Asimina Vergou

Wellcome · Education and Learning

Given the multiple facets of ex situ conservation, this section aims to provide guidance on selected key research and conservation undertaken by botanic gardens. This includes methods and standards for different types of ex situ conservation collections – living and non-living – and their relevance to and integration with in situ conservation endea...

Botanic gardens represent a significant educational resource often acting as major providers of a diverse range of formal and informal education programs for people of all ages and backgrounds. INQUIRE was a three-year project focusing on inquiry-based science education (IBSE) that involved 17 partners in 11 European countries that aimed to reinvig...

Botanic gardens have been evolving, responding to the changing needs of society, from their outset as medicinal gardens of monasteries and university gardens to more recently as organizations that contribute to the conservation of plant genetic resources. Considering that social and environmental issues are deeply intertwined and cannot be tackled...

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The EU FP7 INQUIRE Project is supporting the development of science literacy in Europe by developing and offering one-year practically based IBSE teacher training course at 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural History Museums in 11 European countries. Botanic Gardens act as catalysts, training and supporting teachers and educators to develop their profic...

Work package 3 is dedicated to developing the Pilot INQUIRE Course. Deliverable 3.2 is a document that identifies relevant educational material for inclusion in the national Pilot INQUIRE Courses. Therefore, each INQUIRE partner was asked to identify five national Pilot INQUIRE Course resources: • three resources they will use in their INQUIRE pil...

Work package 3 is dedicated to developing the Pilot INQUIRE Course. The Advisory Groups of each participating institutes develop strategy plans how to promote the INQUIRE course in their countries. These strategy plans are collected in this document, Deliverable 3.1. The strategy plans include responds to the following questions: Teachers’ level:...

In Europe the process of agricultural engagement or disengagement is attributed to the economic factor and mainly on the level of alternative employment source development. It is the relational quality of economic, social and environmental factors that determine sustainability of agricultural holdings and, hence, households. In regions of poor agri...

Στο πλαίσιο διαμόρφωσης της εκπαιδευτικής δράσης του Βαλκανικού Βοτανικού Κήπου Κρουσσίων (ΒΒΚΚ), υλοποιήθηκε ο σχεδιασμός δραστηριοτήτων Περιβαλλοντικής Εκπαίδευσης (ΠΕ) στο «Μονοπάτι της Βιοποικιλότητας» για μαθητές πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης που αποτελούν μέχρι σήμερα την πλειονότητα των οργανωμένων επισκέψεων στο ΒΒΚΚ. Το Μονοπάτι της Βιοποικιλότ...

Introduction to the educational role of Botanical Gardens 2