Working Group Science Education
Many European Academies are interested and engaged in fostering science education at the pre-university level. ALLEA is coordinator of the European Network of Academies for a Science Education Programme that cooperates with the global IAP-sponsored programme. The programme has as its main objective to help improve the quality of science education (notably: inquiry-based science education) across European nations by sharing relevant experiences. The increasing interest, better funding and stronger impact of projects funded by the European Commission makes such an effort timely: seed projects currently funded by the EU need to be made sustainable. Given that the European subsidiarity principle is applicable in matters of of education this cannot happen without strong support for such pilots at national levels: it is here that Academies can play an important role.
ALLEA publications and background documents
For more background information on the topic of Science Education please click here.
Members
Pierre Léna (founding chair) - Académie des Sciences (CG)
Odile Macchi (Chair IAP/SEP European Regional Council) - Académie des Sciences (CG)
Maija Katariina Aksela - Delegation of the Finnish Academies of Science and Letters (CG)
Geoffroy Boulton - Royal Society of Edinburgh (delegate York)
Giancarlo Vecchio - The National Academy of the Lincei (repl. Salvatore Califano)
Stanislav Dovgiy - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Maria Duca - Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Carl Figdor - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Florin G. Filip - Romanian Academy (repr. at launch meeting)
Athanasis Fokas - Academy of Athens (repr. at launch meeting)
John Grue - Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Sven-Olof Holmgren - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (CG-2)
Léo Houziaux - Académie Royale de Belgique
Stanko Popović - Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Yücel Kanpolat - The Turkish Academy of Sciences
Andrej Kranjc - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CG)
Randolf Menzel - Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (alternate: Ingolf Hertel)
Peter Mitchell - The Royal Irish Academy (CG)
József Pálinkás - Hungarian Academy of Sciences (repr. at launch meeting) (repl. Benő Csapó)
Miljenko Peric - Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (repl. Milosav Marjanovic)
Sřeren Peter Olesen - Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (repr. at launch meeting)
Dukagjin Pupovci - Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts
Gerhard Schaefer - Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte/German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (repr. at launch meeting)
Libby Steele - Royal Society of London (delegate York) (alternate: Nick von Behr)
Perko Vukotic - Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
Jan Zima - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (also: Jaroslav Pánek)
Rüdiger Klein – (ex officio, ALLEA)
(CG indicates: Core Group)
Meetings
2012 May - June
30 May - 1 June 2012: International conference on Inquiry-Based Science Education
IAP / ALLEA / Delegation of the Finnish Academies, Helsinki
Announcement & programme
2012 January
23 January 2012: Meeting of the Core Group (also: meeting with BEPA, President Barroso’s Bureau of European Policy Advisors), Brussels programme
2011 November
Meeting of the expanded Core Group with the Fibonacci network, Académie des Sciences (Institut de France), 4 November 2011, Paris
2011 June
ALLEA Working Group meeting, Académie royale de Belgique, Brussels (BE) programme
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2011 February
Meeting of Core Group with President Barroso’s Bureau of European Policy Advisors Programme
2010 October
29 October 2010: ALLEA Working Group on Science Education - working meeting, National Science Learning Centre, York (UK) draft programme
27-29 October 2010: InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Conference: Taking IBSE into Secondary Schools, National Science Learning Centre, York (UK) Conference brochure
2010 September
Meeting of Core Group with Bureau of European Policy Advisors and DGs Research and Education & Culture
2010 April
ALLEA General Assembly Conference: Learning: from apprenticeship to wisdom, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm programme
Please click here for the presentations of the conference
2009 June
ALLEA Working Group on Science Education - Launch meeting, Académie des Sciences (Institut de France), Paris programme workshop documentation