How can science centres fuse meaningful collaborations with formal science education across the Globe? How can we contribute to deliver science curricula? This session highlights situations when formal science education calls upon science centres to provide overall learning environments and teaching for school students. Speakers will describe the need that drives their project, the techniques used to implement it, and the initial outcomes of operating formal learning environments by free choice learning institutes. Participants will be able to share additional examples, ideas and suggestions for new developments combining the strengths of formal and free choice learning institutions. This is an opportunity to forge collaborations for launching new projects.