Promoting health for and with students

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How to promote health by facilitating scientific reasoning, critical thinking and engagement skills

UDR-Bio: Unit of Public Engagement on Health Research

Educational programmes

• Community Advisory Board• Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI)• Community Based Participatory Research

Science Communication

Public Engagement

What is my opinion?? Do I need research to decide??

WHY?

VACCINES

Yes or Not?

XXI century: changing world with big innovations

05/03/2023

Inclusive and secure societies

XXI century: Big societal challenges

climate change

healthy ageing

clean energy

Global poverty

Interaction of all actors and responsible citizens

Current relationship between science and society

Science and Innovation system

Science & society

Science and Innovation system

Outreach and info: focusing on understanding

DEFICIT MODEL

?

NEED FOR A TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE

SCIENCE AND INNOVATION SYSTEM

The educational community should collaborate with: society, researchers, policy makers and industry.

Europe needs empowered citizens with the necessary knowledge and skills (scientific reasoning, critical thinking and engagement) to be able to participate in the R&I system!

Responsible Research & Innovation

Science and Innovation system

HOW?

Facilitate decision making

based on scientific evidence

Invite students to behave

as responsible citizens

Empower students

to participate in R&I

Inspire future researchers

Educational programme for health promotion

Aims:

Focusing on real life challenges linked to

current research

IBSE, cooperative learning & formative evaluation

innovation

Reflection around ELSA (ethical, legal and social aspects) + on scientific inquirí and Research

integrity*

Facilitating knowledge (scientific literacy) and skills (i.e. scientific inquiry, critical thinking and engagement)

Collaboration among different social actors

*limitations, uncertanties, problem definition…

How? By promoting innovation in STEM education:

8 Modules on different health topics

Multilingual portalCatalan, Spanish, English, French, Polish

Aimed at secondary students (15-18)

Each module includes:

1. Multimedia tools2. Tools for reflection3. Protocols of experiments 4. Lesson plans

Reflect on ethical, legal and social aspects: Decide and debate!

Hands on:Experiments linked to current research

Lesson plans: Real life challenges+ IBSE+ Collaboration with stakholders+ ELSA+ Critical analysis+ Action

Multimedia resources: play, watch and experiment!

Resources in each thematic module:

Clusters in different cities in Spain:

In museums and research centers :

Each cluster offers:– Workshops of

experiments– Training for teachers – Network of Pilot Schools

Madrid

+ 25.000 participants in face to face activities / year

through clusters

Analytics

Over 8.000 visits per month

93.000 visitors in 2015

Website

+ 2100 followers on

Twitter

+8600Fans in Facebook

Visits

Aims: Educational innovation +Promoting interaction between science and society

How?

Inclusive education, in collaboration with the different stakeholders and where students can participate in decision making on issues related to science and research processes

Workshop:

Analysis types of interaction between different actors in Xplore Health’s lesson plans (10’)-> Green cards with type of interaction and actors involved

Presentation of models of interaction (5’)

How could we improve the promotion of health and the relationship between science and society in secondary schools?

Looking for solutions to real problems through reserach

Reserach topics linked to socio-scientific controversies: homeopathy, vaccinations, etc.

Doing and intervention!

Promoting competency-based learning and engagement skills

Using multimedia resources of Xplore Health in classrooms to get scientific literacy

How could we improve the promotion of health and the relationship between science and society in secondary schools?

Extra aims for Xplore Health:

Empower students to contribute to

bring solutions to societal challenges

Facilitate students to develop R&I with different actors

& aligned with their needs and expectations

Engage 2020 Project, EC

Decision making

+Do research

Focusing on real life challenges linked to

current research

IBSE, cooperative learning & formative

evaluation

Reflection around ELSA (ethical, legal and social aspects) + on scientific inquirí and Research

integrity*

Facilitating knowledge and skills (i.e. scientific inquiry,

critical thinking and engagement)

Collaboration among different social actors

Participation in Community Based

Research projects and in R&I decision making

How? By promoting innovation in STEM education:

*limitations, uncertanties, problema definition…

We needed more innovation!

The problems that we want to solveare not linked to the system that should provide

solutions

Organisations ofering educational interventions

Seconadry schools

Researchers and health professionals

Society

Change: integrative model!

Secondary schools

Organizations offering educational interventions

Reserachers and health

professionals

Society

Promoting participation in community based research & science shops

Healthy MindsPromoting mental health for young

people with young people

What is the health issue that students consider more necessary to work on?

What are the needs of students within this issue?

Emotional Well-being

1,000 Students choose topic & co-develop the

collective needs agenda

Participants

+ 4 Universities and research centres

+ 15 Secondary schools & 500 students

RRI: Community Based Participatory Research

Students choose topic & co-develop

the research & intervention

1. Selection of the topic by students

2. Collective agenda of interests

3. Contact with Reserachers

and CSOs

4. Participatory Research

5. Collective action:

decalogue of suggestions

and intervention in educational

centres

6. Results presentation in

a congress

Methods for deliberation:

Co-definition of the reserach questions and the methodology

Co-execution of the research projects and final collective product: Decalogue of recommendations

• Acces to knowledge and research

• Physical and virtual environments

• Legislation and regulation

• Values, classroom climate, relationship with teachers

• Interaction with health professionals

Analyses of the system:

Outcomes

1- Training on skills for the XXI century

2- An R&I system that responds better to students’ needs

3- Recommendations to different actors improving the system (also beyond of the secondary school) – real product/impact

4- Empowered citizens prepared to solve problems in the knowledge society with an innovative methodology (integrative model based on research)

5- Citizens who support research

6-…

New interactions

• Agenda setting, more aligned with their needs• Participatory research• Direct contact with scientists • Participatory governance • Meaningful communication with politicians and

experts of the health system• Communication of results to their school boards to

improve their local context

Workshop:

Exchange of experiences: (10’)

-Explain other projects involving different stakeholders where you have participated. How was it? Which kind of interaction between the educational community and other stakeholders took place there? Which were the benefits and drawbacks of the experience?

New interactions

“Tell me, and I will forget

Show me, and I may remember

Involve me, and I will understand”Confucius 450 BC

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