The 5th Scientix Projects' Networking Event will take place in London on Friday 24th of April 2015. This event will be organized in collaboration with the TEMI project and Queen Mary University of London, and in conjunction with the "Cycle 3 - Teachers Panel Kick off 2"

Target audience: The one day event is open to project representatives from European and national science education projects. The projects must be public funded and either be included in the Scientix projects' repository or in the process of being published (i.e. they must have been submitted at the time of the event via the project upload form).

Aim of the event: To discuss Materials created in projects: hands-on, online portals, papers... Basically, pros and cons of each format, target audience, etc. 

Structure of the event: After a brief introduction on the aim of the event by Scientix and on a keynote presentation by the hosting organization, Queen Mary University of London, representatives attending will be able to present their projects. In the afternoon, sessions on the Materials created in projects: hands-on, online portals, papers, etc. will be organized in order to discuss issues, experiences and suggestions. The results will be published as a Scientix observatory paper co-authored by all participants.

Draft agenda: 

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30 - 9:50 Welcome by Scientix

10:00 - 10:20 Welcome and keynote presentation by representative from Queen Mary University of London

10:30 - 12:30 Brief presentation of projects present, highlighting the materials created

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 16:00 Discussion / exchange session on:

Materials created in projects: hands-on, online portals, papers...

16:00 - 17:00 Conclusions and farewell

Location: 5 Walden Street, Whitechapel, London, E1 2EF

Support for participants:

1) Lunch on Friday 24th will be provided to all participants by Scientix

2) Scientix will organize and cover the hotel for the night of  Thu 23rd for those projects' in need of financial support. 

3) Up to 4 projects attending the event on Friday will be invited to give a 10' presentation on Saturday morning (During the event "Cycle 3 – Teachers Panel Kick off 2") to ~40 Scientix ambassadors (Scientix will be able to cover the night of Friday to Saturday for these participants as well)

Important notes:

• The registration for the event is free of charge;
• Participants registered will be confirmed within 48 hours of registering;
• Travel is at the participants' expenses;
• Maximum number of participants: 35;
• Projects can send more than one representative, but Scientix will organize and cover the hotel for maximum two representatives per project;
• Deadline to register: 25th of March (if hotel needed) / 10th of April (if no hotel needed) or until all places are taken (whichever occurs first);
• The projects must be public funded and either be included in the Scientix projects' repository or in the process of being published;
• This event is NOT open to projects created without official endorsement (i.e. they must have public funding be it regional, national or EU). No self-funded projects or school projects (teacher's projects) will be accepted.

Confirmed Participants: Check out the list of confirmed projects and participants.

Registration