The STENCIL Call for Participants is aimed at schools, researchers, and all educationalists who have carried out the successful transfer of any of the good practices highlighted in the STENCIL Annual Report on the State of Innovation in Science Education.

The science education initiatives should

• be linked to any school subject dealing with STEM
• be carried out in EU Member States or EU Candidate Countries
• be carried out with at least one group of pupils within the period from 01 January 2012 to 01 June 2012.

The initiative must be already included in the STENCIL Online Catalogue of Science Education Initiatives.

Ten shortlisted initiatives (one in each of the nine countries participating in the STENCIL project and one for the other European countries) will be titled STENCIL National Good Practices 2012. The two winners will be selected out of the ten STENCIL Good Practices.

The winners will have the possibility to choose one of the following prizes:

• science kits or materials for science education activities worth up to 1,000 euros
• a travel and accommodation grant to participate in the second STENCIL international conference in Kassel, Germany.

The deadline for submission is 01 June 2012. The results will be announced in September 2012.