Isola della Sostenibilità - Roma - Dec 5, 2018.

A National Project in which Institutions, Research Institutions and Companies meet to educate and inform the new generations on themes of sustainable development.
Young RM@Schools Ambassadors of Liceo Augusto Righi (Bologna) in action at the event proposing hands on experiments.

Program | CNR WEBTV | web album | video

Celebrating Excellences at I.S. "Ascanio Sobrero" - Casale Monferrato, Alessandria (Italy) - Dec 1, 2018.

The excellence of RM@Schools young Ambassadors of the "Ascanio Sobrero" school was celebrated during a special event. The winners of the International Science Fair in Leeuwarden delivered their "Prussian Blue" toolkit to Armida during the cerimony.
Program

3^rd European Conference RM@Schools
Nov 8, 2018 - Research Area of Bologna.

The annual event with European partners and some of the schools enrolled in the RM@Schools project. Young RM Ambassadors from Austria, Spain, Estonia, Germany, Belgium and Italy participated to the event presenting their work.
Flyer | web album|
video of the conference |
An Effective Communication of Science (RM@Schools) Marco Castellazzi (video)

9^th ESEE Dialogue Conference - Nov 6, 2018, Podgorica (Montenegro)

RM@Schools Ambassador Marica Canino participated to the conference proposing hands-on experiment to students

Leaflet | Program | web album

RawMaterials University day - 25 Oct 2018, Milan

Target: students from high schools and from the Materials Science and Chemistry degree courses.

Program | web album

Festa della Storia - Oct 20, 2018 - Ozzano dell'Emilia (Bologna)

Flyer | web album

1st AUSTRIAN RM@Schools FINAL, 18-19 Oct 2018 - Montanuniverstitaet Leoben

Schools from all over Austria presented a topic related to Raw Materials at the 1st Austrian RM@Schools Final. The two day event also included a university tour and a science journalism workshop. The winning team of the event was sent to the RM@Schools Bologna Conference to present their project.

Program | web album

Train the trainers -Joined Workshop V4isegrad and RM@Schools

Bay Zoltan - Budapest 16 october 2018

Program | web album

Fête de la science au Visiatome - Centre de Marcoule, France
8-14 October 2018

During the week: 2000 pupils and 1000 individuals and families visited Le Visiatome.
400 people came on the RM@School stand.

Flyer | Presentation | web album

INNOVEIT 2018 - EIT AWARDS - 4^th October 2018

Armida Torreggiani, RM@Schools coordinator, is one of the 12 nominees for the EIT WOMAN Award 2018 which recognises the outstanding achievements of women entrepreneurs and leaders from our Innovation Communities.

2^nd out of 38 nominees in the EIT Public Award

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Mineral resources in Slovenia, Velenje (Slovenia)
1^rst October 2018

Event organised in Coal Museum of Slovenia, will be an active workshop in which pupils will, through active teaching methods, observation and experiments, learn about Mineral resources in Slovenia and their importance in society.
Organiser: Geological survey of Slovenia, Ljubljana
Project website in Slovenia.

European Researchers’ Night at
Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)
Tallin 28^th September 2018

The various activities of the Researchesrs`s Night Festival in Taltech took place over the campus of the University of Technology. Children, adolescents, adults, older people, students and entrepreneurs got to know more about science through workshops, meetings with researchers and laboratory visits.
Program

European Researchers’ Night at
FCT NOVA University
Lisbon 28^th September 2018

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European Researchers' Night in Milan

MEETmeTONIGHT 2018
Sep 28-29, 2018

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European Researchers' Night in Budapest
Sep 28, 2018

"Quick Quiz" about critical raw materials, and presentation of the RM@Schools project and of a toolkit.
All participants who made the Quiz received an RM@Schools Certificate as they made the first steps to become for a professional RM Ambassador.
Program |  web album

European Researchers' Night
Vetenskapens Hus, Stockholm
Sep 28, 2018

Sciences' House - in Stockholm
Activities range from experiments and maker spaces to demonstrations, shows and exhibitions, as well as science cafés and talks in small groups. The events are aimed at showing that researchers are ordinary people with extraordinary jobs and that research is all about communication and international cooperation.
Program |  web album

European Researchers' Night
Liceo Copernico, Bologna
Sep 28, 2018

Liceo Scientifico Copernico

Program |  web album | video

RM@Schools International Science Fair,
Sep 26-29, 2018

WETSUS, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Leeuwarden-Friesland: European capital of culture 2018

Briefing - Science fair

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DSCTM Conference 2018, Assisi (IT) Sep 24, 2018

Keynote Lecture - Armida Torreggiani:
"There isn’t any science without communication: collaborative dialogue between research and school"
Poster Communication - Raffaella Soave: "RM@Schools 3.0: A Wider Society Learning Project"
Program

RM@Schools at RemTech Expo,
Ferrara (IT), Sep 19-21, 2018

Young RM Ambassadors set up a stand in this big international event. The stand was visited at least by 200 visitors and the students interviewed by RiciclaTV.
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websites: School | RemTech Expo

RiciclaTV is an Italian channel dedicated to recycling problems

RM@Schools Geology day,
Sep 8, 2018

During this day, the Geological Survey of Sweden organized activities for kids and their parents to discover Earth sciences at Biotopia, a museum and science center in Uppsala, Sweden.

