With the objective of ensuring common principles and processes, the OSHub.Network developed a common methodological approach, based on a social innovation model, that guides the OSHub teams through the process of identifying and defining their value proposition, results, actors and stakeholders involved, as well as human and economic resources, towards impact and sustainability.
From this common road, various tailored solutions emerged in each of the different OSHub locations and contexts, that despite their diversity, shared several structural commonalities, as we describe below.
SCHOOL-BASED OSHUBS
→ OSHub - Ireland (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_IE.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
OSHub-IE co-developed and implemented a year-long programme to empower students to become active citizens within their own communities, through STEAM workshops, to identify local challenges, construct projects and showcase the work beyond the classroom.
→ OSHub-Portugal (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_PT.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
OSHub-PT targets different territorial actors, from schools to policy-makers, with the objective of building institutionally reward opportunities at schools, while equipping educators with the tools, confidence and networks to autonomously lead the process of integrating open schooling in their daily-life and in the school culture, in an autonomous and wide way (whole-school)
→ OSHub - Greece (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_GR.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
OSHub-GR supports teachers and students schools establishing and leading a maker lab at their own school, where the educational community develops science and technology projects to tackle local relevant challenges or opportunities.
SCHOOL-SUPPORTING OSHUBS
→ OSHub - Switzerland (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_CH.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
OSHub-CH offers a space (Fab Lab), a methodology and practical tools, while providing support to teachers and students, to develop technological solutions for community-identified issues, through research-based practices, and to meet/work together with experts from different areas.
→ OSHub - France (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_FR.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
OSHub-FR is a collaboration between La Casemate and the third place/community space La Machinerie, that promotes teacher’s autonomy and skills to work in a Fab Lab, creating opportunities for their students to explore, invent and transform abstract ideas into tangible objects; and ot
- create new resources and tools that can be easily shared, adapted and used by the teacher community.
SCHOOL-CONNECTING OSHUBS
→ OSHub - The Netherlands (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_NL.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
OSHub-NL works together with the academic community, civil society organizations and policy-malers to provide meaningful educational, social and professional experiences to university students that simultaneously allow them to contribute to society's educational challenges while opening-up their horizons regarding their future careers.
→ OSHub - Czech Republic (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_CZ.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
OSHub-CZ implemented a decentralised approach by establishing a network of OSHubs across different regions of Czech Republic, based on existing local premises/entities, all with the common objective of using real-life issues/topics to increase the interest of local communities in scientific processes and tools. In addition, OSHub-CZ also develops programs and activities with national reach, as the example as the production of a science and quotidian topics based TV series.
→ OSHub - Austria (
https://opensciencehub.net/local_OSHub_AT.html(öffnet in neuem Fenster))
The scope of OSHub-AT programs is to stimulate into the formal education system contemporary and relevant topics, developments, issues and views in the intersection of science & technology with arts and society, that would not have flown into the classroom by itself, through quick and agile 2-4h workshop modules co-developed by experts/specialists/artists/researchers/interesting thinkers about the future and teachers where the key “must” is to be relevant for students now or in their future.
