Science Shop Contributions to Environmental Curriculum Development

Abstract

In Romania, science shops are university departments that act like an interface between universities and civil society, providing research information and educational programs, mainly on environmental subjects. After presenting an overview of the organisational forms, objectives and benefits resulted from cooperation with science shops, this paper discusses the contributions of science shops activities to curriculum development, especially by means of project-based learning. Thus, the relevance of project-based learning (associated also with project management) for the environmental engineering education is depicted by analysing 2 cases realised at the

Science shops: a kaleidoscope of science–society collaborations in Europe

“…The science-shop activities in Romania, Denmark, and probably a number of the Dutch shops (which were not included among the cases studied in this project) can be subsumed under the heading of "environmental engineering and management" (Teodosiu & Caliman, 2002). The structural position of these problems in Western and Eastern Europe is different, but this field is still an important driver of science shop activities in both research and higher education.…”

“…"Environmental engineering and management" both as a disciplinary profession and in terms of higher education (Teodosiu & Caliman, 2002); 2. Social work, its problems, and its evaluation aimed at the improvement of intervention strategies (Hall & Hall, 1996); 3.…”