REPORT
VI MEETING OF FOCAL POINTS
IANAS Science Education Program
Washington D.C., U. S. A., May 4-7, 2009
The VI Meeting of Focal Points of the IANAS Science Education Program
was hosted by the National Science resources Center. The meetings took
place at the National Academies’ Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Room
101, Washington, D.C., receptions were offered at the Smithsonian Castle, at
the National Academies (we toured the Koshland Museum and joined the
NRC Governing Board for their reception on Tuesday) and closed the event
with a tour and dinner at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History.
Institutions from thirteen countries were represented.
1. Attendants
IAP/IANAS Members and Guests – Updated May 6, 2009
Brazil
Argentina
Marcos Cortesao Barnsley *
Executive Secretary
Alejandro J. Arvia *
Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas InterAcademy Network of Academies
Físicas y Naturales de Argentina
of Sciences
Daytime Phone: (005411) 48112998
Rua Anfilofio de Carvalho, 29/3°
Emergency Phone: (005411)
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2214730051
Brazil CEP 20030-060
Email: acad@ancefn.org.ar
Daytime Phone: 55 21 3907 8127
Fax: 55 21 3907 8101
Email: mcbs@ianas.org
mcbs@abc.org.br
Bolivia
Elsa Ruth Quiroga Onostre*
Academy of Science of Bolivia &
Bolivian Organization for Women in
Brazil
Science
Diogenes Campos
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* Not in Attendance
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President, Bolivian Organization for
Women in Science
Guido Villagomez No 110
La Paz, Bolivia
Daytime Phone: 00-591-2-2731595
Emergency Phone: 00-591-2-2733796
Cellular/Mobile Phone: 00-59173002580
Fax: 00-591-2-2731595
E-mail: cienciamujer@yahoo.es;
elsa-quiroga@excite.com
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Director, Museu de Ciências da Terra
Av. Pasteur, 404
Rio de Janeiro, RJ,
Rio de Janeiro Brazil 22290-240
Daytime Phone: (5521) 2295 4646
Emergency Phone: (5521) 3907 8100
Cellular/Mobile Phone: (5521) 8181
7516
Fax: (5521) 3907 8101
E-mail: dac@abc.org.br;
diogenes.campos@dnpm.gov.br
Canada
Patricia Rowell
Royal Society of Canada
Professor Emeritus
University of Alberta
P.O. Box 2014
Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
V9G 1B5
Daytime Phone: 1 – 250 - 245 - 4370
Emergency Phone:
Cellular/Mobile Phone:
E-mail: pat.rowell@ualberta.ca
Dominican Republic
Chile
Jorge E. Allende
Chilean Academy of Sciences and IAP
Science Education Program
Vice President for Research and
Development
University of Chile
Diagonal Paraguay 265
Santiago, Metropolitan, Chile
Daytime Phone: (56 2) 9786255
Emergency Phone: (56 2) 458 6799
Cellular/Mobile Phone:
Fax: (56 2) 737 6320
E-mail: jallende@uchile.cl
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* Not in Attendance
Nelson Moreno Ceballos
President
Academia de Ciencias de República
Dominicana
Daytime Phone: (1.809) 689
2561direct
(1.809) 687 6315
central
(1.809.534.1420
emergency
Mobiles
829.520.4090
829.481.2459
Email:
n.moreno@academiadecienciasrd.org
despacho@academiadecienciasrd.org
ACRD@academiadecienciasrd.org
Guatemala
María del Carmen Samayoa
President
