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Stimulating Science andTechnology Competences
Through Innovative Means forTeaching and Learning
www.stimula-project.eu
Josu WaliñoElhuyar Foundation
• STIMULA aims to develop innovative methodologies to foster aspirations towards S&T careers among pupils in secondary level education, using as a strategy the active involvement of the world of work (universities, research & innovation centres, and research & development companies) in educational activities.
• The main objective of this project is to foster the S&T vocation among the European young students (12 to 18 years old). According to PISA 2006, the interest and enjoyment of S&T is positively associated with better performance, so it is expected that the increase in the motivation towards S&T will also contribute to the improvement and development of key competences in S&T among the European young students, and to their scientific literacy.
About Stimula
Title: STIMULA. Stimulating Science and Technology competences through innovative means for teaching and learningCall: LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME Centralized / COMENIUS Multilateral projects / EAC/49/2010 (European Commission,EACEA)Start: 01/11/2011Duration: 24 monthsCoordination: Elhuyar Foundation ([email protected])
• This project is managed and coordinated by the Elhuyar Foundation. Partners of the project are St. Mary’s University College, University of Zaragoza, Steinbeis, Phaenovum and Colegiul National Nicolae Titulescu.
• There are also 12 associated partners involved in the project. 12 schools from 5 different countries are participating in STIMULA: Elorrioko Institutua and Fray Juan de Zumarraga – Durango BHI from Spain, Bernat Etxepare Lizeoa and Ziburuko Kolegioa from France, St. Dominics Grammar School Belfast, Loreto College, St Michal’s Grammar School and St. Paul’s Junior High School Lurgan from the United Kindom, Freie Evangelische Schule Lörrach and Hans-Thoma Gymnasium from Germany and Colegiul National Nicolae Titulescu and Colegiul National Stefan Velovan from Romania.
Partners
• STIMULA project strategy will be to bring S&T closer to the young students and at the same time the students closer to S&T, through bidirectional collaborative initiatives between schools and agents of the world of work. The project will:
• Bring S&T to schools, through the proposal and practical implementation of curriculum extending S&T educational initiatives (in the form of live experiments and competitions based on problems). They will be carried out in the classrooms and will additionally promote team work, creativity and ICT skills.
• Take schools to S&T, through the definition of collaboration strategies, models and programmes of the schools with agents of the world of work (universities, R&D centres and companies) will be defined, in which the school students will collaborate with these external organisations in different activities (research activities, for example).
• Additionally, the project will propose specific teacher training methods and programmes, addressed to current and future S&T technology teachers, so that they can contribute to effectively foster the S&T vocation on young students.
Strategy
Methodology
Stimulating Science andTechnology Competences
Through Innovative Means forTeaching and Learning
www.stimula-project.eu
Josu WaliñoElhuyar Foundation