TAILOR-MADE PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS
ALWAYS A CHALLENGING PATH
International Projects
Design and implementation of European projects related to Sustainability Education and active pedagogies in the STEM context
Project | Summer School - Marine Biological Surveys
Workshop with students, teachers and academics - Portugal, England, Poland, Greece, USA - aiming to compare intertidal biodiversity inventory methodologies in rocky and sandy beaches
Project | Summer School - Marine Biological Surveys
Workshop with students, teachers and academics - Portugal, England, Poland, Greece, USA - aiming to compare intertidal biodiversity inventory methodologies in rocky and sandy beaches
SoS Europe
Partner
Partner
CIIMAR-UP
Project | SEA CHANGE
[BI/2015-008]
Responsable for the WP: Mobilisation: Sea Action - where society and science meet; Mobilisation: Education & Lifelong Learning; Dissemination and Communication; Ocean Literacy Fundamentals - Baseline Review
Partner
CIIMAR-UP
Project | URBANSCAPE
[2011-1-DE3-COM06-19103]
A Comenius project, involving 6 EU countries - Germany, France, Turkey, Poland, Italy and Portugal. Responsible for urban environmental sustainability subject.
Partner
CLF
CLF - Colégio Luso-Francês
Project | MOVE
[2018-1-FR01-KA229-047835_2]
An ERASMUS+ project, involving 6 EU countries - Germany, France, Lithuania, Greece, Italy and Portugal. Responsible for smooth mobility, CO2 emissions, SMART Cities subjects and for the relation with the SDG/UN framework.
Partner
CLF
Projeto | GREENLIGHT
[IMCAP-EU/INOVA+]
O projeto Greenlight é uma plataforma de partilha de conhecimento, de práticas e de construção de currículos relacionados com o futuro da Política Agrícola Comum (PAC). Nos Open Days do projeto, abordou-se a sustentabilidade alimentar, problematizando as questões relacionadas com o desperdício alimentar, o movimento zero, os biorresíduos e a economia circular; a biodiversidade associada aos ecossistemas agrícolas, tendo como mote os serviços dos ecossistemas e a importância das culturas autóctones, e os superalimentos, perspectivando já o futuro da nossa alimentação, pautado pelo forte desenvolvimento científico-tecnológico nesta área.
Parceiro
INOVA+
Science Communication Materials
Project | BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Urban biodiversity communication project, whose main focus is citizens' active participation in species management, allowing autonomous inventories. Development of educational booklets for families and for teachers, leaflets, biodiversity monitoring kits and species field guides.
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | BIONEIVA
Biodiversity educational project focused on a EU NATURA 2000 conservation area (Parque Natural do Litoral Norte).
Development of a Biodiversity Pedagogical Kit
(online lesson on biodiversity + guide /protocol for field trips + video curation /teaser field trips).
Partner
ASSOCIAÇÃO RIO NEIVA
Hands-on Science at School
Project | LEARNING BY DOING / MAKER SPACE
Digital content production (tutorials) for Plataforma + Sucesso Escolar (LusoInfo Multimédia SA), distributed nationwide. It proposes practical suggestions for the construction of scientific functional prototypes, for children aged 3 to 10, to be carried out in a family context, and using low cost common materials.
Partner
SKILL ROBOTICS
Project | BUÇAQUINHO AT HOME
Production of digital content (tutorials) on Environment with a synthesis framework to contemporary environmental challenges, focusing on the priority areas of the municipality of Ovar: sea, biodiversity, inland waters, noise and air quality and urban waste.
Partner
CM OVAR
Project | BUÇAQUINHO AT HOME
Production of digital content (tutorials) on Environment with a synthesis framework to contemporary environmental challenges, focusing on the priority areas of the municipality of Ovar: sea, biodiversity, inland waters, noise and air quality and urban waste.
Partner
CM OVAR
Hands-on Science at School
Project | SCIENTISTS AT SCHOOL
Implementation of Hands-on Science programs in kindergartens and elementary schools, working in curricular support. "Scientists at school" started in 2002, as a way to provide laboratory kits, containing scientific equipment and support materials such as science notebooks for students, conceptual maps for teachers, protocols and a final assessment of teaching and learning by the end of each unit.
Partner
CMP
CMP - Câmara Municipal do Porto
Project | SCIENTISTS AT SCHOOL
Implementation of Hands-on Science programs in kindergartens and elementary schools, working in curricular support. "Scientists at school" started in 2002, as a way to provide laboratory kits, containing scientific equipment and support materials such as science notebooks for students, conceptual maps for teachers, protocols and a final assessment of teaching and learning by the end of each unit.
