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DESCUBRE

DESCUBRE - FUNDACION ANDALUZA PARA LA DIVULGACION DE LA INNOVACION Y EL CONOCIMIENTO
Country: Spain
8 Projects, page 1 of 2
  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 316618
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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2020-1-IT02-KA201-079243
    Funder Contribution: 170,520 EUR

    Environment and sustainability have become key stakes in our society. Thanks to the mediatic interest and the wave of schools' strikes organized by young people, students are increasingly calling for their rights to guarantee a better preserved world for themselves and future generations.In this context, schools are called to play a role in educating future generations in being citizens who care for the planet and sustainable development.The key role of Environment Education (EE) has been largely recognized even by the UNESCO, but many uncertainties persist on how to integrate it in the school curricula. A survey carried out among teachers of our partner schools, revealed a need for better preparation and for developing updated methodologies to apply to this field. In the lack of an unanimous answer on the “how”, teachers themselves need a good training to be prepared on EE and to learn innovative ways to incorporate it within curricula. Moreover, project partners see EE as a complementary part of the broader STEM education and would like to promote an interdisciplinary teaching of STEM applied to environmental and climate issues. Inspired by this multidisciplinary approach, with an aim to propose and provide a global scientific view of a problem, the proposed activities and laboratories will be carried out from the different scientific perspectives (climate physics, ecobiology, chemistry, biotechnology).Starting from this context, we would like to create an exchange of best practices on environment, climate and their connection with the STEM field, between high schools with students aged 14-18 scientific organizations coming from 4 different countries. The main objectives of the project are: -prepare teachers to include and integrate EE at school and develop their competencies and methodologies in developing hands-on and interactive activities, that sparks imagination and unlocks innovation mindset;-exchange practices between formal and non formal education (schools and scientific organizations);-enhance experiential learning outside of the classroom to enable students to make connections and apply their learning in the real world;-promoting an interdisciplinary approach linked to STEM when incorporating EE in the curriculum;--make students more enthusiastic and engaged in learning STEM and develop their skills, like critical, creative thinking, investigating, civic skills, the capacity to create interconnections of social, ecological, economic and political issues.The expected results during the project and on its completion are the following:-organization of 4 learning-teaching-training activities (one in each country) to share the best practices and compare methodologies over environment education among teachers and experts working for scientific organizations. The organizations will try to address these problems (human pollution, water pollution, climate change etc) from an experimental scientific point of view, using information from scientific publications and through the setup of replicable experiments.-As a result of these LTTs, we will select 20 activities to help engage learners with practical lessons in STEM focusing on real-world challenges within the natural environment. The Scientific organizations will produce activity sheets with step-by-step procedures and guidelines to replicate such laboratories at school. The activity sheets will be collected within a “Report on best practices to introduce green education at school”.-In the meantime, teachers and students of the partner schools will be called to work at distance creating the etwinning page of the project. Students will work in a virtual collaboration and will create 5 video tutorials explaining and replicating the 5 activities proposed by one organization. We will have 20 video tutorials in total.-We will create implement a strong dissemination strategy to enlarge the beneficiaries of the project. In addition to the local dissemination promoted by each partner, we will create a Youtube Channel for the video tutorials as well as a page on Scientix to promote the results.All these activities are thought to:-increase knowledge and awareness over EE;-ensure better preparation to implement hands-on activities and laboratories on EE, advanced knowledge and experience on different options on how to conduct interesting environmental education activities and increased multidisciplinary approach of STEM subjects over environment education; -developed knowledge of how to implement an IBSE approach during class activities and during public scientific dissemination;-spread environmentally sustainable habits by accompanying every laboratory activity with a thematically-related, positive proposed actions. In the longer term, we expect:--more EU schools willing to take advantage of the results created in the project;-more EU teachers and students replicating the laboratories proposed in class.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 818340
    Overall Budget: 414,740 EURFunder Contribution: 202,326 EUR

