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FaSMEd presents at the Scientix Conference
The 2nd Scientix conference took place on 24-26 October 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Over 600 participants from 43 countries gathered to discuss innovation in STEM education practice, policy and research. The programme featured 70 talks, 14 workshops, 7 round-tables, 25 exhibition stands.
The highlights were the three keynotes: Prof. José Mariano Gago, former Minister of Science, Technology, Information Society and Higher Education in Portugal, Ewald Breunesse, Manager Energy Transitions at Shell Netherlands, and Amber Gell, rocket scientist and spacecraft system engineer at Lockheed Martin and NASA.
The presentations and discussions at the conference were summarised by Marc Durando, Executive Director of European Schoolnet, who stressed the role of teachers in bringing about change in STEM education.
FaSMEd was presented at the conference by David Wright as a 1 minute pitch at the start of the conference. FaSMEd also had a joint stand together with the projects ASSIST-me and SAILS, all three projects have in common that they are aiming to find good assessment strategies for inquiry science teaching.
Last modified: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:12:31 BST
