HU-MTTM Passport Education and Training

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Description of main activities carried in communication and outreach with universities Is your Institution involved with Universities in any teaching / education programme? Could you please identify and briefly explain it? (if available, with links to the specific websites of the referred activities)

37 members of the scientific staff give lectures and practical courses (2000 hours in 2016) regularly at three universities (by agreement between the museum and the universities) in the following fields: science communication, museology, zoology, botany, anthropology, paleobotany, paleontology, mineralogy. Staff members regularly supervise BSc, MSc and PhD theses

Description of main activities carried in communication and outreach with non-universities Is your Institution involved in a non-University based Education Programme)? With other partners? (Please identify the programme(s) and the link(s) to the specific website(s))

10 museologists are involved in non-University based adult education programmes. Types of courses and activities: licensed mushroom identification courses, bat ringing examination, bird ringing examination, taxidermy education (participation in the compilation of the training material), cave biology o pest biology

Description of On-Line education courses Does your Institution give any On-Line education courses? Which ones? Since when? With other partners? Is it a regular programme?

Hungarian Natural History Museum is taking part as a consortium member with RBINS, AEM, UOC, CETAF in building an online course on biodiversity, climate change and issues related to scientific collections. The three years (2016-2019) project named as BIOTALENT is financed by Erasmus+. HNHM is responsible mainly for building up the educational content, and running the course itself with UOC. The platform is going to be built to be useful in the wider field of STEM education.

Description of other activities carried in communication and outreach Any other relevant information on Education and / or Training specifically carried out by your Institution (e.g. guided tours, school programmes, other public education programmes)?

At least 200 guided tours (including guided tours in the collections), one thousand museum pedagogy programs and a hundred and fifty other museum events The museum has a number of partnership agreements with primary schools to regularly take part in museum education programmes. Special agreement established with a school specialized for teaching students with intellectual disabilities to provide specific education programmes.

Description of main activities carried out in training Is your Institution involved in any Training Project? With other partners? (Please identify the project(s) and the link(s) to the specific website(s)(if available, links to the specific websites of the referred activities)

Is your Institution involved in any Training Project? With other partners? (Please identify the project(s) and the link(s) to the specific website(s)

MSc of science communication MSc and field courses on zootaxonomy

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