The summer school The human side of data: teaching climate change through a STEAM approach started today (June 26) and will take place until June 29th at the Opificio Golinelli. The initiative, aimed at secondary school teachers all over Europe, is focused on Climate Change and education that enhances the approach and tools that Fondazione Golinelli, with the Research Group in Physics Education of the University of Bologna, are developing and experimenting within the European project Climademy, also with the collaboration of network of Italian teachers and co-designer schools.
The school, focused on data humanism and data storytelling, aims to provide a nurturing forum to rethink our ways of communicating and teaching, exploring the potential of STEAM approaches. It is designed to build awareness of the complexity of climate change and interpretation of data but also of the need to imagine possible resolutive scenarios by cultivating hope, in a path in which first the teachers and then the students are leaders and builders of their own knowledge.

The human side of data: teaching climate change through a STEAM approach will also use Claudi, the European networking, sharing and e-learning platform on climate change at school. There will be also the opportunity to take part and listen to lectures from three international guests: Nikos Kalivitis, a physicist with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Crete; Ulrike Pisiotis, Policy Officer at the European Commision; Paolo Ruggieri, an Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy ‘Augusto Righi’ of the University of Bologna where he teaches climatology, a numerical laboratory of the atmosphere and ocean and a course on modern climate change.

The ideas underlying the course is that doing and experimenting are the basis of a fun and a long-life learning, fostering the meeting and a constructive dialogue between science and technology but also between the world of research and school.

ABOUT CLIMADEMY

The European project for the establishment of the CLIMAte change teachers' acaDEMY (CLIMADEMY) aims to build a network and a community of research centers, teachers and players from the world of education to create innovative strategies and programs for the professional development of teachers on the topic of climate change and its impacts. It is a three-year teacher training project on climate change, funded by the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy, the new flagship action of the Erasmus+ 2021-2027 programme. The EU countries participating in the CLIMADEMY project (nr:101056066 - ERASMUS2027 Programme) have established a consortium which, once fully operational, will be open to new members. There are 12 European partners, organized in 4 territorial hubs Finland, Germany, Greece and Italy, coordinated by the University of Crete. Each hub includes local schools and teachers as co-designers of activities and content.
More info on Climademy are available here: https://climademy.eu/
For further information on the project activities which involve Fondazione Golinelli write a mail to: g.bellentani@fondazionegolinelli.it