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Hypatia

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Hypatia will bring about lasting change in the way schools, science museums, research institutions and industry engage teenage girls in STEM across Europe. Bringing these stakeholders together with gender experts and teenagers themselves, Hypatia will develop, pilot and disseminate a unique modular toolkit of activities and guidelines for engaging teenagers in STEM in a gender-inclusive way. These ...
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TINKERING: Contemporary Education for the Innovators of Tomorrow

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project “Tinkering: Contemporary Education for the Innovators of tomorrow” emerges from the need for citizens able to respond to the contemporary global challenges by being competent in science and technology, self-confident and critical thinkers, socially-engaged, with innovative and entrepreneurial attitude. The project responds to these needs through a learner-centred approach aiming at edu ...
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The non-profit association ScienceCenter-Network serves as the Austrian hub for interactive science communication. Its focus is research, training, dissemination and documentation of science center activities in order to analyze the potential of these activities and support their Austrian-wide usage. To foster continuous professionalisation and provide impulses into the network as well as to the ...
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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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The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching (Pathway)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"Following the recommendations of the ""Science Education Now: A renewed Pedagogy for the Future of Europe"" report, the Pathway Supporting Action is bringing together experts in the field of science education research and teachers´ communities, scientists and researchers involved in pioneering scientific research, policy makers and curriculum developers to promote the effective widespread use of ...
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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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“Explainers” (also called museum educators, curators, facilitators, etc.), represent a verylarge group of actors in the science-society dialogue. Every day, many thousands ofthem are in direct contact with millions of visitors. Their work has a significant impact onthe general movement for the popularisation of science and for the engagement ofcitizens in debates on science and governance. They ar ...
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A new type of manager : The project has developed a curriculum specifically for the training of prototyping managers. After establishing training needs and a new profile, cross-border partnerships were set up and a course which can be partially integrated into existing courses was developed. This project started in 2002 and lasted 18 months.
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