Monday, 21st July

9:00 – 10:20 | Registration . Rectorate's Building – R in the map

10:20 – 11:00 | Opening Ceremony . Rectorate's Auditorium

11:00 – 11:30 | Plenary lecture . Rectorate's Auditorium

WAKING UP TO SCIENCE WITH HANDS-ON: SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
IN THE KINDERGARDEN AND IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
Carlos Fiolhais
Department of Physics, University of Coimbra
Chair: Manuel F. M. Costa, University of Minho, Portugal

11:30 – 11:50 | Coffee-break

11:50 – 12:30 | Oral Communications . Parallel Sessions

• Room 23.1.5
  Chair: Benito Dorrio, University of Vigo, Spain

  11:50 – 12:10 (Mo1a)
  SCIENCE TEACHERS' VIEWS ON ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION: A CASE OF YOZGAT
  Serkan Mutlu, Isa Yilmaz, Murat Cavus, M.Erol

12:10 – 12:30 (Mo2a)
TELE-LOUCURAS: HANDS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Flávio Jorge, António Soares, Nuno Carvalho

• Room 23.1.6
  Chair: Ivonne Delgadillo, University of Aveiro, Portugal

  11:50 – 12:10 (Mo1b)
  PMATE - 25 YEARS AT THE FOREFRONT OF EDUCATION
  Ana Fonseca, Ana Ramos, Elisabete Peixoto, Paula Oliveira, Susana Gomes

  12:10 – 12:30 (Mo2b)
  "O CONTINHAS" - MATHEMATICAL ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN FROM 5 TO 10 YEARS OLD
  M. Teresa Malheiro

• Room 23.1.7
  Chair: Paulo Ribeiro Claro, University of Aveiro, Portugal

11:50 – 12:10 (Mo1c)
READING STIMULUS IN SCIENCE CENTER VISITS
Nádia Jordão, Helena Caldeira, Isabel Festas

12:10 – 12:30 (Mo2c)
FÁBRICA CIÊNCIA VIVA SCIENCE CENTRE: 10 YEARS OF HANDS-ON SCIENCE
Pedro Pombo, Isabel Correia

12:30 – 13:00 | Poster session . numbers 1 to 35

13:00 – 14:50 | Lunch break . A in the map

14:50 – 15:30 | Plenary session II . room 23.1.5

CIÊNCIA VIVA NETWORK: HANDS-ON SCIENCE AT NATIONAL SCALE
Rosalia Vargas
Pavilion of Knowledge, Ciência Viva, Lisbon
Chair: Carlos Fiolhais, University of Coimbra, Portugal

15:30 – 16:30 | Science Show . room 23.1.6

17:00 – 19:30 | Welcome reception . Fábrica Science Center – C in the map

Tuesday, 22nd July

9:40 – 10:20 | Plenary lecture III . room 23.1.5

THE ROLE OF OPTICS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
Benito Vazquez Dorrio
Applied Physics Department, University of Vigo
Chair: Alicia Fernández-Oliveras, University of Granada, Spain

10:20 – 11:00 | Plenary lecture IV . room 23.1.5

FROM POPULARIZATION OF SCIENCE, THROUGH INQUIRY LESSONS TO STUDENTS' SCIENTIFIC LITERACY
Marián Kireš
Institute of Physics Faculty of Science P.J. Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia
Chair: Alicia Fernández-Oliveras, University of Granada, Spain

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee-break

11:30 – 12:30 | Oral Communications . Parallel Sessions

• Room 23.1.5
  Chair: Mustafa Erol, University of Bozok, Turkey
  

  11:30 – 11:50 (Tu1a)
  ABOUT SCIENCE FAIRS: REVISITING ALAN WARD
  Antonio Gregorio Montes
  

  11:50 – 12:10 (Tu2a)
  A STUDY OF INTEGRATED METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY INTO MODELING-BASED INQUIRY TEACHING
  Jen-Chin Lin, Chien-Liang Lin, Fu Yi Shieh
  

  12:10 – 12:30 (Tu3a)
  HOW ILLEGAL CAPTURE OF GLASS EEL (ANGUILLA ANGUILLA) AFFECT BIODIVERSITY IN TAGUS RIVER
  Jorge Garcia, Sónia Seixas

• Room 23.1.6
  Chair: Ana M. Rodrigues, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  

  11:30 – 11:50 (Tu1b)
  REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ROLE OF CITIZENS IN SCIENCE AMONG SCIENTISTS AND COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONALS: A STUDY OF PORTUGUESE UNIVERSITIES
  Liliana Oliveira, Anabela Carvalho
  

  11:50 – 12:10 (Tu2b)
  AUDIOVISUAL PARTICIPATORY CONTENT FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
  Sofia Barata , Pedro Almeida, Pedro Pombo
  

