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home > Projects > Partner > PENCIL PENCIL: Permanent European Resource Centre for Informal Learning PENCIL (Permanent European Resource Centre for Informal Learning) combines field programmes and academic research with the aim of identifying the keys of success that transform informal science activities into innovative quality tools for science teaching. 14 science centres/museums are creating mini-networks involving schools, pupils, teachers associations, research laboratories, educational authorities, education and science communication specialists to run “pilot projects” on new ways to conduct science teaching. In parallel, an academic “Resource Centre” is created that will provide the state of the art in education research, science communication, formal/informal learning and best practices. The resource centre, based on the collaboration of two universities and two Ministries of Education, will assess and monitor the pilot projects in order to generalise the outcomes, and identify the criteria of innovation and quality that should become the standards for setting up future science teaching efforts. The resource centre will conduct a motivation study amongst the youngsters participating in “PENCIL” to identify the elements that make the change in their attitude towards science thanks to the project. At the end of the process, the hundreds of teachers involved will be brought together into a new “Science Teachers Network” that will validate the outcomes and the identified criteria. This network will become the core users of Xplora - the European science education portal - a web tool aims to become the reference for innovative science teaching, including newly created teacher training tools. PENCIL will participate to the integration effort with other funded projects of this call through the activity of the NUCLEUS consortium. PENCIL involves the following pilot projects:
1. The National Marine Aquarium (UK): “Marine issues with climate change” 2. IMSS (Italy): “On-line access to history of science museums objects” 3. Exploradôme (France): “Middle school student’s use of ICT in science learning” 4. Heureka (Finland): “Chemistry for primary schools” 5. Nemo (NL): “ROAD, Teaching R&D in schools thanks to hands-on activities” 6. Deutsches Museum (Germany): “Mobility issues with climate change” 7. Experimentarium (Denmark): “Xciters” 8. Ciência Viva (Portugal): “Ludo-mathematics” 9. Fondazione IDIS (Italy): “Social dimension of science, diversity and gender issues” 10. The Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem (Israel): “Health matters” 11. Cité de l’Espace (France): ”Future technologies” 12. Technopolis (Belgium): ”Interactive forensic science : Whodunit ” 13. Universeum / Teknikens Hus (Sweden): ”Learning for a sustainable society” 14. Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Greece): “The virtual observatory”
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