Description du projet
Renforcer l’éducation scientifique grâce à des partenariats de communautés
L’Europe est confrontée à un déficit de personnes compétentes en sciences. La Commission européenne cherche à élargir les opportunités d’apprentissage des sciences dans des cadres formels et informels. Le projet PULCHRA, financé par l’UE, développera le concept d’enseignement ouvert, dans lequel les écoles sont partenaires avec les communautés et les industries locales, et les professionnels locaux grâce à des défis de ville, soit des thèmes pilotes ayant pour objectif de créer un savoir-faire, établir une relation de confiance, faciliter l’utilisation compétente des outils et soutenir le développement communautaire. Par exemple, la plateforme (technologique) City Challenges (Défis de ville) rapprochera les écoles et les autres parties prenantes, tandis que les étudiants agiront comme reporters des villes pour explorer et diffuser cette plateforme. Dans l’ensemble, ce projet apportera sa contribution à une société plus intéressée et plus instruite d’un point de vue scientifique, et il suscitera l’intérêt pour des carrières scientifiques.
Objectif
"The PULCHRA* project will explore the open schooling concept in the theme ""Cities as urban ecosystems”, in view of creating new partnerships in local communities to foster science education for all citizens. Schools, in cooperation with other stakeholders will become agent of community well-being, taken that the theme to be explored encompasses the natural environment, the built environment and the socio-economic environment in cities. This is of great importance, taken that the urgency of cities to be approached as urban ecosystems is underestimated and limitedly linked to science education for all citizens.
The methodology is based on pilot themes (termed as City Challenges) which create know-how, built trust in the science approach based on own experience, facilitate skilled use of tools and support community building as they are based upon the identity of the communities in which they take place. A City Challenges (technological) Platform is developed to bridge partners, schools and stakeholders; mixed Science Teams and students acting as City Reporters will explore and disseminate the City Challenges respectively.
Our approach is situated in the own living environment. Engaging in environmental education has a direct impact upon the community and the personal lives of the participants. The benefit of international cooperation of the EU member states becomes obvious at the community level.
The consortium is coherent and brings complementary expertise, whereas the project is supported by a wide variety of stakeholders in the participating countries, a fact which is considered an asset of the project and shows its replication potential.
Finally the pilot themes to be explored within the project exhibit richness in science as they take note of several scientific fields as related to cities as urban ecosystems, they are supported by technology, bring in innovation and are directly linked to SDGs and the European policies for cities.
*beautiful in Latin"
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