EPCA’s partnership with European Schoolnet (EUN Partnership AISBL)
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EPCA has concluded a partnership with European Schoolnet (EUN Partnership AISBL) to promote chemistry as a field of study among students aged 12 to 16. With the help of EUN, EPCA will further disseminate the film “Chemistry : All About You” in schools in 11 European countries (Belgium, Croatia, France, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and Norway). This initiative should raise awareness with youngsters on the many contributions chemistry makes to their daily lives, raise their interest for chemistry as a field of study and help them choose to study chemistry at tertiary level.
For the IYC, EPCA, together with the UNESCO and IUPAC developed the film “Chemistry : All About You”. The film explains how chemistry provides the global population with access, in a sustainable way, to drinking water, food, clothing, health and health care, energy- and emission-friendly building, transport, communication and education. At the same time it underlines the importance of women in chemistry on the occasion of the centennial of the 1911 Chemistry Nobel Prize to Marie Sklolodowska Curie.
Based on its pedagogical expertise of inquiry-based science education methods, European Schoolnet developed guidelines that show teachers how they can integrate societal aspects in chemistry education and concrete applications of the discipline in the school programme. The tools developed propose an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to chemistry teaching and will confront youngsters early on in their chemistry education with real life cases related to the building blocks of the said film.
The project is aligned with other sector initiatives, namely the Global Water Experiments developed by IUPAC/UNESCO in the context of the IYC and Xperimania IV, a project developed by Cefic.
This initiative underlines EPCA’s commitment to raise the profile of the chemical industry among the general public and more specifically among youngsters. It creates a bridge between the chemical industry and the educational world helping youngsters to potentially prepare for a future in chemistry.
To read more about the EPCA – European Schoolnet partnership :
http://chemistryallaboutyou.eun.org
