European projects can be very attractive for science centres, museums or schools. These projects add to the variety of science engagement initiatives and activities that we can offer to the public and/or to schools. These projects help us develop new ideas, programmes and tools, as well as establish new partnerships.
But how do we manage to sustain them - or at least some elements - once funding is over? How do we make them last longer than merely a ‘flash in the pan’? And why bother entering into a project if it ends when EU money dries out? This session will focus on the do's and don’ts of EU projects from an organisational point of view and will explore ways to ensure that they become part of and serve our core strategy.
Facilitator
Session speakers
Programme Manager - International Relations and Learning
Hellerup
Denmark
Experimentarium has participated in a number of EU projects and from 2011-2014, and was the coordinator of the TWIST project. Following the findings of the TWIST project, Experimentarium is looking to work towards developing guidelines for more gender inclusive exhibitions and integrating these as part of our core values and development principles. Furthermore the Engineer project has given insight and knowledge and has led to a large national initiative that is underway at this moment.
Deputy director
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
Youth Science Parliament was part of "2ways" EU project. The idea was to engage young students with controversial, scientific and ethical issues in sciences. In 2009, The Bloomfield science museum Jerusalem invited the Municipality and the Israel Parliament to become partners. The decision to involve relevant stakeholders and policy makers enable us to continue to operate it since: to secure funding, to get support in recruiting students and teachers, and to get high visibility and impact.
Project Manager
Athens
Greece
Aliki Giannakopoulou will be looking at the projects Ellinogermaniki Agogi has been participating at in the last years that involved science centres and museums as partners and will be sharing both successful and less successful examples of the life after of these projects activities.
Director Museum
Amsterdam & Leiden
Netherlands
NEMO will focus on two EU projects for two different target groups: Engineer - primary school (8-12 years old) and the GAPP secondary school (15-18 years old). To make the investment more valuable, NEMO turned both EU projects into very successful activities in the Netherlands and in the last two years transformed the engineer programme into a new alternative for the curriculum in the Netherlands. Besides , both projects has given lots of knowledge, which we implemented in our science Center.
