Hosted by OSOS , contributed by damyanat on 4 July 2018
CERN Master Class is important for inspiring science education and increasing the interest of young people in natural sciences. CERN Master Class takes place every year in spring. The days for the CERN Master class in 2018 are in the period from 15 February to 28 March. It is a joint event of CERN, a local University or Research institute with Schools. On one day in this period school students in the age of 15– to 19‐years come to the nearest University or Research Institute. Alternatively, scientists can go to a school. The students first have a lecture by active scientists on topics and methods of basic research on the fundaments of forces and matter. Then the students have the opportunity to perform themselves measurements on real data particle physics experiments. The measurements are given by CERN, they are from different experiments and have to be selected for each master class in advance. Tutors are explaining and helping the students about the measurements. The students work in pairs (2 students on a laptop or computer). There has to be one tutor for 10 students. At the end of the day (16‐17h CET), just like in real research collaboration the participants join in a videoconference with CERN or FERMI lab to discuss and combine their results with scientists from these centres.
RRI principles
One of the key aspects of OSOS is the inclusion of RRI — Responsible Research and Innovation — principles (more information at RRI-Tools.eu). This is how this Accelerator fits into the RRI model:
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Governance |
Students will collaborate with several stakeholders in their community, with whom they will discuss different aspects of the project and get feedback throughout all the stages. I.e.: students will discuss with scientists and share the democratic governance of purposes of research and innovation of the science at CERN and its orientation towards useful for the humanity impacts. |
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Public Engagement |
Students will contact different type of stakeholders, especially organizations close to science and education, who will help students to have the best solutions according to the problem addressed by this Accelerator. I.e.: several stakeholders, like teachers, local educational authorities, scientists will be involved in this accelerator, |
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Gender equality |
The human resources management of this projects respects gender equality. I.e.: boys and girls will have the equal opportunity to participate in the project and the experts involved will be both men and women. |
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Science Education |
This activity fits best the science education principle; it challenges the students with the necessary knowledge and tools to fully participate and take responsibility in the research and innovation process. I.e. students take part in real research, they define a research problem, analyze the data, draw a conclusion and get a new result, which they discuss with other scientists like in a real scientific collaboration. |
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Ethics |
Student participate in real CERN research work and CERN science respects fundamental rights and the highest ethical standards in order to ensure increased societal relevance and acceptability of research and innovation outcomes. I.e.: taking part in this accelerator the students will share and learn about the ethics issues of CERN scientific responsible research. |
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Open Access |
Participating in this accelerator students will accept the CERN Open Access policy. CERN has an Open Data Portal where datasets are available with the corresponding software and documentation for use. Such data are provided by CERN for this accelerator to happen. Students hare resources and materials with the stakeholders involved in the project and also in the Internet, open and free, for the users interested in the project. I.e.: materials and resources collected within this accelerator will be available for free on the Internet, since they can help people in developing their own projects. |
References:
http://physicsmasterclasses.org
https://atlas.physicsmasterclasses.org/videos/warum.mp4
http://atlas.physicsmasterclasses.org/videos/warum.mp4
This accelerator was developed by Foundation Open Science
in cooperation with CERN, the Faculty of Physics, Sofia University and
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
contact Boyka Aneva fos@openscience.bg