FORTHEM - International Symposium on Citizen Science
From 28
to 30 March 2023, the University of Opole hosts representatives of partner FORTHEM
universities from Jyväskylä, Agder, Valencia and Mainz within the symposium on
modelling citizen science for educational institutions - Modelling Citizen
Science for Education (MSCEDU).
The event is the culmination point of the MSCEDU project, implemented by
researchers from the Multilingualism in
School and Higher Education FORTHEM Lab, and by the Institute of Linguistics (Faculty of Philology) and the Chair of Sociology (Faculty of Social
Sciences) at the UO.
The aim
of the Opole part of the project is to prepare pupils and teachers from
selected secondary schools to introduce elements of citizen science in project
work with pupils in humanities and social sciences grades. This semester,
pupils from secondary schools nos. 3, 6 and 8 use their knowledge of research
methods to explore issues important to them and identified in their immediate
environment. In this year's MSCEDU series, the themes of the pupils' endeavours
focus on the social determinants of language and media communication.
The scientific symposium will develop a model for the process of implementing
citizen science in schools following the theory of change. There will be presentations and seminars on various aspects of cooperation among
schools in different countries, and focus groups on engagement, motivation and
challenges in the implementation process, about which you can learn more here.
In addition, on Thursday, 30 March 2023, the organisers invite you to:
- an open networking session for
staff and students interested in collaborating within the FORTHEM lab, with
experts: Päivikki
Lahtinen, University of Agder, managing the Labs
and Co-creation mission; Prof. Tamás
Péter Szabó, University of Jyväskylä, FORTHEM
lab coordinator during the pilot period of the alliance; Dr Barbara Curyło, University of Opole, university FORTHEM
coordinator (11.30-13.00, Collegium Civitas, room 104)
- an open lecture combined with a workshop
on stakeholder cooperation (in English) Facilitating
co-creation: Insights from UiA's co-creation projects at CoLab, Päivikki
Lahtinen (14.00-15.30, Collegium Civitas, room 104). The event was organised
with the support of the EU funding of the FIT
FORTHEM project (Horizon 2020, grant agreement 101017248).
Prof. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and
Marcin Deutschmann, MA