About the SPACE Team

 

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Oded Ben-Horin - Head of Arts Education

Associate Professor Oded Ben-Horin (HVL) is Head of Department of Arts Education at WNUAS. Oded coordinates the Global Science Opera, and is a co-developer of that concept. He is responsible for implementation of the EU Horizons 2020 project Developing an Engaging Science Classroom (CREATIONS) in Norway; coordinates the EU Erasmus+ project Creativity, Art and Science in Primary Education (CASE); was Project Coordinator of the EU Comenius project “Implementing Creative Strategies into Science Teaching” (CREAT-IT), 2013-15; leads the Pedagogical Framework of the EU Erasmus+ project SPACE; is WP leader for Global Science Opera research in the Norwegian Research Council project iSCOPE.

Oded is Deputy-Chair of the Center of Creativities, Arts and Science in Education (CASE) at Stord. He has delivered lectures on creativity in art-and-science education at the Royal Institution/Lunar Mission One (London), the Greek Physical Society (Athens), the European Space Agency Technology Center (Noordwijk), