The Smarter network partnership aims to create a collaboration platform for professionals and stakeholders involved in science education reform in developing countries. This website aims to support this initiative. Use the buttons at the top right or the table below to navigate. Occasional and first time visitors are invited to read the information for first time visitors . Cross-national analyses show that the size of a nation's scientific labor force and training system has a positive effect on economic development.
Traditional technologies are at a rapid pace replaced by new science-based technologies.
In all developing and industrial countries there is therefore an increasing drive to make citizens more science literate. This aim has not been achieved by the first wave of science education reform that had it's roots in the 1960's and 70's. F rom the second half of the 1990's a new wave of reform has been initiated. Both waves of science education reform have their origins in the industrialized world. As the second wave of science education reform is implemented in industrialized countries lessons are learned and more and more research information becomes available.