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Open Science Resources launches Best Educational Pathway contest
January 30 2012

The consortium of Open Science Resources is launching a contest for the best educational pathways of the OSR portal. Sixteen pathways in total have been chosen by the consortium to be part of this contest based on the quality of their content. The 8 pathways that are most highly evaluated by the users will be recognized as the best pathways of the OSR portal and their authors will receive a “Best Pathway” certificate.

Open Science Resources Summer School, Crete, Greece, 6-7 July 2012
January 12 2012

The “Open Science Resources” summer school aims to offer to teachers from all over Europe the chance to get acquainted with open educational resources repositories and be trained to use existing materials and relevant tools so as to design top quality educational activities that may be easily retrievable and available at anytime from anywhere.

OSR Portal wins 2011 OPAL Award for Quality and Innovation
December 5 2011

The OSR Portal is the winner of the Award for Learning Contexts of the OPAL Awards 2011 for Quality and Innovation Through Open Educational Practices.
The prize has been awarded during the 2011 edition of the Online Educa Conference which was held recently in Berlin (www.online-educa.com/, 30 November – 2 December).
Eleftheria Tsourlidaki from Elinogermaniki Agogi, Greece. as well as Marzia Mazzonetto, Projects Coordinator at Ecsite, and Claudio Dondi from the Menon Network (both based in Belgium) proudly collected the prize.

Open Science Resources project wins Opal Award for Learning Contexts
November 16 2011

Open Science Resources has been selected by an international jury as winner of the 2011 Open Educational Quality (OPAL) Awards for Learning Contexts.

Open Science Resources wins another international award
July 22 2011
Open Science Resources wins major award
May 25 2011

Jennifer Palumbo, OSR Project Coordinator, accepted a Silver Award at this year’s Learning Impact Awards in Long Beach, California, USA.

International Open Science Resources contest announced
May 12 2011

The OSR team is organizing an international contest for the development of educational pathways for teaching science, based on the use of the Inquiry Based Teaching Model.

DISCOVER OPEN SCIENCE RESOURCES Summer School
January 5 2011

Grundtvig and Comenius grants are available to attend the summer school “Discover Open Science Resources” which will take place in July 2011 in Crete.

Open Science Resources starts up
May 27 2009

Starting from June 2009, Ecsite will coordinate the EU project OpenScienceResources: Towards the development of a Shared Digital Repository for Formal and Informal Science Education. The aim of the project is to make digital collections in European science museums and science centres easier and more attractive to use in a variety of learning occasions.