1st Questionnaire: Building the community support

Community Participation is one of the main topics evaluated in the Pollen project. Here
is the list of the indicators of quality that correspond to that issue: Level of
- Active role of stakeholders.
- Active childrens role.
- Non-institutional stakeholders involvement (parents and others).
- Shared decisions.
- Liaison between stakeholders.
- Support of community to schools work.
- Link between some activities and citys needs.

To evaluate these items, we will use the following instruments and activities:
- State of the art report for each seed city.
- Questionnaire on Projects implementation in the community (this document).
- Coordinators progress sheet in each seed city
- Field visits and qualitative evaluation in three seed cities.
- Final questionnaire in each seed city.
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Dear Colleague,

The purpose of this questionnaire is to find out about local partners feelings about Science
Education. The questions are designed to find out about your views as a person involved in the
Project. The questionnaire will be completed by Pollens local partners in the twelve European
countries in the project.

Date

Name..

City

Kind of Institution do you belong to School City Council Education Authority

Industry Scientific institution (university or other) Associations Parents
Others (which)
 1st Questionnaire: Building the community support

About the Community Board (CB)

1. What is the mission of the community board?

You can choose more than one
o Define the future orientation of POLLEN
o Facilitate needs analysis and requirements for science education
o Be formally the promoters of the community activities
o Bring together key stakeholder to promote/prescribe POLLEN activities
o Be a consultative/informative body
o Assuring the connection between the community and the school
o Other:
__________________________________________________________________

2. Formalisation
o Only bilateral meetings
o Only informal meetings (all parties together)
o A formal agreement is signed/planned to be signed between parties: Yes/No
If yes, date of signature: ______________

3. How many members do you have/plan to have in your board? _______

4. Origin of the members

You can choose more than one
o Teachers
o School headmasters
o Parents
o School inspection
o Educational authorities (local/regional/state)
o Science community (university)
o Local authorities/Municipalities
o Cultural authorities (Museums)
o NGOs, Associations
o Industry, Business
o Other: _________________________________________________________

5. Do you have public elected representatives in your board? Yes/No

6. What activities you plan to do with the Community Board (CB)
o Held meetings
o Invite them to visit classrooms
o Make children visit their institutions
o Organise a Science Day
o Other:
__________________________________________________________________

7. At CB meetings, what are topics are/will be in the agenda?

o Report on the implementation of Pollen
o Discussion on new members to recruit
o Improvements on how to increase community involvement
o Improvements in dissemination and awareness raising (Press, )
o Report on evaluation, impact analysis
o Other:
__________________________________________________________________

8. Periodicity of the meetings

o How many planned per years
o How many done until now (meetings/field visits)
o Other:
__________________________________________________________________

9. Place of the meeting

o Board member premises
o Pollen partner premises
o Other:
__________________________________________________________________

10. Who is playing the following role:

o Chairman: [Pollen Partner] [Board member: origin] ______________
o Secretary: __________________
o Moderator/facilitator: ____________________
o Participant: _________________

11. What has been your main difficulty in this setting-up the CB?
12. For those of you who have started managing CBs, where have been the
main difficulties?

13. A similar CB already existed in your community? Yes/No

If yes, name it: ___________________________________________

14. Visibility of the CB

o Press release
o Website
o New item at POLLEN Website
o Mailing ot the Project Manager
o Mailing to collegues
o Other: __________________________________________________________

15. List planned activities for 2006/07 and 2007/08

Activity title students age level - date

About the involvement of parents

16. Approach
o Mailings, mediated by the school
o CB members prescription
o Workshop and presentations, supported by the school
o Communication in the schools
Bulletin boards,
Newsletter
Web
o Other: ______________________________________________________
 17. Value proposition
o Obtain the support of industry to your school activities
o Make possible to visit industry/businesses/factory
o Invite business people to visit classrooms or attend workshops
o Other:_______________________________________________

18. Contributions required

o Financial
Quantity?
o In kind contributions?
Participation to POLLEN activities
Other: ___________________________________________________

19. Success stories/explain actual/planned involvement of parents in

specific activities

About the involvement of private companies

20. Sector
o Retail. Culture. Utilities. Transport. Construction. _____________

21. Approach
o Workshop and presentations
o Visits and meetings
o Other:___________________________________________

22. Value proposition

What arguments did you use to convinced companies to participate
o Obtain the support of companies to your school activities
o Make possible to visit companies/factory
o Invite business people to visit classrooms or attend workshops
o Other:
__________________________________________________________________
 23. Contributions required
o Financial
Quantity?
o In kind contributions?
Accepting field visits
Support with materils/resources for classroom usage
Other: ___________________________________________________

24. Success stories/explain actual/planned involvement of companies in

specific activities

Impact
25. Impact achieved or expected

o DATE:
o ACTIVITY TITLE
o TARGET AUDIENCE
o N. OF CHILDS INVOLVED
o EXPECTED IMPACT

o MEDIA COVERAGE

o DATE:
o ACTIVITY TITLE
o TARGET AUDIENCE
o N. OF CHILDS INVOLVED
o EXPECTED IMPACT

o MEDIA COVERAGE
Critical Assessment

26. What you consider has been your main achievements?

27. What should be improved in your planned or actual approach?

Lessons learned?

28. Which were the main difficulties and/or barriers to your community
approach implementation?

29. Overall, what importance you give to building a community support?

(0 to 10 mark)