    Open Researchers 2018/19 is the sixth experience of Andalusia in the European Researchers’ Night. The project is designed to increase the awareness and perception of research as a solution to the numerous challenges faced by citizens mainly in Europe. ‘The heritage of researchers in Europe as a basis for a science open to citizenship’ is the main idea of the project, which has been conceived in a time where becomes clearer that we must join efforts to find sustainable, equal, innovative and creative solutions to give answer to the societal challenges in Europe. Understanding that Science is present in our daily lives through many disciplines involved including Social and Humanities Sciences, and learning that the progress should be accompanied by a scientific culture. It is essential to promote young people’s interest in Science by opening it to the general public through researchers in an accessible way in order to implement the public engagement in RRI. Fundación Descubre will coordinate this project, based on its experience through the last decade working with relevant projects and fundamentally in its consortium experience in the 6 NIGHT projects. The consortium is composed by nine Andalusian universities, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Andalusian Foundation Progress and Health, and the Royal Botanical Garden of Córdoba. The project's major strength is the numerous edutainment activities taking place on main streets and squares, theatres, and historical buildings of the eight Andalusian cities, with a high mobilization of researchers. The European dimension of the event will be underlined by an active involvement of researchers with European funds, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows, in the European Corners and in the pre-events organized before the Night. Gender balance will be guaranteed in researchers and organization members. The project includes the participation of a new citizen science project related to cultural heritage.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 722930
    Overall Budget: 368,010 EURFunder Contribution: 174,783 EUR

    ‘Open Researchers’ is the fifth experience of Andalusia in the European Researchers’ Night. The project is designed to increase the awareness of research as a solution to the numerous challenges faced by citizens all around the world and mainly in Europe. The idea of the project, ‘The future is today: understandable ground-breaking science for a better living’, has been conceived in a time of change, a moment where becomes clearer that we must join efforts to find sustainable, equal, innovative and creative solutions to give answer to the societal challenges. To this end, according to the RRI, it is essential to promote young people’s interest in Science and Research by opening it to general public through its main protagonists, researchers. The project's major strength is the numerous activities taking place on main streets, museums, theatres, and historical buildings of the eight Andalusian cities, the high mobilization of researchers and the involvement of Municipalities, which will have a high social impact in the region. Given the project’s dimensions in a wide region with 8.3 million people, it will be developed with a high and effective presence in terms of human and technical resources, and with the collaboration of the main local institutions, NGOs, private companies, teachers and civil associations. The communication campaign aims at reach every third citizen of Andalusia, and with activities in city-centre venues around 65.000 attendees each year are expected. Fundación Descubre will coordinate this project, based in its experience through the last 7 years working with relevant projects in Spain and fundamentally in its consortium experience in the four editions of this project in Andalusia. The consortium is composed by nine Andalusian universities, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Andalusian Foundation Progress and Health, and the Royal Botanical Garden of Córdoba, all dedicated to higher education, research and Science popularization.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 101036081
    Overall Budget: 292,384 EURFunder Contribution: 154,103 EUR

    Open Researchers 2021 is the 10th Andalusian experience in the European Researchers' Night. The project is designed to increase the awareness of research as a solution to the numerous challenges faced by citizens all around the world, as well as pursuing the EU Green Deal to meeting the SDGs. "A green science with and for citizenship: Facing the challenge of creating a neutral climate future in Europe" is the main idea of the project. It has been conceived at a time where it becomes clearer that we must join efforts to find sustainable, equal and innovative solutions to achieve the Green Deal goals. Understanding that science is present in our daily lives, it should be accompanied by a scientific culture that will prepare citizens to a reality full of challenges. It is essential to promote youth interest in Science by opening it to the general public through researchers in an accessible way. Fundacion Descubre will coordinate this project, based on its experience through the last decade working with relevant projects and in its consortium experience in the previous NIGHT projects. The consortium is composed of 9 Andalusian universities, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Andalusian Foundation Progress and Health, and the Royal Botanical Garden of Cordoba. The project's major strength is the numerous activities taking place on streets, theatres, and historical buildings of the 8 Andalusian cities, with a high mobilization of researchers and collaborating institutions. To reinforce this, partners will consolidate a strong online programme of activities and a TV show. The European dimension will be underlined by the active involvement of researchers with European funds and Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellows in the EU Corners and in the pre-events. Gender balance will be guaranteed in researchers as well as the RRI for designing inclusive and sustainable R&I. The project includes a European collaboration to design a set of activities linked to the Green Deal.

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