
MultiCO - Promoting Youth Scientific Career Awareness and its Attractiveness through Multi-stakeholder Cooperation
Leaders
The MultiCO (Promoting Youth Scientific Career Awareness and it Attractiveness through Multi stakeholder Cooperation) is a three-year research program which has secured funding under Horizon 2020 (Horizon 2020).
In MultiCO together universities from five European countries: the UK, Finland, Estonia, Germany and Cyprus. The main goal of the project is to promote students’ awareness about possible career choices in science and technology.
Originally intended to work with partners in industry and business to create a collection of stories of scientists, which will act as asset in designing creative didactic scenarios to be implemented in the classroom. The aim of the scenarios is to enhance students’ interest in science, both as a discipline in the curriculum as well as a possible career direction.
The pursuit of research MultiCO program will be promoted through a participatory process based on cooperation between researchers in the areas of science and technology, teachers, guidance counselors, educational policy-making bodies, especially students. This group is mainly in the design of teaching scenarios with students at the forefront as it is necessary to their active involvement in the program.
Cooperation
Teaching material
Teaching materials are career-based scenarios and other materials supporting the implementation of career-based scenarios.
Career-based scenario
- is a real life related, career-focused story, which initiates context- and inquiry-based science studies
- presents the problem to be solved/issues to be discussed
Good Practices and Recommendations
A significant strand of the MultiCO-project was also the development of guidelines for policy and teacher education building on findings from the different phases of the study and ongoing collaboration and dialogue with participants and other stakeholders. The study aimed to mainstream good practices in using career-based scenarios.