{"id":1509,"date":"2025-12-19T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:05:12","slug":"e-wbl-internship-for-humanities-students-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"E-WBL internship for Humanities Students in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1509\" class=\"elementor elementor-1509\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-52ff293 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"52ff293\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fbddb1e jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"fbddb1e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbcf76c jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"cbcf76c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a25daf2 jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-heading\" data-id=\"a25daf2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\" ><div class=\"ekit-heading elementskit-section-title-wraper text_center   ekit_heading_tablet-   ekit_heading_mobile-\"><h2 class=\"ekit-heading--title elementskit-section-title \">E-WBL internship for Humanities Students in Greece<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4afad24 jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"4afad24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f0014c jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8f0014c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1511\" src=\"https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19-1024x788.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19-1536x1182.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19-2048x1575.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19-1140x877.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science United Project supports teachers who work with refugee, migrant, and asylum-seeking children by providing safe, ready-to-use science kits, training, and mentoring designed for experiential learning, an approach that strengthens language acquisition, problem-solving, and socio-emotional skills in displaced learners.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organisation also coordinates the Science United Festival, an annual peer-learning showcase where pupils share short videos of hands-on projects and receive feedback from scientist-mentors, many of whom have displacement backgrounds themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>A Compact, Purposeful Placement<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over four weeks, Evangelia and Eleni joined the SUP team during a busy preparation period. Their remit combined administrative support, program logistics, and education-facing tasks linked to science-as-experiential-learning for displaced students. Both were also involved in on-site activities in the Malakasa refugee camp on selected days, experiencing the pivot from planning to delivery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>What They Actually Did<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helped source, sort, and prepare materials for science experiments, ensuring kits were safe, complete, and replicable for teachers and learners.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contributed to administrative workflows that keep the programme running: communication, scheduling, and documentation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assisted with face-to-face activities at Malakasa, gaining first-hand insight into facilitation with multilingual groups and varied prior schooling.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developed original classroom materials to carry forward into their own Early Childhood practice, an enduring output of the internship.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Learning in Context: Early Childhood Meets Experiential Science<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The internship bridged early years pedagogy and hands-on science. For Evangelia, the core was activities for refugee children, which she approached with cooperation and adaptability. For Eleni, the focus included learning and then teaching experiments across maths, physics, and biology, coupled with designing educational visual materials, and taking part in Saturday sessions with displaced students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>What Changed for the Students<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confidence & Transferable Skills: Both students reported growth in communication, collaboration, and task ownership within an NGO context.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practice-Ready Outputs: Each produced teaching materials they can repurpose in their future classrooms, an authentic assessment of learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Context Awareness: Observing learning in a refugee-camp setting sharpened their sensitivity to access, safety, language, and pacing, key to inclusive Early Childhood practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>What Worked and What We\u2019ll Do Next<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What worked: Strong communication, clear mentoring, and a professional culture that welcomed new educators into real programme work.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What to improve: Ensure abundant hands-on materials are on hand; expand the hybrid component to deepen camp-based facilitation skills.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Erasmus+ Value Added<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the Erasmus+ framework, this e-internship delivered structured, short-cycle international collaboration with tangible outputs, measured via dual evaluations (host and interns). It showcased how digital-first placements can still create community-level impact, especially when paired with targeted in-person moments.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Voices from the Experience<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great communication\u2026 professional environment, comforting and relaxed despite all the work<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d \u2013 Intern\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remote flexibility matched our preparation period; a hybrid version would be even more effective<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d \u2013 Science United Project\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A month was enough to learn the ropes, contribute meaningfully, and leave with tools the interns will keep using as Early Childhood educators. 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Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. 2023-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000164647<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9089746 animated-slow jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9089746\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;zoomIn&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stem4humanities.eu\/privacy-policy\/\">PRIVACY POLICY<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38ef86a elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-divider--view-line jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"38ef86a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-f5a4e8b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"f5a4e8b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-bb5dcee jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"bb5dcee\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ce1718 elementor-widget__width-initial jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8ce1718\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a9 2024 STEM4HUMANITIES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-bfe9591 jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"bfe9591\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-508d58c elementor-widget__width-initial jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"508d58c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>MADE \ud83d\udd10 BY INNOVATION HIVE<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-WBL internship for Humanities Students in Greece Science United Project supports teachers who work with refugee, migrant, and asylum-seeking children by providing safe, ready-to-use science kits, training, and mentoring designed for experiential learning, an approach that strengthens language acquisition, problem-solving, and socio-emotional skills in displaced learners. The organisation also coordinates the Science United Festival, an annual peer-learning showcase where pupils share short videos of hands-on projects and receive feedback from scientist-mentors, many of whom have displacement backgrounds themselves.\u00a0 A Compact, Purposeful Placement Over four weeks, Evangelia and Eleni joined the SUP team during a busy preparation period. Their remit combined administrative support, program logistics, and education-facing tasks linked to science-as-experiential-learning for displaced students. Both were also involved in on-site activities in the Malakasa refugee camp on selected days, experiencing the pivot from planning to delivery.\u00a0 What They Actually Did Helped source, sort, and prepare materials for science experiments, ensuring kits were safe, complete, and replicable for teachers and learners.\u00a0 Contributed to administrative workflows that keep the programme running: communication, scheduling, and documentation.\u00a0 Assisted with face-to-face activities at Malakasa, gaining first-hand insight into facilitation with multilingual groups and varied prior schooling.\u00a0 Developed original classroom materials to carry forward into their own Early Childhood practice, an enduring output of the internship. Learning in Context: Early Childhood Meets Experiential Science The internship bridged early years pedagogy and hands-on science. For Evangelia, the core was activities for refugee children, which she approached with cooperation and adaptability. For Eleni, the focus included learning and then teaching experiments across maths, physics, and biology, coupled with designing educational visual materials, and taking part in Saturday sessions with displaced students.\u00a0 What Changed for the Students Confidence &#038; Transferable Skills: Both students reported growth in communication, collaboration, and task ownership within an NGO context.\u00a0 Practice-Ready Outputs: Each produced teaching materials they can repurpose in their future classrooms, an authentic assessment of learning.\u00a0 Context Awareness: Observing learning in a refugee-camp setting sharpened their sensitivity to access, safety, language, and pacing, key to inclusive Early Childhood practice.\u00a0 What Worked and What We\u2019ll Do Next What worked: Strong communication, clear mentoring, and a professional culture that welcomed new educators into real programme work.\u00a0 What to improve: Ensure abundant hands-on materials are on hand; expand the hybrid component to deepen camp-based facilitation skills. Erasmus+ Value Added Within the Erasmus+ framework, this e-internship delivered structured, short-cycle international collaboration with tangible outputs, measured via dual evaluations (host and interns). It showcased how digital-first placements can still create community-level impact, especially when paired with targeted in-person moments. Voices from the Experience \u201cGreat communication\u2026 professional environment, comforting and relaxed despite all the work.\u201d \u2013 Intern\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cRemote flexibility matched our preparation period; a hybrid version would be even more effective.\u201d \u2013 Science United Project\u00a0 Conclusion A month was enough to learn the ropes, contribute meaningfully, and leave with tools the interns will keep using as Early Childhood educators. For SUP, it was an opportunity to amplify preparation for hands-on science learning with displaced students, work that continues through teacher training, science kits, and the Science United Festival. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the National Agency Erasmus+ INDIRE. 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