Academy of Medical, Physical and
Natural Sciences of Guatemala
Master in Toxicology
31 Av A 5-58 Zone 11
Guatemala City, Guatemala Province,
Guatemala
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Colombia
José A. Lozano
Executive Secretary
Academia Colombiana de Ciencias
Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Carrera 28 A No. 39 A – 63
Bogotá D.E., Colombia
Daytime Phone: (571) 2443186; (571)
2683290
Emergency Phone: (571) 5333123
Cellular/Mobile Phone: (57) 315
7973485
Fax: (571) 2443186; (571) 2683290
E-mail: jlozano@accefyn.org.co
Costa Rica
Gabriel Macaya *
Academia Nacional de Ciencias de
Costa Rica
Daytime Phone: (506) 2283 4101
Email: gabriel.macaya@ucr.ac.cr
Daytime Phone: 502 22320735
Emergency Phone: 502 52025082
Cellular/Mobile Phone: 502 55264633
Fax: 502 22300776
E-mail: carmensamayoa@gmail.com
Mexico
Carlos Bosch *
Academic Coordinator
Science at Your School Program
Mexican Academy of Science
Daytime Phone: 5255 5849 4905 /
5849 5522
Fax: 52 55 5849 5112
Email: bosch@itam.mx
Silvia Romero Hidalgo
Executive Coordinator
Science at Your School Program
Mexican Academy of Science
km 23.5 Carretera Federal México
Rosmery Hernández
Costa Rica Science Academy
Cuernavaca s/n San Andres
Colaboradora
Totoltepec
300 Metros al Sur Sobre Radial A
México D.F., México 14400
Zapote
Daytime Phone: (52) 55 15 39 07 54
San Pedro, San José 1367-2050 San
Emergency Phone: (52) 55 56 76 24
Pedro
52
Costa Rica
Cellular/Mobile Phone: (52) 55 54 16
Daytime Phone: 506 22 91 01 50
57 02
Emergency Phone: 506 33 41 57 27
Fax: (52) 55 15 39 07 13
Cellular/Mobile Phone: 506 88 63 54 69 E-mail: silroh@yahoo.com;
Fax: 506 283-4101
sromerohi@itam.mx;
E-mail: rosmery.rhernan@gmail.com
silviaromero@amc.edu.mx
Panamá
Maria Heller *
Directora de Aprendizaje y
Popularización de Ciencia
Secretaria Nacional De Ciencia Y
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* Not in Attendance
Trinidad & Tobago
Winston Mellowes
Professor Emeritus & Foreign
Secretary Caribbean Academy of
Sciences
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Tecnología de Panamá (SENACYT)
Panama
Daytime Phone: (507) 517 0014
Fax: (507) 517 0068
Email: mheller@senacyt.gob.pa
The University of the West Indies
Department of Chemical Engineering
St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
Daytime Phone: 868 662 2002 Ex
2169
Emergency Phone: 868 645 4724
Cellular/Mobile Phone: 868 744 5706
Fax: 868 662 4414
Roberto Earle
Hagamos Ciencia Program Manager E-mail: wamello@yahoo.com;
Secretaria Nacional De Ciencia Y
Winston.Mellowes@sta.uwi.edu
Tecnologia De Panama
(SENACYT)
Venezuela
Building 233, Ciudad del Saber,
Claudio Bifano
Clayton
Presidente
Panama City, Panama 0816-02852 Academia de Ciencias de Venezuela
Daytime Phone: +507 517-0041
Palacio de las Academias, Av.
Emergency Phone: +507 6006-0005 Universidad, Apdo. De Correos 1421
Cellular/Mobile Phone: +507 6004- Caracas 1010-A, Venezuela
0371
Daytime Phone: (58 212) 482
Fax: +507 517-0068
2954/7513
E-mail:
Emergency Phone:
roberto.earle@senacyt.gob.pa
Cellular/Mobile Phone: (58 414) 102
7695
Fax: (58 212) 484 6611
Perú
E-mail: cbifano@acfiman.org.ve;
César Carranza *
Academia Nacional de Ciencias del cbifanor@gmail.com;
Perú.
