NEWS

Today's DOIT Webinar is on Fablabs with Santi Fuentemilla from Fab Lab Barcelona, where we take a look on the fablab phenomenon.

See the video in a new window HERE or embedded below.

On 25 and 26 November, the DOIT Salzburg team was invited to carry out a one and a half-day public training in the Grand Garage in Linz. The professional areas of the participants were diverse: teachers, project staff of foundations, employees of the city and the Grand Garage learned together methods and tools for innovation development with children and young people.

Again, the Austrian team did facilitator training. This time, Dr. Margit Hofer (ZSI) and Dr. Sandra Schön (Salzburg Research) were guests at the Graz University of Technology and did a 4 hours long workshop together with DOIT's advisor Adj-Prof. Ph.D.

The report "Makerspaces for Education and Training: Exploring future implications for Europe" written by Dr Riina Vuorikari, Anusca Ferrari and Yves Punie (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, JRC) was published some weeks ago.

The DOIT project team from Salzburg took part in the Austrian Entrepreneurship Summit on 13 November 2019. The coordinator of the DOIT project presented the project, pilot activities and materials to around 50 teachers and students from the field of entrepreneurship education in a 15-minute presentation at our small booth.

At 14th of November 2019, the Austrian DOIT partners had a joint public presentation hosted by the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The event was organised by Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ruth Mateus-Berr, leader of the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education.

DOIT participated again at the Mini Maker Faire in Salzburg. Children were asked to prototype smart IoT solutions to motivate bicycle usage or - the smaller ones - to design a bike of their dreams. We got inspiring results for our booth partner SimpliCITY as well.

Last week, the Austrian DOIT team already organised their second facilitator training in Austria, together with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, co-organised together with Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ruth Mateus-Berr, leader of the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education.

The team of Salzburg Research made a documentation video of the pilot activities together with a class from bhak/bhak hallein with a focus on "industrial business". The 21 students decided to work on a climate action with the topic "Smart accesoires to motivate bicycle usage".

Salzburg Research had the opportunity to carry out the first Austrian facilitator training on 14 October.