  12:10 – 12:30 (Tu3b)
  CITIZEN SCIENCE AS A NEW STRONG FORM OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE
  Paulo G. Mota

• Room 23.1.7
  Chair: Marián Kireš, P.J. Šafarik University in Košice, Slovakia
  

  11:30 – 11:50 (Tu1c)
  ENTERTAINING SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES WITH DRAMA: CASES OF YOZGAT AND ITS DISTRICTS
  Fatma Yaman, Gülsah Sezen Vekli, Mustafa Erol
  

  11:50 – 12:10 (Tu2c)
  LINKING SCIENCE GARDEN TO SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY: TEACHER TRAINING, RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATION
  Sofia Nogueira, Ana V. Rodrigues, Rui M. Vieira

12:30 - 13:00 | Poster session . numbers 1 to 35

13:00 - 14:50 | Lunch break . A in the map

14:50 - 15:50 | Oral Communications . Parallel Sessions

• Room 23.1.5
  Chair: Abhay Kothari, Director of Manthan Educational Programme Society,India
  

  14:50 – 15:10 (Tu4a)
  ASTRONOMY WITH HANDS-ON DATA
  Rosa Doran
  

  15:10 – 15:30 (Tu5a)
  ASTRONOMICAL CARAVAN: SCIENTIFIC SPREADING IN THE INTERIOR OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL
  Peter Leroy, Ana Cristina Sanches Diniz
  

  15:30 – 15:50 (Tu6a)
  HANDS-ON ASTRONOMY FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL
  Cristina Maria Sá, Lucília Santos

• Room 23.1.6
  Chair: Sónia Seixas, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
  

  14:50 – 15:10 (Tu4b)
  THE USE OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELING IN TEACHING OPTICS TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
  Alan Freitas Machado, Luiz Pinheiro Cordovil da Silva, Lucas Barcellos Oliveira, Diego Cordeiro da Silva, Maria Georgina Muniz Washington
  

  15:10 – 15:30 (Tu5b)
  VIRTUAL LABORATORY OF NUCLEAR FISSION
  Victoria Belaga
  

  15:30 – 15:50 (Tu6b)
  AUDIOVISUAL ANIMATIONS FOR TEACHING THE THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY BASED ON THE GEOMETRIC FORMULATION OF MINKOWSKI
  Prado X, Dominguez JM

• Room 23.1.7
  Chair: Isabel Malaquias, University of Aveiro, Portugal

  14:50 – 15:10 (Tu3c)
  EASYPET – A DIDACTIC PET SYSTEM
  J.C.F.A. Veloso, L.F.N.D. Carramate, I.F.C. Castro, P.M.M. Correia, L.M. Moutinho,
  D. Oliveira, A.C.P. Ribeiro, A.L.M. Silva
  

  15:10 – 15:30 (Tu4c)
  THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION AS A SOURCE OF INDICATORS FOR
  ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY SESSIONS
  IN FIRST GRADE STUDENTS
  Sara Anjos, Alexandre Aibéo
  

  15:30 – 15:50 (Tu5c)
  HUNTING FOR ASTEROIDS AT PORTUGUESE SCHOOLS
  Ana Costa

17:00 - 19:30 | Science Beach . meeting point: B

Wednesday, 23rd July

9:40 – 10:20 | Plenary Lecture V . room 23.1.5

CONCEPTS OR CONTEXT? HANDS ON SCIENCE IN EARLY LEARNING, ITS CRUCIAL ROLE. UNDERSTANDING FROM THE PRI-SCI-NET PROJECT
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Chair: Ana Valente Rodrigues, University of Aveiro, Portugal

10:20 – 11:00 | Plenary Lecture VI . room 23.1.5

HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS TO DEVELOP STUDENTS' CREATIVITY AND CRITICAL THINKING
Alexander Kazachkov
V.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
Chair: Ana Valente Rodrigues, University of Aveiro, Portugal

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee-break

11:30 – 12:30 | Workshops

• Room 23.1.10 (first part) and 23.3.11 (second part) – We1a
  SCIENCE RACE
  Ana Fonseca, Ana Ramos, Elisabete Peixoto, Paula Oliveira, Susana Gomes

• Room 23.3rd floor (Physics laboratory) – We1b
  ADVANCED COURSES: A NOVEL STRATEGY IN THE TEACHING OF ADVANCED SCIENCE CONCEPTS TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
  Sónia Ferreira, Ana Santos-Carvalho, Arsélio Carvalho

• Room 23.3.14 – We1c
  REAL OBSERVATION VERSUS SIMULATION STUDY CASE: MOON PHASES
  Leonor Cabral

• Room 23.1.7 – We1d
  INSTRUCTIVE FUN WITH WATER
  Alexander Kazachkov, Edward Bormashenko

12:30 – 13:00 | Poster session . numbers 36 to 72

13:00 – 14:50 | Lunch break . A in the map

14:50 – 17:00 | Social Program . meeting point: B

19:30 – 23:00 | Conference Dinner . Meliã Hotel – E in the map . meeting point: B

Thursday, 24th July

9:40 – 10:20 | Plenary Lecture VII . room 23.1.5

HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS IN DEVELOPMENT OF GIFTED STUDENTS
Josef Trna
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Chair: Manuel F. M. Costa, University of Minho, Portugal

10:20 – 11:00 | Oral Communications . Parallel Sessions

• Room 23.1.5
  Chair: Manuel F. M. Costa, University of Minho, Portugal
  

  10:20 – 10:40 (Th1a)
  DIDACTIC EXPERIMENTS ON SCIENCE
  Josep M. Fernández-Novell, Mireia Díaz-Lobo, Carme Zaragoza Domenech
  

  10:40 – 11:00 (Th2a)
  PRESCHOOL CHEMISTRY: A SOLUBLE STORY
  José A. Ferreira, João Paiva

• Room 23.1.6
  Chair: Alexander Kazachkov, V.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
  

  10:20 – 10:40 (Th1b)
  PROJET SALT SCIENCE II: GETTING STUDENTS CLOSER TO SCIENCE THROUGH THE STUDY OF SODIUM CHLORIDE
  M. Clara Magalhães, Jorge Saraiva, Betina Lopes, Solange Burri, Vanessa Resende, Amorosa Mendes, José Alberto Costa, Guida Bastos, Paula Ornelas, Anabela Viegas, Silvia B. Fernandes, Jesuína Pereira, Ana Paula Vieira
  

  10:40 – 11:00 (Th2b)
  RESEARCH CENTRES AND INDUSTRY AS STAKEHOLDERS FOR INNOVATION USING NANOTECHNOLOGY. A SOCIAL CHANGE
  Barbara Gabriel, Victor Neto

• Room 23.1.7
  Chair: Sérgio Leal, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  

  10:20 – 10:40 (Th1c)
  VIDEO MAKING AS AN ACTIVE LEARNING PROJECT FOR 1ST YEAR PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY STUDENTS
  Isabel Boal-Palheiros
  

  10:40 – 11:00 (Th2c)
  COORDINATION CHEMISTRY: A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS (OR NOT) IN A WONDERFUL WORLD (OR EVEN BETTER)
  Teresa M. Santos, Bárbara Ferreira

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee-break

11:30 – 12:30 | Oral Communications . Parallel Sessions

• Room 23.1.5
  Chair: Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, University of London, UK
  

  11:30 – 11:50 (Th3a)
  TRIGGERING MALE AND FEMALE STUDENT QUESTIONING THROUGH DEVICE EXPERIMENTS
  Mariana Martinho, Patrícia Albergaria-Almeida, José Teixeira-Dias
  

  11:50 – 12:10 (Th4a)
  CONNECTING SCIENCE TEACHERS IN EUROPE USING ONLINE MEETINGS
  Victor J. Perez, Àgueda Gras-Velázquez
  

  12:10 – 12:30 (Th5a)
  POTENTIAL OF SCIENCE CLUB NETWORKS FOR PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION
  B.K.Tyagi

• Room 23.1.6
  Chair: Pedro Pombo, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  

  11:30 – 11:50 (Th3b)
  IRRESISTIBLE PROJECT - PORTUGUESE COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS: TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS
  Ana Rita Marques, Vanessa Figueiredo de Andrade, Pedro Reis, Mónica Baptista, Luís Tinoca
  

  11:50 – 12:10 (Th4b)
  VISITING SCIENCE MUSEUMS
  Josep M. Fernández-Novell, Carme Zaragoza Domenech, Jordi Blajé
  

  12:10 – 12:30 (Th5b)
  ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN "SCIENCES": MINI-ENTREPRENEURS
  Manuel Filipe P. Costa, Vitor Moreira Martins
  

• Room 23.1.7
  Chair: João Sena Esteves, University of Minho, Portugal
  

  11:30 – 11:50 (Th3c)
  THE USE OF MODELLUS APPLIED TO STUDIES REGARDING ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATORS
  Cláudio Elias da Silva, Alan Freitas Machado, Armando Dias Tavares Júnior, Arnaldo José Santiago, Lucas Barcellos Oliveira, Yan Pedro Ulrich Mendes Ferreira
  

  11:50 – 12:10 (Th4c)
  HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES AS A SUPPORT OF RE-EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
  Josef Trna, Lenka Pavlickova
  

  12:10 – 12:30 (Th5c)
  HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS IN THE FORMATION OF SCIENCE CONCEPTS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
  Eva Trnova, Jan Krejci

12:30 – 13:00 | Poster session . numbers 36 to 7

13:00 – 14:50 | Lunch break . A in the map

14:50 – 17:00 | Science Fair/SOS Presentation

21:00 – 24:00 | Science Party . Toc'aqui Bar (Blue bar) at "Praça do Peixe" (D in the map)

Friday, 25th July

9:40 – 11:00 | Oral Communications . Parallel Sessions

• Room 23.1.5
  Chair: Victor Martins, AE Carlos Amarante, Portugal
  

  9:40 – 10:00 (Fr1a)
  CIIMAR AT SCHOOL: HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES IN MARINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  Joana Saiote, Marta Correia, Vitor Vasconcelos, Laura Guimarães
  

  10:00 – 10:20 (Fr2a)
  STAINING TECHNIQUES CAN HELP TO LEARN ABOUT BACTERIA: A HANDS-ON ACTIVITY
  Ana Martins, Cristina Dias, Maria João Fonseca, Fernando Tavares
  

  10:20 – 10:40 (Fr3a)
  UNDERSTANDING GROWTH AND THERMAL INACTIVATION OF FOODBORNE BACTERIA USING THE PATHOGEN MODELING PROGRAM (PMP)
  Cristina Dias, Maria João Fonseca, Fernando Tavares, Elvira Fernandes
  

  10:40 – 11:00 (Fr4a)
  FUNGI UBIQUITY – AROUSING CURIOSITY, ASTONISHMENT AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
  Ana Aleixo

• Room 23.1.6
  Chair: Vítor Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  

  9:40 – 10:00 (Fr1b)
  CSI AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS TO TEACH MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
  Sara Mira, Márcio Simão, Natércia Conceição, Leonor Cancela
  

  10:00 – 10:20 (Fr2b)
  EXPLORING A "CSI EFFECT" USING FORENSIC SCIENCES TO BOOST YOUNG STUDENT'S MOTIVATION TO LEARN SCIENCES: EVALUATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF A 14 YEARS' EXPERIENCE
  L.Souto, H.Moreira, F.Tavares
  

  10:20 – 10:40 (Fr3b)
  BOTANIC KITS "LET'S SOW SCIENCE"
  Catarina Schreck Reis, Aurora Moreira, Helena Nunes, Paulo Renato Trincão, Carine Azevedo, Raquel Lopes
  

  10:40 – 11:00 (Fr4b)
  E-LAB: IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
  Sérgio Leal, João Paulo Leal

• Room 23.1.7
  Chair: Paulo da Gama Mota, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  

  9:40 – 10:00 (Fr1c)
  HOW A SUSTAINABLE WAY OF CAPTURE BIVALVES TURNS UNSUSTAINABLE
  Angela Gandarinho, Sónia Seixas
  

  10:00 – 10:20 (Fr2c)
  INSTITUTO DE EDUCAÇÃO E CIDADANIA (IEC): AN INTERFACE BETWEEN SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES TO ENGAGE YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCIENCE
  Ana Santos-Carvalho, Alexandra Oliveira, Gabriela Tavares, Inês Roxo, Nuno Santos; Richard Marques, Sónia Ferreira
  

  10:20 – 10:40 (Fr3c)
  REALISTIC MODEL-ELICITING ACTIVITIES BASED ON IBSE. AN EXPERIENCE TO REPEAT.
  Rita Borges, Ana Baioa
  

  10:40 – 11:00 (Fr4c)
  STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES AND CIRCULAR MOTION THROUGH INQUIRY BASED SCIENCE EDUCATION
  Vanessa Figueiredo de Andrade, Mónica Baptista

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee-break

11:30 – 12:30 | Scientific Performances

• Room 23.1.5
  

  11:30 – 12:30 (Fr5a)
  THE ALGA WHO WANTED TO BE A FLOWER - AN OUTDOORS IBSE MODEL
  ON PLANTS EVOLUTION
  Ana Cristina Tavares

• Room 23.1.6
  

11:30 – 12:00 (Fr5b)
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE: HANDS-ON STORYTELLING
Marta Condesso, Sofia Teixeira, Pedro Pombo


12:05 – 12:30 (Fr6b)
LIGHT MY FIRE!
Rita Borges, Sofia Santos

• Room 23.1.7
  

  11:30 – 12:30 (Fr5c)
  MATHEMATICAL CIRCUS
  Luis Silva, Ricardo Pereira, Paulo Almeida, João Rodrigues, Isabel Brás,
  Andreia Hall, Ana Paula Nolasco

12:30 – 13:00 | Closing Session . room 23.1.5

"The S.O.S. project and the Children Summit on Hands-on Science and Environmental Education", Nergiz Gökçe (Turkey)
Closing Session

13:00 – 14:50 | Lunch break . A in the map

14:50 – 18:00 | Visit to Fábrica Science Center . C in the map

Poster sessions – Monday, 21st and Tuesday, 22nd July

Poster sessions – Wednesday, 23rd and Thursday, 24th July