cbifano@strix.ciens.ucv.ve
Daytime Phone: (511) 442 7635
Fax: 422 5550
United States
CellularMobile Phone: (511) 997
290422
Sally Goetz Shuler
Email: ccarran@pucp.edu.pe
Executive Director
National Science Resources Center
901 D Street, SW, Suite 704B, MRC
Victor Latorre
Academia Nacional de Ciencias
952
(Perú)
Washington, DC 20024
Director
Daytime Phone: (202) 633-2972
Research Center
Cellular Phone: (202) 413-4035
Universidad Ricardo Palma
Fax: (202) 287-7309
5440 Benavides Ave, Santiago de
E-mail: shulers@si.edu
Surco
Lima City, Lima, Perú 33
Daytime Phone: 51-1-708-0000
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* Not in Attendance
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(0024)
Emergency Phone:51-1-442-2508
Home
Cellular/Mobile Phone:
Fax:
E-mail: latorre.victor5@gmail.com
Organization of American States
Clovis Baptista *
Director
Departamento de Ciencia y
Tecnología:
Organization of American States
Daytime Phone: 202-458-3004
Email: Cbaptista@oas.org
Jorge Baxter
Education Specialist
Department of Education and
Culture
Executive Secretariat of Integral
Development
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, N.W., Room 778-D
Washington, D.C. 22206
Daytime Phone: 202-458-6459
Email: jbaxter@oas.org
Lenore Yaffee Garcia
Director
Department of Education and
Culture
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, N.W., Room 777
Washington, D.C. 20006 USA
Daytime Phone: 202-4583368/3725
Fax: 202-458-3167
Email: lgarcia@oas.org
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* Not in Attendance
Mónica Gómez
FEMCIDI Regional Manager for
South America
Cooperation Fund for Development
of CIDI
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, N.W., Room 780-C
Washington, D.C. 22206
Daytime Phone: 202-458-6158
Fax: 202-458-3822
Email: MOGomez@oas.org
Oscar Harasic
Senior Specialist
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, N.W., Room 771
Washington, D.C. 22206
Daytime Phone: 202-458-3375
Fax: 202-458-3259
E-mail: oharasic@oas.org
Martha Beltrán’Martínez
Specialist
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, N.W., Room 769
Washington, D.C. 22206
Daytime Phone: 202-458-6195
Fax: 202-458-3259
E-mail: mbeltranmartinez@oas.org
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2. AGENDA
2009 IAP/IANAS Focal Points Meeting in United States
hosted by
United States National Academies
May 4 – 6, 2009
Opening Reception and Welcoming Remarks
Smithsonian Institution Castle
1000 Jefferson Drive, SW
Washington, DC
Monday, May 4
6:00 p.m.
Opening Reception and Welcoming Remarks
Smithsonian Castle - Commons
Sally Goetz Shuler
Executive Director
National Science Resources Center
G. Wayne Clough
Secretary
Smithsonian Institution
Michael T. Clegg
Foreign Secretary
National Academy of Sciences
José A. Lozano
Coordinator
IANAS Science Education Project
2009 IAP/IANAS Focal Points Meeting in United States
hosted by
United States National Academies
National Academies’ Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, N.W., Room 101
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, May 5
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8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Networking
9:30 a.m.
Opening Ceremony
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José A. Lozano
Coordinator
IANAS Science Education Project
Sally Goetz Shuler
Executive Director
National Science Resources Center
10:00 a.m. Presentation of the IANAS Program
 Organization of American States
Oscar Harasic
Senior Specialist
Department of Science and Technology
Organization of American States
 IAP Science Education
Jorge Allende
 IAP/IANAS Science Education Project
José A. Lozano
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. Reports by Academy Focal Points
 Report by Academies of activities executed after July 2008
Confirmation of activities included in the OEA-FEMCIDI
Project 2009–2010. Academies are expected to confirm
those activities and to propose activities for the following
year.
 Confirmation of budget and activities for 2009, supported by
IANAS-IAP (US $32,000 was requested but only US
$25,000 was approved)
 Proposals for 2010 activities: The presentations will be made
in the following order: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Caribbean
Academy of Sciences, México, Panamá, Peru, Dominican
Republic, United States, and Venezuela.
