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4 December 2007 - 30 September 2008: Explor@dome, Paris, France This exhibition invites pupils and teachers to address environmental questions related to transport. It offers aninteractive and pleasant way to test their knowledge and develop an understanding of sustainable development. Among the many hands-on exhibits are the energy bike and interactive exhibits that produce hydrogen for a fuel-cell or allow visitors to investigate different ways to move around a city. Scientific and multimedia workshops are also available for children aged 7-14. More information: www.exploradome.com December 2007 - May 2008: Life Learning Center (Fondazione per le Biotecnologie), Turin, Italy The Life Learning Center organises one-day theoretical and laboratory courses for science teachers who would like to increase their knowledge of biotechnology and bioinformatics and bring modern biology into their classroom. The courses are free of charge, including printed materials and an activity booklet. One-day practical laboratory courses are also available for high-school students. They cover biotechnology and bioinformatics topics and molecular biology techniques (PCR, digestion with restriction enzymes, gel electrophoresis). The students are guided by young scientists; after the hands-on laboratory work, the students can discuss the experiment with their teacher and the supervising scientists. These courses cost €5 per student, including printed materials. All courses are run in Italian. More information: www.llctorino.it 8-10 May 2008: Braga, Portugal Scientists, researchers, politicians, teachers, nursery teachers, parents, students and pupils are invited to attend the I International School Congress. Organised by the Lamacaes School Cluster and the Instituto Superior de Saúde do Alto Ave, the event addresses ways in which education can find new solutions for the global problems of health and the environment. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with a panel of international specialists in:
The official languages are Portuguese, English and sign language. The registration fee is 30€ (10€ for students). Simultaneously, there will be seminars for students (9 May) and a fair entitled 'Environment, Health and Well-being' (9-10 May) taking place in two museums in Braga. More information: www.cie-portugal.net 2-22 June 2008: UK Are you a secondary science teacher who wants help to bring the curriculum topic of 'how science works' to life in the classroom? With the free pilot event, ‘I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here!’ you can get your students talking to real scientists online. Then get them to vote who should get the prize. The event is supported by well-structured, thoroughly-tested lesson plans and resources that teach students how to debate and discuss issues. There are separate sites for GCSE (aged 14-16) and A/AS Level (16+) students. If you would like your class to be one of 40 classes across the UK taking part, please get in touch. More information: http://imascientist.org.uk/?page_id=8 4-8 June 2008: Cheltenham, UK At the 7th Cheltenham Science Festival, events for school students of all ages include many interactive workshops and activities which bring the science curriculum alive. More information: www.cheltenhamfestivals.com 5 June 2008: Rugby School, Rugby, UK The day consists of three lectures (one each on research physics, physics education and both education and entertainment), plus a series of six parallel workshops and a discussion session. Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell (who, as a research student, discovered the first radio pulsars) will speak about astrophysics and Professor Peter Main (director of education and science at the Institute of Physics) will talk about the future of physics education in schools. The meeting is open to teachers, teachers in training and technicians from all countries. It will cost £30 per person including lunch and refreshments (£15 for newly qualified teachers and trainee teachers. More information: www.iop.org/activity/education/Events/Events%20for% 24-28 June 2008: Burgundy, France Scientists, biology teachers, teacher trainers, policymakers, business people and media specialists, as well as philosophers, theologians, and ethicists, are invited to take part in this year's BioEd conference. Organised by the International Union of Biological Sciences, the conference addresses the topic 'Sustainable Development, Ethics and Education for the 2020s: What Challenges for Biology?' and aims to:
Participants from around the world are invited to report on their research, experiments, and practical and empirical results, and to demonstrate educational materials (e.g. posters, videos, exhibits, and theatre). Registration fee: 240 € (or 200 € before 24 April 2008). More information: www.ldes.unige.ch/bioEd/bioEd2008.htm 1 July 2008: Merlin Theatre, Pembrokeshire College, Haverfordwest, UK Secondary schools in west Wales are invited to attend the Bionic Ear Road Show. Organised by the Darwin Science Festival and Deafness UK, the free road show involves a giant ear, a giant brain and lots of audience interaction. Learn about hearing and the science behind many types of deafness. More information: www.darwincentre.com 3-5 July 2008: Universidad de Aveiro, Portugal The Iberian Seminar for Science, Technology and Society in Science Tuition is organized biannually, alternating between Portugal and Spain. Due to the increasing participation of Latin American participants, this year’s conference will also be the first Ibero-American Seminar. This seminar, in Portuguese and Spanish, aims to promote dialogue and cooperation between institutes, researchers, teachers and other education professionals with an interest in science, technology and society in the Ibero-American countries. It will deal with science, technology and society issues, trying to integrate them more into the practice of Ibero-American science teaching and reviewing the latest research results. Literacy and sustainable development are other topics to be discussed. There will be plenary sessions, round tables, invited talks, workshops and poster sessions. Registration fee before 31 May 2008: 120€; thereafter 150€. More information: http://web.dte.ua.pt/vcts/ 5 July: ExploHeidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany ExploHeidelberg, the Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg and other partners invite parents and children to attend a family open day. Between 11am and 5pm, families can do their own experiments and discover the fascination of science and technology with over 50 hands-on exhibits in and around ExploHeidelberg. The event celebrates the fifth birthday of ExploHeidelberg and is free. More information: www.explo-heidelberg.de Until 6 July 2008: UK Making a Mint is a botany and enterprise project for 7-14 year olds from NESTA’s Future Innovators team and Planet Science. Each team receives a free pack of mint seeds; the challenge is to add as much value to the grown plants as possible. Ideas include making and selling mint tea, or producing a booklet on 101 uses of mint. The children are encouraged to be as creative as possible. At the end of the competition, the 50 entries that have made the most money are examined and a prize awarded to the most creative money-making scheme. Participants also have the chance to win £1000 for their school in either Amazon or garden vouchers. Closing date: 6 July 2008. More information: www.planet-science.com/outthere/mint 9-11 July 2008: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS) is an education facility to bring secondary school teachers into the research lab for a unique hands-on encounter with state-of-the-art molecular biology techniques. ELLS also gives scientists a chance to work with teachers, helping to bridge the widening gap between research and schools. The three-day course is designed to enable the participating teachers to explore a range of activities, which they can practice in the lab and then take back to the classroom. The course is open to 20 European high-school science teachers and is run in English. The course, including course materials, catering and accommodation, is free of charge; participants are expected to meet their own travel costs. More information: www.embl.de/ells 16 June - 8 July 2008: XLAB, Göttingen, Germany Organised by XLAB, the international science camps are for motivated high school and undergraduate students, from all over the world, aged about 17 to 20 years old. Courses are offered in biology, chemistry, physics and computer science and are supervised by scientists from the University of Göttingen and affiliated research organisations. The students work in small groups of two or three to do hands-on experiments. Demonstrations are rarely used and are limited to highly sophisticated experiments, to the use of NMR, X-ray or other large research instruments. During the science camp each participant will attend three different weekly courses. Students select courses of their interest and indicate their first and second choices. The final schedule will be set according to the interest of the applicants. The working language is English. The science camp last for three-and-a-half weeks, including an excursion to Berlin during the last three days. At the weekends and in the evenings a cultural and social programme is arranged. The camp costs €1750, which includes everything except travel expenses to Göttingen and from Berlin. Financial support is possible. More information: www.xlab-goettingen.de 20 July - 2 August 2008: Petnica Science Center, Serbia PI 2008 is a summer programme of out-of-school science education, focusing on critical and creative thinking and approaches in science and scientific research. The goal is to gather gifted, inquisitive, open-minded students motivated for scientific research, and to give them a short but intensive course on systematic problem solving. All students aged 17-20 (regardless of the type of school they attend or their nationality) are eligible to apply. The main criteria for admission are motivation for out-of-school learning and a demonstrated interest in science and independent thinking. School results are important, but they are not the decisive factor – an open and inquisitive mind and the readiness to engage in intensive work are much more important! The programme fee – including tuition, learning materials, accommodation, meals, admittance to the recreation centre and field trips - is €500. There are no application fees. Deadline for applications: 15 May 2008. More information: http://pi.petnica.net 21-31 July 2008: Davidson Institute of Science Education, Israel Are you a motivated secondary-school science teacher? Do you want to make a long-lasting impact? Do you want to help improve science education in schools? At this 10-day seminar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, you will:
