Now it’s time to get to know the projects from the third Joint Education Lab Projects call. Each project talks about their results in a 20-minute presentation, followed by questions and discussion.

You can join the webinar at any time, so if your schedule is busy, but you are interested in a specific project, you can join the webinar only to hear their presentation. Remember to register to the webinar to get the link to join.

The webinars are also recorded, and the recording will be added to our Education Lab playlist on YouTube.

INGENIUM Education Lab launched a Joint Education Lab Projects initiative to promote joint innovation projects. This initiative aims to fund collaboration between different faculty, educators, and RDI specialists in two or more INGENIUM universities to develop advanced teaching methods, micro credentials, courses, and educational products.

See the schedule below. More information about the projects and speakers will be added later. Register to the webinar and come to learn how your colleagues have been co-operationg through INGENIUM!

Register to the webinar in order to get the link to join: https://xamk-fi.zoom.us/meeting/register/OPSwgGERSIuGlnwDxkV2Cw 

Wednesday 2 Sept, 12:00-13:30 CEST

• 12:00-12:30 Active Breaks in University Teaching to Improve Student and Faculty Satisfaction – ActivaDos Project
  • This project aims to design, implement and investigate the use of short physical activity “snacks” (Active Breaks) during the delivery of predominantly “sedentary” university lessons that usually foster routine, monotony, or even disengagement.
  • Javier Fernandez-Rio, UNIOVI
• 12:30 -13:00 Educational and Social Laboratory for Community Intervention through the Arts (ESCENA)
  • This webinar presents Education Lab ESCENA (Educational and Social Laboratory for Community Interventions through the Arts), an international project involving partners from Spain, Sweden, Italy, and Germany. Through arts-based learning and action research, students, teachers, professionals, and local residents collaborate to explore how theatre, music, visual arts, drama, and other creative practices can strengthen community, belonging, and social wellbeing across generations and national borders. Drawing on experiences from an intensive week-long learning laboratory in northern Spain, the webinar will share insights into how collaborative artistic engagement can help address involuntary loneliness and foster more inclusive and connected communities.
  • The project is coordinated by Professor José Antonio Labra Pérez (Spain) and Professor María Paula Fernández García (Spain), and the webinar will be presented by Kristina Carlén (Sweden).
• 13:00-13:30 Bridging In-School and Out-Of-School Literacy Practices: Α Useful Online Toolkit for the Teacher
  • Bridging In-School and Out-of-School Literacy Practices: A Useful Online Toolkit for Teachers is an educational research project developed through the collaboration between the University of Crete and the University of Oviedo under the Educational Lab Project of the INGENIUM European University. The project is grounded in the well-documented mismatch between students’ in-school and out-of-school literacy practices, which often limits meaningful learning and perpetuates educational, and broader social, inequalities. To address this challenge, the project has developed a research-based, user-friendly online toolkit that supports teachers in investigating their students’ literacy practices across different contexts and incorporating these insights into classroom teaching. The toolkit encourages teachers to adopt the role of reflective practitioners and educational researchers, fostering student-centered, inclusive, and socially responsive pedagogies that recognize the diverse experiences, interests, and cultural backgrounds students bring to school. Available in Greek, English, and Spanish, the toolkit aims to promote educational innovation, support teachers’ professional development, and contribute to both research and educational policymaking by advancing more equitable and meaningful literacy education across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
  • Vasia Tsami, UOC