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Thursday, 6 October 2022 How to encourage a growth mindset in students? Join the Growth Mindset Teaching in (Higher) Education International conference at UP FAMNIT

On Wednesday, 19 October 2022, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the international conference »Growth Mindset Teaching in (Higher) Education« will take place in the lobby (Avla) of the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP Famnit). The conference is a part of Erasmus+ project GrowthMinds, whose lead partner is UP FAMNIT.

The event is intended for all university, primary and secondary school teachers, school counselors and adult educators.

The exact program of the conference is available here.

Participation is free, you only need to register at this link.


About the GrowthMinds project

The GrowthMinds international project, whose lead partner is UP FAMNIT, includes various activities with which pedagogical staff at the university level will be able to develop new competencies for the use of the so-called concept of growth mindset in their work.
The project aims to increase the quality of the learning process through the use of new learning techniques and is co-financed by the European Union under the Erasmus+ KA203 programme.

The two-year project is led by the Head of the Center for Positive Psychology, Assist. Prof. Dr. Kristijan Musek Lešnik and it started on 1 November 2020. The activities directly include university educators and university students as the main target groups.

With a co-financed part of 171,459 EUR, the project will bring together the following partners: