Nota de prensa oficial/ Press release

José Pedro Cardeiro

euRobotics AISBL Boulevard A. Reyers 80- 1030 Brussels

Email: jose.cardeiro@eu-robotics.net

Tel: +32 2 706 8203

Dear National Coordinators and Supporters of the European Robotics Week,

We would like to bring to your attention a pioneer initiative of a group of Spanish teachers and education professionals (the social network Cero en Conducta) who have joined the European Robotics Week 2013 aiming to show the public and the research community their work and activities in robotics with kids from 5 to 100 years young http://www.eu-robotics.net/eurobotics-week/robotics-education-in-spain/

During the Week, they will organise activities using creative writing, audiovisual plans, competitions, workshops, focused discussions around specific topics, involving primary and secondary school pupils, teachers and parents. Check here the calendar of activities proposed https://sites.google.com/site/europeanroboticsweekeducation/home/calendario-de-actividades-educativas

Furthermore, in order to achieve mid-term social impact, for a whole year, from November 2013 to November 2014, they will continue building on the momentum gained during the ERW13, organising more activities in a creative feedback loop to be reflected and coordinated by Cero en Conducta through this website https://sites.google.com/site/europeanroboticsweekeducation/

The community aims to:

· Raise awareness within the education sector of the influence that robotics research and develoment has in our daily lives

· Give visibility to the work and experimentation many teachers and pupils are doing in robotics

· Open channels for pupils to express themselves and dream and shape their future following the lead of the visionary Julius Verne

From euRobotics and Cero en Conducta we encourage you to participate – using twitter, taking pictures, videos, sharing them, having fun with the family – and we would love to see during the next few months similar initiatives joining in from all of the European countries already participating in the European Robotics Week. Contact details to make this happen here http://www.eu-robotics.net/eurobotics-week/robotics-education-in-spain/

We truly hope the activities of this group of people inspire and move you and that, taking part of it, we all collaborate to make the raison d’etre of the Week happen: to show the general public what robotics is all about and what important role robots play in Europe and in our future!!!

With best regards,

ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MADE THIS POSSIBLE