Promoting Open Schooling across Europe to make school science relevant to real-world challenges.
All good things come to an end – with this month marking the official conclusion of MULTIPLIERS as an EU-funded project. On October 29th, our partners and wider network gathered at the LVR-LandesMuseum in Bonn, Germany, to celebrate three years of cross-country collaboration, culminating in the MULTIPLIERS Final Open Schooling Event. It was memorable seeing …
How can policymakers support Open Schooling initiatives and improve science learning by fostering collaboration between schools, society and scientific institutions? Throughout the past three years, MULTIPLIERS has demonstrated the effectiveness of Open Schooling Communities in addressing socio-scientific issues and enhancing student engagement with science. Sustaining these networks and supporting the establishment of further communities in …
Mark the date on your calendar: the MULTIPLIERS final event takes place on Tuesday, 29 October 2024. We will wrap up the project in great style at the iconic LVR-LandesMuseum in Bonn, Germany. Here’s what you can look forward to during the event: The event takes place in person at the address below, starting at …
EU-funded researchers are exploring new ways to learn that make science more relevant to everyday life – and more fun By Andrew Dunne, originally published in the Horizon Magazine Frank Täufer, a scientific assistant at Campus Wiesengut – the University of Bonn’s ecological teaching and research farm – asked a group of visiting 8-year-olds to …
On Thursday, 30 May, a large group of students and teachers of the Blaise Pascal school in Reggio Emilia, Italy, celebrated an important event: the inauguration of a public water fountain installed in the area in front of the science laboratories, with funds from the MULTIPLIERS project. The event was the culmination of a couple …
By Èlia Tena, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona As part of the MULTIPLIERS project in Barcelona, a dice game was co-created by the local Open Schooling Community (OSC) to enhance pupils’ understanding of antimicrobial resistance. The game was designed to make the topic more accessible and engaging to 14-16 year old students, touching upon complex issues …
Šmarna gora, the highest hill in the city of Ljubljana, is now more than an iconic landscape monument and a destination for hikers. With the opening of the first “marteloscope” in central Slovenia, its slopes have been transformed into an outdoor classroom for school pupils thanks to an initiative of the EU-funded research and innovation project MULTIPLIERS.
This school year, the MULTIPLIERS Open Science Community (OSC) in Barcelona is focusing on the topic of Antimicrobial Resistance (ARM), integrating a newly developed educational program into science classes in five high schools: escola Tecnos, IE Feixes, INS Narcisa Freixas i Cruells, Vedruna Gràcia, and INS Ca n’Oriac.
By Žan Rode, Hana Rožman, Andreja Dolenec and Gregor Torkar On Friday, January 12, 2024, prospective teachers from the Faculty of Education at the University of Ljubljana held four different workshops for sixth-grade pupils at the primary school Šmartno pod Šmarno gora. The workshops were part of a practical test of the knowledge acquired in …
By Hannah Kwella, University of Bonn After a visit to the Bonn University’s ecological farm Campus Wiesengut, exploring the new project theme “Biodiversity and Agriculture”, our partner primary school, Michaelschule Bonn, chose the Doors Open Day at their school to set a “Multiplying Event”. They organized a stand on the topic of potatoes. There, the …
