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Neuro-Enhancement: Responsible Research and Innovation (NERRI)
Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,
This project aims to contribute to the introduction of Responsible Research and Innovation in neuro-enhancement (NE) in the European Research Area and to the shaping of a normative framework underpinning the governance of NE technologies. These will be achieved through mobilization and mutual learning (MML) activities engaging scientists, policy-makers, industry, civil society groups and the wider ...
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brEaking New Ground IN the sciencE Education Realm (ENGINEER)
Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,
ENGINEER will support the widespread adoption in Europe of innovative methods of science teaching and provide extensive teacher training on inquiry-based methods. It will be based on the proven “Engineering is Elementary” (EiE) program developed by Boston’s Museum of Science (BMOS) since 2003-04 and now widely used in primary schools throughout the U.S. Evaluations of EiE have found that incorpora ...
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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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"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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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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