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Pick your favourite StarT project and the best teaching practice
20/03/2018
Everyone can now participate in a public vote on YouTube for the LUMA StarT Award 2018. The 28 international and 10 Finnish award nominees all made videos devoted to various teaching practices. The voting process is simple. All that people have to do is go to YouTube and “like” their favourite videos.
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Three elements to increase job satisfaction among science teachers
19/03/2018
Early career motivation, continuous professional development and a collaborative school climate, including access to educational resources, can have a highly positive impact on job satisfaction among science teachers. This is the conclusion of a new working paper published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based on data from the 2015 PISA survey.
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Call for papers for the third Scientix Conference
06/03/2018
Scientix has now published a call for papers for the third Scientix Conference, which takes place in Brussels, Belgium, from 4 to 6 May 2018. The deadline to submit papers for the conference is 19 March 2018.
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Eurydice: Shortage of teachers is a problem in Europe
05/03/2018
Teachers are getting older and older in Europe and there is a continuing shortage of new teachers entering the profession. These are among the main findings of a new report published by Eurydice in February 2018 about teaching careers in Europe.
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The first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about life sciences from Amgen Teach
20/02/2018
Three new Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for teachers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are planned at the European Schoolnet Academy in 2018. The first course, Inquiry-Based Teaching in Life Sciences by Amgen Teach, starts on 12 March 2018 and is already open for registration.
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Robotics and automation workshops for teachers at ESA
15/02/2018
The European space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) in Belgium is organising new two-day long workshops for primary school teachers, in which they learn more about space robotics and automation processes, using programming environments such as Raspberry Pi and LEGO WeDO.
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Become a partner of the STEM Discovery Week 2018
06/02/2018
The third edition of the STEM Discovery Week will be celebrated from 23 to 29 April 2018. Building on the success already achieved in 2016 and 2017, the STEM Discovery Week aims to facilitate more than 500 activities, reaching more than 10,000 schools in 30 countries! Projects, organisations and schools can now request to become partners of the campaign.
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A new and reformed European Education Area by 2025
05/02/2018
Modernisation, mobility, competences and shared identities are at the heart of the European Commission’s agenda for 2025, presented at the first European Education Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on 25 January 2018. Students’ performance and interest in science-related disciplines is a key element of this agenda, which the European Commission wants to improve drastically through a set of measures.
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Scientix welcomes 198 new Ambassadors to its team!
23/01/2018
Following the third Scientix Ambassadors’ Training Course, held in autumn 2017, there are now 502 members of the Scientix 3 Teachers’ Panel in total. All those teachers are appointed Scientix Ambassadors, who in their volunteer capacity support the project’s dissemination and exchange of knowledge and practices towards 44 countries around the world.
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Exciting summer school programme in Greece for science teachers
22/01/2018
The new programme for the upcoming Inspiring Science Summer Schools features a set of week-long courses, split into two sessions, from 1 to 6 July 2018 and from 8 to 13 July 2018. The summer schools take place in Marathon, Greece.
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