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Reports by Academy Focal Points (continued)
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5:00 p.m. Adjournment
5:30 p.m.
IANAS Tour of the National Academies Koshland Museum
7:00 p.m.
Reception and Dinner at the National Academies
2009 IAP/IANAS Focal Points Meeting in United States
hosted by
United States National Academies
National Academies’ Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, N.W., Room 101
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, May 6
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8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Networking
9:30 a.m. Discussion and agreements about the IANAS Education
Program
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Confirmation of budget and activities supported by OASFEMCIDI for 2009-2010
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Discussions
 Proposed budget and activities for 2010 to be presented
to IAP for approval
 Future plans and associated activities
5:00 p.m. Adjournment and Closing Events
6:00 p.m. Tour of the Smithsonian Institution National
Museum of Natural History
7:30 p.m.
Farewell Reception and Dinner
Host
Hans-Dieter Sues
Associate Director
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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3. Meeting Results
Tuesday, May 5
José A. Lozano and Sally G. Shuller welcomed the participants. Sally Shuller
informed about the accomplishments and new directions of the NRSC and
handed out printed information, among other the NSRC Strategic Business
Plan Summary 2008-2013.
Guillermo Fernández de la Garza, director of FUMEC, and leader of one of
the IBSE projects in Mexico, the largest in Latin America, and winner of the
last version of the PURKWA prize, invited the participants to the Fifth
International Conference in Monterrey, in 2010, on “Pedagogical quality in
the growth of IBSE projects”. There will be a preliminary meeting in Panama
in June 2009.
Oscar Harasic, in representation of OAS, expressed the satisfaction of his
organization for the accomplishments of the IANAS Science Education
Project and the willingness to give IANAS a continuous support.
Jorge Allende presented a complete report on the FEMCIDI project from
2007 to 2010 He also informed on activities carried by the IAP International
Science Education Program which he has been leading since 2004. (Annex 1.
Presentación FEMCIDI-IAP 2009)
José A. Lozano presented the execution of the budget for 2008 and the
proposal for 2009 for the IANAS SEP/IAP. (Annex 2. Ejecución
Presupuestal 2008).
The representatives of the Academies presented their reports on activities
executed and those proposed for the future (Annex 3A. to 3G.)
Pat Rowell informed that there is a budget of only $ 7,000 dollars for teachers
visiting Canada in 2009. She suggested contacting Canadian mining
operations in different American countries to ask them for support for IBSE
activities. It is expected that secondary school Canadian experts could travel
to other countries to offer advice.
IBSE project is covering already 200 schools in the 15 Chilean regions.
European Union has approved 1,300,000 Euros for a social cohesion project,
which will add to the IBSE project. 15 schools are implementing IBSE at
secondary level. It is expected that a new project “SCOPE” will be in
operation. Germany, France, Colombia, Chile and China will be associated
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for “SCOPE”. In January 2010 a workshop on professional development of
teachers will take place in Santiago within the framework of the bicentennial
celebration of independence.
Costa Rica will start a pilot project in July 2009.
Panama started a pilot project with 5 schools 5 years ago, now it covers 200
which represents 5 % of the schools of the country and about 10% of children
in elementary school.
Venezuela started 2 years ago in 5 schools. Now it is operating in 33 schools.
They hope to produce a very good model of IBSE to be presented to the
Nation when conditions become favorable.
The NSRC is working with eleven different countries. The institution will be
25 years old in 2010. They published 49 manuals and other documents in
2009. Now, they have reached 30% of the children in the U.S., in 2015 this
percentage will increase to 50%.
Wednesday, May 6
The Hemisferic Council accepted the offer made by the Focal Point from
Brazil, Diogenes Campos, to have the 2010 Focal Point meeting in Brazil. It
will take place during late May or early June.
The IANAS SEP – IAP budget for 2009 was approved for USD$25,000,
which was the final amount approved by IAP.
