Highlights from the Science on Stage Festival 2011

Press release: Danish Education Minister opens European Teaching Festival

(Berlin/Copenhagen, 13 April 2011) On 16 April 2011, the Danish education minister Troels Lund Poulsen will welcome 250 science teachers from across Europe at the opening of the Science on Stage teaching festival. Over four days, the teachers present innovative concepts for science lessons in terms of experiments, workshops, science shows and exchange their ideas with European colleagues. The projects address current and socially relevant questions in education. Veronika Gallus, a teacher from Germany, for instance, presents the project 'Radioactivity - curse or blessing?' In class, she discusses hopes, fears and threats caused by the civil use of nuclear energy as well as the application of radioactive substances in technology and research from an interdisciplinary perspective. This includes bending 1000 origami cranes based on a Japanese legend.

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Science on Stage festival 2011: Programme online

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Commissioner Vasssiliou: Science Teaching: Winning Hearts and Minds for good performance in science

The European Science on Stage celebrates Europe's and Canada's best practices of teaching science.
It is an excellent forum for science teachers to exchange ideas and access teaching resources, and a unique initiative giving real practitioners the chance to showcase and discuss effective methods of teaching in a European context.

We are living at a time when scientific literacy is fast becoming a fundamental skill, in order for people to be able to make sense of our complex, technology-driven world, At the same time we need bright people to push the boundaries of knowledge forward, to make new discoveries and to find new solutions, so we need more young people to take up scientific careers...

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Belgium: Playful Science 2011

Science on Stage Belgium is organising his fifth Science Festival on Saturday the 19th of March 2011
http://www.scienceonstage.be/agenda.html

Science at its Best: Danish Education Minister supports European Teaching Festival

(Berlin/Copenhagen, 07/02/2011) From 16-19 April 2011, the Science on Stage festival will take place in Copenhagen. Danish education minister Tina Nedergaard appreciates the festival's purpose to enhance science education in school. Under the motto "Science Teaching: Winning Hearts and Minds", around 350 teachers from across Europe will present innovative teaching ideas and concepts in the fields of science and engineering in workshops, on-stage performances, speeches, and in a fair. How can interdisciplinary teaching and inquiry-based learning be implemented in class? In which way can new technologies be used in school? Numerous projects and experiments will address these questions and cover topics from kindergarten to secondary school. The aim of exchanging teaching ideas is to improve European science teaching and thus encourage more schoolchildren to consider a career in science or engineering. 

Danish education minister Tina Nedergaard explains: "The Danish Ministry of Education warmly supports the idea and content of this festival. It falls in line with the overall goals in "ET 2020": The European strategy for cooperation within education and training towards 2020." On stage and in the fair, projects shown will include Choco-Science, in which chemistry is presented at its best; a show on hearing the light and seeing the sound; high-voltage in the classroom; and experiments with magic fire. 

As the main sponsor of the festival, the Danish Ministry of Education is contributing to the continuation of a series of European festivals which were launched in 2000 by EIROforum, a partnership of European intergovernmental research organisations, with co-funding by the European Commission until 2008. In 2008, under the guidance of Science on Stage Germany, the 27 European countries involved established the initiative Science on Stage Europe and now strive towards alternative funding. More information on visiting the festival can be found at www.science-on-stage.eu.

100 days left until Science on Stage 2011 opens

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