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COMMUNITIES FOR SCIENCES (C4S) Towards promoting an inclusive approach in Science Education

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Making science education more inclusive

Science is a key component of modern societies. However, social stereotypes and discriminatory practices affecting specific communities (people with disability, minorities, immigrants, women) also occur in science. Therefore, an inclusive science education approach is necessary in the EU, home to numerous vulnerable communities, to ensure their full participation in society. For this reason, the EU-funded C4S project aims to research the relationships between science and society by focusing on vulnerable communities to ensure their visibility and equal access in science and to improve the knowledge-base on inclusive science education. Science education activities will be organised at six local hubs for children and their families to promote science awareness and inclusive science education approaches.

Objective

AIM: Communities for Sciences (C4S) will be developed in 9 European cities (Milan -Italy-, Brussels -Belgium-, Manresa -Spain-, Vic – Spain-, Vienna -Austria-, Budapest -Hungary-, Sofia -Bulgaria-, Lund -Sweden- and Berlin -Germany) and their areas of influence. The activities that will be implemented will be coordinated by a local Hub in 6 cities with the leadership of one of these local partners of the Consortium. Each Hub will focus on a specific vulnerable community (immigrants, Roma community and disabled citizens) working with and for children and youth aged from 0-16 years old and their families. C4S will study the relationships between science and society by focusing upon vulnerable communities due to the fact that they are often not visible as active social agents. It is necessary not only to create activities for them, but also to include them as co-participants of these activities in order to ensure a more coherent approach towards inclusive education and to promote anticipatory policy-making. This will be done through science education activities, through formal and non-formal educational institutions, from an inclusive standpoint, to provide them with better science awareness and capacities and to make them progressively aware of exclusionary practices that at times may occur in science. Special emphasis will be put on engaging them in an intersectional approach to fight against the gender discrimination suffered by women and girls on multiple levels. In addition to this, each HUB will engage with policy-makers, educators and institutional representatives to promote their role in supporting and promoting an inclusive science education approach and to consolidate such inclusive practices on more solid grounds.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SwafS-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SwafS-2019-2-two-stage

Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

FUNDACIO UNIVERSITARIA DEL BAGES
Net EU contribution
€ 304 232,50
Address
AVINGUDA UNIVERSITARIA 4-6
08242 Manresa
Spain

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Region
Este Cataluña Barcelona
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 304 232,50

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