All lectures will be in English. More information: davidson.weizmann.ac.il/international 28-31 July 2008: ExploHeidelberg Teaching Lab, Heidelberg, Germany The course for senior secondary-school students gives an introduction to standard molecular biology techniques. The aim is to clone an interesting region of the bacteriophage Lambda into the plasmid vector pUC18. The properties of DNA and protein, their isolation, production and manipulation are taught theoretically as well as practically. The course is run in German. More information: www.explo-heidelberg.de/en/lernlabor/ Schnupperkurs_programm_eng.htm 29 September - 1 October 2008: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS) is an education facility to bring secondary school teachers into the research lab for a unique hands-on encounter with state-of-the-art molecular biology techniques. ELLS also gives scientists a chance to work with teachers, helping to bridge the widening gap between research and schools. The three-day course is designed to enable the participating teachers to explore a range of activities, which they can practice in the lab and then take back to the classroom. The course is open to 20 European high-school science teachers and is run in English. The course, including course materials, catering and accommodation, is free of charge; participants are expected to meet their own travel costs. More information: www.embl.de/ells 1-3 October 2008: Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy Organised by INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Incontri di Fisica is a three-day training course for secondary-school science teachers and people involved in science communication. The goal is to provide teachers with further professional training, and to encourage interactive and hands-on contact with the latest developments in physics, as well as direct contact between teachers and researchers. The programme includes plenary sessions, working groups, discussions, and visitss to experimental areas. There will be lectures on the new frontiers of physics, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), cosmology, and nuclear energy, as well as a consideration of science and society. In small groups, participants will work on physics experiments typical of the research of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF). The course is free and is run in Italian. The registration deadline is 30 May 2008. More information: www.lnf.infn.it/edu/incontri/2008/ 23-26 October 2008: Berlin, Germany Science teachers are invited to submit proposals to participate in the first national Science on Stage festival in Berlin, organised by Science on Stage Germany and THINK ING. Three hundred teachers from Germany and other European countries will present teaching projects and experiments in a fair and discuss innovative methods in workshops. The festival programme also includes scientific talks, exhibitions at the science and research institutes in Berlin as well as on-stage performances. All proposals should be submitted via the appropriate national steering committee. To find the national steering committee contact in your country, consult the international Science on Stage website. The deadline for proposals is 25 May 2008 and the working language is English. More information: www.science-on-stage.de All year: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, organises one-week courses for secondary-school physics teachers who would like to increase their knowledge of particle physics and cosmology, who want to find out more about the world of frontier research, and who wish to bring modern physics into their classrooms. The course materials are aimed at students aged 13-16. The courses cover (at an introductory level) particle physics, cosmology, detectors, accelerators, and applications. Teachers have the opportunity to visit CERN's experimental installations. Each course is aimed at teachers from a particular European country and is run in the national language. The courses are free of charge, but the participants are expected to pay for their travel expenses and accommodation. More information: http://education.web.cern.ch/education/ All year: Schullabor Novartis, Basel, Switzerland These workshops focus on practical laboratory work, but background information is given for all experiments. Secondary-school students isolate plasmid DNA from bacterial cultures and digest it with restriction enzymes. The resulting DNA fragments are separated and visualised by gel electrophoresis. The workshops are for secondary-school students who already have the necessary theoretical background and are over 17 years of age. The workshops are free of charge, are