SISSA Medialab have organised a two day training for 40 educators in Trieste’s 13 Ricreatori - municipal centres open to all children, free of charge, for tutoring, recreational activities, sport, culture. It will be based on the SiS Catalyst project results: reflections, experiences, and the tools developed to listen and empower young people.
Ethics is the latest theme to be published on our resources pages and contains a range of useful articles, books and online resources suggested by some of the speakers at our recent conference in Tartu.
This week, project partners Matteo Merzagora of Traces, Paris, and Paola Rodari of SISSA Medialab, Trieste are presenting at the Euro-Med Young Reporters on the Environment Seminar in The Israel National Museum of Science in Israel.
On the 10th of July the Children’s-Summer-University Innsbruck was opened by rector Tilmann Märk, and vice rector Sabine Schindler led the participants through the widening of the universe with special videos and computer simulations.
Last week marked the release of 'Jota Primordiale', a magazine created by children, facilitated by SISSA Medialab in Trieste, Italy.
The magazine, a result of 9 months of hard work, was designed entirely by children who attended a 'ricreatorio'- one of thirteen youth centres held by Trieste Municipalities. The children (9 to 13 years old) prepared all the materials, and briefed a graphic designer on all aspects of the design - layout, graphics, content. The content was made up of photos and texts stemming from visits to scientific institutions; moreover the kids produced games, quizes and jokes for their magazine. During the project the kids also shot videos, which can be found on the magazine blog.
You can download the final proofs of the magazine, which is written in Italian, by following this link.
SiS Catalyst invited 20 young people from 13 different countries to a workshop in Bucharest alongside the 2012 Ministerial Conference to discuss higher education in their country and offer their advice to the Ministers of Education.
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As part of the SiS Catalyst project a delegation of young people aged 13-15 will be given the opportunity to come to Bucharest alongside the Bologna Follow-up Ministerial Conference in April 2012. They will participate in a workshop with 20 young people from various countries about the future of higher education in Europe. The results of this workshop will then be presented to the Ministers to show them the importance of listening to young people as a key step in designing any change in higher education.
The workshops started on the 9th of July with a reporter team, which will make films and interviews during the summer. Workshops on Olympic Games, old writing and a visit to the library have already been held, but a lot of exciting courses and workshops will follow until the end of the summer. Highlights include programming robots, learning foreign languages and building rockets.