Funding programme and call:
Convocatoria de ayudas para el fomento de la cultura científica, tecnológica y de la innovación 2017
Start Date:
01/01/2018
End Date:
31/12/2018
Duration:
12 months
Total budget:
53,310.00 €
Budget for PLOCAN:
53,310.00 €
Total funding:
15,000.00 €
Funding for PLOCAN:
15,000.00 €
Coordinator:
Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (ES)
Partners:
PLOCAN (ES)
Web:
The scientific community requires international scientific and technological cooperation to achieve a sustainable observation of the ocean and an understanding of the involved processes. At the same time, it is essential to be able to bring to society the uniqueness of the work carried out by PLOCAN and the facilities and services that derive from it. Therefore, a series of Communication and Dissemination activities in the Marine-Maritime sector (CODIMAR) are proposed, which serve as planning for 2018 to the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i) of PLOCAN created in August 2017.
The CODIMAR project seeks to generate new communication and scientific dissemination mechanisms, as well as to take advantage and reinforce the projects in execution and the events held in PLOCAN with specific actions. The proposed actions are aimed at society in general, although they consider different target audiences depending on the used means of communication. The project integrates both face-to-face actions, based on interactive exhibitions and workshops; as online actions, making use of the corporate website of PLOCAN and the social networks Facebook and Twitter and the videos container service YouTube. Online actions make visible the projects and events of PLOCAN and consider a contest of dissemination videos oriented to students of different ranges of age.
The main axis around which the actions developed will focus will be the lines of activity of PLOCAN, to bring the activities carried out to society, especially considering the inauguration of the marine headquarters, scheduled for 2018, and which will involve a large media repercussion.
The CODIMAR project is executed with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT), the Cabildo (Island Government) of Gran Canaria and the Obra Social Charity of La Caixa bank.
Funding programme and call:
Convocatoria de ayudas para el fomento de la cultura científica, tecnológica y de la innovación 2017
Start Date:
01/01/2018
End Date:
31/12/2018
Duration:
12 months
Total budget:
71,572.00 €
Budget for PLOCAN:
60,502.00 €
Total funding:
16,000.00 €
Funding for PLOCAN:
13,300.00 €
Coordinator:
Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (ES)
Partners:
Universidad de Girona (ES)
Web:
This project proposes the construction of programmable marine robots in several areas for educational purposes, from low cost tools, with free hardware and software. The proposal constitutes the continuation and extension of the FECYT 2017 project "ROVINO - Low Cost Educational Robotics with Arduino Technology", growing the experience grow in all senses.
On the one hand, to carry out a science and technology dissemination that can reach more people (students of different standard and nonstandard educational levels, families, and the general public). The experience held at the Elder Museum of Science and Technology in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in August 2017 will be considered as a reference, but taking it to a National Museum of the FECyT. On the other hand, the project incorporates more elements and technological tools appropriate to the different levels of education through a project-based learning methodology, both using appropriate hardware and software programming platforms and presenting 3D printing of certain pieces related to different aspects of the marine robotics activity. The project also considers a greater integration to the education and scientific-technical vocation of girls and young women. Recent studies show that girls get more involved in these activities when technology is not the goal by itself (usually social projects). Therefore, girls might be more interested in these projects when technology is not the goal by itself. Thus, a pilot experience of access to classrooms in hospitals is proposed.
The ROVSTEAM project is part of the Educational, Marine Robotics Initiative EDUROVs, with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT), the Cabildo (Island Government) of Gran Canaria and the Obra Social Charity of La Caixa bank.
