Schools
The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) is committed keeping the public informed and engaged in important research findings and
discoveries in biomedical research. On these pages you will find out about specific activities and projects for students and teachers.
If you would like more information please contact Filipa Carreira Barbosa
or Ana Godinho.
To mark Charles Darwin's 200th birthday in 2009, we developed an
experiment for high school students, which illustrates how Darwin's
theories are still very relevant in modern biomedical research. Our
experiment is based on one of the activities developed by the
Wellcome Trust, as part of the Darwin200 celebrations. This project
is now in it's evaluation stage and we are no longer supplying kits
for schools. Visit this section again soon to read feedback from
teachers and future plans.
If you are a secondary school student or science undergraduate and would like to spend some time in one of the IGC research groups/labs,
please contact Filipa Carreira Barbosa. Visit Research at the IGC
to find out more about research projects in each group.
As part of an agreement established between the IGC and the City Council of Bragança (a city in the Northeast of Portugal) six secondary
school students will carry out 2-week research projects at IGC labs, during the Easter 2009 holidays. The students will be selected by
their teachers, based on their academic achievements.
IGC scientists regularly take IGC research to schools in the greater Lisbon area and even beyond. We have taken part in schools’ science days, career fairs, science fairs. Read (here) about our outreach activities to schools. If you would like us to visit your school, please e-mail Filipa Barbosa (fbarbosa@igc.gulbenkian.pt) and Ana Godinho (agodinho@igc.gulbenkian.pt) with information on your school and the type of activity you would be interested in.
We are developing online and print resources for primary and secondary schools. We will post these resources here as they become available.