Part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) within the South Baltic Cross-border Co-operation Programme 2007-2013.
Project description:
eduPEOPLE
project
(Baltic active education network for development of people-to-people initiatives)
partners are two science centres - EXPERYMENT Science Centre from Gdynia and eXperimentLabbet from Kalmar, Sweden - institutions active on the field of active education. Both science centres are implementing the edutainment (education + entertainment) ideas with their interactive exhibitions and other activities (lectures, workshops, "meetings" with science) for kids, youth and adults.
eduPEOPLE Project
aims
raising active education awareness in the South Baltic region on cross-border level, especially among teachers. Project also aims increasing children's and youth's interest in science and increasing status of science among local societies. eduPEOPLE Project has also the purpose of activating teachers and working out together with them new model of education and disseminating of good active education practices by pilot methods and trainings, which will result with size of knowledge worked out and handed down. Intensifying intercultural dialogue and improving local societies involvement in people-to-people initiatives is also an important part of the eduPEOPLE project.
Activities of the Project in Gdynia:
2 seminars
on active education and
6 workshops for teachers
creating the
moveable kits of experiments
, to reach the schools in the region,
festival of experiments
Implementing period:
september 2009 - december 2011
For current information on eduPEOPLE events please follow our webiste or sign up for the EXPERYMENT Science Centre newsletter.
Contact:
Pomeranian Science and Technology Park
Al. Zwycięstwa 96/98
81-451 Gdynia, Poland
experyment@gci.gdynia.pl
