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UniSchooLabS: remote access for schools to university science labs

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

UniSchooLabS aims at improving quality in science education in Europe, by promoting collaboration between universities and schools in the provision of remote access to science laboratories for primary and secondary schools through internet-based services and mobile learning devices. The use of internet-based services and mobile technologies allows access to science experiments that would not other ...
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TRANSversal key competences for lifelong learning: TraIning teachers in competence based education

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

The aim of the project is to have a positive impact on the development of students’ key competencies through building teachers capacity on competence oriented education. To achieve this, a pilot teacher training methodology will be developed on the didactics and e-assessment of key transversal competences, which could be adopted by interested stakeholders promoting educational change. The methods ...
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Prosociality Sport Club - Prosociality for Integration and Multiculturalism

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

The project intends to contribute to the creation of a learning environment proactive for the development of a new approach to reinforce the social competences, specifically in students at risk of marginalization to support their permanence in the formal education and their participation in the higher education. The Model of learning and teaching is defined as “prosocial”, being based on an educat ...
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Semantic pathways for building a spatially-thinking society

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The GEOTHNK project focuses on spatial thinking, a newly acknowledged ability with profound and rewarding effects on numerous aspects of everyday life and science - from giving and following directions and interpreting maps and diagrams, to achieving innovation in STEM disciplines. Spatial thinking constitutes a key competence for life and work in the 21st century and is therefore an essential com ...
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Kicking Life into Classroom

Start date: Jan 1, 2010,

Lately, the incorporation of ICTs in education & training systems is becoming more & more important, allowing us to develop new approaches to learning, life and work. Furthermore, despite the increasing use of ICTs, it is strongly believed that our educational system has to shift from the traditional paradigm of teacher-directed learning to learner-centered curricula that promote the development o ...
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eLene2learn - exploring and promoting the contribution of ICT and digital media to the development of learning to learn competencies in lifelong learning transitions

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

I like to learn... I learn to learn... eLene2learn. As lifelong learners, many of us will face a number of transitions, from secondary school to university, entering employment and back into training or education. Adapting to new physical and virtual environments and to different teaching and learning approaches represents a challenge for any learner and not everyone succeeds, in particular in th ...
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Programming Skills Development in Secondary Education by means of Modern Educational Programming Languages

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Programming is a core competence for advanced computer literacy. Modern information systems and applications of all kinds are integrated with programming/scripting languages to allow advanced usage and adaptation. Programming skills are also necessary to exploit the extensibility of open source software. Finally, there is a need to ensure that talented young people are attracted to computer scien ...
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Quantum Spin-Off - connecting schools with high-tech research and entrepreneurship

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The majority of science teachers do not have the expertise to bring nanoscience into the classroom and do not have the network of contacts to let their pupils meet actual scientists and step into the world of nanoresearch and high-tech entrepreneurship. On the other hand, outreach activities to schools organized by research centres and companies often do not apply the modern pedagogical approaches ...
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Policy for Educator Evidence in Portfolios

Start date: Mar 1, 2012,

A Commission Report (2007) calls for common EU qualification principles to improve teaching and learning. Present systems are ill equipped to meet global challenges, lacking coherence and continuity between initial professional education and continuing development with weak links to research and workplace needs. Given demands on teachers/trainers and the range of knowledge and skills required, we ...
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Innovative Networks for Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics education

Start date: Dec 1, 2012,

Global challenges, such as climate change, call for innovative solutions. To meet these challenges, European citizens must understand fundamental concepts of science. Enquiry-based teaching, methods to reduce the gender imbalance and better information on science careers can make science education more attractive. Implementation of these educational innovations requires collaboration with key-acto ...
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DigiSkills: Network for the enhancement of digital competence skills

Start date: Dec 1, 2012,

DigiSkills aims to bring together and further develop content, services, pedagogies and practices for LL in school/university/adult population, formulating specific scenarios of use of learning tools and platforms which will be tested with real users from 8 countries and evaluated in terms of their impact, with a particular attention to institutional as well as pedagogical innovation and change. D ...
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Hands-On ICT: Learn, practice, teach creativity and ICT

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

The pervasiveness of ICT often makes us forget that these technologies are just the means to an end. Nowadays, most teachers face the incorporation of ICT tools in their teaching activities as a burden. However, ICT tools are not the problem per se. The encumbrance is being alone in the process of searching, selecting, setting up, including it in classrooms, troubleshooting and evaluating its impa ...
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WIKI-SKILLS : Empowering and fostering social, professional, cultural and civic skills though pedagogical use of Wiki technologies and methodologies.

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

REASON : worlds of work and education are increasingly using collaborative platforms to develop cooperation. This includes the use of Wikis, which have been part of the enterprise scene longer than blogs. This is probably because they are not individual tools, but are usually set up for a team of community of people working together. According to study of Netstrategy JMC on global internet trends ...
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PUMO-Educational Support for PUpils on the MOve

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

The increasing mobility of European citizens has led to a large number of pupils living and studying abroad. They have a need for continued 'homeland specific' studies in their native languages. The PUMO consortium consider that the person best placed to assist such pupils is likely to be a teacher from his 'home' school. Or similar service can be provided by (public or private) training centers, ...
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