Partner
CMST
CMP - Câmara Municipal de Santo Tirso
Project | SCIENTISTS AT SCHOOL
Implementation of Hands-on Science programs in kindergartens and elementary schools, working in curricular support. "Scientists at school" started in 2002, as a way to provide laboratory kits, containing scientific equipment and support materials such as science notebooks for students, conceptual maps for teachers, protocols and a final assessment of teaching and learning by the end of each unit.
Partner
ANILUPA
Associação de Ludotecas do Porto
Ocean Education
Project | SCIENTISTS AT SCHOOL
Implementation of Hands-on Science programs in kindergartens and elementary schools, working in curricular support. "Scientists at school" started in 2002, as a way to provide laboratory kits, containing scientific equipment and support materials such as science notebooks for students, conceptual maps for teachers, protocols and a final assessment of teaching and learning by the end of each unit.
Partner
CLF
Ocean Education
SDG 14 Implementation - Life on Water - defined by the UN
Project | Biodiversity of our Sea: knowing to Preserve
[PT02, EEA Grants]
Educational project design related to marine resources, ecosystem services and public participation around coastal monitoring themes.
CMO - Câmara Municipal de Ovar
Partner
CIIMAR-UP
Project | MoBIDiC
Implementation of field trips on rocky beaches of northern Portugal to monitor intertidal biodiversity with the public.
Partner
CIIMAR-UP
Project | PLASTICS FOOTPRINT IN BEACHES
Implementation of field TRIPS on sandy beaches of Ovar municipality for microplastics monitoring with the public.
Partner
CMO
Project | OVAR IS SEA
Promotion of awareness-raising actions on the beaches of Ovar municipality during summer season related to local natural heritage, marine pollution, sustainable fishing and the impact of climate change on the coastline.
Partner
CMO
Documentaries
Project | THERE IS LIFE IN SERRALVES
Writing of five scripts for TV documentaries, using Serralves Park as a motto for exploring Urban Biodiversity and Energy. Docs produced: Bats, Reptiles and Amphibians, Insects (Butterflies), Birds and Energy
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Bats Episode
Amphibians Episode
Butterflies Episode
Birds Episode
Energy Episode
Citizen Science web Platforms
Biodiversity and Environment Platform, Serralves Foundation
Development of online interactive databases for terrestrial and marine biodiversity inventory
Project | web-app "Exploring the Beach”
Design of a web-app supporting a database that invites citizens to monitor macroalgae and intertidal animals: accessible data is organized by beach, season, organism zoning profile and by time period.
Partner
CIIMAR-UP
Project | web-app "Biodiversity and Environment”
Design of 9 online and interactive databases that invite citizens to monitor wildlife groups and environmental data in Serralves Park. Accessible data is organized by park location, season, species and time period.
Databases:
Fauna: butterflies, amphibians, reptiles, birds, bats, micro mammals
Environment: water, air, energy
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Outdoor Learning
Boosting outdoor classes, taking advantage of the potential of non-formal contexts for learning Environmental Sciences.
Projeto | À DESCOBERTA DO TERRITÓRIO
À Descoberta do Território é um projeto educativo que visa a exploração da natureza como sala de aula para promoção do ensino contextualizado das Ciências e da educação ambiental. Dinamizado com alunos do 1º. C.E.B. da rede pública do concelho de Santo Tirso, trabalha a biodiversidade urbana e a água associada aos cursos de água doce do concelho e aos parque verdes.
Parceiro
CM SANTO TIRSO
Project | EXPERIMENTAL LABS
Experimental Labs are sets of workshops focused on learning content that aim to promote environmental sustainability and citizenship. Each educator sets up the Lab with the workshops that best fit their school/ class project. The workshops are held outdoors in Serralves Park, complemented by laboratory work.
Key axes of Experimental Labs:
- Urban Biodiversity - Climate Change and Energy - Urban gardens
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | SCIENTISTS IN ACTION
Development of workshops in the Buçaquinho Environmental Park, in Ovar municipality, oriented towards the curriculum of kindergarten and elementary education. "Scientists in Action" is inspired by Forest School and Reggio Emilia movements. The workshops are complemented with pedagogical materials developed specifically for the program, such as field guides, observation and record sheets and didactic games.
Inclusion through Science
CMO
Partner
Design of Science activities for seniors, families and special needs audiences
Project | LIFELONG LEARNING
Design and implementation of an annual Environmental Science program, adapted to the senior public of Ovar municipality. This program includes workshop visits and practical laboratory activities on different themes related to the Buçaquinho Environmental Park, appealing to the local historical tradition.
Partner
CMO
Project | SCIENCE TO ALL
Design and implementation of an annual Environmental Science program, adapted to the public with special needs and disadvantaged groups. With a strong focus on the work of emotional, behavioral and citizenship skills, "Science to All" uses hands-on formats, outdoors, and sensory activities (colors, smells, textures, shapes and sounds of nature).
