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Learn To Engage - a modular course for botanic gardens
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
Learn to Engage: A modular course for botanic gardens (LearnToEngage) seeks to build botanic gardens’ capacity to develop effective programmes and activities to engage people with plants. Researchers have noted a worrying decline in public interest in and understanding of plants, at the same time as others are calling for greater public awareness of biodiversity, conservation and the value of plan...
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Big Picnic:Big Questions - engaging the public with Responsible Research and Innovation on FoodSecurity (BigPicnic)
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,
Ensuring the availability of and access to sufficient safe and nutritious food is a key priority that impacts all EU citizens and Horizon 2020 has therefore identified food security as one of the major challenges to be addressed. BGCI, an international network organisation will work with botanic gardens, experienced informal science centres with research expertise in food and food plants, alongsid...
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INQUIRE- inquiry-based teacher training for a sustainable future (INQUIRE)
Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,
The science education community agrees that pedagogical practices based on IBSE methods are more effective. But the reality on the ground is different. For various reasons, this type of teaching is not practiced in most European classrooms. INSPIRE counteract this by developing and offering a one-year practically based IBSE teacher training course that will reach out to hundreds of teachers, and i...
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Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life (4D4Life)
Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,
A coherent classification and species checklist of the world's plants, animals, fungi and microbes is fundamental for accessing information about biodiversity. The Catalogue of Life provides the world with a unique service: a dynamically updated global index of validated scientific names, synonyms and common names integrated within a single taxonomic hierarchy.The Catalogue of Life was initiated a...
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