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Liepāja Science and Education Innovation Centre and the Daugavpils Innovation Centre with their Norwegian partners participated in the Arendalsuka Festival in Norway, Arendal (at Grind Arendal backyard), with conversations and activities regarding the importance of STEM and interest education programmes in youth education. One topic in the conversation was about attracting young people to the science and creating interesting education programmes that really excite them. Friday, August 18, in Arendalsuka Festival, will be a day dedicated to young people, so the conversation was held in an
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In August 2023, Daugavpils Innovation Centre (DIC) and Science and Education Innovation Centre in Liepaja (ZIIC) participated in the Norwegian democracy festival “Arendalsuka:”. Representatives of innovation centres shared experiences with their Norwegian counterparts, visiting the Arendal Science Centre “Vitensenteret Arendal”. On the closing day of the festival, innovation centres participated in the discussion “100 reasons why science is fun!”. Innovation centres observed Arendal Science Centre “Vitensenteret Arendal”, its exposures, explored the experience of Norwegian colleagues in organising various experiments and activities. “Vitensenteret Arendal” promotes STEM and STEAM among Norwegian youth and is one of more than 10 innovation centres in Norway. Representatives of the innovation centres also participated in a discussion “100 reasons why science is fun!”. Representatives of the innovation centres informed about the activities of innovation centres in Latvia, discussed the day-to-day nature of scientists and researchers, how young people can stimulate an interest in science and what characteristics should be taken into account if a young person wants to focus on science. In the second part of the discussion, the participants participated in a variety of experiments during ZIIC science theatrical performance “The Pirate Stories”, tested their knowledge of innovations and inventions, and tried the role of engineers in the DIC activity “Airplane Creators”.