Descripción del proyecto
Formar a una nueva generación de expertos nucleares
Los conocimientos especializados en química nuclear y radioquímica son necesarios para mantener las operaciones nucleares europeas. También son relevantes en el proceso de descontaminación y desmantelamiento, la gestión de residuos y la vigilancia medioambiental. Además, existen varios campos fuera de ámbito de la energía en los que se aplica la química nuclear y la radioquímica y para los que son necesarios estos conocimientos. Estos campos van desde los radiofármacos, la radioterapia y el diagnóstico radiológico hasta las dataciones geológicas y arqueológicas y muchos más. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos A-CINCH tiene como objetivo mitigar la disminución del interés en el estudio de asignaturas nucleares. Se centrará en los estudiantes y profesores de las escuelas de educación secundaria, así como en los usuarios finales de este campo, gracias a un concepto de «aprendizaje a través del juego» que incluirá un laboratorio virtual de radioquímica, cursos en línea abiertos y masivos (MOOC, por sus siglas en inglés) sobre química nuclear y radioquímica, RoboLabs, paquetes de enseñanza de educación secundaria, etc.
Objetivo
Expertise in nuclear and radiochemistry (NRC) is of strategic relevance in the nuclear energy sector and in many vital applications. The need for radiochemistry expertise will even increase as the focus shifts from safe nuclear power plant operation to decontamination and decommissioning, waste management and environmental monitoring. The non-energy fields of NRC applications are even much broader ranging from life sciences – radiopharmaceuticals, radiological diagnostics and therapy – through dating in geology and archaeology, (nuclear) forensics and safeguards operations, to radiation protection and radioecology.
The A-CINCH project primarily addresses the loss of the young generation's interest for nuclear knowledge by focusing on secondary / high school students and teachers and involving them by the “Learn through Play” concept. This will be achieved by bringing advanced educational techniques such as state-of the art 3D virtual reality NRC laboratory, Massive Open Online Courses, RoboLab distance operated robotic experiments, Interactive Screen Experiments, NucWik database of teaching materials, or Flipped Classroom, into the NRC education. All the new and existing tools wrapped-up around the A-CINCH HUB – a user-friendly and easy-to-navigate single point of access – will contribute increasing the number of students and trainees in the field of nuclear and radiochemistry. Nuclear awareness will be further increased by the High School Teaching Package, Summer Schools for high school students, Teach the Teacher package and many others. Additionally, successful educational and training tools from previous projects will be continued and further developed.
Networking is an important part of the project, facilitated by having ENEN as one of the partners and by having structural links with other Euratom projects, the EuChemS, the NRC-Network as well as by additional links with other end users and stakeholders including the high schools.
Ámbito científico
- social scienceseducational sciencesdidactics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural scienceschemical sciencesnuclear chemistryradiochemistry
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeology
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Programa(s)
- H2020-Euratom - Euratom Main Programme
- H2020-Euratom-1. - Indirect actions
Régimen de financiación
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinador
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