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Shaping science education in just 100 words

Marco Prunotto1

  1. Nephrology Unit Laboratory, Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital, Largo G. Gaslini 5, 16147 Genova, Italy
    Email: marco.prunotto@gmail.com

A science workshop held in Venice earlier this year under the banner of '100 parole per la scienza' challenged a group of one hundred 16–18-year-olds to choose 100 words that, in their collective opinion, represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today. The students were from schools all over Italy and the workshop was organized by the San Paolo Fondazione per la Scuola and Fondazione Venezia (http://www.100parole.it