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.

International collaborations

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

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

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

the SMEC web site is designed, created and maintained by the Museum’s Internet and Interactive Media Staff

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

The Museum for schools

The ISS Plan. Teaching experimental sciences: physics, chemistry and natural science

The ISS plan is promoted and organised by the Italian Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Museum, the City of Science - Naples, and the three national teachers' associations for physics, chemistry and natural science (AIF, ANISN, SCI-DDC). The aim of the Project is to enhance the quality of experimental science teaching in primary and secondary schools at national level.

La Primavera della Scienza

The 'Primavera della Scienza' project is funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research and coordinated by the Museum. It aims to develop public awareness of science through school projects, public events and exhibitions. Science experiences conducted by museums, teachers and other partner institutions are shared on a website.
La Primavera della Scienza web site

Scienza under 18

Science under 18 is a space where students can show their projects using different methods: in the exhibition, multimedia or symposium areas. The first section hosts scientific machines, models and experiments developed in the classroom and presented to other students on this occasion. The multimedia section is dedicated to hypertexts, audiovisuals and movies. In the symposium students become scientists and discuss current science topics.
Scienza under 18 web site

Progetto EST - Educare alla Scienza e alla Tecnologia

For the EST project (Educate in Science and Technology) the Museum collaborates with the Lombardy Region, the Regional Office for Education, and local universities and research institutions. The project aims to motivate young people to engage in science. It develops teacher training, educational kits for school work, science bus visits to schools and activities in the interactive labs at the Museum.
Progetto EST web site

Cimeli!

Cimeli! (Artefacts!) is an on-line tool that can be used for researching in depth 10 of the most interesting objects in the Museum collections. Students become researchers and museum curators: they can analyse primary sources of information and publish on-line exhibitions on the Museum web. The project is promoted by the Ministry on Instruction, University and Research.
Cimeli! website