AMASE wants to bridge the gap between advanced technologies in the real world and STEM education in the classroom for students from 12-18 years old within the context of advanced materials. This way, AMASE wants to help tackle two of Europe’s many challenges: stimulating youngsters to choose a STEM-profession and taking care of the environment, including climate change. The connection between environment and Advanced Materials sciences and environment and climate change might not be
Biomimicry is the practical application of nature's teaching strategies to the invention of sustainable technologies, designs and products for human beings. The word Biomimicry comes from the word Bios that means life and imitation, how to mimic life and nature. Biomimetics is an approach that seeks to find innovative solutions to human problems through nature genius. Biomimicry Greece Research and Innovation center is in collaboration with similar centers around the world and promotes the idea
Have you ever wondered how we can integrate Modern Physics in the school curriculum? Do you believe that exciting discoveries such as the Discovery of Gravitational Waves or the Discovery of the Higgs Boson can be brought in the classroom in a consistent and understandable fashion? The FRONTIERS Project brings together expertise from frontier scientific research and educational research in formal and informal science learning, along with user communities across Europe, in order to demonstrate
This community is dedicated to the activities undertaken by schools while building their own seismograph during the national school contest : "Build your own seismograph" (seismografos.ea.gr) These activities focus on the study of a physical phenomenon with great societal impact and proposes pedagogical practices based on inquiry‐based methods that are more effective in science education. The objective of this combination is on one hand to increase children’s and student’s interest in science
Welcome to the Change-agents' community! It is addressed to the teachers who are acting as change-agents for their schools, as well as to other actors who are interested in school leadership, school development and innovation. The change-agents are pioneering teachers who: take initiatives in order to implement innovative practices that aim to have long-term effect on the development of the school as a whole. Develop a strategy for involving and disseminating the results of innovative practices
People living near active volcanoes can play a vital role in the monitoring and management of environmental hazards. Citizen science has been one of the most effective and exciting applications of crowdsourcing, with a whole heap of fascinating projects benefiting from pulling the crowd of enthusiastic amateurs into their endeavours. Whilst many of these projects have important goals in mind, there is one that has arguably a more important outcome than most. Citizen science projects that use low
‘Collaboration for innovation and capacity building for an open ecosystem’ (I4OE) is an Erasmus+ Programme 2021, Key Action 2: Small Scale Partnership Project, coordinated by NUCLIO, involving six partners from three different European countries: Greece, Norway and Portugal. We envisioned this project as a means to answer the questions: how can we support community stakeholders to engage and collaborate effectively with schools in an open ecosystem? How can we support educators to work
This is the ODS community for the Democracy through Drama Erasmus+ project in education. The project seeks to address a range of issues essential for democratic classrooms and schools that are facilitated by competent teachers aiming to increase student civic engagement and democratic awareness and participation. It aims at enabling teachers (including teachers with little or no experience in drama and theatre in education to work with drama practitioners and apply drama techniques to their
This is the Community of the brave students from the Fifth Grade of Ellinogermaniki Primary School. Starting from September 2018, they managed in April 2019 to visit Mars and create a sustainable living ecosystem! Through a creative process of designing, creating, inquiring, experimenting, and exploring, our students used a storytelling platform where they developed and published stories about a future Mars Mission with the aim to develop a sustainable community on Mars. The main concept applied
Welcome to the Community for the Eratosthenes Photo Contest March 2023! Here you can post your photos and take part in the contest. Upload your photo in the Resources area and automatically take part in the contest. Please keep in mind that each teacher can submit ONLY one photo. Entries with more than one photo will not be considered for the winning prize(s). The winning prize*** is a seat to attend the AMASE Summer School 2023, in Marathon Greece from 8-14 July, 2023. For more info please
This is the eRBOBSON Hub! eROBSON stands for: Educational Robotics at Schools Online with Augmented Reality This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus Plus programme, grant agreement 2020-1-NO01-KA226-SCH-094120. Click here for the eROBSON webiste. The ultimate goal of this Erasmus+ KA2 project is to develop a strategic partnership and later – a self-sustained professional community in the intersection of Educational Robotics and Augmented reality. All activities related
A project that combines the art of telling stories with the use of a variety of multimedia tools Eurospectives 2.0 stands for encouraging European learners in telling their stories and their perspectives as active citizens. As a spin-off of the strategic partnership, "Digital Natives", the partnership identifies good practices and lifelong approaches in digital learning and digital storytelling. The project aims to enhance the quality and relevance of the digital learning offer in education and
The “Schools as Sites for Food System Transformation” Summer School aims to familiarise participants with the concepts and methods of open schooling and living labs, providing a framework for educators and other societal actors to engage, discuss and explore how schools can become innovation incubators and accelerators within their local communities while offering new learning opportunities to their students. Summer School participants will be empowered to design and develop living-lab-based
The historical paths become path of knowledge. An innovative approach via geographic information system (GIS) In recent years, the use of the science of Geoinformatics has become more and more intense. In our everyday life in the world of technology, we come into contact with geo-information, whose understanding is very important for making decisions and solving a problem. Geo-information technologies also include Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a
This is the educational community of the project GOSTEAM. GOSTEAM addresses teachers/educational staff, as well as secondary education students, cultivating students’ cognitive abilities and skills, such as problem-solving and critical thinking, in the interdisciplinary context of environmental literacy and global awareness. GOSTEAM is a three-year duration (2020-2023) KA2 Strategic Partnership in the field of school education, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. It