MedVed - Project for science medialization and popularization
MedVěd - Projekt medializace a popularizace vědy

University of the child age (Univerzita dětského věku)
Faculty of Science, Palacky University Olomouc, www.upol.cz

Project "Medial Accentuation of Usefulness of Exact Science and Perspectives of Studies of Natural Sciences – MedVěd"
Cycle of attractive lectures on natural sciences for children between 8 to 11 years; lectures on weekly basis; in year 2009 covered subjects such as biology, physics, geoinformatics, geography, and math.
About 100 participants per year
3rd year of the event

To invoke interest among school children about natural sciences and make natural sciences an attractive subject among the group of elementary and secondary school students, university students and general public (i.e. participating children as carriers of ideas and enthusiasm about natural sciences). Project´s goal is to show scientific subjects as perspective for the 21st century and very desirable from the perspective of future career and personal motivation.

Primarily elementary school children

Lectures and experiments

Local (the city of Olomouc – central Moravia – and its surroundings)

About 300 school children participated in last 3 years of the University of the child age

Good tool to enhance interest in natural sciences in school children and via them also in wider public (transfer of knowledge and curiosity to their families); unfortunately no chemistry subjects involved in the third year of the event; despite the fact that the project MedVed ends, the Faculty of Science plans to continue in organization of the event and therefore ensure the sustainability of its idea.

http://www.projektmedved.eu/UDV/oprojektu.htm
http://www.projektmedved.eu

Petra Kinzlova

ICT Prague, Department of Science and Research

Member of CIAAU Research Team in ICT Prague