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Makerspace event in Malmö

The aim of this project is to collaborate, promote and develop young people’s interest and knowledge within technology and science. Cool Minds and 4yourkids will together create an exciting new way to incorporate the art and science world by using digital and aesthetic expression. A children / youth perspective will

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Action-Oriented Entrepreneurship Training Series for New Arriving Immigrants

This project aims to provide action-oriented training to help 25 newly arrived immigrants in Skåne get the skills in entrepreneurship that can increase their personal development and job prospects. Adapting, sensitising and modifying experiences and techniques from the international master’s programme in New Venture Creation at Lund University. Participating in

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Students with low achievement in mathematics

The last seven years have been devoted to studies in educational sciences specialising in didactics of mathematics. Research has focused on the reasons why students show low performance in mathematics. The project intends designing course materials for the instruction of how to teach such students. Via separate training days in

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What everyone should know about science

The Education Act states that education must be based on scientific foundation. A scientific approach is highlighted in the policy documents for most subjects. Through interviews with among others representatives of various school subjects and research areas what can and should be included in “scientific literacy” is clarified and a

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Teachers as leaders

If teachers show good leadership in and outside the classroom they increase a pupil’s a chance of quiet study time, focus and to learning development. Through the project “Teachers as Leaders” teachers are given tools that provide students the prerequisites for this. Research shows that a teacher’s skills, ability and

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A home to enjoy living in, a city to enjoy living in

Malmö is battling and is today a segregated city where the gap increases for each passing day. According to Save the Children Annual Review 2015 on child poverty, Malmö ranks the highest, with every third child lives in poverty. Many people are ashamed to bring home friends because they do

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Understanding social understanding

What are the prerequisites for people to understand each other? How can we arrange our lives so as to conduce consensus? Patrizio Lo Presti asks this question in his thesis Norms in Social Interaction: Semantic, Epistemic, and Dynamic. The answer has practical implications on how we perceive an age marked

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