2. HANDS-ON SCIENCE ACTIVELY APROACHING SCIENCE EDUCATION Manuel F. M. Costa Universidade do Minho, Departamento de FísicaPORTUGAL www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

3. Back in 2003 the Hands-on Science Network was established as an EU Socrates/Comenius 3 project. Our aim was to contribute to the generalization innovation and improvement of Science & Technology Education at basic vocational training and secondary schools by hands-on experimental investigative practice in the classroom... bringing hands-on active learning of Science into the classroom and into the soul and spirit of the School... UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 www.uminho.pt

4. “We learn how to do by doing the things we are learning to do” (Aristotle) www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

5. The main goal of the Hands-on Science network is to promote hands-on investigative experiments based learning of Science improving Science Education and Scientific Literacy. www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 Opening Minds, Discovering the Future

6. broad open understanding of the meaning and importance of Science open to all pedagogical approaches effective that may contribute to the effective implementation of a sound widespread Scientific Literacy and Science Education www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

7. Formal, informal and non-formal education from the kindergarten to adult and lifelong learning www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

8. Educating for Science and through Science www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

9. Leading the students to an active active volunteer and committed participation learning in the teaching/learning process hands-on through hands-on investigative practice and experimentation, making intensive use of the new instruments and resources of the Information Society. Critical reasoning and Observation Method Responsibility Active commitment Self confidence www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

10. www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

11. REGULAR MEMBERS ASSOCIATED MEMBERS OBSERVERS www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

12. Workshops/Thematic conferences (“The Access of Women to Science” in Cologne, June2004, “The challenges of EU enlargement on Science Literacy and Development” in Malta January 2005, “Scientific Literacy and LifeLong Learning”, Bucharest, May 2006) Comenius Contact Seminars Training courses for school teacher (Experiments in the classroom, Hands-on Optics, School’ Robotics, Hands-on Science and Computer Simulations) Contest “IDEAS FOR SCIENCE FAIRS” Science Fairs Robotics Festivals Comenius Grundtvig FP7 and TEMPUS projects Lectures and demonstrations

13. www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

14. HSCI conferences

15. Eleven HSCI conferences HSCI2004: http://www.hsci.info/hsci2004/ http://www.hsci.info/hsci2004/ HSCI2005: http://www.clab.edc.uoc.gr/2nd/ http://www.clab.edc.uoc.gr/2nd/ HSCI2006: http://www.hsci.info/hsci2006/index.html http://www.hsci.info/hsci2006/index.html HSCI2007: http://www.hsci.info/hsci2007.html http://www.hsci.info/hsci2007.html HSCI2008: http://www.hsci.info/HSCI2008/hsci2008.htmlhttp://www.hsci.info/HSCI2008/hsci2008.html HSCI2009: http://www.hsci.info/HSCI2009PROCEEDINGS.pdfhttp://www.hsci.info/HSCI2009PROCEEDINGS.pdf HSCI2010: http://www.clab.edc.uoc.gr/hsci2010/ http://www.clab.edc.uoc.gr/hsci2010/ HSCI2011: http://colos.fri.uni-lj.si/mptl_hsci/http://colos.fri.uni-lj.si/mptl_hsci/ HSCI2012: http://www.hsci2012.orghttp://www.hsci2012.org HSCI2013: http://www.hsci2013.infohttp://www.hsci2013.info HSCI2014: http://www.hsci2014.infohttp://www.hsci2014.info www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

16. mfcosta@fisica.uminho.pt bvazquez@uvigo.es UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

17. FP7 projects: CLS and PriSciNet http://www.creative-little-scientists.eu/ http://www.prisci.net/ UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

18. HSCI’2015 HSCI’2015 Hammamet, Tunisia September 2-5, 2015 www.hsci2015.info invitation www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

19. www.hsci.info contact@hsci.info president@president@hsci.info International Association HANDS-ON SCIENCE NETWORK UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

20. Manuel Filipe P. C. M. Costa, 2015 mfcosta@fisica.uminho.pt www.uminho.pt UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015

25. Our conferences