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This project also receives funding from the Norwegian Research Council under grant agreement N° 313053. 

The A-CINCH project primarily addresses the loss of the young generation’s interest for nuclear knowledge by focusing on secondary / high school students and teachers and involving them by the “Learn through Play” concept.

This challenge will be tackled by bringing advanced educational techniques such as state-of the art 3D virtual reality NRC laboratory, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), RoboLab distance operated robotic experiments, Interactive Screen Experiments, NucWik database of teaching materials, or Flipped Classroom, into the NRC education. All the new and existing tools will be wrapped-up around the CINCH Hub – a user-friendly and easy-to-navigate single point of access – that will contribute increasing the number of students and trainees in the field of nuclear and radiochemistry.

Nuclear awareness will be further increased by the High School Teaching Package, Summer Schools for high school students, Teach the Teacher package and many others. Additionally, successful educational and training tools from previous projects will be continued and further developed.

The main motivation behind this project is that: expertise in nuclear and radiochemistry (NRC) is of strategic relevance in the nuclear energy sector and in many vital applications. The need for radiochemistry expertise will increase even more as the focus shifts from safe nuclear power plant operation to decontamination and decommissioning, waste management and environmental monitoring.

Applications for NRC can be found also in other fields such as life sciences (e.g. radiopharmaceuticals, radiological diagnostics and therapy), geology and archaeology (e.g. dating), nuclear forensics and safeguards operations, and even in radiation protection and radioecology.

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