INSIGHT Summer School 2025
6 - 11 July 2025
Can we use historical scientific instruments in education? How can we incorporate them in the classroom and why use them?
Even though old, these scientific instruments can provide a unique opportunity to attract students’ interest and help them unravel the complexity of the scientific practice through the history of science, while developing a variety of important competences like problem-solving and creativity. By (re)constructing historical scientific instruments students get introduced to new scientific concepts while understanding how some of the modern scientific instruments, often resembled with “black boxes”, work.
If you are a teacher in primary or secondary education and you want to learn how to implement such activities with your students, this course is perfect for you.
The INSIGHT Summer School is developed in the context of the project “Inquiry-based educational investigations with historical scientific instruments”.
The INSIGHT summer school main topic concerns the use of historical scientific instruments in education using the STEAM approach. Through the various presentations and workshops, the trainers will introduce you in ways that you can use to bring these instruments to your classroom, while highlighting the importance and benefits of such an approach. You will have the opportunity to implement such inquiry-based activities yourself during the course and all educational material, tools and resources used during the summer school will be available to you. During the summer school you will also have the opportunity to interact with scientists, experts and other teachers from all over Europe, exchange ideas, share thoughts and learn from each other.
The INSIGHT Summer School 2025 is designed for teachers of both primary and secondary education that are interested in learning how to incorporate historical scientific instruments in their teaching, while using an inquiry approach. If you are a teacher and you want to learn new ways to teach scientific topics while showing your students how science “works”, this course is for you and will support you in your professional development.
The INSIGHT Summer School is designed to be highly engaging, creative and interactive. Participating teachers will work as individuals and in small groups. Thus, they will be able to collaborate with teachers from other countries, discuss their ideas and exchange experiences.
The course will last for 6 days, consisting in total of 25 hours of workshop-based training, such as presentations followed by hands-on sessions. The lectures and the demonstrations of the training courses will be held in an auditorium equipped with a data projector and a laptop, whereas the workshops will be held in a multimedia laboratory where each participant will have direct access to an internet connection and will carry out planned exercises.
One important aspect of the training activities is the collected feedback and the common discussion among participants. The trainers will provide the opportunity to exchange ideas and talk in detail about the methodology, tools and activities shown during the course in order to facilitate the further development of the educational material, maximize its efficiency and increase its potential adaptation from the teachers.
The INSIGHT Summer School 2025 speakers will be announced soon.
At the end of the course, participants will receive a training certificate that confirms the successful completion of the course and its objectives.
As members of the INSIGHT community participants will have access to support provided by the training team, and they will be able to communicate with other teachers in European countries, who have a common interest, share their ideas and experiences and collaborate in joint activities.
In order to assess whether, and to what extent, the course has reached its objectives and expected results the participants will have to answer a questionnaire that will be distributed by the course providers.
Course fee
The course fee for all ESIA Summer Schools is 480€ (80€/per day) and fully within the funding opportunities of the Erasmus+ Programme.
The course fee covers:
- Expert lecturers for lectures, seminars and workshops
- All materials and equipment needed for the course
- Participation in the social programme & excursions (e.g. Sunset and dinner at Cape Sounio, excursion to the Acropolis and visit to the Acropolis Museum and dinner in downtown Athens, traditional night and farewell dinner, etc.)
Subsistence & accommodation
The Summer School will be held at Golden Coast Hotel & Bungalows, an A-class/ 4-star sea-side hotel which stretches on the golden, sandy beach of the Marathon Bay, near the historic location of Marathon, at the outskirts of Athens.
ESIA has made special arrangement with the hotel and are happy to offer to all participants a single or double room with all-inclusive services (i.e. breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and free of charge services for outdoors sports and recreational activities).
The costs for subsistence are also within the ceilings of the Erasmus+ programme for KA1 mobility actions.
