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Course Staff

Noëlle Billon - course coordinator

(Project management) Noelle works in the EUN’s Science Education Department. She is Project Manager of the STEM School Label, Deputy Project Manager of Scientix and coordinates the activities of EUN in STIM project.

 

Vasiliki Katsikerou - course moderator

Vasiliki is a project management intern at EUN. She specializes in instructional design, pedagogy, and education analysis. Her work with EUN involves curating learning scenarios; designing MOOCs and classroom activities for NBS, BRITEC, and STE(A)M IT; and event organizing for the BLOOM project.

Anna Koc - course moderator

Anna is a Chemistry teacher at Nicolaus Copernicus Bilingual School in Warsaw, Poland.  She has been involved in lots of national and international projects (NBS, BRITEC, COLAB). She has taken part in numerous MOOCs. She always tries to improve the quality of conducted classes by introducing innovative solutions, improving the scenarios of classes and  increasing students awareness and interest.

Grażyna Kosmala - moderator, Poland

Grażyna is a teacher of biology, geography and nature at a primary school in Lodz (Poland). She participated in many European projects, such as:  Confresh, Eduscience, EGU For Teachers, Scientix, Britec. Grażyna coordinates environmentally friendly activities in her school which goal is popularisation of active forms of gaining knowledge and skills, integration of pupils, their parents and school workers . She also realises tasks which are aimed at popularizing healthy lifestyle.  She implements elements of  innovative  projects  into school curricula.

Agnieszka Czerwińska - moderator, Poland

Agnieszka is a postdoctoral researcher in Insitute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. She acquired a doctoral degree in geophysics in 2016. Her field of expertise is ultraviolet (UV) radiation – modelling and measurements. She has been responsible for the pilot subject „UV radiation and Vitamin D3” in BRITEC project.



Adrián Gollerizo Fernández - moderator, Spain

Adrián is a Physics & ICT teacher based in Madrid. He has found his passion in the design of innovative activities for the science classroom and he has explored both formal and non-formal educational settings. He is currently working at Escuela IDEO, where he teaches different subjects in the area of STEM and coordinates the Bachillerato Studies section.

Jesús Clemente-Gallardo - moderator, Spain

Associate professor in Theoretical Physics at the University of Zaragoza (SPAIN). I have been teaching and doing research in Mathematical Physics since 1995. Since May 2015 I am also the Director of Ibercivis Foundation, a Spanish non-profit organization created in 2014  for the promotion of Citizen Science activities and research.

Christos Giannaros - moderator, Greece

Christos holds a PhD in Environmental Physics (2018). His PhD work focused on the study of heat waves and urban heat island effect, and on the assessment of human thermal comfort conditions. From 2019, he acts as a Research Associate at National Observatory of Athens, Greece, while from 2020, he also works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Frederick Research Center, Cyprus.

Behind the Course

With Europe's shortage of STEM skilled labour force, there is a real need for innovative approaches to demystify science, increase the motivation of the pupils towards STEM subjects and offer teacher training into new ways of introducing science in the classroom.

In this context, BRITEC aims towards: connecting schools with the world of research; introducing the Citizen Science (CS) approach in schools as a way of engaging pupils in research practice; creating a community of practice for teachers and researchers to exchange on how to bring research into the classroom; offering STEM teachers a way of participating in research activities; providing guidelines, resources, example of good practice and online training for STEM teachers in implementing CS at school.

The project is coordinated by the Institute of Geophysics (PAN), in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)Open Technologies AllianceIbercivisKU Leuven and European Schoolnet.

Disclaimer and Copyright

Bringing Research Into The Classroom (BRITEC) is supported by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Programme. The European Commission support for the production of this material does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.