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Celebrate the first Global Day of the Engineer!

16/02/2016

Engineers and other volunteers all across the world will unite on 24 February 2016 to celebrate the first "Global Day of the Engineer". The movement behind this initiative wants to increase general awareness about the importance of this profession and show how engineers make a world of difference every day.
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Junior translators in the European Union awarded

15/02/2016

One school student in each of the Member States of the European Union has received an award for the best translation from a foreign language into his or her native language. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Translations has organised this translation competition for schools since 2007.
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Giving teachers the competencies to make their own online courses

12/02/2016

The Hands-On ICT project has created a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for teachers. This MOOC helps them to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to make online courses and modules in their own capacity.
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Nine cities up for the European Capital of Innovation nomination

11/02/2016

Amsterdam, Berlin, Eindhoven, Glasgow, Milan, Oxford, Paris, Turin and Vienna have been shortlisted as candidates for the European Capital of Innovation nomination. A final decision will be announced this spring.
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Take a Peake into space with your students

10/02/2016

Observe what astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS) are doing on a daily basis, and find out how you can teach young people about real life in outer space and astronomy in general, through a new initiative of the Tim Peake Primary Project.
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Tough competition between students at an exciting space robotics tournament!

09/02/2016

Teams consisting of Italian and American students won the Zero Robotics Tournament at the International Space Station (ISS). Following exciting eliminatory rounds, the finalists competed for the grand trophy on 25 January 2016. The event was broadcast live on the Internet and a recording of it was made available as soon as it finished.
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Register now for the tenth Scientix Projects Networking Event

03/02/2016

Scientix invites representatives of European and national science education projects and other educational organisations to join its tenth Projects Networking Event in Brussels, Belgium, on 26 February 2016.
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A new course on the use of online laboratories

03/02/2016

The Go-Lab project recently launched a new Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) for science teachers and anyone else with an interest in science subjects. By participating in and completing this course, they will learn more about online laboratories and how they can support inquiry-based teaching and learning scenarios.
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Learn how to use music in mathematics

02/02/2016

Teachers and other educators interested in music and mathematics can join three practical courses on the subjects in 2016, organised as part of the "European Music Portfolio – Maths" project.
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Learn how to construct exam questions that assess scientific thinking

01/02/2016

A new Distance Learning Activity (DLA), organised as part of the Amgen Teach project from 29 February to 4 March 2016, introduces teachers to methods that can be applied to assess scientific skills and thinking. This is an intensive online learning session, which includes webinars, discussions, video presentations, access to useful documents and podcasts, among other things.
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