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Partner
Project | SUNDAYS WITH FAMILY
Design of a family-oriented workshop program for exploring nature at Serralves Park, both indoor and outdoor. The activities adapt to various age groups and promote parent/ grandparent/ child interaction, with the educator, that assumes the role of a mediator.
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Partner
Project | SERRALVES BIOBLITZ
Technical and pedagogical support for intensive biodiversity inventory actions in Serralves Park (butterflies, birds, bats, amphibians, macroinvertebrates, soil animals). Through workshops, in which our target audience make contact with curiosities methods of analysis of fauna and flora groups potentially existing in the park.
Scientific Camps/ Blitz Events for Biodiversity Inventory
Scientific Expeditions
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | MERUJAL SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITITON
Organization of scientific camps at the Merujal Biodiversity Hotspot in UNESCO Arouca Geopark Territory, conducting biodiversity inventories (butterflies, birds, micro-mammals, amphibians, macroinvertebrates, lichens and mosses) with children and youth.
Partner
CMA
CMA - Câmara Municipal de Arouca
Project | MEZIO TRAIL: NATURE EXPLORERS
Design and implementation of an interpretative trail in Mezio, Peneda-Gerês National Park, supported by hands-on activities in nature. The activity is oriented to Families.
Partner
OFICINA DA NATUREZA
Training
Specialized training for science and environment professionals working in education and public awareness
Project | HOW TO PLAN A SCIENCE COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP FOR WIDE PUBLIC EVENTS
Training of researchers from INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory - framed in the event European Researchers Night, which aimed to assist the design of science workshops to be presented at the event at Palácio das Artes, in Porto.
Partner
INOVA+
Project | ANNUAL PROJECT WITH SCHOOLS
Teacher and students' training, framed in the thematic project developed with the schools every year in Serralves Foundation. The training includes a formative moment with teachers and workshops with students. The training aimed to conceptually frame the scientific theme to the project and allow contact with professionals and techniques that can then be applied in the prototypes in each school. The materials produced by the classes will be part of an exposition at the Museum by the end of the school year.
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | EXPERIENCE IN NATURE: HOW TO DEVELOP OUTDOOR SCIENCE PROJECTS
The training was part of the FORUM EDUCA 2019 meeting, organized by the Santo Tirso City Council, and intended to be a moment of sharing experiences and good practices in promoting the learning of outdoor sciences, using the schools surroundings as intervention areas.
Partner
CMSTIRSO
Project | PLASTIC FOOTPRINT AT THE BEACH How to involve the citizen in microplastics monitoring
Training for volunteers from the University of Aveiro under the "Plastic Footprint at the Beach" Project. The training included a contact with techniques for collecting and identifying coastal sediment microplastics and the principles of Citizen Science.
Partner
CMO
INOVA+
Partner
Project | EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS NIGHT
Design of workshops for the general public within the European event EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS NIGHT, which takes place simultaneously in several European cities. Under a defined topic, hand-on workshops are structured allowing the visitor to approach Science in a entertainment way. The workshops are complemented with other Science side events such as peddy-papers, molecular cocktails and SciArt murals.
Wide public events for environmental and scientific awareness
Science Edutainment
Project | SERRALVES IN PARTY
Design of workshops for families within the Serralves Foundation event SERRALVES IN PARTY. The activities are conceptualized in order to aggregate Art and Science, relevant to the context of the space. The work process is adjusted for a mass event and with a strong entertainment orientation.
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
Development of traditional games adapted to environmental themes in Buçaquinho Environmental Park. The games were held on the “World Environment Day”, with the presence of elementary schools from Ovar municipality. The event included workshops, guided visits and games.
Partner
CMO
Project | ENERGY WEEK
Organization of a Renewable Energy awareness event, framed by the EU Energy Weeks. In addition to thematic workshops and pedagogical games, the event featured an exhibition of school projects oriented throughout the year related to the school's energy consumption inventories.
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | EUROPEAN BAT NIGHT
Design of educational workshops, as part of the European event "European Bat Night", coordinated by EUROBATS. The activities focused on bat biology, ecology and Chiroptera conservation. Besides the workshops, oriented to schools and families, the project included also night trails along the Serralves Park for the capture and analysis of bat species ultrasounds.
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | AOARLIVRE
Design of pedagogical workshops for an event held in the garden of Bairro das Estacas, in Lisbon, for families living in the neighborhood. The main idea underlying the project was working with/ in the urban space, in the hidden corners of the buildings, using the improbable spaces to inspire the public to Science.
Partner
TEATRO MARIA MATOS
Art and Science
There have been many collaborative contexts with artists and institutions that seek to bring Science to the public in an innovative and improbable way.
Project | SCIENCE AND ANIMATED FILMS
Development of science activities for a script for the animated film "The Village of White Teeth" with students from "Bom Pastor" elementary school, in Porto, whose thematic was related to Oral Health. The filme, made by the students, participated in CINANIMA 2008 and ANIMA MUNDI 2009. The film won the Best Animation Award in the 1st. encounter AMARES 2009 edition.
Partner
ANILUPA
Project | SCIENCE, SCIENCE, ACTION!
Design of scientific workshops for children related to the backstage of Cinema. The workshops were part of the Vila do Conde Short Film Festival and deal with optics, light and color, chemistry, vision and human emotions.
Partner
CURTAS VILA CONDE
Project | BOOKS WITH SCIENCE
"Books with Science" is a project where literature and Science combine to create unique moments of entertainment and education. Based on selected books, workshops are organized and the participant is invited to conduct experiences interspersed with the narration of the story.
Partner
CORTE INGLÉS
Project | ANNUAL PROJECT WITH SCHOOLS
Design of school workshops, articulated within the Serralves Foundation thematic annual project . During the school year, the groups attend lectures, training and pedagogical workshops as a way of inspiring themselves for the development of a school project, to be presented at an exhibition at the end of the year at the Serralves Museum. The work processes developed are open and flexible, stimulate thinking, creativity and value reflective, dialogical and potentially transformative learning.
Worked topics:
- SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS, as part of the Unforeseen Collections Project
- PORTRAIT OF EMOTION and IMAGE OF ME, within the scope of the Portraits Project
- PORTUGUESE FLORA GARDEN, as part of the Portable Gardens Project
- IMAGES THROUGH A MAGNIFYING LENSES and IMAGE BY THE HOLE OF THE NEEDLE, as part of the Images through a Magnifier Lenses Project
- SCIENCE IN BOOKS, within the scope of the Books on the Loose Project
- ECOLOGICAL MACHINES and BIONICS, within the scope of the Machines Project
- SUSTAINABLE CITIES, under the Cities Project
- INTIMATE ENEMIES, within the scope of The room Projet - SENSORIAL EXPLORATION OF SERRALVES PARK and MICROWORLDS, within the scope of the Imaginary Places: Utopia and transition Project
- NATURALIST BOXES, as part of the Serralves in a Pocket Project
- CARRYING THE HOUSE ON THE BACK, as part of the Constructions in Transition Project
- MUTANT BODY, as part of the Body Images Project
- EXPLORING NATURE, as part of the Curiosity Project
- MY SCHOOL IS A LIVING BEING, within the scope of the Mobile Architectures Project
- ELASTIC EYE, within the project Apprentice look: The multiple forms of the look Project.
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | THERE IS LIGHT IN THE PARK
Design and implementation of science workshops under the scope of Light, for the annual event “There is Light in the Park”, developed at the Serralves Foundation.
Workshops:
Funny Optical Effects
Let's create Light!
Light Pigments
Experiment Light!
Partner
FUNDAÇÃO DE SERRALVES
Project | ECOTEAM
ECOTEAM activities offer the opportunity to develop soft skills in a unique way: by combining team building techniques with environmental awareness, a trail has been designed with several Core Stations where teams have tasks to develop related to the natural values of the space. The concept has also been extended to families of corporate employees, promoting inter-generational behaviors and fulfillment outdoors.
Within the scope of corporate social responsibility, the choice for sustainability initiatives has been an important mark in the proposals, developed to raise awareness among corporate employees and families.
Corporate events
Partner
CORTICEIRA AMORIM
BOSCH
Project | PASTA DAY
Event integrated in Food Week, whose challenge was to work pasta as a raw material, from the scientific, environmental, entertainment and artistic point of view.
Workshops:
Wheat Biology: What is Pasta Made of
Colored pasta
Eat well and stir well ... gives you health and makes you grow
Radio “Pasta Party” (Young Scientist Reporters)
Pasta Gymkhana
Partner
CEREALIS
Project | OPEN DAY OLIVEIRA DA SERRA
Design of thematic workshops related to olive oil, within Oliveira da Serra Open Day event, organized at Serralves Foundation.
Workshops:
Oil mills
Portuguese Flora: Olea europeae
The chemistry of olive oil
Biodiesel production
Discovering the millennial olive tree of Serralves Park
Culinary Lab
The Science of Healthy Flavors
Parnter
SOVENA
Project | ENERGY WEEK
Design of workshops, games, debates and visits, promoted under the theme Energy and Sustainability, in Serralves Park.
Debates moderation:
RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION, with the presence of Graça Gonçalves (Liga para a Proteção da Natureza/ LPN) and Rita Rocha (Mundo Científico Lda.)
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY, attended by Mário Alves (Instituto Superior Técnico/IST of the University of Lisbon) and Rita Rocha (Mundo Científico Lda.)
Org: LPN / Biosphere (Farol de Ideias)