Assistant Professor Nevenka Kregar Velikonja, PhD, deputy dean of scientific research activity, was chosen in the CMEPIUS/CEDEFOP call for applications to attend the study visit 'New Resources in Science Teaching: an Innovative Partnership Linking Research and Education'. The programme of the study visit included presentations of good practices, which involved INRA and the French Institute of Education, and presentations of examples by attendees, followed by discussions on the topic.
The key points of the programme were:
- Presentation of the National Institute for Agronomic Research (Laurent Hémidy, INRA)
- Introduction to the French school system and teacher's training (Françoise Morel-Deville and Philippe Jeanjacquot, ENS Lyon)
- Presentation of the partnership INRA-Institut français de l'Education (C. Foucaud-Scheunemann, and F. Morel-Deville)
- Presentation of INRA's contribution in the field of Research and Education (C. Foucaud-Scheunemann)
- Visit - Serre Expo (Corine Enard, INRA)
Round tables and discussion:
- Presentation of the participants, their country, their education system
- Practice of the participants in the field of Research and Education
- Sharing good practices and perspectives
Presented examples of good practices:
- Teaching soil erosion in high schools (Josée Broussaud, and Charles-Henri Eyraud, ENS Lyon; Jean Baptiste Algayer, Inra);
- Smartphone in science teaching (P. Jeanjacquot)
- Teachers' training (Hervé Levesque, ENS Lyon)
- Graines d'explorateurs, scientific expedition and biodiversity (Sabine Lavorel, ENS Lyon)
- Scientific project: talking about experiment and experiences (Jean-Remy Haselvander, and Sebastien Gibrac, Académie de Versailles).
- Meteo and climate (Gérard Vidal, ENS Lyon)