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Engaging With Children
This section of our website is designed for people working in organisations to encourage and support them to engage with children, to learn from them and to provide them with opportunities for learning.
At the heart of SiS Catalyst's work is the recognition that we have to find ways of taking account of children's hopes and dreams when we make decisions today that will affect their futures.
We also aim to inspire and empower children - especially those who are disadvantaged - so that they will have a brighter future through education.
Here you will find resources, tools and information to help you to egage effectively with children and opportunities to share your own experiences and ideas.
Let us know what you think... and what else you need!
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.
Peter Gray has recently been invited into SiS Catalyst as an adviser, looking at how its activities fit into national policies, priorities and perspectives. Peter works for the Social Science Faculty of the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, as adviser on European projects.
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.
The SiS Catalyst Practical Guide was launched last night in a special event attended by Šasa Zelenika, the Croatian Assistant Minister for Science.
The launch event took place in the Rectorate of the University of Zagreb, with tradition Croatian singing and dancing, and an inspiring presentation from young members of the Roma community.
Tell Your Science is a new workshop organised by Traces and Paris Montagne in collaboration with the 3-year European Commission-funded project KiiCS, Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science (EU-FP7-Science-in-society-2011-1).
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.
"From Providence to Evidence" - Governance and Strategic Development of SiS Activities for Children and Young People in Context of Change. SiS Catalyst EUCU.NET Joint Conference at University of Ankara - 28th- 30th November 2011. Call For Papers
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.