26/04/2013

Go-Lab (2012-2016) creates an infrastructure (the Go-Lab Portal) to provide access to online laboratories run by research centres and universities worldwide. These online labs can be used by universities, schools, instructors, students and lifelong learners to extend regular learning activities with scientific experiments, giving students a real experience of research work.

The project aims at:

• Creating pedagogical framework for inquiry learning with online labs
• Building the Go-Lab federation of online labs.
• Providing one-click access to online labs and personalization facilities.
• Building community of teachers, students and researchers to facilitate collaboration between schools and research institutions

To further support teachers in using online labs, Go-Lab offers workshops to introduce online virtual experimentations and remote laboratories as well as inquiry-based science teaching techniques.

The project consortium comprises of 19 organisations from 12 countries and is coordinated by the University of Twente, Netherlands. European Schoolnet leads the validation and evaluation activities, and is also involved in curriculum analysis and school pilots. EUN will act as National coordinator of the project’s implementation in Belgium, and coordinate the pilot activities in Italy and Poland.

Go-Lab is funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme.

More information: www.go-lab-project.eu

Status: Current