in German or English (on request), and have a maximum of 20 participants. Teachers are invited to get in touch to arrange a workshop for their class. More information: www.schullabor.ch All year: Schools and other venues in England Run by the Marine Conservation Society, the Cool Seas Roadshow will visit 150 primary schools throughout England between September 2006 and March 2008. It entertains and educates primary/junior school children about England’s spectacular marine wildlife, using life-size inflatable models of whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, seals and porpoises in dynamic presentations given by a marine wildlife education specialist. The roadshow takes a full day at each school, and is free. Each school that is visited receives printed materials and web-based resources, including an activity booklet and bookmark for every pupil, and a poster for every classroom. The web-based resources can be viewed here: www.mcsuk.org/coolseas The project also has funding for 37 visits to English venues other than schools, mostly in summer 2007. If you have a large and suitable audience who would like a visit from the Cool Seas Roadshow, please get in touch. More information: www.mcsuk.org/mcsaction/education/cool+seas+roadshow All year: 10 locations around the UK The national network of Science Learning Centres, set up by the UK Department for Skills and Education and the Wellcome Trust, provides continuing professional education for everyone involved in UK science education, at all levels. With nine regional centres and a national centre in York, access to innovative and inspiring courses is within reach across the UK. The centres not only deliver hundreds of courses, but also act as a focus for all the science learning activities in their region. More information: www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk All year: Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow, UK Teachers, classroom assistants, nursery teachers and technicians are invited to visit the Glasgow Science Centre, free of charge, to explore and investigate what is on offer. More information: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org All year: Many Scottish venues, UK Glasgow Science Centre’s outreach team brings all the fun of the science centre directly to schools and community groups throughout Scotland thanks to its lively travelling ‘Science Circus’. Science Circus activities consist of amazing live science shows and interactive exhibits delivered at your venue. More information: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org All year: Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK The Pembrokeshire Darwin Science Festival invites all primary schools in Pembrokeshire to book a rockpool ramble and identification field trip. The course is aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils (ages 8-11), takes half a day and is led by three qualified marine scientists. Cost: £250 with a bus or £170 without a bus. Maximum 30 children. More information: www.darwincentre.com All year: Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK The Pembrokeshire Darwin Science Festival offers a double workshop visit for a maximum of 30 Key Stage 2 pupils (ages 8-11) and costs £200. The group is split into two workshops, which run simultaneously:
Also available are three 90-minute workshops, each for a maximum of 20 pupils and costing £120:
More information: www.darwincentre.com All year: Paris-Montagne, Paris, France Throughout the year, Paris-Montagne runs an outreach programme in all Parisian suburbs. The programme is for high-school students interested in sciences but not confident enough to enrol in undergraduate studies, due to social and cultural hindrances. The organisation offers personal tutoring and the possibility to discover the world of research by meeting researchers in various fields and by carrying out their own research in real laboratories during their holidays (100 in April 2007, and many more expected in August and October 2007). The most dedicated participants in the programme are offered the chance to take part in a summer camp, during the Paris Montagne science festival (21-25 July 2007). More information: www.scienceacademie.org All year: Portugal Ciência Viva is organising short talks by MIT professors in Portuguese secondary schools, as part of a cooperation (MIT-Portugal) between MIT and Portuguese universities in the areas of bioengineering, sustainable energy and transport systems. The students have direct contact to MIT professors and can discuss their ideas and ask questions about these important engineering areas. Schools are selected based on their motivation for participating in the programme and on the projects they have developed in the areas of science and engineering. More information: www.cienciaviva.pt/divulgacao/mit All year: INTECH, Hands-on Interactive Science and Discovery Centre, Winchester UK Teachers are invited to visit INTECH, the hands-on interactive science and discovery centre, free of charge or to attend a teacher preview session to discover what is available for school visits and workshops. More information: www.intech-uk.com
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