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ITEM
Country
Notes
VI Focal Points Meeting 2009
Amount
USD$
10.000,00
USA
Travel and expenses
IndagaLa (web page for Latin America) Meeting
5.000,00
Colombia
Travel and expenses
Workshop on advances in evaluation in IBSE
projects
2nd Latin-American Workshop on Science
Literacy
Workshop in the frame work of National Seminar
of Brazilian Programme
Visits of Brazilian experts to neighboring
Countries for training in the use of modules
Short fellowship for professional development
1,500.00
Colombia
Travel and expenses
2,500,00
Argentina
Travel and expenses
1,500.00
Brazil
Travel and expenses
1.500.00
Brazil
Travel and expenses
1,000.00
Costa Rica
Visit of Expert
1,000.00
Costa Rica
Summer Course of the project “La Ciencia en tu
Escuela”
1.000.00
México
Travel and / or
expenses
Travel and / or
expenses
Travel and / or
expenses
TOTAL
25,000.00
Note: Brazil requested the 1,500 dollars of the visits to be assigned to the
workshop. So, the workshop in the framework of National Seminar of
Brazilian Programme will receive USD$3,000.oo.
The preliminary budget to be presented for IAP for year 2010 was approved
as follows:
Focal Points Meeting, 2010, in XXXXXXXXX, …...…
USD$15,000
Meeting of members of the supervising and editorial
committees of IndagaLa. About ten countries will
participate …….…………………………………………
Training the Trainers Workshop (5 workshops) ………..
Total ……………………………………………..………
USD$10,000
USD$25,000
USD$50,000
Note: The amounts for the VII Focal Points Meeting 2010 ($15,000) and
the IndagaLa Meeting ($10,000) are already fixed. Other amounts are
subjected to change and will depend on total budget approved by IAP
and the final distribution will be made in accordance with the FEMCIDI
program budget for 2010 – 2011.
Monica Gómez, FEMCIDI Regional Manager for South America, announced
that the budget of USD$119,000 requested for the IANAS -SEP –
FEMCIDI,2009-2010 was approved and was sent to Chile to be signed. She
also informed the program was qualified as excellent.
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A new project has to be presented because, according to the rules, the present
project can not be extended in time.
Jorge Allende expressed he could not continuous as coordinator and proposed
José A. Lozano to be in charge. Lozano said the Colombian Academy do not
have the necessary staff to assume that responsibility. Finally it was agreed
that the representatives from Chile (Allende) Guatemala (Samayoa), Brazil
(Campos) and Colombia (Lozano) will work in the preparation of the project.
In the mean time a decision will be taken about the coordinator.
A pre-proposal has to be presented on July 15, a more elaborated proposal
has to be presented in October and a final one in December 15. The project
will be presented for a period of four years and for an amount of
USD600,000.oo. Jorge Allende collected proposals of activities for the near
future, in order to prepare the new FEMCIDI – project.
Several ideas were proposed for the focus of the new project like
contextualizing secondary education, putting IBSE in the framework of
communities;
building capacity to create consciousness about the
importance of IBSE (governments, academies, educational institutions,
industries, business); seamless science education (bridging the gap).
It was also agreed that NSRC will present other project on behalf of IANAS
to the “Kellogg Foundation” to have a strategic planning workshop each year
in a different country. Pat Rowell (Canada), Maria del Carmen Samayoa
(Guatemala) and Sally Shuller (USA) will work on the project.
They will prepare a booklet about the present state and future developments
of the IBSE project in each country. This booklet will be printed by the
NRSC using the USD$5,000 that were assigned for this Focal Points meeting
in the FEMCIDI-Project budget. In early June a template will be send to be
filled by each country.
There are a number of countries which do not have yet academies and would
like to participate in our program. Other countries have created new
academies such and Honduras and Nicaragua. It would be nice to invite all
these countries to be part of our program but then money would not be
enough. It was concluded that we should go slowly in incorporating new
countries. We should require them to show they are doing efforts in the same
direction.
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