PAFSE Stakeholders
PAFSE consortium is working in the development of the science education clusters around schools engaging different types of stakeholders (governmental and non-governmental organizations, start-ups, science platforms, research centers, enterprises, associations, etc.). These partnerships will bring students’ learning experience closer to the development goals, recognized societal needs and the reality of professional and research organisations. The educational activities will strengthen STEM education by bringing public health professionals, entrepreneurs, software developers, specialists in data science, virologists, epidemiologists, engineers, biologists, science communicators, project managers closer to the school to act as role models for the students. By doing so, PAFSE will develop a mechanism for aligning “school education” with “societal challenges” and “professions”. The cooperation between academia, industry and other community agents also aims to impact on students’ understanding of public health issues, how they can serve the role of responsible public health agents and how science and technology influences the behaviours and opportunities for present and future generations.
The collaboration provided by these entities in PAFSE will be mainly focused on:
- Participation in the co-creation and enactment of educational scenarios through the formalization of the collaboration within the local education cluster.
- Providing scientific support for PAFSE, collaborate in the selection of schools for the pilot, and be engaged in policy buy-in actions, as in the mainstreaming of activities of the project through their channels.
- Supporting the engagement of parents/ families in educational activities in which their involvement is actively promoted, such as public discourse events.
- Collaborating in professional and development workshops for professors.
The list of engaged stakeholders will be updated regularly.
PAFSE project also aims to connect with projects with similar goals (see relative information).
Cyprus
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth
- Center for Social Innovation – CSI Cyprus
- Pancyprian Confederation of the Federations of Secondary Schools Parents Associations
Greece
- Secondary Education Directorate of Regional Unit of Arta
- Municipality Of Ioannina
- Anatomic Pathology Lab, Medical School, University of Ioannina
Poland
- School complex nr 4 (Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących nr 41)
- Teacher Training Centre (Ośrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli)
Portugal
National level
The General Directorate for Education (DGE) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education is a central service of the direct administration of the State endowed with administrative autonomy. DGE is the body responsible for implementing policies relating to the pedagogical and didactic components of pre-school education, basic and secondary education and extra-school education and providing technical support for their formulation, focusing, above all, on the areas of curriculum development, teaching and assessment instruments and educational support and complements.
This is the body responsible for implementing policies relating to the pedagogical and didactic components of pre-school education, basic and secondary education and extra-school education and providing technical support for their formulation, focusing, above all, on the areas of curriculum development. , teaching and assessment instruments and educational support and complements.
The National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) is a public institution integrated in the indirect administration of the State, under the supervision of the Ministry of Health, endowed with scientific, technical, administrative, financial autonomy and its own assets. As a State Laboratory, INSA’s mission is to contribute to public health gains through research and technological development activities, reference laboratory activity, health observation and epidemiological surveillance, as well as coordinating the external evaluation of laboratory quality, disseminating the culture scientific research, promoting capacity building and training and also ensure the provision of differentiated services in the aforementioned domains.
Through its Department of Health Promotion and Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases (DPS), it develops activities in the areas of health determinants and risk and protective factors for diseases, assessment of the effectiveness of health interventions and health literacy.
- National Directorate For Health (DGS)
CONFAP is a confederated structure of Associations of Parents and Guardians and their federated, non-for-profit structures, whose purpose is to bring together, coordinate, stimulate, defend and represent, at a national level, the associative movement of parents, and acts as social partner with the organs of sovereignty, authorities and institutions, in order to enable and facilitate the exercise of the right to fulfill the duty that is incumbent on parents and guardians, to guide and actively participate as primary guardians, in the integral education of their children and students. Independent, non-confessional, apolitical, pluralist, respects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, defends and supports the family. Integrates in Portugal Associations of Parents and Guardians of any degree or type of education – official, private or cooperative.
Regional and local level
- Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar
The National Road Safety Authority (ANSR) is a central service of the direct administration of the State, endowed with administrative autonomy.
ANSR’s mission is to plan and coordinate at a national level to support the Government’s policy on road safety, as well as the enforcement of road traffic offences.
LNEC – Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering) is a public institute of Science and Technology (S&T), with the status of State Laboratory that carries out research in all fields of civil engineering, giving it a unique multidisciplinary perspective.
