ACTIVITIES REPORT
Partners' Institution:
University of Genoa
Project's period (from/to):
01 March 2010 - 30 June 2010
WPs concerned:
WP 2 - Identification of barriers and success factors in Life Long Learning of scientific subjects

Objectives of activities carried out:
Analysis and review of:
- the main existing documentation concerning the planning and implementation of Life long Learning policies in scientific issues with a specific focus on Chemistry;
- the main existing documentation concerning reasons and causes that create barriers to the full deployment of Life Long Learning strategies as far as scientific subjects (and chemistry in particular);
- the main successful national educational initiatives and methodological approaches aimed to raise students and people interest towards scientific issues (with a specific focus on chemistry.
- Identification of the main reasons that create barriers to the development of Life Long Learning of scientific disciplines (chemistry in particular)in Italy

Time period:
march 2010 - june 2011

Description of activities carried out:
WP 2.1
Collection and review of 35 publications and documents concerning the analysis and definition of Life Long learning policies, barriers and success factors in scientific subjects with specific focus on chemistry.

WP 2.2
Collection and review of national strategies and initiatives aimed to implement Life Long learning in scientific subjects (chemistry in particular)

WP 2.3
- Identification of 10 teachers and 10 adult learners to be interviewed.
- Production and recording of the 20 interviews.
- Analysis of 10 interviews to secondary school teachers
- Analysis of 10 interviews to adult learners
- Production of the respective 20 case studies

Outcomes:
The documents and the initiatives requested by the guidelines of the project were collected and reviewed within the deadlines as well as the interviwes to adults and teachers. A special care was dedicated to interviews because they contain important information as integration and confirmation of the analysis carried out by reviewing documents and strategies.
The work carried out gave the opportunity of collecting the material needed to produce the National Report on LLL of scientific subjects and to identify the barriers to LLL of scientific subjects (with special care to chemistry).




Evaluation of the work undertaken:
The material collected was chosen among several other documents in order to select the most significative information needed to produce a reliable national report about the situation of LLL of scientific subjects in Italy (with particular attention to chemistry)and the main barriers to the developments of these disciplines