PROJECT FACT SHEET Acronym COMnPLAY SCIENCE Full Title Learning science the fun and creative way: coding, making, and play as vehicles for informal science learning in the 21st century Programme / Pillar / Topic Horizon 2020 / Science with and for Society / Science education outside the classrooms Type of Action Research and Innovation action Grant Agreement No 787476 Duration 36 months (1/6/2018 – 31/5/2021) Grant Amount € 3,097,715.00 Overview The project aims to help Europe better understand the new ways in which non-formal and informal science learning is taking place through various coding, making, and play activities that young Europeans (children, adolescents and young adults) are nowadays increasingly engaged with, outside school and higher education science classrooms, beyond the formal boundaries of science education. The project’s main objectives are to: a. Develop an appropriate conceptual and methodological framework integrating all aspects of the project into a unifying conceptual map. b. Setup a European-wide community of stakeholders, including learners, educators, facilitators and policy makers from diverse fields, to contribute, guide and help assessing the conducted research. c. Identify, pool and analyse diverse existing coding, making and play-based practices taking place outside formal science classrooms which bear some promise for non-formal and informal science learning. d. Conduct in-depth learner-centred participatory empirical research on selected practices. e. Gain a deep understanding of the impact that this kind of non-formal and informal science learning has on formal science education, traditional informal science learning interventions, young people as learners and citizens, as well as, on society. f. Communicate and disseminate the messages and outcomes of the project widely, and enable the exploitation of the findings of the research through the development of relevant guidance for practitioners and recommendations for policy development and further research. The main results stemming from the projesct include: • An online inventory of all the identified and pooled practices, appropriately categorized and annotated in the light of the findings of the research, available to stakeholders and the public. • A set of community building methods and tools for everyone wishing to get involved in community building linked to the project. • A Web-based game promoting and supporting the continuous prolonged engagement of learners and their facilitators in the field research. • The COMnPLAY-Science Knowledge Kit, a modular set of reader-friendly, practice-oriented publications, encapsulating the findings of the project. • The COMnPLAY-Science Roadmap for Europe, a detailed concerted account by the consortium, the stakeholder communities and policy makers of the potential for short-, medium- and long term impact of coding, making and play-based non-formal and sinformal science learning. • Numerous public events (workshops, training seminars, conferences, contests, fairs), often combined with training activities (winter and summer schools). Project Coordinator Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Prof. Michail Giannakos Phone: +47 73590731 E-mail: michailg@ntnu.no Consortium Members Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (coordinator) University of Oulu, Finland Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Uppsala University, Sweden Technical University of Munich, Germany University of Malta, Malta Design for Change initiative, Spain ovos media GmbH, Austria King’s College London, UK Science Museum Group, UK Web & Social media Web Site: http://comnplayscience.eu YouTube: https://bit.ly/2Hq5FsK Facebook: https://fb.me/ComNPlayScience Twitter: @comnplayscience ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/project/CoM-n-Play-Science This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 787476. This document reflects only the authors’ view. The Research Executive Agency (REA) and the European Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.