• since 08/2017: Scholarship holder of the state of Lower Saxony in the project: STEM learning in informal spaces (GINT)
• 2015-2017: Master in Science Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Primary Education, Greece
• 2011-2015: Diplom of Primary Education, University of Crete, Department of Primary Education, Greece
• Teaching: Exemplary scientific topics: Physical experiments and their embedding in science lessons

A number of studies have shown that visits to extracurricular learning centres have a very positive effect on the interest and motivation of visitors (DeWitt et al., 2007; Guderian, 2007; Holmes, 2011; Faria et al., 2012; Scharfenberg et al., 2014). However, whether further goals are achieved specifically in the area of learning, whether learning processes take place that have a different structure to school-based learning processes, and to what extent these processes can be described with the model of enquiry-based learning, remains open in these studies (Kirschner et al., 2006). A number of research questions are therefore still unanswered and will be investigated in the doctoral project: What learning processes do pupils undergo during their interaction with exhibitions? Which characteristics of the exhibits, explanatory media, graphics, exhibits etc. lead to understanding or make it more difficult? What difficulties do pupils have in understanding and interpreting the exhibits on the basis of their previous knowledge? What are the intentions of the academics or non-specialist didactics who design the exhibitions? Methodologically, pupils are closely monitored and observed during their visit to exhibitions and questioned via interviews and questionnaires. The providers/designers of the exhibitions and the teachers are interviewed. The collected data will be analysed using qualitative content analysis.

A., Chalkia K., Stavrou D. (2017, submitted), Untersuchung von Bildungsangeboten an informellen Lernorten der Meeresforschung, Tagungsband zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für die Didaktik der Chemie und Physik, Regensburg, 2017. Münster