L’Isola dei Makers: where businesses, institutions and professionals meet “L’Isola dei Makers” (Makers Island) was the first digital fair to take place in Sardinia to disseminate new digital technologies. It consisted of three days, from 16 to 18 October 2020, dedicated to innovation. The aim was to offer a...
The European Geosciences Union’s (EGU) Committee on Education has been organizing the Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) workshops since 2003. Selected top-level scientists working in the Earth sciences offer invited teachers talks centered on a different theme every year. This year, the workshop was organised between the 8-10 of...
Image: EUN The 2016 edition of the ED Drawing Conference took place in Madrid last 18th of June, organized by the Créate Foundation. The main objective of the event was to address one of the major challenges in education in the digital age, that is “how to awaken and...
This year, ESA has organised -once again- a Summer Workshop for secondary school teachers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related subjects. The workshop was held at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. It took from the 21st to the 25th...
The Nano Science Club of Nisulanmäki School from Finland took part in the European Distilled Nanoideas competition with their Youtube video and won the first price in the category of 13-15 year-old students. The humouristic video deals with a futuristic targeted anti-cancer drug, which can tell the difference between cancer and healthy...
On the 27th of May, I attended Finland’s science forum workshop in Heureka. Heureka is a science center that plays an important role on science education. It is located in the capital area and gathers lots of school pupils who attend workshops and exhibitions. The workshop I attended was...
From the 23rd to the 25th of May, we held, at the European Schoolnet (EUN) headquarters, the 4th Science Project Workshop in the Future Classroom Lab (4th SPW@FCL) in combination with the 4th Scientix Spring Teachers Workshop. The event was led by Scientix and brought together 32 teachers from 25...
The last (but not the least) workshop was held in Nicosia on the weekend of the 11-13 of April. This was the conclusive and, with only 23 participants, the smallest of the three sessions. Both participants and organizers could enjoy the pleasure of traveling by night and taking connection...
The second Scientix Teachers Workshop event took place on the weekend of the 4 – 6 of April in the city of Riga (Latvia). With a total of 31 participants, it was the largest of the workshops. Despite the heavy wind and the low temperatures, we were able to...
The second round of Scientix teachers’ panel workshops started with a very first event in the city of Ljubljana (Slovenia) on the weekend of the 21-23 of March. A total of 20 Scientix Ambassadors and Deputy Ambassadors met to discuss management issues, review the work accomplished and exchange experiences...