Descrizione del progetto
Creare una nuova generazione di esperti nucleari
Per mantenere le operazioni nucleari europee è necessario disporre di competenze in materia nucleare e radiochimica. Tali competenze sono inoltre rilevanti nei processi di decontaminazione e smantellamento, gestione dei rifiuti e monitoraggio ambientale. Inoltre, ci sono diversi campi non energetici di applicazione nucleare e radiochimica che richiedono tali competenze, che vanno dai radiofarmaci, dalla diagnostica e dalla terapia radiologica fino alla datazione in geologia, in archeologia e molto altro. Il progetto A-CINCH, finanziato dall’UE, intende ridurre il calo di interesse nello studio delle tematiche nucleari. L’attenzione sarà rivolta a studenti e insegnanti provenienti dalle scuole secondarie fino al mondo accademico, come pure agli utenti finali nel settore, utilizzando un concetto di «apprendimento attraverso il gioco» che comprende anche un laboratorio virtuale di radiochimica, un corso online aperto su larga scala in materia nucleare e radiochimica, laboratori di robotica e pacchetti didattici per le scuole superiori.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- H2020-Euratom - Euratom Main Programme
- H2020-Euratom-1. - Indirect actions
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinatore
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