International Projects
The Museum is involved in many regional, national and international projects as coordinator, promoter and partner. In this perspective it collaborates with other museums, science centres, training institutions, teachers and students. The aim is not only to broaden geographically the action of the Museum, but also to improve the relationship with the different partners, to exchange experiences and competences, and to contribute actively to science and technology education.
Nanototouch
Nanosciences Live in Science Centres and Museums.
The Projects has been funded by the Science in Society programme.
It aims to communicate effectively research in the field of nanotechnology.
Non specialised visitors will be involved in activities and debate
through the direct contact with young researchers in action. more
Pilots
Professionalisation for Learning in Science and Technology.
The Project has been funded in the framework of the Lifelong Learning
Programme. It aims to contribute substantially to the training of
science centre and museum explainers. The Project partners will
develop training courses and materials to help explainers in their
everyday interaction with adult visitors, involving them actively
in debates on science and governance. more
Pilots
Pathway
The Project has been funded in the framework of the Seventh Framework
Programme under the strand “Supporting and coordinating actions
on innovative methods in science education: teacher training on
inquiry based teaching methods on a large scale in Europe”. The
project aims to support an effective widespread use of inquiry and
problem based science teaching techniques in primary and secondary
schools in Europe and beyond. more
Pathway
Open Sciences Resources
The Project has been funded by the eContentplus programme. The
objective is to study and work towards a pan-European digital educational
content standard. more
Open Sciences Resources
Sedec - Science Education for the Development of European Citizenship
The Museum is one of the partner involved in the SEDEC project.
The project is led by IRRE Lombardia and has many Italian and European
partners. The main objective is to build European citizenship awareness
through science.
Sedec
Hands-on & Brains-on
The Museum participates to the Hands-on & Brains-on project,
led by Heureka Science Centre and funded by the VI EU Framework
Program. The Hands-On & Brains-On project integrates the processes
of teaching cognitive facts at school and learning how to make observations
in science centres and museums. It thus reinforces the use of museums
and science centres as innovative resources for teaching and learning
that can offer specialist support and experience in science.
Hands-on
& Brains-on
European In-service training course for teachers and museum educators
The SMEC working group offers a training course for primary school
teachers and museum educators. The course aims to contribute to
teachers' and museum educators' development of competences relating
to the teaching of sciences through the use of museums as educational
resources.
Activities
and courses
Smec - School-Museum European Cooperation for Improving the Teaching and Learning of Sciences
The National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo da
Vinci" coordinated, between 2001 and 2005, the SMEC project
funded by the Socrates programme of the European Union. The project
addressed science education and teacher training at European level.
What emerged from the work in SMEC has convinced the Museum of the
necessity for further work, research and contribution in the field,
and for dissemination at wide level.
Smec