Beneficiaries of the initiative:
Pupils and school levels involved:

• Pre-primary school pupils (3-6 years of age)
• Primary school pupils (6 to 11/12 years of age)
• General secondary education (11/12 to end of compulsory education or even beyond)

Educational personnel:

• Teachers

Other: Local companies

Frequency of the initiative: Events implemented during more than 2 years (september 2009 - december 2011)

Number of people directly concerned by the initiative: Between 20 and 100 people

Summary: EduPEOPLE project

EduPEOPLE project partners are two science centres: EXPERYMENT Science Centre from Gdynia, Poland and eXperimentLabbet from Kal-mar, Sweden.

EduPEOPLE Project aims raising active education awareness in the South Baltic region on cross-border level, especially among teachers. It will result with number of training occasions to promote science centres as a tool for operating within new education, and with dissemination of active education. Project also aims increasing children's and youth's interest in science and increasing status of science among local societies, which will result with the size of involvement in the festival of experiments. EduPEOPLE Project has also the purpose of activating teachers and working out together with them new model of education and disseminating of good active education practices by pilot methods and trainings, which will result with size of knowledge worked out and handed down. Intensifying intercultural dialogue and improving local societies involvement in people-to-people initiatives is also an important part of the eduPEOPLE project.

Organisation in charge

Name: EXPERYMENT Science Centre
Full Address: Al. Zwyciestwa 96/98, 81-451 Gdynia
Country: Poland
Tel: +48 58 735 11 38
Fax: +48 58 622 55 88
Email: experyment (at) gci.gdynia.pl
Website: http://www.experyment.gdynia.pl
Nature of the organisation: Science centre



Contact person

Full Name: Natalia Grzywacz-Leszkowska
Tel: +48 58 735 11 38
Email: n.grzywacz-leszkowska (at) gci.gdynia.pl

Thematic(s):

• Innovation in teaching and learning sciences at school
• Cooperation with the (local and regional) communities
• Scientific culture
• Education and training of teachers and/or heads

Subject(s):

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Natural sciences (biology, environmental sciences including agriculture, food-chain and medicine)

Methodology adopted:

• Hands-on approach and activities
• Peer-to-peer education
• Learning objects

Type: European initiative

Management of the initiative:
Persons cooperating to this initiative inside the promoting organisation:

• Teacher(s)
• School head(s)
• Personnel of the school authorities (experts, pedagogical advisors, etc.)

Investment in human resources: the initiative is carried out: Within the duties of the employees

External cooperation:
Outside the promoting organisation, the initiative involves people from external organisations:

• University
• Foundation
• Media
• Other: Teacher training centres, association of educatinal managing staff

Form(s) of cooperation carried out:

• Project work with teachers (preparation of experimentations, ...)
• Other: Consultations

Financial issue(s)

• European support

Impact: Regional

Products, outcomes and results:
Create pedagogical tools

• Pedagogical manuals
• Science simulations or experimentations
• Publication / web site / cd rom
• Other: Moveable kits of experiments to be used in schools

Set up training / in-service training course or pack

• In-service training for science teachers by experienced science teachers
• In-service training of science teachers by science associations, teacher associations, foundations
• Other: Seminars, workshops for teachers

Organise special events, activities

• Information campaign about science in general
• Other: Festivals of experiments

Expected effects:
Awareness-raising for science and technology

• For science in general
• For science and technology with disadvantaged groups

Acquisition of competencies of the knowledge society

• Problem-solving skills
• Skills for analysis and synthesis

Key Competences for lifelong learning

• Learning to learn