2nd European Conference Variety in Chemistry Education (June 2007)
2. Evropská konference, Rozmanitost v chemickém vzdělávání (červen 2007)

Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Science, Charles University
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University

2nd international biannual conference following the conference in 2005 in Krakow (Poland) and more than 10 years long tradition of similar conferences in the UK

To share experience and expertise on themes related to chemistry teaching from curriculum development to education techniques;
To support importance of chemistry education in the 21st century at the university level;
To share good practices and innovations;
Dissemination of outcomes of pedagogic research.

Chemistry teachers, chemists, program managers from tertiary level institutions, other key players on the field

Conference – lectures, seminars, both formal and informal discussions, presentations

International (EU member states + Turkey, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Israel, Mexico)

Conference proceedings containing 72 contributions on following main topics:
• Problem and context based chemistry education
• New methods in chemistry education
• Practical chemistry education
• Information and communication technologies in chemistry education
• European and national education programmes, projects and industry-education cooperation.

Good platform for the presentation of new results gathered in this field of chemistry education in both European and non-European countries;
Good background for the cooperation between teachers, chemists and programme managers from tertiary level institutions.

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/eurovariety/

Petra Kinzlova

Department of Science and Research, ICT Prague

Member of CIAAU Research Team in ICT Prague