04/07/2017

Tjodnalio School in Stord municipality (Hordaland county, Norway) has a years-long tradition of “Culture Weeks” which engages the complete school in a wide variety of creative workshops, interventions and teaching approaches. The methodology is based on pupils rotating through various

03/07/2017

On Saturday the 26th of August, a science fair for elementary and high school students will be held at Chania, Crete in the facilities of the Sailing Club at the old harbour. The event will include simple experiments demonstrating various basic principles of particle physics, a variety of biological

30/06/2017

SCENIO is the biggest science plus arts community in the Spanish World. It was created in February 2017 with the goal to unify the talent of science communicators that use creativity and new platforms to communicate science: youtubers, instagramers, science illustrators, photographers, videogame dev

27/06/2017

The aim of the competition is to expose students to the diversity within research by: – Breaking down stereotypes of what a ‘scientist’ is and what they do. – Inspiring students to take an interest in scientific careers – Providing students with direct connections to the univer

31/05/2017

Since its inception in the late 1970s, hip-hop culture has had a strong impact on young people across the world, and especially on youth in under-represented urban communities of colour. However, evidence suggests that it is exactly these young people from marginalized urban groups whose interest in

11/05/2017

The 2017 EPS HEP Outreach Prize is awarded to Michael Hoch for initiatives highlighting the conceptual and physical beauty of high-energy physics, and the inspirational qualities that are common to both Art and Science. Michael Hoch is at the origin of the art@CMS project, an innovative education an

11/04/2017

A CREATIONS workshop for teachers was hosted in the framework of the 10th national conference of ENEFET (Society of Science & Technology Education in Greece), which was held in Rethymno (Crete) from 7th to 9th of April 2017. Eleven pre service primary teachers and three physics teachers particip

30/03/2017

From the  1st to the 3rd  of April 2017, Ellinogermaniki Agogi will host three SciArt Masterclass implementation activities with more than 100 high school students from all over Greece in the framework of the CREATIONS Project. The Masterclass has been developed by Michael Hoch, in the framework o

22/03/2017

Science View in collaboration with Ellinogermaniki Agogi and the Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens organising the event “Days of Creative Expression and Science”, Open Schools for Open Society. The event will be held in Athens fr

21/03/2017

The difficulty in visualising what takes place in the quantum world has a close relationship to the artist attempting to express their ideas and emotions about the world. Both are concerned with “making the invisible, visible.”   “In-Public” a new community arts group co-founded by Ian Andr

20/03/2017

One of the most successful examples of using art in STEM education is Cultural Collisions event at CERN, a five-day workshop that took place at CERN from 21 to 25 February 2017 with the participation of fifty high-schoolers from Salzburg and Vienna (Austria), as well as from the International School

15/03/2017

  „It is important, more than ever before, to communicate about science, about impact of science and a role that science plays within society”, said Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research and Innovation at European Commission, during his visit of the CPN exhibition “Serbia in H

07/03/2017

  In the first week of March 2017, the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) ran their annual Particle Physics Masterclass, reaching over 700 A-Level students and teachers.  Each day included a series of talks by RAL’s particle physics department, talking not only about the Standard Mode

06/03/2017

The University of Exeter CREATIONS team are excited to have launched the Dialogues in Science-Creativity-Arts Action Research Programme on 1 March 2017. The team are working with seven pairs of arts and science teachers, from across the UK, to support their action research into the question: “How

01/03/2017

Ciencia Show is a Spanish stand-up science national contest for students. In 5 minutes they have to explain a scintific topic in front of the audience. Together with this contest we also provide a workshop for teachers in communication skills and a Big Van science stand-up show for students. You can

28/02/2017

Ciencia clip is an international contest where students can communicate science on Youtube. Students from everywhere in the world choose a scientific topic of their choice, they learn, study and reflect on the topic and record and edit a video in Youtube style. The contest is divided in 3 age groups

21/12/2016

The CREATIONS Summer School introduces innovative approaches and activities that involve teachers and students in Scientific Research through creative ways that are based on Art. The Course focuses on the development of effective links and synergies between schools and research infrastructures in or

02/12/2016

The Exeter team, as part of the CREATIONS consortium, delivered their first CREATIONS workshop in the UK at the prestigious  Imperial College London on Friday 25th November. 16 PGCE students from their newly developed course of STEAM Secondary teachers participated in the workshop. It was a fast,

01/12/2016

On November 19th, the Global Science Opera, «Ghost Particles» was performed in countries around the globe. In all, teams from about 20 countries contributed to the opera and its process, during which science and art were collaboratively explored by pupils, teachers, scientists and artists. The ope

10/11/2016

Quarks, the Big Bang, the multiverse and much more was thoroughly discussed this morning in Malta. There was no conference hall and no lecture room but a secondary school with 12-year-old students. The University of Malta in collaboration with the CMS experiment at CERN and the Department of Curricu

06/11/2016

Global Opera Premier! The Global Science Opera (GSO) is the first opera initiative in history which is created, produced and performed as a global community. The GSO’s new production will premier on November 19th, 2016 (1:30 PM GMT) in countries around the globe. The opera, Ghost Particles, te

