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The SWIS project was designed to create synergies between the real scientific world, studies and scientific projects designed and developed by professionals from the world of scientific research and professionals from the public sector who were in direct contact with scientific knowledge and secondary schools in Europe. In this way, the project could motivate and create interest in Science in students with low academic level, high level of absenteeism and disinterest in higher studies related to Science.Thus the objectives met have been:-Improve interest in the scientific world.-Improve the techniques of the scientific method in secondary schools linked to the project.-Improve communication in English.-Improve coexistence between European regions.-Know other cultures outside the borders of the neighborhood.-Improve self-esteem.-Improve communication skills.-Improve the capacity in techniques of exposition of scientific works.- Provide schools with resources and material resources to be able to devote themselves to scientific research in health and environmental fields.-Know the importance of scientific research in topics of social and environmental interest.The social profile of students has been very diverse, but this has not been an impediment for all of them without exception to develop the same scientific experiences and prepare the same research papers. In addition to the training activities they have shown great interest in participating in them and learning from other students. Both in training in Seville and in Bucharest, students have exchanged enriching cultural experiences.It has been a complex project in the organization because it has been difficult for materials and products to reach schools at the same time, but this has not been inconvenient for its realization. It is true that coordinating that the work will be carried out in the school times of each school has been an extra effort, because there is not the same schedule and work and holiday time, but all of them have carried out the activities designed by the research staff correctly .The number of scientific activities developed in each school has been slightly less than the number of research activities proposed in the project, since we realized that the research works were of great depth and we should devote much more time than expected to work it in the classrooms On the other hand, the time it took to provide the necessary chemical products and the purchase of necessary equipment was also longer than the stipulated one. All this had to be combined with the official curriculum of each school.However, we are very satisfied with the result since there have been 12 research projects developed by students in schools and during the training week in Seville and Bucharest.From the research work carried out by students in schools, a compilation of scientific videos was carried out explaining the methodology that was carried out in all of them. In these videos, all the students involved expose the development process of each experience. It can be seen on the Project website:https://erasmusplusswiscom.wordpress.com/scientific-work-swis/In addition, also on this website you can collect the research work developed by them in pdf format to be easily downloaded.The activities developed by the students are compiled in the published Didactic Guide and that can be accessed from the project website.Once the experiences were carried out by the students in each school, they presented the report to the researcher who received and supervised these reports. Subsequently the scientific video was made explaining the research process so that the same experience could be reproduced in any school.In the last part of the project, students, with the results obtained, had to design the scientific infographics, which are also displayed on the project website. This served as dissemination material in the multiplier event where they were exhibited. In addition, the students participating in the Bucharest Congress did their exhibition work (also published on the web) that they showed very professionally in this training week. Students very motivated and enthusiastic about the final result of these two years of collaboration.Parallel to the scientific works, the cultural activities that were celebrated in the schools were disseminated in a blog created for it (access from the web) so that we exchanged these experiences among all.The educational impact is unquestionable.
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