Next Lab
Next-Lab introduces inquiry-based science education with advanced online tools, fostering deep understanding of science and collaboration skills.
Reference: 731685
Title: Next Generation Stakeholders and Next Level Ecosystem for Collaborative Science Education with Online Labs
Funded By: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
From 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Coordinator: UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE (Netherlands)
Participants:
- ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (Switzerland)
- IMC INFORMATION MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION AG (Germany)
- EUN Partnership AISBL (Belgium)
- ELLINOGERMANIKI AGOGI SCHOLI PANAGEA SAVVA AE (Greece)
- UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS (Cyprus)
- UNIVERSIDAD DE LA IGLESIA DE DEUSTO (Spain)
- TARTU ULIKOOL (Estonia)
- NUCLIO NUCLEO INTERACTIVO DE ASTRONOMIA ASSOCIACAO (Portugal)
- ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE LYON (France)
- TURUN YLIOPISTO (Finland)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (United Kingdom)
Description:
Next-Lab (Next Generation Stakeholders and Next Level Ecosystem for Collaborative Science Education with Online Labs) is a European research project co-funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Horizon 2020 Programme. Next-Lab focuses on introducing inquiry-based science education (IBSE) in schools and continues the mission of the project Go-Lab, promoting innovative and interactive teaching methods in primary and secondary schools.
Next-Lab provides a varied portfolio of advanced online learning tools in science topics, which contains hundreds of virtual and remote science laboratories, inquiry learning applications and Inquiry Learning Spaces. Furthermore, there is an authoring tool for teachers they can use to create own cross-curriculum learning scenarios and share them with their students.
Using Next‐Lab, students benefit from the rich, challenging learning experiences, shaping their science and technology knowledge together with social competencies. The innovative tools of Next-Lab guide students though the research process, helping them to acquire in-depth understanding of scientific topics as well as 21st century collaboration and reflection skills.
