France - Maison pour la Science
The Maisons pour la Science network is made up of 9 Houses for Science from September 2015. The network is coordinated by its national centre, the Fondation La main à la pâte.
The aim is to help teachers bring innovation to their science teaching practices. Each House caters to its own region, offering professional development courses to teachers from kindergarten to the final year of middle school who teach science and technology in their classes.
The Maison pour la Science is focusing on:
- Allowing teachers to stay up-to-date with science and technology programs for schools
- A coherent vision of experimental and observation sciences and mathematics
- Practicing inquiry-based learning
- Bringing the educational, scientific and industrial communities closer together
Face to Face Trainings in France
| Trainings 2018/2019 | Dates | Places |
| Brain and learning: The memory | 21/12/2018 | Centre satellite de Tours |
| The bacterial flora in the production and conservation of food | 17-18/01/2019 | Centre-Val de Loire |
| Trainings 2017/2018 | Dates | Places |
| Vaccine and vaccination | 09/02/2018 | Rennes |
| Plant-Insect interactions | 17-18/05/2018 | Orléans |
| The bacterial flora in the production and conservation of food | 14-15/06/2018 | Orléans |
| Trainings 2016/2017 | Dates | Places |
| Ferments and probiotics: microorganism at our service | 14-15/11/2016 | Palaiseau |
| When life Inspires Chemists | 16-17/01/2017 | Paris |
| Brain and learning | 16-17/01/2017 | Paris |
| The bee workshop | 30-31/03/2017 | Orléans |
| Man and Biodiversity | 18-19/05/2017 | Gif-sur-Yvette |
| Male, Female, Man, Woman, what can science say about it? | 22-23/05/2017 | Lyon |
| Trainings 2015/2016 | Dates | Places |
| Unity and diversity of genetic information | 01-02/12/2015 | Toulouse |
| Diversity in the living world: what can genetic tell us | 07-08/12/2015 | Toulouse |
| When life Inspires Chemists | 18-19/01/2016 | Paris |
| From the eye to the brain | 25-26/02/2016 | Strasbourg |
| Man and Biodiversity | 19-20/05/2016 | Paris |
| At the heart of the extreme scientific research | 6-16/07/2016 | Concarneau |
| Trainings 2014/2015 | Dates | Places |
| Microorganisms: friends or foes? | 15-16/01/2015 and 16-17/03/2015 | Strasbourg |
| Genome: dynamics and expression | 27-28/01/2015 | Versailles |
| Getting to know our immune system | February 2015 | Toulouse |
| Diversity in the living world: what can genetics tell us? | 5-6/02/2015 and 16-17/03/2015 | Strasbourg |
| Molecular gastronomy | April 2015 | Toulouse |