FEDORA

Future-oriented Science Education to enhance Responsibility and Engagement in the society of acceleration and uncertainty. 

FEDORA was a 3-year EU-funded project, which started in September 2020 and deployed its activities until August 2023. It gathered 6 partner institutions from 5 European countries. It conducted reasearch and practice towards the regeneration of the ecosystem of science learning, by developing a future-oriented model to enable creative thinking, foresight and active hope, as skills needed in formal and informal science education.
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FEDORA developed a future-oriented model to enable creative thinking, foresight and active hope as skills needed in formal and informal science education.

But what does that mean and how we did it? 
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FEDORA inspired a board game to design future scenarios

Emma D'Orto
Fedora’s ideas continue inspiring researchers and its results have been a fruitful foundation for further research. One of the best examples of that is the original board-game called FyouTURES, whose materials have been recently made available on Zenodo. The game has been implemented for the first time as part of an extracurricular course for upper […]

FEDORA Cited by the EU Among the Top Projects Driving Innovation in Education

Emma D'Orto
We are proud to announce that FEDORA has been recognized by CORDIS (the European Commission's primary platform for EU-funded research results) as one of the standout projects that has successfully tackled the challenge of innovation in education.   A dedicated article, providing a concise overview of the project’s results, has been made available in six […]

Revisit our Handbook: Pathways for a Future-oriented Science Education

Andrea Troncoso, formicablu, Italy
The FEDORA handbook is a comprehensive and quick guide to the FEDORA project’s findings, insights, and recommendations for science educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in science education as a driver for sustainable futures. It presents a range of perspectives through our studies, recommendations, and frameworks, inviting you to apply them in various educational contexts. They […]
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Which was our starting point?
FEDORA recognized three misalignments.

We saw a clash between, on one hand, the vertical and hyper- specialized organization of teaching in disciplines and, on the other, the inter-multi-transdisciplinary, character of innovation, and the efforts to make research and science an open and collaborative space. We saw a second mismatch between the formalized and exclusive languages used in schools and the needs for new languages to enhance imagination and the capacity to talk about the contemporary challenges and last, but not least, we identified a discrepancy between the a-temporal or historically oriented teaching approaches and the need to support the young to construct visions of the future that empower actions in the present.

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How we did it? We shed a light into these blind spots by combining the skills of our team and at the same time, by exploring what is happening in the different layers that interact in science education. We dug into the culture, into the conceptual paradigms and how institutions face the present and future in our field. Multiform sets of research methodologies were put in place, in order to feed anticipatory polices that mobilized visionary attitudes, sustainable and creative participation in science-related societal issues.

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FEDORA, Future-oriented Science Education to enhance Responsibility and Engagement in the society of acceleration and uncertainty, is a 3-year EU-funded project. It started in September 2020 and will deploy its activities until August 2023. It gathers 6 partner institutions from 5 European countries.
FEDORA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 872841
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