A Meeting of International Advisory Committee of LAMAP was held at LAMAP Headquarters on June 22, 2019. Prof. Soomro as a member attended
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Prof. Manzoor Hussain Soomro, President of ECO Science Foundation has recently been inducted as the member of International Advisory Committee of La main a la pate Foundation of France and this was his first meeting. The meeting was held at the headquarters of LAMAP Foundation; 43 rue de Renne and chaired by the President of the International Committee Prof. Bruce Alberts from USA and items were discussed item-wise.
The meeting decided that in future, the LAMAP Foundation should focus on the following are:
- Emphasis on multidisciplinary curricula and approaches
- Social media communication
- Focus on scientific and critical thinking at primary and secondary schools
- Promotion of Houses of Science [which are basically the centres for hands-on learning of school teaches, mainly in universities but supported/sponsored by industry and/or NGOs.
- LAMAP would have 24 new Pilot Centres with focus on 3-D printing and 1,2,3… coding. Each Pilot Centre to have 10-20 schools around to benefit.
- Opening “Science World”; it is a new activity concept, wherein the scientists of Academy of Sciences, universities and research institutions would interact with children and parents on public education and literacy about their scientific research and development.
- Office of Climate Change Education (OCE) of LAMAP Foundation will focus on SDGs in their training modules etc.
Finally a recommendation of International Advisory Committee to the Government of France authorities was formulated and signed by all the members, which will be sent out by the President LAMAP with his letter subsequently.