Educational Development Projects 

GeoSchool - GeoCamp Iceland participates in regional, national and international educational projects, research development and training oportunities, with primary focus on developing teacher and student curricula as well as producing training material for outdoor science education and STEM related training activities.

GeoCamp has participated in both national and international development projects, within NATA - North Atlantic Tourism Association, Erasmus+ and EEA. We are open to any form for cooperation and international educational projects.
Erasmus+ Project: Green Advisor
Project No: 2022-1-IS01-KA220-ADU-000085530 
Project duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
GREEN ADVISOR: “enhancing environmental sustainability of EU funded projects” is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in the field of Adult Education that involves six partners from five Countries (Iceland, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Finland), who will work together addressing the need to lower the environmental CO2 footprint that the Erasmus+ projects generate while being implemented. Its main objective is to “mainstreaming green practices” in Erasmus+ projects looking at the whole arc of project management/implementation activities by developing a self-assessment and strategic set of tools, including training resources and calculators, designed for project managers and participants of Erasmus+ to measure their environmental footprint, and encourage them to acquire green transition competencies applied on EU project management to concretely put in place compensation/pre-emptive measures to balance the pollution/environmental impact produced in Erasmus+ transnational cooperation.
​Erasmus+ Project: UpCycling
Project No: 2021-1-IS01-KA220-000024011
Project duration: 01.02.2022 - 31.07.2024
UpCycling as a way to generate less waste and create value-added products in a creative way, brings together eight cross-sector institutions from seven culturally diverse countries (Iceland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands, Cyprus and Poland). The project runs for 30 months and is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme. UPCYCLING focuses on promoting cross curricular collaboration, using innovative learning approaches to prepare learners, staff and youth workers towards becoming true agents of change (e.g. save resources, reduce energy use and waste, compensate carbon footprint emissions, opt for sustainable food and mobility choices, etc.).  
​Erasmus+ Project: Bridges - European Recovery Strategies for Education after Covid-19 
Project No: 2021-1-PL01-KA210-VET-000034540
Project duration: 01.11.2021 - 01.11.2023
The project aims at providing European educational environment with methodological and technological solutions to support schools and teachers in the tools that will help to eliminate or minimize the negative impact on students exposed to several years of remote education caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. 
Erasmus+ Project: HEDA
Project No: 2021-2-IS01-KA220-SCH-000050367 
Project Duration: 01.03.2022 - 01.03.2024
The project is focuses on the introduction of art for the improvement of citizenship education in Europe, fact which will allow on the one hand to enhance the acquisition of social and civic competences, to foster knowledge, understanding and ownership of values and fundamental rights and on the other hand to enhance critical thinking among students and teachers. GeoCamp Iceland is the project promoter and our focus will be on using art and theatre to promote and encourrage critical thinking in primary schools about climate change.
​EEA Project: GEOCAMP - supporting geology teaching towards active citizenship (CZ)
Project Duration: 01.07.2021 - 01.08.2023
The project is funded by the EEA and Norway Grants scheme. It will bring new innovative teaching programmes and methods in the field of the sciences and geology. Above all, we will integrate an interdisciplinary approach and methods of locally-based teaching into the educational framework, thus promoting active citizenship and environmental responsibility. We respond to the very current challenge of equipping future educators not only with specific knowledge of biology and geology, but also with the ability to explain current phenomena such as climate change or drought in their entire environmental context. Only in this way can the teachers prepare their pupils for the challenges of the future and support their competence to take personal responsibility and act in the interests of environmental protection.  
EEA Project: STEM education in Croatian primary schools (HR)
Project Duration: 01.10.2022 - 01.04.2023
The project is funded by the EEA and Norway Grants scheme​ and focuses on development of STEM education in four Croatian primary schools:
  • Explore and grow with STEM with Lipovljani Primary School
  • SMART BICC with Budinscina Primary School
  • STEM for Planet Earth with Ðakovo Primary School
  • Tesla's Room with Sibinj Primary School
During the project GeoCamp Iceland will participate in
  1. Capacity-building activities for teachers and other educational workers in the STEM field.
  2. Pupil’s skills strengthening in the field of STEM.
  3. Information and visibility activities where nine experienced experts from Iceland will hold lectures and workshops of defined activities
Specifically GeoCamp Iceland will:
  • Organise and host study trips of teachers and other educational workers from Croatia in Iceland.
  • Mentor the Croatian partner schools in STEM teaching for the purpose of curriculum development and new learning models.
  • Prepare and implement a joint project task for pupils.
  • Participate in study trips to Croatia for Icelandic experts, for the purpose of participating in the final conference of the project and exchange of experiences and result.
  • Participate in continuous cooperation and support for the partner schools in Croatia.
Furthermore GeoCamp Iceland will provide a series of lectures and workshops for the partner organisations in Croatia within the field of STEM and educational development.
​EEA Project: Geothermal activity in Lipik (HR)
Project Duration: 01.04.2022 - 01.09.2023
The project is funded by the EEA and Norway Grants scheme​ and focuses on utilisation of low-heat geothermal fields in the municipality of Lipik in Croatia.

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​EEA Project: EOG - Technologies of the future in today’s school (PL)
Project Duration: 01.04.2022 - 30.11.2024
GeoSchool - GeoCamp Iceland participates with the Polish school Infotech and Bialystok University of Technology in the EEA funded project "EOG - Technologies of the future in today’s school". The main goal of the project to reduce economic and social differences within the European Economic Area and improve the quality of education by creating pilot courses of study in vocational education corresponding to the demand for IT specialists in the labor market.

The main objectives are
  1. Expanding the educational offer in vocational education at the secondary and higher level and adjusting the curriculum to the current needs of the labor market in the IT sector (industry 4.0).
  2. Expanding the offer of continuing vocational education.
  3. Expanding cooperation and transnational exchange of experiences between Iceland and Poland in the area of: remote education, gamification, building relationships between business and education.
  4. Increasing the quality of remote education through the dissemination of tools,methods of effective distance learning. The project will prepare innovative and unique courses of study in Poland, corresponding to the real needs of the labor market in the modern technological industry.

Amongst key actions are a preparation of a report with an analysis of the IT market, which will indicate the direction of development of the IT industry; preparation of new curricula at both INFOTECH and at the University of Technology; as well as preparation of a 2-year programming course for adults (programming languages and issues in the field of modern technologies required in the work of a programmer).

Domestic Projects

​Science Camps in Iceland
GeoSchool - GeoCamp Iceland has been working on the development of a science camp in Reykjanes intended for interested primary and secondary school students, funded by the Icelandic government. The project - which is done in cooperation with Sudurnes Research and Learning Center - is extensive and meant to be as a support and platform for teachers as well as reaching out to students that show a great deal of interest in science. It also provides a link into Reykjanes UNESCO Global Geopark's objectives to connect nature, science, and people sense of pride to sustain and create in their local area. The development project is a collaborative project between GeoCamp Iceland, Sudurnes Research and Learning Center, Sudurnes Comprehensive College, Reykjanes UNESCO Global Geopark and Keilir Academy.  
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GeoSchool - GeoCamp Iceland is an educational project dedicated to increasing knowledge and understanding in natural sciences with practical and active learning. We develop educational content, student and teacher guides and curricula, organize and receive international study groups focusing on STEM education.