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Dear Gem members, please find below information about the European in-service training course "School and Science Museum" which will be in its fifth edition in 2009. SCHOOL AND SCIENCE MUSEUM: COOPERATION FOR IMPROVING TEACHING, LEARNING AND DISCOVERY FIFTH EDITION 22-29 NOVEMBER 2009 DEUTSCHES MUSEUM, MUNICH, GERMANY EUROPEAN IN-SERVICE TRAINING COURSE FOR TEACHERS AND MUSEUM EDUCATORS The course is one of the outputs of the European project SMEC, which was funded by the Socrates programme of the European Union from 2001 to 2005. The main aim of the project was to encourage the use of the museum as educational resource for the teaching and learning of science in primary schools, and to contribute to the training of teachers for the development of competence and expertise in using museums. The course is now in its fifth edition. It aims to develop the knowledge and competences relative to science education through the use of museums as an educational resource. It is open to museum educators and school teachers, headteachers, advisory teachers and teacher trainers. The course is held by an international group of experts from Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Spain specialising in museum education, science education, teacher training, research and evaluation, new technologies. The structure of the course consists of lectures, round tables, museum visits, interactive workshops and practical activities. The language of the course is English but the materials used will be available in different languages. The course will be held inside the Deutsches Museum in Munich, where the collections, staff and educational programmes will be used as an integral part of the course activities. PRACTICAL INFORMATION HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please visit the website for further information and to complete the Pre-registration Form. www.museoscienza.org/smec/courses.html FEES AND GRANTS The course participation fee is 600 euro. Both teachers and museum educators have the right to apply for funding of the expenses of the course through Comenius o Grundtvig grants. The application deadline for grants is 30 April 2009. To find information about the procedures for applying please look at the websites of the Socrates National Agency of your own country. The code of the course in the Comenius-Gruntvig database is: DE-2009-894-001 CONTACTS Traudel Weber DEUTSCHES MUSEUM, MUNICH, GERMANY [log in to unmask] Sara Calcagnini NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MILAN, ITALY [log in to unmask] Maria Xanthoudaki Direttore Servizi Educativi e Rapporti Internazionali Head of Education and of International Relations Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci via San Vittore 21 - 20123 Milano Tel +39 02 48 555 304 Fax +39 02 48 010 016 [log in to unmask] --- ATTENZIONE --- Questo messaggio puņ contenere informazioni confidenziali e riservate. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vogliate cortesemente informare il mittente immediatamente rispondendo a questo messaggio e provvedendo quindi a cancellarlo dal vostro computer. Grazie. --- ATTENTION --- This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the error and then immediately delete this message. Thank you.