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Inventory of Comenius Centralised Actions

ACTION

CITIES - Chemistry and Industry for Teachers in European Schools

Action Type
Multilateral Project

Type of Multilateral Network (if applicable)

	Forum for joint reflection and co-operation in identifying and promoting innovation and best practice in a thematic area
	Platform assisting persons and institutions to maintain and consolidate European co-operation beyond the period of EU support for their projects

Short description
Project number: 129193; Country of the Coordinator: DE - The COMENIUS project CITIES produced four teacher training modules which helped teachers to make their chemistry lessons more appealing to students by placing the subject in the context of their daily lives. Besides basic information on European aspects of the chemical industry and chemistry teaching, CITIES offers course material with “hands on” experiments and a homepage that presents people and products, linking everyday benefits, the making of products and their chemical background in an interactive way.

Thematic area(s)/main subject(s)
Science Education

Website of the action
www.cities-eu.org

Starting date (mm/yyyy)
10/2006

Duration (in months)
36

Distinctions and awards received

PARTNERS

Coordinator (any role in a coordinating organisation)
EUROPA FACHHOCHSCHULE FRESENIUS, DE

Partner (any role in a consortium partner organisation)
CESKA SPOLECNOST CHEMICKA CZECH CHEMICAL SOCIETY, CZ
EUROPEAN CHEMISTRY EMPLOYERS'S GROUP, BE
EUROPEAN MINE, CHEMICAL AND ENERGY WORKER'S FEDERATION, BE
GESELLSCHAFT DEUTSCHER CHEMIKER E.V., DE
INSITUT QUIMIC DE SARRIA, UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL, ES
INSTITUT FÜR DIDAKTIK DER CHEMIE; JOHANN-WOLFGANG-GOETHE-UNIVERSITÄT, FACHBEREICH 14, DE
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, UK
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY, UK
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI, PL

Beneficiary outside a consortium
-

OUTCOMES

Chemistry changes Everything
Promoting Chemistry
Commerce and Innovation – Our Future

This inventory is being developed in the context of a European Commission study entitled "Study of the Impact of Comenius Centralised Actions: Comenius Multilateral Projects and Comenius Multilateral Networks". The study started in December 2010 and will last two years. It is being carried out by an international research team assembled by Ellinogermaniki Agogi, to whom it was awarded following a call for tenders (EAC/17/2010). Contact.