BIOTALENT: Talent in Biodiversity. Innovative education and new skills to increase engagement in Science.

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BIOTALENT tackles biodiversity challenges through innovative e-learning.

BIOTALENT is a project funded in the framework of ERAMUS+ Strategic Partnerships for VET.

BIOTALENT responds to major targets and the common objectives identified under the EU Strategy for Education and Training. The project is also aligned with the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2020, where biodiversity and its conservation flags many actions and programmes, along with meeting societal needs and challenges, mainly employment and growth.

BIOTALENT develops a multilingual blended e-learning biodiversity training programme. Biodiversity and its protection are tightly linked to a societal change which can only be achieved by strong investment in environmental education. The right training and capacity building need to be provided today to improve teachers’ competences in the sector of biodiversity education, so as to raise the level of biodiversity literacy for teachers and students, motivating both to learn about biodiversity and engage in conserving Europe’s biodiversity and igniting their passion for science.

BIOTALENT’s objectives to achieve this challenging aim are the following:

  • to establish an Open Source virtual learning platform to deliver the e-content of the course;
  • to deliver a pilot action for a multilingual blended e-learning course on biodiversity;
  • to develop a blended learning model for adaptable modular training courses;
  • to train tutors and project partners in the use of blended and e-learning techniques.

The blended e-learning course is specifically targeted at practising biology teachers and trainee teachers in secondary education and educators in educational services in science museums, botanical gardens, science centres and nature organisations.

BIOTALENT may be considered the matrix and test bed from which a broader range of e-learning courses can be built beyond the project’s lifetime in the wider sector of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

 

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