ProBase Project

P1: Petrik SZKI (HU)

• 8th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education (8. ECRICE), Budapest, Hungary, 31 August -1 September 2006 (just informal conversations with colleagues from Croatia, UK, US etc.)
• Thematic Monitoring Seminar (E-learning), organised by the Leonardo National Agency, Tempus Foundation, 7 December 2006 (brief oral summary of the goals and demonstration on computer at the time of the exhibition)
• Printed versions of the summary of the project placed on the message board of the school
• Szalay Luca "…and what does the child do meanwhile?" Conference on teaching methodology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 21. September 2007. organised by the Methodological Sub-committee of the Pedagogical Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (lecture, written version is published by the Hungarian Committee of Project-pedagogy)
• Szalay Luca “Standardbase a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project for practical education and training in chemistry”, Science in School, published in the Issue 7, Winter 2007.
• Ken Gadd and Luca Szalay: Chewing flavours, Science in School, Issue 8, Spring 2008, p 34-37. This article also appears in the electronic version of Science in School.
• Szalay Luca: “AZ EURÓPAI UNIÓ LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMJA keretében megvalósuló "PROBASE" project: a természettudományos oktatás problémaalapú megközelítése”, Középiskolai Kémiai Lapok, Issue: 2007/4; p 329-333 (an article in a chemistry paper for Hungarian secondary schools)
• Luca Szalay and Miklos Riedel: “ProBase - pilot project for practical education and training in chemistry” (A paper presented in the Virtual Conference as part of the 20 ICCE, Mauritius, 2008)
• Szalay Luca: “Az Európai Unió Leonardo da Vinci programja keretében megvalósuló "PROBASE" project: A természettudományos oktatás problémaalapú megközelítése”, A kémia tanítása, Módszertani folyóirat, Issue: 2007/5; p 32-34 (an article in paper for the methodology of teaching chemistry)
• Luca Szalay and Miklos Riedel: "ProBase" projekt: a kémiaoktatás problémaalapú megközelítése" (15 minutes talk and poster in English and in Hungarian at the 23rd Hungarian Chemistry Teachers' Conference, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, 15-18 July 2008)
• Last (dissemination) project meeting: 11-15 October 2008, in Petrik Lajos SZKI, Budapest, Hungary where partners demonstrated the project results by the help of Hungarian teachers and students for teachers of other schools, representatives of the industry and social partners.
• Szalay Luca: “Angol vendégelõadók a XXIII. Kémiatanári Konferencián – I. rész: Dr. Ken Gadd: Oktatási segédanyagok használata a kémia tanításához” Középiskolai Kémiai Lapok, Issue: 2008/4; p 333-336 (an article in a chemistry paper for Hungarian secondary schools)
• Szalay Luca: “Nézd meg a neten!” Középiskolai Kémiai Lapok, Issue: 2009/2; p 160-162 (an article in a chemistry paper for Hungarian secondary schools)”

P2: ELTE University (HU)

• Riedel Miklós: “Standardbase, ProBase, Leonardo da Vinci programok” (lecture), Apáczai Nyári Akadémia, Újvidék, Serbia, 8-13 July 2007
• Riedel Miklós: “Az Európai Unió Leonardo da Vinci programja keretében megvalósuló "ProBase" projekt: a természettudományos oktatás problémaalapú megközelítés” (distributed information leaflet) Bolyai Nyári Akadémia, Csíkszereda, Romania, 16-20 July 2007
• Miklos Riedel and Luca Szalay: “Pilot project called ProBase, a short report for IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education meeting” (on agenda, distributed information leaflet) IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education, 44th IUPAC General Assembly, 6-7 August 2007, Torino, Italy
• Miklos Riedel: “ProBase database for complex vocational education” (information material) Grand Prix Chimique, Zagreb, Croatia, 25-30 August 2007
• Miklos Riedel and Luca Szalay: “Water Quality Control Experiments for Chemical Vocational Education, Two EU Leonardo financed projects” (poster), 12. Österreichische Chemietage, Klagenfurt, Austria, 10-13 September 2007
• Miklos Riedel and Luca Szalay: "ProBase, a pilot project for practical education and training in chemistry", The Undergraduate Laboratories, Safed, Israel September 8-11, 2008

P3: Drenthe College (NL)

• Ruud van Iterson: “StandardBase and ProBase”, Dutch Laboratorium Magazine, published in June 2007
• Ruud van Iterson: “Probase”, (lecture) National Competence Based Learning (CBL) Meeting, Elspeet, May 2007
• Ruud van Iterson: “Probase”, (article), Dutch national community concerning Laboratory education on an educational web-base group (Kennisnet), August 2007
• Ruud van Iterson: “ProBase: vocational student activities in chemistry” - Article published on: laboratoriumtechniek.kennisnet.nl (Platform in the laboratory world, intended for exchange of knowledge between educators and industry) and http://www.VMBOLab.nl (website made and maintained by students, teachers and technical assistants in secondary and vocational education). This article was also published (November 2008) on: http://www2.kncv.nl/sso/ (Royal Dutch Chemistry Association, section chemistry education) http://www.scheikundedocenten.nl/ (the source of information for every chemistry teacher)
• A talk on a meeting with vocational teachers given by Ruud van Iterson on 30 November 2008 ( http://www.consortiumbo.nl/site//Techniek_en_ICT.html)
• A presentation by Ruud van Iterson Drenthe College at the national meeting of school members of the Dutch Community "Consortium MBO” (Elspeet, conference center Nijenroode, 2-3 February 2009)

P5: Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)

• Tomaz Ogrin: “ProBase, StandardBase programmes for vocational schools”, Seminar for teachers of chemistry, organized by a textbook publisher Modrijan, Ljubljana, 17 March 2007
• Tomaz Ogrin: “ProBase as an example of such cooperation”, Meeting of partners in Form-it Project at Rome, 12-14 September 2007
• Tomaz Ogrin: “ProBase” (poster) Slovenian Science Festival, Ljubljana. 18-20 September 2007
• Tomaz Ogrin: “ProBase project” (poster and leaflet), Genoa Science Festival, Genova, Italy, 25 October - 6 November 2007
• Tomaz Ogrin: “ProBase informations”, Genoa Science Festival, Italy, 23 October - 4th November 2008

P6: 4science (UK)

• Ken Gadd: “The ProBase project”. Annual ASE (The Association for Science Education) conference. (4science exhibition stand) January 4 - 6 2007
• Ken Gadd: ProBase was discussed as a source of appropriate materials. (series of workshops)

1 March 2007: Bristol, Science Learning Centre (South-West).
2 March 2007: Manchester, Science Learning Centre (North-West).
6 March 2007: London, Science Learning Centre (London).

• Ken Gadd: 23rd Hungarian Chemistry Teachers Conference, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Science Institute of Chemistry 15-18 July 2008. Examples, and reference to ProBase activities within a talk titled 'Chemistry resources and ideas for using them'.
• Ken Gadd: ASE (The Association for Science Education) Annual conference 2009, The University of Reading. 8 - 10 January. Talk titled ProBase: a Practical Resource for Advanced Level Chemistry.