Development of the training contents

Together with an informative objective, the BIOWAYS project will provide a training curriculum to inform the target audiences on the bio-based contents, technologies and applications. In particular, training material will be prepared for each application area by targeting different groups, with particular attention to students from primary schools, secondary schools, University & PhD students, adults without any specific educational prerequisite or attending vocational courses. To deliver the training package, considering that some relevant target users is represented by the young generations, some innovative tools will be designed, like the games and gamified approaches in T3.4. What: - Identification of target users for the training contents (definition of age, level of education, level of expertise/knowledge of the topic, etc.) - Selection of relevant material (e.g. reports, analyses, fact sheets, case studies, facts & figures, etc) to be used to prepare the educational material among those collected by partners - Creation of the training contents, based on the target users previously defined (One training package for each ‘application area’ with specific information on the performance and advantages of bio-based products, plus an introductory package about the bio-based products and applications) - Structuring of the contents for the training tools that will be produced in T 3.4 - Translation of the contents in the partner’s languages, creation of dedicated pages on the Bio-W@tch platform - Preliminary testing of the training material towards restricted number of users from the target groups. Specific testing sessions will be organized through: -meetings in selected primary schools; -UNIBO open days during which high schools students visit the Departments/Faculties of UNIBO; -seminars for BSc, MSc and PhD students; - seminars in the framework of vocational courses organized at regional level; -exhibition and events which are attended mainly by citizens, e.g. Ecomondo (The green technologies Expo), SANA (International exhibition on organic and natural products), Scienza in piazza, Researchers night, .... - Refinement of the training material after the testing (T4.4) How: The material will transform the content of the e-Library in to training material addressing different target uses. It will be produced in collaboration with the respective initiatives and validated in collaboration with them in WP4 (T4.4) Note: To increase the impact on the different countries, the material produced will be multilingual; Each partner is responsible to coordinate the translations in the local languages.