Report of Dissemination and Exploitation Activities (Year 2)
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Go-Lab Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School Collaborative Project in European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme Grant Agreement no. 317601 Deliverable D9.3 Report of Dissemination and Exploitation Activities (Year 2) Editor Diana Dikke (IMC) Date 30 October 2014 Dissemination Level Public Status Final © 2014, Go-Lab consortium Go-Lab G9.3 Report of Dissemination and Exploitation Activities (Year 2) The Go-Lab Consortium Beneficiary Beneficiary name Beneficiary Country Number short name 1 University Twente UT The Netherlands 2 Ellinogermaniki Agogi Scholi Panagea Savva AE EA Greece 3 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL Switzerland 4 EUN Partnership AISBL EUN Belgium 5 IMC AG IMC Germany 6 Reseau Menon E.E.I.G. MENON Belgium 7 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED Spain 8 University of Leicester ULEIC United Kingdom 9 University of Cyprus UCY Cyprus 10 Universität Duisburg-Essen UDE Germany 11 Centre for Research and Technology Hellas CERTH Greece 12 Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto UDEUSTO Spain 13 Fachhochschule Kärnten – Gemeinnützige CUAS Austria Privatstiftung 14 Tartu Ulikool UTE Estonia 15 European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN Switzerland 16 European Space Agency ESA France 17 University of South Wales USW United Kingdom 18 Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applica- IASA Greece tions 19 Núcleo Interactivo de Astronomia NUCLIO Portugal Go-Lab 317601 Page 2 of 87 Go-Lab G9.3 Report of Dissemination and Exploitation Activities (Year 2) Contributors Name Institution Diana Dikke IMC Samira Rzakulieva IMC Nils Faltin IMC Yiwei Cao IMC Henny Leemkuil UT Georgios Mavromanolakis EA Denis Gillet EPFL Sten Govaerts EPFL Evita Tasiopoulou EUN Vasilis Fasoulis MENON Effie Law ULEIC Constantinos Manoli UCY Zacharias Zacharia UCY Sven Manske UDE Adam Giemza UDE Miguel Rodriguez Artacho UNED Panagiotis Zervas CERTH Olga Dziabenko UDEUSTO Amir Mujkanovic CUAS Margus Pedaste UTE Urmas Heinaste UTE Angelos Alexopoulos CERN Fraser Lewis USW Christine Kourkoumelis IASA Rosa Doran NUCLIO Joanna Holt ESA Ton de Jong (peer-review) UT Eleftheria Tsourlidaki (peer-review) EA Go-Lab 317601 Page 3 of 87 Go-Lab G9.3 Report of Dissemination and Exploitation Activities (Year 2) Legal Notices The information in this document is subject to change without notice. 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Go-Lab 317601 Page 4 of 87 Go-Lab G9.3 Report of Dissemination and Exploitation Activities (Year 2) Executive Summary In the Go-Lab project, WP9 “Dissemination and Exploitation” aims at promoting the project and its results among different groups of stakeholders in order to support the dissemination and im- plementation of these results and assure their sustainability after the project time. To do this, WP9 conducts various online and offline dissemination activities, establishes and supports con- tact to potential end-users as well as other important stakeholders like Ministries of Education and online lab providers, cooperates with other projects, communities and standardization bod- ies for inquiry learning technology, and creates information and supportive materials (including an online course) for teachers allowing them to understand and use the project outcomes in their everyday teaching practice. In the Year 2, WP9 updated the contents of the project website representing the newest project developments and actively used online channels to disseminate them. Go-Lab online communi- ty demonstrated significant growth compared to the Year 1: the website was visited by 20,358 users (compare to 1,460 in Year 1), 138 users subscribed to the project newsletter (34 in Year 1), and the total number of newly joined Go-Lab online community members lies by 753 users (121 in Year 1)1. The number of offline dissemination activities is similar to the Year 1 (which can be explained by availability of organizers and participants): 54 presentations of the project reaching 3,422 participants were given, 40 workshops and events involving 1,356 participants were organized by the project, plus 18 joint events reaching 953 participants were organized in cooperation with other communities and consortia, and finally project’s booths at conferences and exhibitions addressed about 15,000 people. In addition, the project created a Smart Show explaining the project in a simple way (and provided with subtitles in seven languages) and sev- eral demo-videos. The work on the Go-Lab MOOC for teachers has started. Implementation of the Go-Lab project is supported by Ministries of Education (MoEs) in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Belgium. Actions to involve Dutch and Swiss MoEs are being taken (see Section 2.4.3). Furthermore, to strengthen the standardization and adaptation of the project re- sults, Go-Lab members are involved in the IEEE Working Group P18761 on Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories working on standardization of the technology on differ- ent levels (see Section 3.5.1). Finally, preparation of the actions supporting sustainability and exploitation of the project results has started by creating a strategy for the whole consortium and its particular members, described in Section 3 of this Deliverable. 1 All numbers excluding project members Go-Lab 317601 Page 5 of 87 Go-Lab G9.3 Report of Dissemination and Exploitation Activities (Year 2) Table of Contents 1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................8 2 Dissemination Plan and Report ..............................................................................................9 2.1 Correspondence to the dissemination strategy ............................................................. 9 2.2 Online Dissemination Activities .....................................................................................11 2.2.1 Project website and blog ............................................................................................ 11 2.2.2 Golabz Repository ...................................................................................................... 15 2.2.3 Social media channels ............................................................................................... 16 2.2.4 Project newsletter ....................................................................................................... 19 2.2.5 External channels and online press releases ............................................................. 19 2.2.6 Go-Lab Smart Show and videos ................................................................................. 20 2.2.7 Go-Lab Mini Video Contest ........................................................................................ 21 2.3 Go-Lab MOOC .................................................................................................................22 2.3.1 Aims, format and structure of the course .................................................................... 22 2.3.2 OCW-Platform and course administration .................................................................. 24 2.3.3 Content development and update .............................................................................. 26 2.4 Offline Dissemination Activities .....................................................................................27 2.4.1 Dissemination activities by countries .......................................................................... 27 2.4.2 Presentations, workshops, and booths ....................................................................... 29 2.4.3 Synergy actions with related organizations ................................................................. 31 2.4.4 Dissemination among Ministries of Education ............................................................ 32 2.4.5 Scientific publications ................................................................................................. 32 2.4.6 Dissemination materials ............................................................................................. 34 2.5 Key Performance Indicators ...........................................................................................35 2.5.1 Online Dissemination ................................................................................................. 35 2.5.2 Offline Dissemination ................................................................................................. 38 3 Sustainability and Exploitation Plan .................................................................................... 40 3.1 Project sustainability and exploitation plan ..................................................................40 3.1.1 Planned exploitable results .......................................................................................