The project will be coordinated by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The other partnership Universities are the University of Pavia, the University of Oldenburg, the University of Cyprus, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. All partners are very interested in teacher education and in teacher training through distance learning and ICT technologies. Also, all the above institutions provide initial and in-service training for teachers.

Coordinating Institution: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, Science, Technology and Environmental Section, Didactics of Science...read more

Participating institution No 2: University of Pavia
The Physics Department's History and Didactics Group of the Pavia University began, in the late seventies, to research aspects of knowledge of the History of Science and scientific education, and to underline the role the former could play in the latter. Halfway through the eighties, the Group linked contents and methodology to digital technology....read more

Participating institution No 3: University of Oldenburg (Carl von Ossietzky University)
Founded in 1983, the research group on Physics Education, History and Philosophy of Science is part of the Institute of Physics at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg. We aim to analyse the historical development of physics (mainly in the 18th and 19th century). Focusing particularly on its methodology and findings, the central aspect of our research is the experiment and its role in the process of producing scientific knowledge......read more

Participating institution No 4: University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS
The University of Cyprus is a State University in Cyprus. The University research programs cover a wide range of fields that correspond to the existing specializations and Departments. They are funded either through the University’s budget or by institutions in Cyprus and abroad. The main objective of the University of Cyprus is twofold: the promotion of scholarship and education through teaching and research, and the enhancement of the cultural, social and economic development of Cyprus. In this context the University believes that education must provide much more than simply accumulation of knowledge. It must also encourage students' active participation in the process of learning and acquisition of those values, which are necessary for responsible and active involvement in the community.......read more

Participating institution No 5: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The Aristotle University, a "city" within the city of Thessaloniki, is the largest educational institution in the country and one of the biggest in Europe. It covers a wide range of cognitive fields and it offers education to 70,000 graduate and postgraduate students and, at the same time, gives the opportunity to 4,000 scientists, researchers and academics to work in their fields, to cooperate with other universities and public and private bodies, and to present the results of their research activity to the international scientific community......read more