Multiplier Event for Spanish educators in Madrid – Jan 2025

A multiplier event  organised by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos to disseminate the  “FERTILE” initiative to Spanish educators in Madrid

The event’s agenda was communicated through  https://roboticslaburjc.github.io/estudio-piloto-fertile/ME_Madrid/ and  utilised the “FERTILE” training material available at https://fertile-project.eu/trainingmaterial/ 

It balanced presentations with practice:

  • Introduction to the “FERTILE” project and its initiative to promote interdisciplinarity of Educational Robotics and Arts aiming to cultivate students’
    Computational Thinking skills.
  • Presentation of how the “FERTILE Methodology” synthesises Educational Robotics and Art in a blended learning context.
  • Familiarisation with to the “FERTILE” community platform https://fertile.gsic.uva.es 
  • Promotion of the “FERTILE” training event that complemented the multiplier event.

110 Spanish educators and advisors  participated at the face -to-face multiplier event held for 6 hours, on Wed 8 January 2025 at the Fuenlabrada School of Engineering .

The presenters were:

  • Lia García Pérez, assistant professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and member of the research team at
    Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
  • José María Cañas Plaza, professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
  • David Roldán Álvarez, assistant professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos