Hybrid Event “UP MET: Museum Kits for water” Contributing to raising students' awareness of the importance of water

Hybrid Event “UP MET: Museum Kits for water”

Contributing to raising students' awareness of the importance of water

The Science and Technology Museum of the University of Patras and the Hellenic Department of the International Council of Museums in collaboration with the Region of Western Greece, the French Institute of Greece in Patras and the Directorates of Primary Education of Achaia-Environmental Education are co-organizing the Hybrid Event “UP MET: Museum Kits for water "Contributing to raising students' awareness of the importance of water". The event is organized on the occasion of the Celebration of the European Academic Heritage Day and in the context of the Science Festival on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.

European Academic Heritage Day has been established by the European Academic Heritage Network Universeum. It is celebrated every year, around November 18, by University Museums/Collections and Universities throughout Europe with events, conferences and other activities and with free access to museums and university collections.

The Celebration aims to open the university museums and collections to society. Through various actions, the museums will approach and motivate the general public to discover their wealth and understand the importance of university heritage, its contribution to the progress of science and knowledge and its importance as an important component of European cultural identity.

The Science Festival is organized by the French Institute of Greece and is an event that has been held since 1991 in France, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, intending to promote science to the general public. With this celebration, the French Institute of Greece seeks to strengthen the exchange of knowledge between researchers and citizens, highlight the work of the scientific community and encourage young people to engage in science. The dramatic ecological disasters, both in Greece and on a global level, have a catalytic effect, as is natural, on the water cycle and, by extension, the existence of the entire ecosystem on planet Earth. For this reason, the Science Festival in Greece has as its central theme “Water in the wake of climate change”

At the event, the staff of the Science and Technology Museum will present the water-themed museum kit designed and implemented by the Museum with the sponsorship of the Region of Western Greece and the TITAN Company. “The Adventures of the Droplet, the Water Cycle' for the 3^rd & 4^th grades of primary school and “Akis Stagonakis the Source of Life...” for the 5^th & 6^th grades of primary school will travel to the schools of Patras from November 6-16, 2023 accompanied by volunteer animators of the Museum, as part of the Science Festival and will be available for loan to schools. This will be followed by a short presentation of two other museum kits “Ask Abu to tell you what's going on with the water...” for the Kindergarten and 1^st & 2^nd grades of primary school and “What if we call the water a little water...” for the Junior High Schools that are being prepared and will be ready for use from January 2024.

The presentation will be followed by the announcement of the Regional Photo Competition “Capturing the Water Systems of my country” co-organized by the Museum with the Directorates of Primary and Secondary Education of Achaia.

The event will close with songs about water by the Choir of the 62^nd Primary School of Patras.

Afterward, volunteers will present the museum kits to participants who wish to see them in more detail.

You can watch the event at the link:

https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/97286132596?pwd=OGhRZnZQdUhOYXU2RXFkazlZMjc4UT09