Fertile Project

The “FERTILE” consortium held their 5th Transnational Project Meeting at Comenius University in Bratislava on May 23rd and 24th. During this final face-to-face meeting, the partners discussed the progress of the final reports, the evaluation of the FDM methodology, and the training materials. They also reviewed the pilot studies completed in each country. The importance …

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The “FERTILE” UNIWA team, organized a creative workshop for postgraduate students of ASPAITE Pedagogical School at the Department of Civil Engineering of ASPAITE. Through hands-on and interactive activities with Tello Drones, the participants were introduced in the FERTILE methodology. The workshop highlighted how combining engineering and arts can create more engaging learning strategies.

The first “FERTILE” training in Slovakia organised by Comenius University! The  first Slovak FERTILE training event was organised in a blended format at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (https://fmph.uniba.sk/) and it included one face-to-face phases, three face-to-face phases, and two online synchronous phases. During the face-to-face the trainees were …

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On April 25th 2024, the UniWA research team  participated for the 2nd time in the  Youth conference  organised in the context of the research project “Experimental Application of Theatre Education School” of the Department of Theatre Studies, National Kapodistrian University of Athens. The topic was “Theatre and Health”. During the conference, a 10-minute play titled “Molière and …

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Two separate pilot studies were conducted in February and March at the Spanish universities Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) and Universidad de Valladolid (Uva) in Madrid and Valladolid, respectively. The pilot studies followed the same organization and involved 22 participants pursuing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in teaching education. The participants got familiar with the FERTILE …

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A pilot study was conducted at Charles University in January and February 2024. There were 15 participants, teachers and student-teachers in Computer Science, Art Education, and Primary Education. The pilot study was organised in two face-to-face meetings, and training materials were provided for asynchronous sessions. Participants were introduced to the “FERTILE” methodology and participated in …

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The Greek research team conducted a pilot study at the University of West Attica in the context of a postgraduate course in Robotics. Students got acquainted with the “FERTILE” design methodology and were assigned to co-design Artful ER projects in the “FERTILE” Community platform. According to the “FERTILE” project agenda, participants used the “FERTILE” training …

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The “FERTILE” UNIWA team, in collaboration with the Αssistant Professor of Theatre Studies of the ΝKUΑ, Clio Fanouraki, organized a creative workshop for the postgraduate program “Theatre in Education” students at the Department of Theatre Studies of the NKUA. Through hands-on and interactive activities, the participants discover Educational Robotics and better understand Computational Thinking. Then, we …

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The pilot training at Comenius University in Bratislava took place from January 20, 2024, to February 12, 2024, and was attended by 20 teachers from all over Slovakia. Half of them were informatics teachers, and the other half taught an art subject. Most participants were satisfied with the training, but we also received valuable suggestions …

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The “FERTILE” consortium proudly presents the initial “FERTILE” community platform available at https://fertile.gsic.uva.es  The “FERTILE” platform is a community platform supporting educators in designing and learners in implementing Artful ER projects. It provides educators with several functionalities:  an authoring environment supporting educators to design Artful ER projects based on the FERTILE methodology, tools supporting educators to co-design, …

The initial “FERTILE” Community platform is released! – November 2023 Read More »