PAFSE was a science education project that addresses the challenges of public health. It explored science education as a vehicle to provide citizens the knowledge, tools and skills to make informed decisions on public health challenges. The project promoted community preparedness, by focusing on risk factors for the health condition of individuals, but also on the pre-emptive and protective behaviours from a personal and population perspective, contributing to more literate communities on healthy lifestyles, injury prevention, as well as detection, prevention, and response to infectious diseases.
PAFSE establishes partnerships between schools, universities, non-formal education providers, enterprises, and civil society organisations, and engages them in efforts to enrich Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) education to include public health issues. With a focus on building a strong interdisciplinary team, the project consortium integrated in the educational programme views from biologists, psychologists, environmental health specialists, mathematicians, engineers, project managers, science educators, public health professionals, policy makers and researchers.
In the context of the PAFSE project, CTI developed the Photodentro PAFSE European, Educational Resource Repository (photodentro.pafse.eu), for hosting, classifying, documenting, and openly sharing multilingual STEM digital learning resources for Public Health Education. Photodentro PAFSE hosts (a) Digital Learning Objects (such as simulations, visualizations, conceptual maps, interactive exercises) and (b) Educational Scenarios, in Portuguese, Greek, English, and Polish, covering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) topics, addressing mainly Public Health Education issues.
In addition, CTI customized and provided the new European, multilingual and open to everyone “e-me for all” (e-me4all.eu) edition of the Greek, social and collaborative Digital Educational Platform “e-me”, to support collaborations and partnerships among schools, teachers, pupils, parents, local organizations, etc.