(ANSA) - HELSINKI, 13 AGO - Yesterday in the city of Turku, the Italian Embassy in Helsinki and the Italian Cultural Institute took part, together with a delegation of Italian teachers, in the opening ceremony of the European Festival of Science on Stage, the largest European event dedicated to the teaching of STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
The European Festival of Science on Stage (https://www.science-on-stage.eu/) is a competition that every two years brings together and compares the best projects carried out by teachers from schools at all levels, from primary to upper secondary. As many as 12 projects were submitted by Italian teachers to the 2024 edition.
All in all, over 400 projects from more than 30 countries are taking part in this year's Festival. They were chosen through national selections similar to the one in Italy that saw 30 teams compete during the three-day Italian Festival hosted by the Città della Scienza in Naples in September 2023.
Each project represents a new proposal, often realised together by teachers and students, to tackle a scientific or technological theme in a compelling way, through the methodology of Inquiry Based Learning, teaching based on experience, the formulation of hypotheses and the realisation of experiments in first person.
Science on Stage is supported in Italy by the INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Physics; INAF, National Institute of Astrophysics; AIF, Association for the Teaching of Physics; Italian Chemical Society, Chemical Didactics Division; ML System, scientific equipment for didactics; La Palestra della Scienza di Faenza. The Italian participation in the 2024 edition was supported by a contribution from the Italian Cultural Institute in Helsinki.
Italy at the Science on Stage Europe festival in Finland
The event from 12 to 15 August in the city of Turku