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Schools Study Earthquakes
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Europe’s longer term capacity to innovate will decline if young people’s interest for key science studies and mathematics continue to decline as many studies found in recent years. Furthermore, among the population in general, the acquisition of skills that are becoming essential in all walks of life, in a society increasingly dependent on the use of knowledge, is also under threat and will contin ...
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VERSO LA NUOVA CITTA' DELLA SCIENZA
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,
... based on makers methodologies.These “observing periods” represent an excellent opportunity to see some samples of different typologies of public programs for the adult audience that Fondazione IDIS aims to achieve in the near future. These observing visits will be strategic in the acquisition of knowledge for the enhancement of public scientific programs of Città della Scienza addressing adult ...
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KiiCS - Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science (KiiCS)
Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,
KiiCS – Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science – stems from the belief that territoriality nourishes creativity and that local strengths and assets in relation to innovation and creativity should be mobilized to strengthen interactions potential across sectors and disciplines. The aim is to break silos between disciplines and business sectors. KiiCS is a project to experiment ...
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Public Involvement with Exhibition on Responsible research and innovation (PIER)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2015,
PIER (Public Involvement with exhibition on Responsible research and innovation) is a project to engage the public on the Responsible Research and Innovation in society.The project will develop an exhibition with a participatory programme to engage the large public on the concrete achievements of the European scientific research and innovation today, enhancing the responsible approach in the imple ...
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Energy Distribution Infrastructure for Ssl Operative Networks (EDISON)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
The EDISON Pilot Actions aim to demonstrate, under real operational conditions, that a smart lighting system improves energy efficiency, reduces CO2 emissions and encourages the use of small-scale renewable energy sources in European public buildings (e. g. schools, museums, administrative offices, hospitals, etc.). The Pilot Actions are based on the use of Solid State Lamps (SSLs) combined with ...
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Euro-Mediterranean research cooperation on gender and science: SHE Euro-Mediterranean Research Area (SHEMERA)
Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,
The overall objective of this proposal is enhancing research cooperation on gender and science between the European Union and the Mediterranean countries.Research cooperation is aimed at better understand the roots of gender inequality in science in the area, taking into account cultural diversities and traditions, and analyse how the Mediterranean countries are addressing this issue. It will deal ...
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Towards Women In Science and Technology (TWIST)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
The gender dimension of research implicates that the share of women in research is extremely low in all European countries and associated countries. Throughout Europe there is a fear that interest in science and technology is declining, at the same time as demands for science and technology graduates grows. The TWIST project will address this challenge with an ambitious programme of coordinated ac ...
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Nanosciences Live in Science Centres and Museums (NANOTOTOUCH)
Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,
"The NANOTOTOUCH proposal aims to create innovative environments for the broad public to learn about and to discuss nano research by directly involving the actors of research themselves. We propose to do this by taking the laboratory environment and the research work out of enclosed academic campuses and relocating them right in the midst of the public in science museums and science centres. Three ...
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TIME for Nano - Tools to Increase Mass Engagement for Nanotechnology (TIME for Nano)
Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2011,
The TIME for Nano Project aims at engaging the general public, with a special attention to young people, on benefits and risks related to nanoscale research, engineering and technology, through specific informal education products, namely the nano-kit and the organisation of a web contest each year that will be the basis for the realisation of events and debates for the public and collecting opini ...
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"Action on Climate Change through Engagement, Networks and Tools" (ACCENT)
Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,
"Fifteen relevant organisations among science centres, science museums and aquariums will be engaged by this proposal ACCENT in a coordination action aimed at rationalising their two-way communication practices and at strengthening their collaborations with the scientific community on climate change issues. Climate change issues are clearly a growing concern for the public today. In recent years, ...
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Nano-Tech Science Education
Start date: Jan 1, 2011,
In recent years, numerous studies have shown a shocking decline in young people's interest for key science studies. Recent work by the OECD shows that over the last decade, in many countries, the number of young people entering universities is increasing but they are choosing fields other than science. When looked from a gender perspective the problem is even worse as, in general, girls are less i ...
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Network to improve non-formal Science teaching in Europe
Start date: Nov 1, 2010,
Young people in Europe are losing contact with science and the number of science students in universities has decreased. This has strong effects on the quantity of students that chooses scientific professional careers and, at the same time, in this context a gender difference exists too: girls appear less interested in science and technology than boys do. The aim of the NetS-EU project is to build ...
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Key Competence Happiness - A New Horizontal Theme in Adult Education and Counselling
Start date: Dec 1, 2009,
Empirical happiness research has gained wide acknowledgement recently and offers a promising new access to central questions to both ethics and economics. In our project, we will investigate what this perspective can contribute to aspects in adult education, and for the skills requirements that the European workforce needs to become more flexible in order to meet the demands of economic developmen ...
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Support the Way to Literacy - Guidelines for Counselling Disavantaged Adults
Start date: Oct 1, 2002,
Specifically targeting guidance specialists, the project aimed at providing new and pioneering strategies to allow those working with disadvantaged adults to better identify the learning needs of their clients. Developing guidelines for the counselling of disadvantaged adults, the focus was upon sensitising and better informing guidance counsellors on how to identify or detect skills development n ...
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The current challenges facing Europe give science and technology education a hugeimportance. Improving the attractiveness of science and science/technology careersamong youngsters is widely recognized as vital in light of the Lisbon agenda. Schoolsshould and can make science education more attractive by improving the quality of inclassroomscience education and sound use of non-formal or informal i ...
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The project aims at developing an e-learning tool for addressing youth and adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy. It will produce a person-centered web-based multi-lingual tool and courseware with vocationally specific materials. Target groups are: people with low literacy/numeracy skills and limited ICT skills with a focus on youth at risk, lone parents, workers from declining industries, ...
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This project is a response to address the decline of uptake of science subjects at schools and subsequently at university. New contents and findings particularly point out to the need for new training of professionals in using informal methods of teaching in science, rather than disciplinary and formal methods. The project goal is to develop, through a pilot action, a European model of interventio ...
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The ICTEM project plans to both develop and validate an integrated method of vocational and personal guidance to assist young unemployed people in accessing suitable vocational training and in meeting the skill demands of individual employers. This approach is expected to be used by vocational guidance counsellors in schools, colleges and employment advice centres.Based on existing knowledge and p ...
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