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A new online course by Scientix starts in October 2018
03/09/2018
“STEM Is Everywhere” is the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) fully designed and carried out as part of the Scientix project, the community for science education in Europe. It is now possible to register for this course, which starts on 29 October 2018 and is completely free of charge.
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Call for papers for New Perspectives in Science Education 2019
21/08/2018
The eighth edition of the international conference New Perspectives in Science Education is held in Florence, Italy, on 21 and 22 March 2019. Anyone who wishes to contribute to the conference can submit abstracts for papers to the organisers in English before 23 October 2018.
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Evolution and other science subjects in schools
20/08/2018
For the past twelve years, Science in School has brought teachers useful tips and knowledge that can easily be applied directly in any lesson and learning process. The latest edition of this interesting quarterly journal features a front-page article on the subject of evolution, explaining how birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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Turn local litter into models of satellites
02/08/2018
The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) invites eleven-to-eighteen-year-olds to participate in an exciting new competition that promotes recycling and environmental awareness.
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Mobile technologies and the Internet of things in education
01/08/2018
Educators and administrators can now express their interest in attending new five-day courses on the use of mobile technologies and the Internet of things in education. The courses are planned for November 2018, March 2019 and July 2019 in Patras, Greece.
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Classroom experiments that can enrich your lessons
24/07/2018
A banana, like all parts of living organisms, contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that is easy to extract. This, and many other things, can be turned into an exciting classroom experiment, as the 23 teachers discovered who attended a Scientix course, from 25 to 29 June 2018, at the Future Classroom Lab of European Schoolnet, dedicated to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in primary education.
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Gender and innovation in STE(A)M education
23/07/2018
Scientix has published a new observatory paper on gender and innovation in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics – STE(A)M – education. This paper is the outcome of the 12th Scientix Projects Networking Event, which was organised by Scientix in collaboration with the PERFORM and GEDII projects, funded by the Horizon 2020 framework of the European Union for research and innovation.
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Meet these winners of the STEM Discovery Week competitions
05/07/2018
Scientix, together with the STEM Alliance initiative, warmly welcomed 41 winners of their STEM Discovery Week competitions at the 23rd Science Projects Workshop at the Future Classroom Lab of European Schoolnet, in Brussels, Belgium, from 22 to 24 June 2018. All those winners presented their amazing activities in science education and their plans for next year’s STEM Discovery Week.
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Half of schools coding by 2020
03/07/2018
European Commissioners Mariya Gabriel and Tibor Navracsics strongly encourage all primary and secondary schools to join the annual European Code Week campaign, which will be celebrated 6 to 21 October this year. Half of all schools in Europe should be actively involved in the campaign by 2020, according to a letter that the two European Commissioners sent to all Ministers of Education of the European Union in May 2018.
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Two new reports in science education to add to your summer reading
26/06/2018
The new European STEM Schools Report includes key elements and criteria that are a very important contribution to schools’ strategies for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). A second report, Triseum’s Game-Based Learning Validation Study, gives educators an insight into the possible benefits of game-based learning for learners’ motivation and learning outcomes.
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