ACCOMMODATION AT GOLDEN COAST HOTEL 2025 (Indicative prices)
COST FOR THE PARTICIPANTS (All Inclusive)
- Per person in SINGLE: 140 €/per night
- Per person in DOUBLE: 98 €/per night
Extra persons (All Inclusive)
- TRIPLE room: 88 €/per person/per night
EXTRA SERVICES (the following refers to other project participants that don’t pay the course fee)
TOURS & EXCURSIONS
Cape Sounio Tour (Price: 100 €/per person)
Monday @ 18:00
Includes:
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- Transport by bus (Golden Coast – Cape Sounio – Golden Coast)
- Guided tour of Poseidon temple with Professional and Lisensed guide
- Entrance fees of the Temple of Poseidon
- Lunch at local tavern
- All taxes
Athens tour & Acropolis Museum (Price: 120 €/per person)
Wednesday @ 16:00
Includes:
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- Transport by bus (Golden Coast – Athens – Golden Coast)
- Short panoramic tour by bus of historic center of Athens
- Services of a Professional and licensed guide
- Entrance fees of Acropolis museum
- Lunch at local tavern
- All taxes
+ Entrance fees to the Acropolis Archaeological Site ticket cost of 30 €/per person.
+ Entrance fees to the Sounio Archaeological Site ticket cost of 20 €/per person.
*** The above prices are calculated based on current costs, tickets to museums / archeological sites, fuel cost, VAT
The Summer School will be held at Golden Coast Hotel & Bungalows, an A-class/ 4-star sea-side hotel which stretches on the golden, sandy beach of the Marathon Bay, near the historic location of Marathon, at the outskirts of Athens.
It is the area of Marathon, that has hosted since the times of myths when Theseus killed the terrible bull of Marathon, to the times of the Persian wars and the Battle of Marathon, further on to our days and the marathon race and Marathon Run, the emblematic symbol of man’s quest for freedom and the will to defend his most noble deeds which constitute the foundations of the Human civilization. The plethora of natural, historical sites and museums of the area reveal in all details this unique historical voyage.
Participants are expected to arrive through the Athens International Airport, approximately 25 km (15,53 miles) distance from the hotel.
School Heads and Teachers participation in the summer courses can be funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme.
In case your school or organization does not have the funds to cover the costs of your participation in the Summer School, there is another option: you can apply to be funded by by the ERASMUS+ Programme.
Please note that the Erasmus+ KA1 application can only be submitted by the school or the organization – no individual applications can be submitted.
The deadline for application is February 19, 2025.
What is ERASMUS+?
Erasmus+ is the European Commission’s Programme for education, training, youth, and sport for the period 2021-2027. As an integrated programme, Erasmus+ offers more opportunities for the mobility of learners and staff and cooperation across the education, training, and youth sectors and is easier to access than its predecessors, with simplified funding rules and a structure that aims to streamline the administration of the programme.
Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (KA1) provides a unique opportunity for teachers, headmasters, trainers, and other staff of educational institutions to participate in international training courses in different European countries. Schools, universities, vocational education and training, and adult education organizations are all eligible to receive full funding to attend courses under a KA1 mobility grant. The Erasmus+ KA1 grant covers all the costs to attend teacher training courses: including travel, subsistence, and course fee.
For up-to-date information about Erasmus+ please check the Programme’s website. Your school will need to apply to your country’s National Agency, who is also the one who will evaluate the proposal. Therefore, your National Agency is also a very good point to start for more information.
Don’t forget to go through the the New Programme Guide and you will have all you need to know.
The steps to apply for an Erasmus+ KA1 School Education Staff Mobility grant are:
- Fill in the registration form to our Summer School with your details. This is an individual registration form, so if there are more than one participant from the same school, each one will have to submit a separate registration form. This way you have reserved a slot in the course in case your application for Erasmus+ funding is successful!
- Register your school/organization here: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-esc/index/ , if not already registered.
- Check the compliance with the programme criteria
- Check the financial conditions
- Fill in and submit the application form
- Respect the deadline
- Do not forget to inform us as soon as you get notified from your National Agency whether your grant application is accepted or rejected.
You can find all related information about submitting an Erasmus+ Application HERE.
We will be happy to guide you through the process.