International action of La main à la pâte: teaching science at primary school
La main à la pâte aims to develop enquiry-based science education in primary and lower-secondary schools. Launched in 1996 at the initiative of Georges Charpak (Nobel Prize in Physics), Pierre Léna and Yves Quéré, with the support of theAcadémie des sciences, La main à la pate became in 2012 a foundation for scientific co-operation founded by the Académie des sciences, the Ecole normale supérieure(Paris) and the Ecole normale supérieure of Lyon. The La main à la pâte foundation pursues and develops the activities carried out in France and the rest of the world.
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