EUPEN's 11th General Forum EGF2009

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ONE YEAR of STEPS TWO
LauraTugulea University of Bucharest
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AIM of STEPS TWO To support the university
Physics Departments in their strategic
institutional development, following the
structural changes by the Bologna process, with
greater European vision to overcome some of the
local and national obstacles. The EUPEN network
allows to target higher education institutions
providing Physics education from all EU
countries.
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Three lines of action THREE WORKING
GROUPS WG1 Curricula after Bologna Lifelong
learning WG2 Modern teaching methods in Physics
education student centred learning
WG3 Physics Teacher education European
dimension Developing recommendations and
offering solutions for concrete strategies
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• ACTIVITIES
• Reorganization of WGs and start of activities in
  each WG
• Practical organizational measures at coordinator
  and contractor institutions for running the
  project
• Development of the STEPS TWO Website for
  dissemination of results management of project
  activities
• Meetings of WGs Linz and Lodz (WG1)
• Eindhoven (WG2)

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• OUTCOMES
• The active involvement of majority WG partners in
  activities
• The active involvement of physics students and
  via their professional national and European
  associations
• Enhancing the visibility of the EUPEN network via
  the website
• Cooperation with other networks TECHNO TN
• The reinforcement the cooperation with EPS
  (European Physical Society)
• The organization of the 11th EUPEN Forum with 5
  themes and 3 sessions of posters

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STEPS TWO CONSORTIUM I. 69
PARTNERS universities from 26 countries 3 AT, 5
BE, 4 BG, 1CY, 2 CZ, 2 DE, 1 DK, 1 EE, 1 ES, 2
FI, 2 FR, 1 EL, 2 HU, 1 IE, 9 IT, 2 LT, 1 LV,
1MT, 4 NL, 5 PL, 2 PT, 7 RO, 3 SE, 1 SL, 2 SK, 1
TR, 3 UK II. 8 Associated PARTNERS 6
universities from HR, YU, RU, AA, MK, UK 2
associations EPS (FR) EPSI (GR)