Japanese Embassy Event
11/6/2022 On June the 11th, the Japanese Embassy in Cyprus unveiled the first Sakura park in the country, and organisations were asked to prepare educational activities for students and parents. Heron organized simple training robotics activities for students, involving building homes using renewable energy with LEGO Wedo 2.0 robotics kit. A limited number of leaflets …
Ministry of Education & Parent Association Conference: Video games in education in Cyprus
28/5/2022 Heron helped organize a conference on video games in education, presenting STEAM approaches to integrating video games in the school curriculum. A brief presentation was given on Dart4City and leaflets were given to all participants, including educators and policy makers, and in digital form to those participating through video conferencing. In total, more than …
Mathematics & Science conference.
February 12, 2022 Heron participated at the 23rd Conference on Mathematics and Science, in which the Dart4City project was presented, including scenarios that use a 3D printer. Policy makers from the Ministry of Education were present and leaflets regarding Dart4City were given to everyone present. Prentation was also included in the proceedings of the conference, …
The second transnational meeting in Cyprus
Limassol, 10-11 May 2022 The progress of each STEAM projects and the possible improvements, as objectives of the European-funded project DART4City, were presented on 10-11 May 2022 at the second transnational meeting in Cyprus, in the city of Limassol, by all partners, guided by the leader partner Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Heron digital education & …
New Talk: “An opportunity to learn about the STEAM interdisciplinary teaching approach” by Rainero e Zanetti
Developing and improving Arts and creativity for the cities of tomorrow” is a project funded by the Erasmus + 2014-2020 programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport. Coordinated by Fundaciòn Universitaria San Pablo – Universidad CEU Cardenal San Pablo (Spain), it foresees among others the participation of 2 Italian entities, Alterevo Società Benefit Srl and the Foundation Mostra Internazionale d’Illustrazione per l’Infanzia. The project aims to develop and validate a methodology for the full integration of arts and creativity in the curricula of primary and secondary schools in Europe, using the interdisciplinary didactic approach STEAM, through the integration of art (A) with science (S), technology (T), engineering (E) and mathematics (M). This meeting will introduce the project to primary and secondary school teachers When: 14/10/2021 10:00 am Where: Online at facebook.com/comunevittorioveneto e youtube.com/comunevittorioveneto For: Teachers Interest Area: Childhood, Preadolescence, Adolescence
Shaping the cities of tomorrow: methodological training for the development of STEAM projects
In October 2021, the project foresees a Learning Activity organized as a cascade-training, in which teachers, researchers, designers and artists working in the field of education will be trained in the use of the project methodology to analyse the national curricula and educational contexts in their respective countries and to define 8 STEAM projects for …