AI Solutions
EXUS as Coordinator
Inclusive open schooling through engaging and future-oriented science
Science education needs to make students more scientifically literate and encourage larger numbers to take up science careers. Open schooling approaches can make science more authentic but tend to be adopted only as extracurricular activities, in a minority of schools or are limited to gifted and talented students.
CONNECT is an inclusive, sustainable model for enabling more secondary schools to adopt open schooling by embedding science-action gamification projects in the core curriculum, using fun approaches of participatory science with families, universities, and enterprises to increase students’ interest and confidence with science in life.
09/2020 – 12/2023
Project duration
1,519,761.25 €
Overall Budget
SwafS-01-2018-2019-2020
Topic
Impact
• Make the next generation more scientifically literate and increase their aspirations towards science-based careers by giving them opportunities to work with partners in and outside school and use science to shape their future lives.
• Target disadvantaged learners who lack science capital, making them more confident with using science, giving them contact with science professionals and engaging family members to improve their attitudes towards science-careers.
• Become a sustainable solution by becoming embedded within the policies of school, universities and enterprises, and spread to new organisations by establishing a persuasive evidence base
• Disseminate science-actions beyond the Consortium through our existing links with UNESCO, UNICEF, and OECD, and through events, press release and publications
• Form a legacy for new organisations to establish science actions after CONNECT finishes
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (Greece)
EXUS (Greece)
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY (United Kingdom)
FONDEN TEKNOLOGIRADET (Denmark)
Partners
FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE LA SIDA-CAIXA (Spain)
MASTERY SCIENCE LTD (United Kingdom)
UNIVERSITATEA VALAHIA TARGOVISTE (Romania)
GLOBAZ S.A. (Portugal)
UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA (Brazil)
ASSOCIACAO PARANAENSE DE CULTURA APC (Brazil)
PERIFERIAKI DIEFTHINSI PROTOVATHIMIAS KAI DEFTEROVATHMIAS EKPAIDEFSIS KRITIS (Greece)
