Welcome to FEDORA

Regenerating the ecosystem of science learning by developing a future-oriented model to enable creative thinking, foresight and active hope as skills needed in formal and informal science education.
OUR AIMS and ambitions

FEDORA developed a future-oriented model to enable creative thinking, foresight and active hope as skills needed in formal and informal science education.

But what does "future-oriented" mean?
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In the Land of Imagination, FEDORA shines at ESERA Conference: Advancing Science Education in Europe and Worldwide

Andrea Troncoso, formicablu, Italy
Last week, the European Science Education Research Association, ESERA, Conference brought together researchers, educators, education professionals and policymakers from across the world; more than 100 nationalities were represented and shared the latest advancements in science education. Among the standout contributors was our EU Project FEDORA, which counted with the attendance of 12 dedicated partners. FEDORA […]

The last episode of "Lenses for tomorrow" is out!

Emma D'Orto
"Lenses for tomorrow", FEDORA's official podcast, is exploring our project main themes by interviewing both our project partners and some external experts. Join us to explore how to develop a future-oriented model for science education, to enable creative thinking, foresight and active hope in formal and informal environments! In this last episode, together with Alfredo […]

The fourth episode of "Lenses for tomorrow" is out!

Emma D'Orto
"Lenses for tomorrow", FEDORA's official podcast, is exploring our project main themes by interviewing both our project partners and some external experts. Join us to explore how to develop a future-oriented model for science education, to enable creative thinking, foresight and active hope in formal and informal environments! In the fourth episode, together with Jennifer […]
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Which was our starting point?
FEDORA recognized three misalignments.

We saw a clash between, on one hand, the vertical and hyper- specialized organization of teaching in disciplines and, on the other, the inter-multi-transdisciplinary, character of innovation, and the efforts to make research and science an open and collaborative space. We saw a second mismatch between the formalized and exclusive languages used in schools and the needs for new languages to enhance imagination and the capacity to talk about the contemporary challenges and last, but not least, we identified a discrepancy between the a-temporal or historically oriented teaching approaches and the need to support the young to construct visions of the future that empower actions in the present.

Partner Institutions

How we did it? We shed a light into these blind spots by combining the skills of our team and at the same time, by exploring what is happening in the different layers that interact in science education. We dug into the culture, into the conceptual paradigms and how institutions face the present and future in our field. Multiform sets of research methodologies were put in place, in order to feed anticipatory polices that mobilized visionary attitudes, sustainable and creative participation in science-related societal issues.

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FEDORA, Future-oriented Science Education to enhance Responsibility and Engagement in the society of acceleration and uncertainty, is a 3-year EU-funded project. It started in September 2020 and will deploy its activities until August 2023. It gathers 6 partner institutions from 5 European countries.
FEDORA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 872841
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