Scientific education and European citizenship. Suggestions and results from the European project SEDEC

• Main Author: Roberto Ceriani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sissa Medialab 2007-09-01
• Series: JCOM: Journal of Science Communication
• Subjects: Democracy and science communication; Public engagement with science and technology; Social participation to science and technology; Perceptions of science and technology; Public communication of and discourses on science and technology; Policy-making; communication and governance of science
• Online Access: http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/06/03/Jcom0603%282007%29C01/Jcom0603%282007%29C01.pdf

Two concepts seemingly distant from each other, scientific education and European citizenship, have been the basis for "SEDEC - Science Education for the Development of European Citizenship", a European project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Socrates/Comenius programme, aiming at producing training material addressed to European teachers. Started in autumn 2005, the project will end in 2008 with an in-service training course for European teachers and educators.