Biotopia Museum, Uppsala

Report on the event |  web album

Ciência Viva, FCT NOVA, Lisbon (Portugal).
July 9-13, 2018

Outreach: 80 High School Students at FCT NOVA during 1 week.
Presentation

FCT NOVA website

RM@Schools 3.0 Workshop, FCT NOVA, Lisbon (Portugal).
June 26-27, 2018

FCT NOVA website

Final Agenda | web album

24^th Symposium on Chemistry and Science Education - Bremen,
June 01-03, 2018.

Paola Ambrogi talks about RM@Schools project at the Symposium. She is a professor of chemistry, currently working at IIS "L. Nobili" of Reggio Emilia. She deals with initial and in-service training of professors in the scientific area. Her research activity focuses on active and cooperative learning, on authentic evaluation and on the analysis of chemistry curricula.
Program | Abstract

Behind the screen - Rimini,
May 22, 2018.

Conference organized by Young RM@Schools Ambassadors of class 3H, Liceo Statale "A. Serpieri", Rimini, on "Rare earths and smartphones"
Poster | Presentation (pdf)

Isola della sostenibilità - Bologna,
May 11, 2018.

Isola della Sostenibilità is an Italian national project in which Institutions, Research Institutions and Companies meet together to educate and inform the new generations about sustainable development issues.
Young RM@Schools Ambassadors enter in action at the event by Liceo Sabin to engage other students with hands-on experiments.
Leaflet | Rationale | Program | Web album
video

3rd SCIENTIX CONFERENCE - Brusselles,
May 4-6, 2018.

RM@Schools Ambassador Annalisa Aluigi (CNR-ISOF) presents:"Research-School Collaboration: involving pupils in the development of a toolkit to increase their understanding of protein chemistry". It was shown how this activity has stimulated students to make connections between experiments and theories studied in textbooks.
Website | Leaflet | Abstract

Annual Conference of the "Junior Engineer Academy" - Paderborn, April 20 - 21, 2018.

RM@Schools Ambassador Beate Brede (Fraunhofer IFAM) presents the European Project at the event. The conference gathers together representatives of a network of 99 schools in Germany which have implemented a junior-engineer-academy in their schools. Besides the conference and the workshops, there was the possibility to present projects in "booths", so that the participants could inform themselves during coffee breaks etc.
Website | Leaflet

EXPO FCT, Open Day at FCT NOVA, Lisbon - April 11, 2018.

About 6000 high school students with by their teachers took part in EXPO FCT, an open day at FCT NOVA. The department of Materials Science is one of the most visited, due to lots of proposed activities.
Portuguese young RM@Schools Ambassadors involved students in activities related with raw materials.
RM@Schools Ambassador: João Pedro Veiga and Rui Igreja
Website | web album

Printemps des Sciences - Liège - March 24-25, 2018

RM@Schools Ambassador: Martine Vanherck
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Imola Scienza - Public event organized by RM Young Ambassadors

Public Event organized in the Biblioteca Comunale - Imola (Italy) - by Class 3DS (16 yrs students) of Liceo Rambaldi Valeriani with their teacher Susanna Marri.
Young RM Ambassadors involved citizens on raw materials presenting their activities realized in the framework of RM@Schools and inviting them to reflect on the cars' evolution in time.
RM@Schools Ambassador: Marica Canino and Luigi Bruzzi
Scienzae | leaflet | web album | video

Italian studens visit KHT - Sweden

Students of class 4D - Liceo N. Copernico, Bologna (Italy) - visit the KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in Stockholm (Sweden).
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Italian studens attend to Expominerales 2018 - Madrid, 9-11 March

Students from class 4A of Institute of Higher Education Montessori-Da Vinci (Porretta Terme, Italy) go to Spain to attend to Expominerales 2018, an event hosted by the School of Mining Engeneering of Madrid, while talking with students and teachers about energy sources and Rare-earth elements.
RM@Schools Ambassador: Liliana Medic Pejic
video (short version 1:35')
video (original version 14:01')

Experimental Workshops on WEEE Recycling

Six Experimental Workshops were carried out (March 6 - July 18, 2018) with German students from Lower Saxony, Hessia, Northern Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria on WEEE Recycling themes.
RM@Schools Ambassador: Jochen Brinkmann
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Workshop for teachers, March 2-3, 2018 - Tallin (EE)

Chemistry Workshop - Clausthal (DE)

Organised by the faculty of sciences and material sciences of the Clausthal University of Technology (TUC) as well as the Robert-Koch-Schule (RKS).
RM@Schools Ambassadors: Jochen Brinkmann (TUC), Axel Frenke (RKS), Alberto Zanelli (CNR-ISOF), Gabriele Caronna and Riccardo Ugolini (Liceo Galvani Bologna).
Program | web album
Oberharz newspaper:
Feb 24 | Feb 27 | Mar 3 | Mar 5
GZlive (DE) | (EN) | (IT) | More on GZlive:
International Workshop
Explosive final with a lot of humor

MINTforum Bremen - Fraunhofer IFAM
(11 Feb 2018).

RM@Schools Ambassador Beate Brede (Fraunhofer IFAM) presents the European Project the MINTforum meeting.
Program

Kick-off meeting & 1^rst Workshop

RM@Schools 3.0 in Bologna (8-9 Feb 2018).
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