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Adina Nistor, European Schoolnet

Objectives

• awareness raising

• stakeholder network extension

• education/ training

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Regional hubs:• Spain, Cordoba: Food and

Agriculture• Poland, Krakow: Food, Agriculture

and/or Waste Water Treatment• Netherlands, Wageningen: Bio-

chemicals and bio-plastics• Finland, Jyväskylä & Sweden,

Stockholm : Forest and Wood• Austria, Vienna & Germany, Bonn:

Bio-chemicals and bio-plastics

Schools:Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Israel, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden

BLOOM hubs & schools

How to bring in schools a concept largely unknown to the wider public

and ensure its educational value?

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1. Lack of general awareness of bioeconomy

2. Little connection between education and research

Knowing that...

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The BLOOM School Box

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• Collection of bioeconomy lesson plans (learning scenarios) for schools.

• 5 lesson plans incorporating 6 subjects (physics, biology, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, technology).

BLOOM School Box

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https://bloom-bioeconomy.eu/schoolnetwork/schoolbox/

How to upscale results?

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Upscaling BLOOM educational activities

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Interdisciplinary school

competition2019 - 2020

Teacher training, networking & dissemination

March – June 2019

MOOC (Online course)

March-April 2019

BLOOM School Box

The BLOOM MOOC4 March – 10 April

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• Develop a MOOC on

bioeconomy and the use of

the BLOOM School box4. MOOC (Online course)

Thank you!

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Web: https://bloom-bioeconomy.eu/

Social: @bloom_EU

Contact: Adina Nistor <adina.nistor@eun.org>