The PROFILES Project

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PROFILES is:

... the acronym for "Professional Reflection-Oriented Focus on Inquiry-based Learning and Education through Science".

... a project funded by the FP7 programme from the European Commission.

... a consortium of 21 partner institutions from 19 different countries.

... coordinated by the division of Chemistry Education of the FU Berlin.

The PROFILES project aims at disseminating inquiry-based Science Education (IBSE). To achieve this, the PROFILES partners are using and conducting innovative learning environments and long-term teacher trainings. Both strategies are supposed to help to raise the self-efficacy of science teachers to take ownership of more effective ways of science teaching. Thus, as much students as possible should benefit from these teaching strategies. All people involved in the project are supported by stakeholders from different areas of society.