A Summer School on Climate Change and Education which enhances the approach and tools that Fondazione Golinelli is developing and experimenting within the European project Climademy with the collaboration of the Research group in science education of the University of Bologna and a network of Italian teachers and co-designer schools.

The course, 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.

Practical workshops and interactive sessions both provide a diverse range of concepts and methods to be integrated in the classroom and help participants to enrich their abilities to design and manage active learning activities for students.

One of the ideas underlying the training 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.

Registration form here

Where: Opificio Golinelli, Via Paolo Nanni Costa 14 Bologna (Italy)
When: from June 26th to 28th and June 29th (facultative)
Cost: 80€/day/person for training activities and coffee breaks (accommodation and meals not included) 
Target: lower and upper secondary school teachers with scientific, artistic, humanistic and technical backgrounds.
N°: min 12 - max 30 teachers

Program

The proposed workshops will valorise data as a cognitive tool of phenomenological reality (data science) but also of the unique and personal reality of each subject (data humanism), exploring opportunities for investigation and learning, through the use of data able to connecting the planetary dimension with the territorial and personal one. Open database will be used in order to download, aggregate and interpret data, to share through captivating maps in order to raise public awareness of climate change problems and produce concrete effects, in small as well as large communities.

Satellite images will be also explored, permitting to go deeper into urgent and contemporary issues, such as land consumption, deforestation, coastal erosion and loss of biodiversity.

The workshops are of 4 types/formats according to the Climademy pedagogical model, considering different rules of teachers:

• Explorer (mapping of previous knowledge and experiences);
• Student (exercises to experiment with technologies or applications);
• Analyst (discussion and meta-reflections on the activities carried out from an educational, professional and personal perspective);
• Designer (creation of educational activities for students).

June 26th 

From 10 a.m to 1 p.m and from 2 p.m to 5 p.m

• Registration and get to know
• Experimentation: practical workshops
• Reflection workshops

June 27th and 28th 

From 9 a.m to 1 p.m and from 2 p.m to 5 p.m

• Inspirational Lectures
• Experimentation: “explorer and student” practical workshops
• Reflection: “analyst” workshops
• Ideation: “designer” workshops

June 29th (facultative)

From 9 a.m to 3 p.m 

• Outdoor activities and visits to local research facilities

Learning objects

By attending the Climademy Summer School, teachers will focus on environmental education; they will be immersed into a community of pairs exploring together new learning/teaching strategies and the potential of new approaches to teaching climate change to the next generation of European citizens.

The course gives the opportunity to create a network and community of practice to create innovative strategies and programs for preparatory and continuous professional development on climate change and its impacts. The use of a STEAM approach as an access point for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking, permits to develop learning units based on real-world applications, with the main goal to imagine and solve real-world problems through hands-on learning activities and creative design.

Through the provided course teachers will:

• Test and discuss some exemplary activities that can be replicated in different contexts and on different contents.
• Become familiar with STEAM approaches in order to adopt it in their daily practice also with reference to climate change issues.
• Take part in the active teaching and learning community of Climademy for continuous professional development on climate change. Share common values, ideas ​​and practices with other teachers and researchers. 
• Be introduced to the pedagogical and methodological tools with reference to Climademy competence framework to design educational experiences for students and facilitate the activities of other colleagues. 
• Learn how to use climate change data in order to connect the planetary dimension with the territorial and personal one.
• Enlarge knowledge and skills about how to teach climate change issues in their classroom.
• Reinforce the understanding and the scientific knowledge of some basic aspects of climate and climate change.

Fondazione Golinelli is a private philanthropic foundation accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education for teachers training and students education on STEAM. Its head office is Opificio Golinelli, a 14.000 sqm location with labs, facilities, art and science exhibition space for teachers, students, startupper, researchers, family and public. Fondazione Golinelli deals with education, training, research, technology transfer and venture capital. 
In particular Fondazione Golinelli supports schools in developing the STEAM curriculum and it takes part in many European projects on science and digital competences. In the 2022-2023 school year it delivered more than 100 training courses, in which more than 6000 teachers, school managers and future teachers have participated. Since 2022 Fondazione Golinelli leads and manages "Scuola delle idee" (School of ideas) the STEAM lower secondary school that is hosted in Opificio Golinelli.

Preparation

In May 2024 a webinar will be organized for registered teachers to get to know each other, to start experimenting with the virtual environments of the course (Miro and CLAUDI) and to deepen into the organizational and thematic details of the summer school.

The summer school will use:

• Miro (miro.com) as collaborative space. If you don't already have an account, you can create a personal one for free in advance.
• CLAUDI platform (https://claudi.chemistry.uoc.gr/) to share teaching, didactical materials and data. Make sure you have created an account before your arrival.

Information and contacts

To visit the project site and access the CLAUDI e-learning platform, visit: www.climademy.eu

For information on Climademy Italian activities, click here

CLIMADEMY is funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 101056066). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.