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📢 The COSMOS Project Final Newsletter is Here! 🚀
https://www.cosmosproject.eu/assets/front/files/cosmos-newsletter-6.pdf

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🌍 Final Project Meeting in Utrecht! 🎉

We are thrilled to be in Utrecht for the final meeting of our project. As we approach the project's conclusion, it's an exciting time to reflect on the incredible journey, collaborations, and impactful results we've achieved together.

Thank you to all our partners and supporters who made this possible. 🙌

Welcome to our latest Newsletter!
This month we are sharing inspiring stories from schools implementing the COSMOS approach.

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📢Don't miss final conference!

On 22/11 the COSMOS Project will hold its final conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands, at Congresgebouw De Vereeniging.

Take a chance and don't miss this opportunity. A total of 8 workshops will be organised, ranging from "Participatory Methods to enrich the different SSILB stages" to "Stakeholder Engagement Workshop".

Find more info and registration here👉https://shorturl.at/U4BOc

🚀 Join us for the COSMOS Final Conference on November 22nd, 2024, in Utrecht! Let's dive into the latest insights on open schooling, participatory methods, and teacher development. Don't miss this opportunity to connect and learn from educators and researchers across Europe. Register today and secure your spot!
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Reconceptualizing open schooling: towards a multidimensional model of school openness ‘Open schooling’ has become in recent years a burgeoning theme in the discourse on how to rethink education for the 21st century. This paper addresses a gap between calls for implementing an open s...

Building a Green Future: Celebrating Sustainability Achievements from the COSMOS Project
Read about an exciting experience from Portugal on our website:

Cosmos project COSMOS (Creating Organisational Structures for Meaningful science education through Open Schooling for all)

COSMOS at ERIDOB 2024
During 1-5th July 2024, we had the opportunity to present and share some of the on-going work and initial findings from the COSMOS project with our academic community as part of a symposium at the 14th conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology (ERIDOB) that took place in Lyon, France.
Read more: https://www.cosmosproject.eu/en/news/cosmos-at-eridob2024

How can we make our school community healthier? Learning science for action at Kanes Hill Primary School.

Check our website blog and the last article from the UK:

Cosmos project COSMOS (Creating Organisational Structures for Meaningful science education through Open Schooling for all)

ERIDOB 2024
14th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology

Building a Green Future: Celebrating Sustainability Achievements from the COSMOS Project

On the 27th of June, students and teachers from the Alfredo da Silva School Group in Sintra and the Romeu Correia School Group in Almada took part in the final event of the European COSMOS project at the “Pavilhão do Conhecimento” – the biggest science centre in Portugal – a partnership between Ciência Viva and the Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa! It was a moment to present their projects and to celebrate their achievements!
The different classes from the 4th, 8th and 11th grade presented their school projects and actions about sustainability – focused on how to make the school and the community around them better prepared for a "green future". The discussed actions included exhibitions of sustainable building models, letters to the municipality and school directive board proposing feasible projects – involving photovoltaic panels and air-conditioning units – to improve the schools’ environmental sustainability, the implementation of nature-based solutions – placing potted plants at the windows, planting trees in the school yard and vertical gardens on the fences – to increase biodiversity in the schools’ area and to provide cover and reverse the ‘shade deserts’.

The young ones spent the morning learning more about bats with a acientist, from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon, and to take part in workshops where they learnt how to build solar-powered cars.

The Cosmos project brings together children and young people learning science in schools with their communities, local organisations and municipal services to make science education and culture more impactful, thus preparing young people for a sustainable future and considering how science is an integral part of their lives.