The Global Science Opera (GSO) is a good example of how to co-create digitally across borders during the pandemic.
Read Janne Robberstad’s blogpost about sustainability in the Global Science Opera on the project Mind the Gap’s website here.
It is still possible to sign up for the online STEAM Approach in Science Education Conference Dec 6th – 8th.
The conference is jointly organised by the Next Step and the GSO4SCHOOL projects.
The conference program is ready and published, and you will find lots of interesting talks, presentations and workshops.
Read more about the conference, and register you participation here.
In September we were finally able to meet in person with the partners of the Mind the Gap project for a transnational meeting in Dublin.
We had two productive days, working with strategy, training methodologies, blended processes, Design Thinking and much more.
The Mind the Gap project brings together a consortium of six European arts organisations that are committed to enabling access to the arts. Even though the project is all about online arts education, it was such a pleasure for our team to finally meet in person.
Read more about the Mind the Gap project here.
The Global Science Opera is so excited to be partners with the UN this year, their experts will help us with the scientific facts for our opera Thrive. As a part of this, Tim Christophersen will give a lecture on Ecosystem Restoration, followed by a Q&A. The lecture will take place on Zoom on Friday June 18th, at 2 PM CET.
Tim Christophersen coordinates the work of the Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch at UN Environment (UNEP), including UNEP’s role within the UN-REDD Programme, a collaborative initiative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UNEP to reduce deforestation in developing countries.
If you are interested in participating in the session, please contact us at janne.iren.robberstad@hvl.no for zoom-link.
The Department of Arts Education at HVL campus Stord is happy to present a new colleague. Giedre Straksiene, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Global Science Opera, in the context of HVL’s University project.
Giedre’s main research area focuses on development of communicative competence, various teaching/learning drama methods which are applicable in development of communicative competence. She believes that with and through the arts, learners are able to analyse, understand and perceive learning material in complex socio-cultural approach, and playfull way. A second interest is information visualization and communication, and relationships of this phenomena for contemporary art-science context.
Read more about Giedre Straksiene here.
Mind the Gap! is the name of the new research-project HVL will enter already in March 2021. Coordinated by RESEO, a European Network for Opera and Dance Education, the project will focus on creating digital bridges to community.
Belgium, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Norway are partners in this exciting artistic research. HVL is the only partner connected to higher education. Part of the project aims to train and equip education departments and teaching artists in digital competencies in arts education in a time of a world health crisis, with a special focus on lower-income communities. HVL´s main responsibilities will be connected to financial and administrative management, creating a Project Management Handbook and the Mind the Gap final publication, in addition to implementations and teacher training.
Janne Robberstad is HVL’s representative in this project and is very much looking forward to participating in the two-year innovative research-project.
The European School Innovation Academy is preparing for the STEAM summer-schools in 2021. Two full weeks filled to the rim with new knowledge within transdisciplinary science and arts-education through .
The GSO4SCHOOL is part of this workshop-hub, and after last year´s pandemic postponement, we are getting ready for a twice-the-size online outreach. With a full toolkit of practical approaches for combining our two favorite disciplines, arts and science, into a STEAMing result. Read more here: https://esia.ea.gr, and specific for the GSO4SCHOOL online summer school here.
Conference proceedings from the three-day international online conference, arranged by HVL Dec. 1.-3. 2020, can now be downloaded using this link: http://www.project-case.eu/conference-proceedings/
The conference was a joint arrangement for the ERASMUS+-projects CASE and GSO4SCHOOL, with more than 300 participants from 40 countries.
The recently published book Inquiry-Based Learning: “A Guidebook to Writing a Science Opera”, written by Oded Ben-Horin (HVL/CASE center) and Irma Smegen (Speel je Wijs) provides teachers with the reasons for, and advantages of, introducing pupils of all ages to Write a Science Opera (WASO). It provides step-by-step instructions for how to implement WASO in classrooms.
WASO is a transdisciplinary, inquiry-based approach to teaching at the intersection of art and science in schools. It is all about creative teaching and teaching for creativity.
The book is avaible from the Brill Academic Publishers here.
A three-day international online conference was arranged by HVL Dec 1-3. More than 300 participants from 40 countries had registered to participate, and they were all gathered in the quest to learn more about STEAM-education.
The participants experienced great keynotes, presentations, workshops and posters, and the global STEAM-education network was enriched and enlarged during the days of the conference.
The conference was a joint arrangement for the ERASMUS+-projects CASE and GSO4SCHOOL. Presentations and recordings will be uploaded to the conference web-site.