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The origins of today's Europe: EU pioneers
Have you ever wondered how today's Europe has been influenced and shaped by past pioneers? Why did these pioneers believe in a united Europe before it existed?
Take this ninety-minute workshop and help your students understand the milestones of …
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Medieval Writing: Workshop
Would you like to have fun with your students with a quill pen, dip pen and medieval ink? To be able to extensively feel and smell parchment, papyrus, wax seals and rag paper?
Try out different types of writing utensils, feel old papers and make your …
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Museum of the National Bank of Belgium: Guided visit
The museum welcomes students with a tour adapted to their education. A museum guide, in Dutch, French or English, makes the tour as interactive as possible. When booking, the teacher chooses the main theme of the tour (economy, history, a …
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Parallel Histories, challenge your students to work interactively with controversial topics: Course
Don't be afraid of competing stories: seek them out, put them side by side, challenge your students to immerse themselves in different perspectives and form their own judgments. Parallel Histories offers a new way to study the history of …
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Breaking News: Theater Session
Breaking News is a theater trajectory in which you convert the classroom into a temporary news editor, with a focus on current affairs and satire. Under professional guidance, the young people are made aware of the pitfalls of fake news, but they …
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Unravel mysterious traces
The class leaves in small groups with a tablet on an exciting journey. Via the Heritage App, they receive clues, challenges and riddles from a mysterious figure along the way. Meanwhile, the students discover daily life from the Middle Ages and …
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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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Exploring the carillon of the University Library in Leuven
Did you know that the carillon is a Flemish invention (anno 1510!) and that Leuven belongs to the worldwide top with five carillons? Discover all about this enormous instrument with your class during a visit to the library tower. The carillon in …
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Behind the scenes of the Heritage Library: Introductory visit
During an introductory visit, the Heritage Library would like to introduce itself to you: you will receive information about our activities, dive into the warehouses with us and discover how you can easily consult our materials.
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Secret Press and Propaganda During World War II: Workshop
On the basis of our collection of secret press and a range of other authentic source material, young people (3rd degree SO) investigate the machinations of press and propaganda in 1940-45. Because learning to critically deal with past and present, …
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Workshop 4: 3,2,1, … Action! How to inspire each other to bring about change as ordinary heroes
A witness tells on video how he saved several lives during the genocide on the Rwandan Tutsi. In what way did other well-known and lesser-known heroes resist in history? And what were the consequences? These stories can inspire us to take an …
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