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
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
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 aim of the Inspiring Science Education International Summer Academy is to support the modernisation of science education and training, including in curricula, assessment of learning outcomes and the professional development of teachers and trainers, as well as to the wide adoption of the recommendations of the Rocard Report "A new Pedagogy for the Future of Europe" (Rocard et al., 2007), that sets the basics for the introduction of the Inquiry Based approach in the science curricula of the
The MINT-EC Camp in Greece is the continuation / follow-up of the MINT-EC Camp in Freiberg, Sachsen of July 2018. 15 German students will meet with 15 Greek students of the MINT-EC Partner School Ellinogermaniki (EA) to undertake various science projects that EA has been developing as part of its research and cooperation activities with partners from all over Europe. The summer camp will be hosted in the premises of Ellinogermaniki Agogi. The aim of the summer course is to involve students in
Welcome to the community of the The Enquiring Classroom Erasmus+ project. In the context of the global refugee crisis and the rise of populism, violent extremism and debates about integration, there is growing interest within the European educational context in developing strategies to support teachers and students in engaging in difficult ethical conversations about identity, beliefs, democratic values, diversity, belonging and violence, in order to establish a firm foundation for inclusive and
