Register now to LUMAT Research Symposium 2022

This year’s LUMAT Research Symposium will be organized in Aalto University, Espoo in 13-14 June 2022 alongside with the LUMA-päivät (in Finnish). The program of our symposium consists of one keynote speech and oral presentations of the newest research on Science Education. The event is free of charge, and you will also have the possibility to participate remotely.

The theme of this year’s symposium will be Sustainability and Education. The keynote speech will be held by PhD, University lecturer Veli-Matti Vesterinen on the topic Science education in the time of crisis – The role of teacher and student agency.

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Are you a junior researcher? See also our Summer school organized on 15 June 2022.

Join Teacher’s Climate Change Forum for ideas on your climate education

Do you need ideas for climate education? Would you like to receive the latest information about climate change and climate research? Or would you like to connect with your colleagues all around the world? Join us in August to get all this and more. 

International Teachers’ Climate Change Forum is held virtually on 8.-9. August. The event is targeted to teachers in all levels of education who are interested in climate education. Professional development is supported with a variety of lectures and workshops, where you can discuss and share ideas with other participants. The event is organized with Global Challenges for Youth Forum, allowing for an interesting exchange on climate change between teachers and students.  

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Get to know the nominees for StarT Award and Education Award

The Science on Stage Festival 2024 will be held in Turku, Finland

The Science on Stage Festival is an international fair meant for STEAM teachers. At the festival, the attending teachers and educators share their educational ideas and meet colleagues from all over the world. This year, around 450 teachers from over 30 countries came together at Europe’s largest educational fair for science teachers in Prague, Czech Republic. The general assembly held simultaneously with the festival decided that the next Science on Stage Festival 2024 will be held in Turku, Finland.

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LUMA Centre Finland joins IDoS Network

The “International Dialogue on STEM Education” (IDoS) welcomes new members to its ranks in April. The Finnish STEM initiative LUMA Centre Finland and the French foundation La main à la pâte with its Office for Climate Education will amplify the education network’s efforts to push early STEM Education for children aged 3 to 10 up the international agenda.

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Dissertation: Integrated science education makes learning meaningful, but teaching methods are considered challenging in practice

Outi Haatainen, MSc, defended her doctoral thesis on integrated and collaborative science education on 29 April at the University of Helsinki. Through integrative teaching, teachers strive to construct curriculum content into meaningful wholes for learners. In her doctoral thesis, Haatainen has particularly investigated teachers’ perceptions of integrative teaching and their related experiences.

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