These are places for teachers, teacher trainers, future teachers, professionals, experts and all people concerned with Science Education who want to communicate with each other and with the STELLA team to exchange on practices identified.

STELLA online communities include:

• National forums for discussions at national level;
• European forums for discussions across countries, available in English.

Within the forums the following topics are discussed:

• Science education: for general discussions on science education, in particular about methodologies, pedagogy, projects, experiences, including also messages, announcements, questions from teachers to other teachers and experts...
• Interesting practices: for discussions on initiatives pre-selected by the Stella team for the Pool section. Teachers are invited to comment the practices proposed, in order to select the ones which they consider most interesting and easily transferable. Important: the objective is not to evaluate the pedagogy. The teachers who sent their initiatives' description (via the online questionnaire) are the guarantors of the pedagogic quality.

Chat room

For synchronous / in real time communications we suggest the following tools, freely available online:

• Skype
• Windows Live Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger
• Miranda IM