Training sessions
Comenius Training sessions
If you are a teacher from the EU, you can apply for funding from your Comenius National Agency to attend these courses/seminars. The funding should (in principle) cover everything - course cost, accommodation, subsistence and travel.
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The main goal of these training sessions and seminar are to re-awake the interest for science in the young generation with inquiry-based methods. Renewing of the teaching of science is fulfilled through astronomy as a well-established source of motivation, and through the use of new Information and Communication Technologies - ICT. Involving teachers in a variety of research-based astronomical projects, we will excite, enthuse and motivate them to teach science/technology/maths. The training is intended to enhance basic competencies of teachers and develop higher level skills and expertise, primarily in ICT, maths and physics area. The EU-HOU project will provide the opportunity for trained teachers to get involved in stimulating international collaborations and to enthuse their pupils to study sciences/technology/maths at a higher level.
To pre-register, you have to fill and send the following pre-registration form (doc or pdf) by email to EUHOU at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The UPMC administration will then send you a pre-registration certificate. With this certificate, you have to apply for a Comenius grant through your Lifelong Learning Programme national agency. When you get a grant, please confirm your registration by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (resp. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).
EUHOU: Hands-On Universe, Europe. Bringing frontline interactive astronomy in the classroom - 5-days training sessions (FR-2013-408-003)
Session ID: 49232; 28 January - 1st February 2013 - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Session ID: 49318; 15-19 April 2013 - Organizer: National Observatory of Athens / Host Institution: City Unity Collège, Athens, Greece
Session ID: 49239; 27-31 May 2013 - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
The pre-registrations and applications for the May 2013 session to national agencies are due for 16th January 2013.
If you are interested to participate to the January 2013 session, but did not apply to your national agency, please let us know as soon as possible: we might have some financial support through the Discover the Cosmos project.
EUHOU: Hands-On Universe, Europe. Bringing frontline interactive astronomy in the classroom - 5-days training sessions (FR-2011-359-006)
Session ID: 39759; 4-8 June 2012 - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (completed)
Session ID: 45128; 12-16 November 2012 - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (cancelled by lack of participants)
- To pre-register, they have to fill and send the above pre-registration form by email to EUHOU at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . (or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). The UPMC administration will then send them a pre-registration certificate.
- With this certificate, they have to apply for a Comenius grant through their Lifelong Learning Programme national agency.
- When they get their grant, they have to confirm their registration by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Once the candidates got the response from their national agency, they are kindly asked to let us know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if they maintain their application. For the first training session, we are waiting for these confirmations to establish the list of participants and to let you know early September if we effectively open this course. We will then advise you a list of hotels, and will send you more practical informations about the organisation of the training.
Please note that some sessions have been cancelled due to a too small number of participants.
EUHOU: Hands-On Universe, Europe. Bringing frontline interactive astronomy in the classroom - 5-days training sessions (FR-2011-359-006)
Session ID: 39757; 21-25 May 2012 - Observatorio Astronomico de Coimbra, Portugal (cancelled by lack of participants)
Session ID: 45126; 15-19 October 2012 - Organizer: National Observatory of Athens / Host Institution: City Unity Collège, Athens, Greece (cancelled by lack of participants)
EU-HOU - Connecting classrooms to the Milky Way- 2-days seminars (FR-2012-360-002)
Session ID: 39802; 6-7 February 2012- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France CANCELLED
Session ID: 39908; 26-27 March 2012 - Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Bonn, Germany CANCELLED
Session ID: 45186; 18-19 June 2012 - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France CANCELLED
Session ID: 45185; 22-23 November 2012 - Observatorio Astronomico de Coimbra, Portugal CANCELLED