21/10/2016

Learning Science Through Theater Workshop will be realised in the context of Open School for Open Societies conference, which will take place on 4-6 of November 2016, in Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Athens. It refers mainly to secondary and high school teachers who are interested in implementing the acti

21/10/2016

The Open Schools for Open Societies Conference 2016 will take place in Athens, from 4th to 6th of November 2016. The aim of the conference is to introduce and discuss the notion of the “Open School”. A school that effectively introduces innovations in education is an engaging environment not onl

12/09/2016

CERN, Γενεύη. «Αόριστο αλλά συναρπαστικό», γράφει στην πίσω όψη του το μπλουζάκι που φοράει ο Βρετανός φυσικός Μικ Στορ, ένας από τους παλαιότερους φυσικούς του CERN. Η φ

06/09/2016

Following last March’s  great success with more than 1000  schools from around the world involved in the activity, we are happy to announce the Eratosthenes Experiment September 2016, which will take place on the 22nd  of September, 2016! Do not miss the opportunity to participate in this fasc

01/09/2016

Playing with Protons (PwP) is a new science education initiative led by the CMS Experiment that contributes to this effort by encouraging primary school teachers to engage in professional development (PD) opportunities. These are designed specifically to enrich teachers’ pedagogical practice wit

29/08/2016

Do you have a burning passion for physics and astronomy? Do you love to express yourself artistically? Are you looking for new inspirations? Then make your mark by entering this free CREATIONS National Competition for UK primary and secondary school students – create an artistic piece that engages

09/08/2016

On August 22-27th, Stord Haugesund University College (Norway) will host the 20th Global Hands on Universe Conference and Galileo Teacher Training Programme (http://handsonuniverse.org/ghou2016/). During the conference, the CREATIONS project will be featured in two ways: The art@CMS exhibition will

09/08/2016

Playing with Protons Course at CERN CREATIONS is continuing its activities during summer 2016. The first Playing with Protons (PwP) training course for ten primary school teachers from Greece will take place at CERN from 17 to 22 August. This innovative course will include lectures by CERN scientist

21/07/2016

CREATIONS is continuing its activities during Summer 2016. After the successful Summer School in Marathonas where teachers participated and practice the CREATIONS approach, now we are moving in South Greece, Pelloponisos, Messini! Now we are going to work with 40 high school students, we are going t

19/07/2016

  It’s hot because the weather is great, it’s STEAMy because there are 46 participants from more than 10 countries taking part in the STEAM science communication summer school between the 13–22 July in Cleves (Germany). This transcultural project is a collaboration with CREATIONS—a EU f

12/07/2016

  The CREATIONS Summer School 2016, held at Attica, Greece, 3rd to 8th July. It introduces innovative approaches and activities that involve teachers and students in scientific research through creative ways that are based on art. The course focuses on the development of effective links and syn

24/06/2016

Prominent European educator visited Serbia thanks to Scientix, the community for science education in Europe and CREATIONS, a H2020 project   Center for the Promotion of Science, Physicist Society of Niš and Scientix, the community for science education in Europe, with support from CREATIONS p

22/06/2016

The CREATIONS project will be presented in the 5th International e-Life Dual Congress, that will take place between 23rd to 26th of June in Greece, Limni Plastira. The Congress is dealing, among others, with the involvement of students in initiatives using the internet and how the organisers should

21/06/2016

CREATIONS portal aims to enrich the existing educational approaches by blending artistic creativity with the inquiry based science education model so as to extend the implementation to larger and more diverse settings. This page describes the structure of the CREATIONS Community portal organized in

12/06/2016

James Tanton, a famous mathematician and lecturer, was visiting Belgrade from 25 to 29 May to participate in the annual event “May, Month of Mathematics” (M3 2016). This visit was organized by Aleksandra Ravas, a math promoter, in cooperation with the Centre for the Promotion of Science under th

12/06/2016

On 20 May, Etopia Center for Art & Technology opened an exhibition called Reverberadas, organized under the European Digital Art and Science Network project. The exhibition in Saragossa presented the works of a dozen artists and art groups who treat science topics and their social role and impor

09/06/2016

The GSO vision is to produce annual Global Science Opera productions during which a global community will explore interwoven science, art and technology within a creative and democratic inquiry process. Homepage

09/06/2016

Do you have a burning passion for physics and astronomy? Do you love to express yourself artistically? Are you looking for new inspirations? Then make your mark by entering this free CREATIONS National Competition for UK primary and secondary school students – create an artistic piece that engages

29/03/2016

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the “discovery of neutrino oscillations”, which demonstrated that neutrinos – the elusive particles in the Universe – change identities. The peculiar behaviour of the omnipresent neutrino, which passes through normal matter, the earth and our b

29/03/2016

The 14th of Mars Vetenskapens Hus (Stockholm House of Science) will celebrate the number Pi by arranging a full day of math activities and math lectures. More than 700 students in lower and upper secondary school will meet math researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm univers