Science
in education.
Welcome to the Laboratory of Natural Sciences – Emerging Technologies and Their Teaching, of the Department of Education and Social Work at the University of Patras!
The laboratory
The Laboratory was established in 2026 by Presidential Decree, published in Government Gazette 1922/02-04-2026.
The purpose of the Laboratory is:
1. To conduct high-level interdisciplinary research in fields related to its subject areas, provide high-level services, develop expertise generated by research teams with shared or complementary research interests, and contribute to meeting the research and educational needs of the academic unit in which it operates.
2. To meet the educational and research needs of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of other departments of the University of Patras in matters within the Laboratory’s subject area, where possible and when requested by those departments.
The Laboratory develops new knowledge and expertise at both theoretical and experimental-applied levels in the following subject areas:
a. Natural Sciences and their Teaching
b. Emerging Technologies and their Teaching
c. Emerging Technologies and their impact
d. Teaching Natural Sciences and Technology in the context of Distance Education
Members: Anthi Karatrantou, Stefanos Armakolas, Maria Theodoropoulou.