Impact of research in science education. Addressing the need for a knowledge-based society

This expert seminar was organized by Estonian Academy of Sciences and University of Tartu, supported by Horizon 2020 Twinning project “Addressing Attractiveness of Science Career Awareness” (SciCar). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952470. SciCar – a science education project – addresses…

Capacity building of teachers on Chemistry teaching with hands-on small scale experiments in high schools in Asia

The event involved in training 100 high school teachers from all parts of the country to have hands-on experiments using small amount of Chemicals, called small scale chemistry. This technique can prevent pollution for a safer environment and lower the risk of chemical hazard while performing experiments without compromising the quality of learning. Most South…

Panel Femmes, sciences fondamentales et développement du Burkina Faso

Face à la faible représentativité des femmes dans plusieurs disciplines de sciences fondamentales, il est pertinent de mener des actions pour encourager les filles et les femmes à poursuivre des carrières scientifiques et à y réussir. Le Collège Sciences et Technologies de l’ANSAL-BF se propose d’aborder la question dans un panel avec des femmes scientifiques…

Modélisation mathématique et analyse des systèmes

L’objectif principal de cet atelier est de sensibiliser les jeunes Africains à s’intéresser davantage aux sciences en général et aux mathématiques en particulier. Cet atelier regroupera principalement des chercheurs des pays membres du réseau (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sénégal, Niger) et sera une opportunité pour les chercheurs de présenter leurs résultats de recherche. Au cours de…

IAPS School Day: Nepal

St. Xavier’s Physics Council (SXPC Nepal) will organize SXPC Outreach Program – 2022 on the occasion of IAPS School Day as such that there will be an Interaction and Demonstration program on Educational Research on Physics for sustainable development 11th of November and IAPS School Day celebration on 12th of November. The program will target…

Embedding Ethics in Machine Learning

From helping farmers adapt to climate change to predicting disease outbreaks, scientists in developing countries have begun turning to Machine Learning (ML) for more effective solutions. With this potential, however, comes the possibility for abuse, misuse, and unintended consequences. By presenting case studies from various parts of the world we will discuss the need for…

IAPS School Day: Noida

The 2022 IAPS School Day is planned as an offline event for school students in and around Noida. The targeted student segment is middle school students, i.e., around 6th grade to 9th grade. The upper cap for the total number of students is placed at around 80 attendees. Physics students will demonstrate experiments on the…