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Science View organizes and implements innovative educational activities that combine creativity, imagination, personal skills, interactivity, active participation and democratic processes, with the assistance of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) – Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology. “Learning Science Through Theatre” and “Greek Student Parliament of Science” aim to enhance science education in Greece.

Learning Science Through Theatre

“Learning Science Through Theatre” is an activity during which high school students stage a play and dramatize scientific concepts and knowledge from the material being taught in schools.
“Learning Science Through Theatre” (LSTT) was realized for the first time in academic year 2014-2015 in cooperation with NKUA and was under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Education. LSTT’s main objective is the development of creative and critical skills, active involvement of students in creating and discussing scientific concepts and the interdisciplinary interconnection of science with aspects of art.
LSTT is based on the pedagogical framework developed by the EU funded CREAT-IT project and on the principles of Inquiry Based Science Education methodology.
In LSTT 2015-2016 schools across Greece can participate either by staging their play in one of the three final events that will take place in Athens, Thessaloniki and Heraklion in April 2016, or by filming their play and sending it.
The organizers and professional assistants will be monitoring the implementation process throughout the duration of the activity and provide support to participants by visiting to schools, online meetings and workshops to support teachers and students.
Participating schools will be able to create their own script based on all fields of natural sciences and mathematics. In addition, students and teachers will be provided with samples and examples of implementing the activity in class.
Each participant school will create working groups (e.g. script writers, actors, musicians, dancers, stage and costume designers, video producers) who will be assisted by professionals. Students, based on their interests, can participate in more than one group.
The role of teachers is crucial for the conformation of the script and the overall coordination of activities. Teachers can incorporate educational activities in the respective subjects of the curriculum as an implementation project, as well as educational groups conducted at their school (theater play, music, etc.).

Greek Student Parliament on Science: “The future of the Human Being”

The Greek Student Parliament on Science is part of the European Student Parliaments on Science. In this activity high school students participate in parliamentary procedures, while acting as researchers in scientific issues with the help of renowned experts and their teachers. The Greek Student Parliament on Science, which is supported by The John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, aims to strengthen dialogue and exchange of ideas and knowledge between students and scientists covering various fields of science and research, while involving young people in parliamentary processes.
The Greek Student Parliament on Science (GSPS) was organized for the first time by Science View, with the assistance of NKUA, during the academic year 2013-2014 with great success. Science View is organizing the new GSPS for academic year 2015-2016.
In the first GSPS more than 100 students and teachers from schools in Attica, Greece were involved. The GSPS elected five students who represented Greece in June 2014 in the European event at ESOF 2014 in Copenhagen.
In the second GSPS students from all around Greece will be able to participate through an online platform.
This rounds’ overall topic will be ‘The Future of the Human Being’ and current issues such as brain research, genetically modified food or artificial reproduction will be discussed. Experts from the respective field of research will support the students in their scientific working groups to identify specific problems and questions.
In July 2016, the final event of the ‘European Student Parliaments’ will take place in Manchester as part of the EuroScience Open Forum 2016 (ESOF). Over three days, around 100 delegates from all over Europe will discuss the topic ‘The Future of the Human Being’ in a European context. The students will come together in committees to discuss their ideas in the light of the resolutions adopted in the local parliaments. In expert hearings, they will receive support from international scientists in the respective field. The students will debate on the suggestions of the working groups and vote on the final resolutions.
Beforehand, various local parliaments take place in different European countries, bringing together around 1,500 students to express their ideas on future humanity. Five students of each student parliament get the chance to participate in the finals in Manchester to represent both their country and topic.
The “European Student Parliaments on Science” is organized by Wissenschaft im Dialog and is funded by Robert Bosch Stiftung and Bayer Science & Education Foundation.