AGÓRA PÓLUS

Debrecen – the City of Schools
Debrecen’s history of education goes back to 500
years
Goal of the project:
the popularisation of education in natural sciences and
various technical branches – its motivating and appealing
presentation – increasing the number of graduates in higher
education
– widening the scope of knowledge of the society
Target groups:
Primary and secondary schools – teachers, pupils
University teachers, researchers, students
professors-researchers
Entities engaged in economic activities
and any layer of the society
Goals and Methods
ADVENTURE – TRAINING –
ENTERTAINMENT
Vivid approach to sciences
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Vivid, easy-to-understand, interactive
Complex family-friendly services
Education – venue of the practical training
Postgraduate studies for teachers – with
dissemination activities
• The involvement of different economic
partners, the improvement of the labour
market situation
• Equal chances for all
Project elements of the
Scientific Adventure Park :
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Palace of Sciences (1.)
Menagerie of Experiments (2.)
Palm and Butterfly House (3.)
Heliophysical Observatory (4.)
Additional elements: building an educational path
and a parking lot
Palace of Sciences – visualisation
Highlights, scenes
SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE PARK
Palace of Sciences (4 floors, 2800 m²),
- creative facilities – interactive rooms
- hydrobiology, chemistry, computer room, internet,
- lecture hall for 250 people, child care lounge, social
facilities
- medical biology, botany, internet, physics, robotised
facilities
- Observatory
- workshop and seminar rooms,
- service rooms
Menagerie of Experiments
Palm And Butterfly House
Heliophysical Observatory
• Educational path, building gardens, parks and
parking lots
Palace of Sciences - visualisation
Palace of Sciences - Interior
Palace of Sciences
DUTIES:
• Describing the scientific and natural processes in vivid
and engaging ways
• Changing the current behaviours and attitudes by
strengthening the experimental and practical aspects of
education
• A popular and easy to understand demonstration of the
regional success stories in science and innovation –
adult education
• Talent scouting – working out new methods
• Practice-focused education of teachers and candidates
• Displaying results in research and innovation studies
Menagerie of Experiments, Palm
and Butterfly House
Menagerie of Experiments – „workshop of
the future” and practical demonstration
facility with show laboratory function
- The history of testing on animals
- Types of laboratory animals – possible
application – modelling diseases
Palm and Butterfly House – facility for
programs about environment protection
and health education
- Miracles of the flora, cultivating and
seeding plants – educational path in botany
Palm and Butterfly House
Heliophysical Observatory
DUTIES:
• It functions as a facility for higher education
and scientific dissemination activities
• It hosts regular telescope night shows
• Education and research in astronomy and
space physics
• Visits of civil organisations – holding
documentary lectures
Observatory
Used Methods
• City development with a focus on the cultural
background
• Extending the social and the public relations of
the University of Debrecen
• Orientation of the post-graduate students
• Increasing the number of graduates from the
faculties of sciences
• Establishing the supply-demand balance in the
local and regional labour market
• Widening the knowledge base of the various
social layers – through the practical
application and the technical presentation of
the natural phenomena the processes will
become understandable to the public
SCIENCE CENTER OF
DEBRECEN
Thank you for your kind attention!