Learning factories for open schooling and collaboration on science education

The EDU-Factory — Learning Factories Alliance to Enhance Teaching in the field of Electronics Technology — project proposal was submitted to the Call: H2020-SEAC-2015-1, Topic: Innovative ways to make science education and scientific careers attractive to young people, as a Research and Innovation action, by the deadline of 16
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Sep 2015. UPB-CETTI, the proposed coordinator brought together eleven partners from higher education institutions (HEIs) and industrial enterprises to plan research and innovative actions and to develop — based on the existing learning factories of the consortium members — forward-looking education methods in order to achieve the objectives of the Call. Although the evaluation scores of the proposal reached or surpassed the thresholds of all the different criteria, the European Commission informed the coordinator that the project could not be funded because the score obtained did not suffice for funding, given the budgetary resources available for the Call. Despite of the rejection, a few very positive comments of the evaluators encourage the authors to consider the preparation of a proposal for the H2020 Science with and for Society programme, for the Call: SwafS-15-2016: Open Schooling and collaboration on science education.