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Applications are open for the Global Sky Partners programme
24/03/2020
Las Cumbres Observatory is accepting applications for new educational partners to join the Global Sky Partners programme with projects to run between 1 June 2020 and 31 May 2021. The Global Sky Partners programme was launched in 2017 with the goal of inspiring students around the world to engage in astronomy and science endeavours by providing 1,000 hours of observing time on our telescope network to educational organisations.
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The 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign: Bring your classroom into the virtual environment
23/03/2020
As many countries have decided to close educational institutions due to the recent situation with the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak and some of them are looking more into online teaching, the team behind the 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign would like to support all educators in finding out new, engaging ways of involving students in online activities. In order to contribute to the collective efforts aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, Scientix and all partners of the 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign encourage everyone to consider organising online STEM events such as webinars, chats, discussion boards, quizzes, etc.
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Tell us what are the colours of science and win a drone
09/03/2020
Are you interested in combining STEM and Arts? Would you like to engage your students in a unique and creative STEM activity? For the 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign, “Atelier for STE(A)M” Erasmus+ project invites teachers to design a learning scenario or a lesson plan focusing on the topic “The colours of Science”. The winner and five finalists will each receive a Parrot Mambo drone.
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Organise a STEM activity and join a Scientix workshop in Brussels
09/03/2020
This year Scientix is offering you two competitions within the 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign. If you’re planning any STEM activities from 1 February to 30 April, don’t miss the opportunity to showcase these on our blog. You can either organise any STEM activity, or use resources from the Scientix Repository of resources and report on your activity in a blog post. Authors of the best entries will be invited to join one of our workshops in the Future Classroom Lab in Brussels.
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New pilot study on nature-based solutions and educational innovation
09/03/2020
The pilot study on educational innovation around nature-based solutions, Phase 1, commissioned by DG Research and Innovation, has recently started and will be conducted by PPMI throughout 2020. In collaboration with European Schoolnet and relying on a group of proactive and engaged teachers from several European countries, 15 learning scenarios on nature-based solutions will be designed and made available in 12 EU languages. The objective is to provide teachers from primary and secondary education (both STEM and non-STEM) with a set of interesting and useful descriptions of educational activities that they could carry out in their classrooms, to raise awareness of nature-based solutions and their potential to change our environment and societies for the better.
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Six new learning scenarios from the 3Rs project ready to implement in your class!
25/02/2020
The 3Rs project, funded by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre under a European Parliament initiative, focused on building learning activities for secondary schools to introduce the principles of the 3Rs – Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of animal use for scientific purposes. The goal was to inspire students to think critically about science, become aware of the scientific progress made for a future science without animal use, and build the skills to debate nuanced and complex topics such as animal testing.
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Join COMnPLAY SCIENCE Contest and win a Microsoft Surface Go!
25/02/2020
The COMnPLAY project invites science enthusiasts to join their competition within the 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign! Interview someone who is involved in science, coding or making and submit your questions and answers by 31 March 2020. Five winning interviews will be turned into illustrated stories by a professional graphic artist and added to the COMnPLAYer app along with credit to their creators.
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Tackle environmental issues with the Clean Tech Competition
25/02/2020
The Clean Tech Competition is a unique worldwide research and design challenge for pre-college youth which is part of the 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign. Each year, the Clean Tech Competition addresses an issue that is grounded in core technological competency areas and focuses on the next great engineering challenges. For the 2020 competition, the focus is on environmental awareness and participants take up the challenge “Reducing Individual Impacts”.
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Mentors and mentees, get involved in Global Talent Mentoring!
11/02/2020
Are you interested in joining a worldwide mentoring programme for today’s best STEMM (including medical sciences) talents? Global Talent Mentoring is an online platform which will provide exceptionally talented and motivated young people with the opportunity to cultivate their talents in STEMM through one-on-one and group mentoring at no cost. Now the platform is seeking outstanding mentors and mentees!
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Skills for industry: Robotics and schools conference: 23 January 2020
28/01/2020
The “Skills for industry: Robotics and schools conference” took place on 23 January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference, organised under the wider #skills4industry initiative by the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) with the support of European Schoolnet, brought together over 80 practitioners including industry, European Commission services, representatives of educational systems of Member States and teachers interested in robotics and active in bringing robotics education to schools (see agenda here).
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