Categories
Articles by Elena Sassi

PhysHOME 2012

By Elena Sassi. Published on 28 August 2012 in:
August 2012, News, , , , ,

Physics by Hands-On Minds-on Experiments [PhysHOME] was held at the Department of Physics Education, Charles University, on 20-23 June this year. During the workshop, educators and teachers shared ideas and projects; compared viewpoints; and made steps towards possible future collaborations.

The event was attended by 17 participants from across Europe. The workshop – organised in an informal manner – consisted of 12 individual sessions, each lasting for 90 minutes, with 30 minutes for discussion following…

Read On No Comments
 News from Europe 

Naples/Uganda education collaboration

By Elena Sassi. Published on 28 June 2012 in:
Features, , , ,

Gulunap is an educational-scientific collaboration between the University of Naples “Federico II”, in Italy, and the University of Gulu, in Northern-Uganda.

Northern Uganda has major problems with food, health and education, having been devastated by a twenty-year long insurgence by the Lord’s Resistance Army: with over 100,000 people dead, 20,000 children abducted, and 1,200,000 Ugandan citizens left in internally displaced person camps. The Gulunap project focuses on…

Read On No Comments
 International 

chemist