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Contents
News from the Ecsite-uk Office: A new Chair for Ecsite-uk, and
a new chair for the Director
Developments in the Sector 1: EPSRC invites expressions of interest
in delivering a public awareness project
Developments in the Sector 2: Pepik seeks a partner to pilot innovative
image capture technology
Resources: Standard-price travel on Virgin trains for registered
charities
Diary Dates
News from the Ecsite-uk Office: A new Chair, and new chairs
The Ecsite-uk AGM unanimously approved the election and re-election of Committee members. John Durant (CEO, At-Bristol) stood unopposed as the Committee's 'proposed candidate' for Chair, succeeding Colin Johnson (CEO, Techniquest) at the conclusion of his two-year term.
For AGM Minutes, see www.ecsite-uk.net/about/agmmins2003.html
The office has moved: smart new swivel chairs and a lovely leafy view over Queen's Gate. The Wellcome Wolfson Building at 165 Queen's Gate is the new purpose-built home of the BA head Office, and Ecsite-uk with it. Direct line phones are not yet working, so please call my mobile 07748 654 334
For details see www.ecsite-uk.net/contact
Developments in the Sector 1: EPSRC invites expressions of interest
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences has a requirement for a regional project tasked with recruiting more young people into engineering and related sciences. The project has a three year timescale and should achieve an increase in the numbers of secondary school students choosing specialist physical science and maths subjects and taking up higher education courses in engineering. It should also deliver an improvement in student perceptions of engineering.
It is envisaged that this campaign will be delivered by a partnership who between them should bring together expertise in STEM education and promotion and marketing/PR. Therefore we would be pleased to receive expressions of interest from partnerships which include science centres.
Those wishing to express an interest should respond to the advert placed in
the Official Journal of the European Commission. This can be found after 10 October
at ted.publications.eu.int/
Select a language
Click on <search for tenders>
Type 'Delivery of a public awareness campaign' in the Full Text box
And click <search>
For further information, please email Vicky Jones at vicky.jones@epsrc.ac.uk or call 01793 444 272
Developments in the Sector 2: Pepik seeks a partner
Pepik, a research and development company in the museums sector, is searching for a partner organisation to help test and pilot an exciting new concept - NOMAD.
NOMAD is a visit capture system to enhance the visitor's experience both during and after the visit. NOMAD uses new location-aware technology based on a ticket or wristband issued to the visitor. The personal website generator and visit photo capture system gives a fantastic permanent record of their visit.
Each visitor leaves with a completely unique website: a picture gallery of their visit; scores and outputs from interactive exhibits they used, and layered content and links to other sources of information.
Automatically controlled web-cams capture snaps of guests as they tour the venue. Pictures are displayed during the visit and collated into a personal photo gallery to provide a permanent record.
More information about NOMAD can be found at www.pepik.co.uk
If you would like to know more or might be interested in helping us pilot NOMAD,
please call Claire Phillips on (01904) 414687 or email claire.phillips@pepik.co.uk
Resources: Standard-price travel on Virgin trains for registered charities
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Diary Dates: 14 October, NIACE conference in London; 17& 18 November, BA Education Conference in London; 19-20 November, NESTA Futurelab's conference in Bristol; 20 November, Ecsite-uk Specialist Seminar in London; 27-29 November, Ecsite annual conference in Munich
NIACE conference, 14 October 2003, the RI, London
NIACE (the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) is organising a conference: 'Science Skills for Life and Work: Learning Opportunities for Adults' at the Royal Institution, Albermarle Street. Conference aims include:
For details and to register, see www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/Science.htm [archive page - link removed]
BA Education Conference, 17&18 November 2003, the British Museum, London
The BA's conference - 'Assessment - could do better?' - will look at innovative ways of measuring children's performance, focusing on assessment for learning. How can assessment help students to learn and teachers to assess what students do and do not understand other than through tests? It will explore new developments in the continuing professional development (CPD) material for the National Network of Science Learning Centres and will ask what the national and regional centres will be doing around assessment for learning.
For details visit [archive page - link removed]
NESTA Futurelab's 4th conference, 19-20 November 2003, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
Digital technologies may offer the opportunity to test better, test faster and test more effectively. This conference - 'Beyond the Exam: Innovative Approaches to Learning and Assessment' - explores whether these technologies can also revolutionise our approach to assessment, enabling us to encourage and measure the full range of complex skills required for life in the digital age and to develop a system that fully supports learning.
Ecsite-uk Specialist Seminar, 20 November 2003, The Wellcome Trust, London
The ReDiscover Fund Advisory Panel meets on 19 November. On 20 November, the panel Chair (Dr Per-Edvin Persson, Director, Heureka, the Finnish science centre) and two panel members (Dr Barry Aprison, Director, Science & Education, Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago; and Dr Sally Duensing, Director, Centre for Informal Learning and Schools, University of California, Santa Cruz) will lead a Specialist Seminar on the theme: 'Planning for flexibility and change - renewing exhibitions, developing new education programmes, remodelling facilities, evolving the management and staffing structure.'
Numbers are limited to 40 to promote networking among UK science centre senior staff.
ecsite2003 Annual Conference, 27-29 November 2003, Munich
Following the record attendance at Ecsite2002 in London, the annual conference in Munich will again offer practical workshops on professional challenges, strategy sessions on major policy issues, and thematic plenary sessions.
The conference - 'Sharing ideas, developing skills, building networks' - is hosted by the Deutsches Museum, which celebrates its centenary in 2003.
For conference information and registration, check www.ecsite.net
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