A global online science festival
for displaced students and their teachers!
Join the 2026 Science United Festival!
for displaced students and their teachers!
Join the 2026 Science United Festival!
The Science United Project is organizing, for the 5th consecutive year, the Science United Festival, a free online celebration of science for students on the move (refugees, migrants, asylum seekers) or Roma aged 5 to 18, as well as their classmates and teachers. To date, 966 children have participated in the Festival under the guidance of 109 teachers in Greece and Jordan.
Student teams share videos of their scientific projects on the Festival’s website, draw inspiration from the videos of other teams, exchange positive comments, and receive encouraging feedback from scientist mentors who are themselves refugees. The Science United Festival will take place asynchronously and online in April and May 2026.
Click on the student projects from 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022 to get inspired with your class!
Benefits and Responsibilities
The Science United Festival has received approval from the Greek Institute of Educational Policy (IEP) for the 2023-24 school year. The teams selected to participate in the Festival will receive the necessary documents for approval from their school.
Registrations are open until February 2, 2026. Sign up here .
The Festival website for 2025–2026 will be available in English; however, every possible effort will be made to support and facilitate teachers.
For more information, you may contact us through the Contact Form.
Student teams share videos of their scientific projects on the Festival’s website, draw inspiration from the videos of other teams, exchange positive comments, and receive encouraging feedback from scientist mentors who are themselves refugees. The Science United Festival will take place asynchronously and online in April and May 2026.
Click on the student projects from 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022 to get inspired with your class!
Benefits and Responsibilities
- Participation in the Festival is free of charge thanks to the support of the Blossom Hill Foundation and dedicated volunteers.
- Each participating student team will have its own page on the Festival website, where it will receive encouraging feedback.
- Teachers receive support, professional development opportunities, and networking opportunities with educators working in similar contexts.
- All participants, teachers and students, will receive a certificate of participation.
- The expected time commitment for teachers is estimated at 4 teaching hours, 4–8 hours of preparation of the scientific project and video, up to 3 meetings of the educators’ community (approximately 1 hour each), and 4 hours of professional development (optional).
- Teachers must agree to the Festival’s Child Protection Policy, watch the relevant recorded seminar (15 minutes long), and complete a quiz.
- Teachers must submit signed consent forms for each of their students to the Organizing Committee. Consent forms are available in Greek, English, French, Arabic, Persian, Kurmanji, Russian, and Ukrainian.
- Teachers are expected to work with their student teams during February and March to develop the content of their page, namely to:
- choose a name for their team,
- create a flag (preferably square or circular),
- write a paragraph describing their team, and
- create a science-related video (e.g. a demonstration, an experiment, a model, etc.).The video, which will be uploaded to YouTube and the Festival website, must be up to 5 minutes long and must not show children’s faces.
- Teams are expected to watch the videos of other teams on the Festival website in April–May 2026, exchange comments, and read and respond to the encouraging feedback from the Festival mentors.
- Teachers must complete an evaluation questionnaire about their experience in the Festival.
The Science United Festival has received approval from the Greek Institute of Educational Policy (IEP) for the 2023-24 school year. The teams selected to participate in the Festival will receive the necessary documents for approval from their school.
Registrations are open until February 2, 2026. Sign up here .
The Festival website for 2025–2026 will be available in English; however, every possible effort will be made to support and facilitate teachers.
For more information, you may contact us through the Contact Form.
Science United Project has established the Science United Festival in order to provide a platform where, despite the existence of borders, students and their teachers can engage in a virtual community to celebrate their science projects while receiving feedback from refugee scientist mentors. We believe that emergency education, through technology, can provide a borderless world of learning for displaced students. Students can engage in opportunities to learn new science concepts collaboratively, with each other, and cooperatively, from each other.
