The main objective of GO-GA – Go-Lab goes Africa is to adapt and implement the successful Go-Lab Learning Ecosystem in Africa, first piloting in 3 countries and then scaling up to more users and more countries.

The Go-Lab ecosystem, as developed in the FP7 Go-Lab project and now being further developed and implemented in Europe in the ongoing H2020 Next-Lab project. It offers students rich, challenging, and socially embedded science and technology experiences that shape their science and technology knowledge, together with reflective and social abilities. Go-Lab intends to increase student enrolment in science and technology education by offering engaging instruction to decrease the level of dropout of students, and contribute to a better-equipped workforce by combining inquiry and 21st-century skills.

GO-GA builds on the developments as achieved in the Go-Lab project and currently continued in the H2020 Next-Lab project. Its purpose is to take Go-Lab outside of Europe, to adapt its ecosystem to African requirements and to roll it out on the African continent, which cannot go without an extensive training of teachers in pedagogical and technical skills. For the technical and pedagogical aspects, increasingly, resources/content available for STEM Education are designed for the developed world. Effective adoption in the developing world will mean adapting the content to fit within the constraints of developing countries; such as taking into consideration availability and type of devices, lack of steady power supply and affordable and reliable internet access.

Thus, the GO-GA project will see the effective adaptation of the Go-Lab ecosystem, delivered by a community of trained, local teachers, and piloted in Nigeria, Kenya, and Benin Republic, and subsequently scaling to 4 other African countries.

NUCLIO is a partner in this project, having as its special mission the teacher training in the target countries.

More information on the project website: http://go-ga.org