News list

Official launch of the STENCIL Network !
On the 1st of January 2011 the STENCIL Network has officially started! STENCIL - a European Comenius Network including 21 members from 9 European countries - wants to contribute to the improvement of science teaching, by promoting innovative (...)

News from STELLA
In December 2009, after 2 years of hard work, this phase of the STELLA project has come to an end. Keep on visiting the STELLA web portal, as well as on including your science education initiatives in the STELLA Online Catalogue and on (...)

CERN Education
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. The CERN (...)

EducaPoles
EducaPoles is the educational website of the International Polar Foundation. It sets out to sensitize young people and the educational world to the importance of the Polar Regions and of climate change by proposing adapted teaching tools and (...)

The Climate Mystery
The Climate Mystery is an online learning universe that combines education and entertainment to inform and teach about global climate challenges. The online story runs in real time and begins on September 14, 2009. It climaxes in December, 2009 - (...)

European discoveries
From Archimedes to Einstein, Europe is the cradle of major scientific discoveries. "European discoveries" invites classes of pupils aged 8 to 14 to take part in compiling an encyclopaedia of Europe's major scientific discoveries and inventions, (...)

Join the STELLA final conference in Nancy, France, 18 November 2009!
The STELLA final conference takes place in Nancy, France, on 18 November 2009, addressing science education teachers, educators, researchers and school heads, focusing on the presentation of interesting science education initiatives in France and (...)

International Conference Women & Technologies®: creativity and innovation
2009 Edition of the conference Monday, 9th November 2009 “Leonardo da Vinci” National Museum of Science and Technology Via San Vittore 21 – Milan (Italy) Can the cross-disciplinary quality of technologies represent an ideal meeting (...)

Sustain.no - Education for Sustainable Development
Sustain.no is an educational tool for sustainable development. The site includes activities complete with guidelines about how pupils can investigate, discuss and communicate their results. When the results are submitted to the network, they are (...)

Planet SciCast: Short films about practical science
SciCast is four things: A competition to get children, young people, teachers, parents, science communicators and science/engineering/technology professionals all making short films about practical science. A web resource of all those movies (...)

XII Lower Silesian Science Festival 2009: 18 Sept - 16 Oct 2009
The 12th edition of the Lower Silesian Science Festival is approaching fast. This year, organizers have prepared more than 900 recommendable events. First of all, it must be admitted that LSSF is one of the most significant, exciting and interesting (...)

British Science Festival 2009: Creativity, Innovation & Evolution
5 – 10 September 2009: The British Science Festival is one of Europe's largest science festivals, taking place each September. The Festival is in a different location in the UK each year, bringing you the latest in science, technology and (...)

Orkney International Science Festival
More than 60 events, in the seven days from Thursday 3 to Wednesday 9 September in the wonderful island of Orkney. You'll see the wide range of topics - from archaeoastromony to underwater astronomy, from biofuels to bees, from berries to (...)

DFG Science TV - Awake the researcher within you!
The film is rolling for research: researchers will be reporting regularly on their projects for three months for DFG Science TV in three-minute videos. They'll talk about their daily lives as researchers - about challenges and feelings of success, (...)

London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) 2009, 29 July - 12 August
From 29 July - 12 August 2009, there will be held at the Imperial College, London, UK, the International Youth Science Forum. It will bring together over 300 science students from almost 60 countries in the 5 continents. LIYSF is a two week (...)

Student Science Fairs: Regional CREST Fairs - UK, June / July 2009
Regional CREST (CREativity in Science and Technology) Fairs are organised across the UK in 12 regions. They are a wonderful opportunity for any students between 11-19 involved in CREST to present their projects, not only to peers, but to the (...)

Evolution MegaLab - Hands-on science outreach for Darwin's bicentenary
The aim of the Evolution Megalab is to show the public, of all ages from schoolchildren to grandparents, that thanks to Darwin’s illuminating insight, they too can see evolution at work in the natural world around them. The year 2009 marks the (...)

Wallace & Gromit present: A World of Cracking Ideas, Science Museum, London
Discover the incredible world of innovation! Science Museum, London, 28 March - 1 November 2009 Wallace & Grommit present a world of cracking ideas. Take a look at the ideas that have shaped the world around us and learn about innovations that (...)

Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) portal for schools
In the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) portal for schools you can find open educational resources and assets from many different countries and providers, including 16 Ministries of Education. You can simply browse the portal to find out what is (...)

Restyling of the STELLA web portal
The Stella web portal has been updated with new graphics, colours and images... to make science education even more attractive for you. In fact, science education has never been that beautiful!

The STELLA multimedia tools are online
The set of multimedia tools for transferability includes a number of tools and mini-units developed to give suggestions to teachers on the use of different applications like Powerpoint, Blog, Video, Discussion Forum, eTwinning, and Web 2.0 (...)

Imagine Cup 2009 - The World’s Premier Student Technology Competition
The Imagine Cup is a global student technology competition focused on finding solutions to real-world issues. The competition encourages the world's most talented software designers, programmers, game developers, photographers and filmmakers to (...)

2009: International Year of Astronomy
In 2009 the world will celebrate the International Year of Astronomy to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's use of a telescope to study the night sky. 2009 is also the anniversary of many other important dates in the history of science, (...)

Information & Communication Technology in Natural Science Education, 27-30 November 2008
The international scientific conference on "Information & Communication Technology in Natural Science Education" will take place at Siauliai University, Lithuania, on 27-30 November, 2008. It addresses teachers and scientists, managers of education (...)

World Space Week, October 4-10
Motivate students during world space week! World Space Week is the ideal time for you to use space in the classroom to excite students about learning science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Due to the very multi-disciplinary nature of (...)

Science on Stage Festival Berlin 2008
Under the patronage of the German Representation of the European Commission, the first National Science on Stage-Festival will take place from 23.-26. October 2008 at the Urania in Berlin, Germany. 300 teachers and education experts from 27 European (...)

Seventh conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology
ERIDOB 2008 - Seventh Conference of EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS IN DIDACTICS OF BIOLOGY, organised by Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (FIsme) at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, from the 16th to the 20th September 2008.

XIII IOSTE Symposium: The Use of Science and Technology Education for Peace and Sustainable Development
XIII. IOSTE Symposium is the symposium of the International Organization for Science and Technology Education (IOSTE). It will be held in Izmir in Turkey on September 21-26, 2008, by Faculty of Buca Education of Dokuz Eylul University, promoting the (...)

Sciences serving science: Cross-disciplinary issues in Mathematics & Science education
"Sciences serving science: Cross-disciplinary issues in mathematics and science education" is the third in a series of biennial international Science and Mathematic Education Conferences (SMEC) hosted by the Centre for the Advancement of Science (...)

Learning and Teaching Scotland
Learning and Teaching Scotland provides advice, support, resources and staff development to the education community, creating a culture of innovation, ambition and excellence throughout Scottish education. Curriculum for Excellence aims to create (...)

ENIS: European Network of Innovative Schools
The European Network of Innovative Schools (ENIS) is a new network of approximately 500 schools in European countries which are making use of ICT in innovative ways. ENIS is part of the European Schoolnet (EUN) and has been working since (...)