NANOMER - Nanosciences with Latin America: sharing knowledge through pedagogical innovation

The main objective of the NANOMER project is to share knowledge between Latin America, Spain and France in the domains of science and educational innovation. The field chosen is the world of nanoscience, a field in which students and teachers still have much to discover. Our objective is to empower students to solve societal problems. Three levels of exchanges will be conducted: 1) between students and teachers, 2) between the pedagogical teams of the different universities, and 3) between the international relations resources in each institution. Special attention will be paid to supporting both students and teachers in their acquisition of transversal skills. Indeed, access to information is nowadays easy for students, making it necessary to use new teaching techniques to train students to think critically about the information available, to argue, to work in groups and to solve problems. The idea is to enable them to become good researchers and future teachers as well as to develop their awareness of their skills. These exchanges will take place through distance workshops, face-to-face workshops (summer schools) and also through a digital platform. The latter will allow all the actors to preserve the tools and documents generated and to disseminate them broadly and inclusively to students, especially to those who have fewer resources and who are in more remote locations. This project will create a community of teachers, sociologists and learning specialists to guide both students and teachers in training future scientists. Indeed, the latte will have a key role to play in dealing with many current problems such as water and air decontamination, energy and waste recycling. Finally, one of the strengths of the project is that it will promote cooperative networking between Latin America and Europe.