STRATEGY ONE: CONFERENCES
As part of the dissemination process three conferences were carried out. These conferences were held with key actors in science education and mathematics education. These key actors included representatives from the partner country’s ministries of education, mathematics and science national learning centres, school boards, educational authorities, teacher centres, science and mathematics teachers, science and mathematics educators and researchers. The conferences attracted a total of 182 key actors.
The conferences were a ground breaking step for identifying, extracting and synthesising the learning from previous EC funded projects. Conference partners and participants shared their understanding of inquiry-based learning and discussed meaningful dissemination and implementation strategies. The conferences contributed promoting European co-operation amongst different stakeholders, especially amongst the national workgroups. The conferences also helped to spread INSTEM results to a broader community, in particular also to countries not involved in Instem: Connections to important stakeholders across Europe have been established.