners
- From Seeds to Systems: Reimagining Sustainable Cities through Cultural Heritage and Storytelling — Aikaterini Spitsa (Greece)
- Racing against the odds — Iro Koliakou (Greece)
- Project Gemina 3D. Virtual Archaeology: How to create a Realistic Virtual Archaeological Museum in Úbeda — José María Díaz Fuentes and David Rodríguez Martínez (Spain)
- Implementation of "Brain challenges" — Luigia Palumbo (Italy)
- From Ancient Automata to Student Creations: A Robots Journey with Europeana — Silvana Jakimovska Binova (North Macedonia)
Runners-up
- Europeana as a Classroom Lab: Investigating the Gladiator "Ash Drink" — Irina Nanu and Rita Tasa (Spain)
- From Electrum to Digital: A STEAM Journey From Lydian Coins — Özlem Kaya (Türkiye)
- Emotions Behind Shadows and Lights: Exploring Emotions, Shadows and Light through Biology, Physics and Art — Margarita Dakoronia and Chrysoula Georgakopoulou (Greece)
- Sky patterns on ceramics: Road from İznik to Salerno — Daniela Brogna (Italy)
- Mathematical analysis of the acoustic properties of historical buildings — Nevin Bilgiçli (Türkiye)
These resources show creative, ready-to-use ways of connecting cultural heritage with STEAM teaching, from virtual archaeology to the acoustics of historic buildings.
Congratulations to all winners and runners-up, and special thanks to the more than 100 educators who submitted Stories of Reuse featuring Europeana. Your work is helping build a richer, more connected community of educators bridging cultural heritage and STEM.
We can't wait to see what you bring to the 2027 Scientix STEM Discovery Campaign!