Category: Ongoing Work
First trainings on Making with kids started in Austria
The DOIT coordinator Salzburg Research kicked off the first trainings on Making with kids in Austria on 14 October. The one-day training was held in the Makerspace Grand Garage in Linz with 7 employees of the Makerspace and 3 external participants. After an introduction to the DOIT program, the participants got the chance to try…
NCPs trained on RRI
In 2017 the NewHoRRIzon project has launched so called ‘social labs’ to foster the implementation and application of Responsible Research and Innovation in different fields of research. Within this framework one pilot activity of the research area ‘Energy’ has put its ideas in practice now. Facilitated by the ZSI team, a training for the NCP’s…
Toolbox for maker kids and facilitators
Get ideas and tools for your making and check out the newly released toolbox of DOIT. It provides many ideas and methods on how to integrate and foster making for children from 8 to 14 years old.
Policy brief recommends actions to tackle ‘Grand Challenges’
Read the latest policy brief nr.2 on ‘Lacking Integration of Societal Needs and Ethical concerns into European Research and Innovation Policy severely limits the ability to tackle ‘Grand Challenges’ of the NewHoRRIzon project.
DOIT rollout activity presented at youth conference
On Friday 28th of June, ZSI will present a DOIT roll out activity that has been created by the after-school childcare kids of the Volksschule Gröbming at the youth health conference in Schladming. The students developed a game that combines fitness and tricky questions on health combined with programming of an mBot as well as…
CORDIS reports about eCraft2Learn
Read the CORDIS article about the eCraft2Learn outcomes and resultsFun, inventive and dynamic: new approaches to digital skills and making technologies
DOIT Social Innovation Idea Challenge
Promote the call for Innovation Ideas of the DOIT project: “Are you between 6 and 16 years old? And do you have an idea that could make the world a little bit better? Then we want to hear it! Think about the things that matter to you and that you might be worried about. Whether…
Time to safe ‘Science with and for Society’
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Report on 2nd Pilot of ZSI DOIT Project
Read the report of the second DOIT pilot, fostered by ZSI at the website of the cooperating school HAK/HAS Wiener Neustadt.
Get on the SySTEM 2020 Map!
19 organisations all around Europe are on a mission to map STEAM education outside the classroom in 24 countries as part of the project SySTEM 2020. Little is known about science learning initiatives outside the classrooms while it is very important in educating and forming Europe’s next generation citizens. ZSI is part of this international…
2nd Energy Social Lab: beautiful, usefull, full, purposefull = powerfull?
The Energy Social Lab of the NewHoRRIzon project was having its second workshop (4th and 5th of April 2019) in Payerbach, Reichenau an der Rax (AT). The aim of this second workshop was to evaluate and develop the pilot activities of how to include RRI in the everyday work in the H2020 programme line ‘Secure,…
BLOOM bioeconomy documentary serial
The BLOOM project started with preparing it’s documentary serial on bioeconomy. Episode 1 addresses bioeconomy on wood basis and will be ready soon. The film team visited Lenzing AG and got insights how wood gets converted into fibers or textiles. In each hub the team will pick one example of bioeconomy in Europe and shoot…
Are you an advanced maker? Then join the online community ‘Living together’
The European project DOIT invites all young social innovators and makers from 14 to 16 years! Within our online action, we we will work on challenges on the topic “Living Together”. We start at 25th of March four weeks, with weekly inputs and time to chat (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:00 CET). No need to register!…
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