By showing kids at early age that learning is exciting and relevant to their lives, the Children’s University represents a new way to reveal that even for a very young age-group a broader horizon of education could appear.

Before the creation of the concept in 2002 in Tübingen, lost of universities had already similar outreach activities, but the children’s university goes beyond allowing children to get to know their local university and to establish a relationship with it.

During the 1st International Conference on Children’s Universities in Tübingen, we had the opportunity to discover different types of children’s universities sharing same aims: to inspire a new generation of young scientists and to stimulate children’s curiosity and give them a better understanding of the world they live in. Moreover, the children’s universities initiative is able to combine the curiosity of children with the curiosity of working researchers.

All over the world, Children’s universities are diverse in shape and size. In most cases, the CU represents a summer’s flexible program of fun and learning on the university campus. For children, the planning of the day recreates an exciting dive in student life, changing for a day children into junior students.

Organisers of children’ s universities bet on ingeniosity and diversity to propose new activities. Some examples:

-    The Vienna University Children’s office organizes the Children’s University on tour composed of mobile auditorium, info point, hands-on experiments. It stops in various public spaces in the suburbs to reach children from periphery and underperforming groups;
-    The Kinderuni of Karlsruhe offers bilingual classes on science in French and German ;
-    The UA summer academy, a program of the University of Aveiro, combines academic enrichment with social activities such as sports or games…

More information on: http://eucu.net/childrens-universities

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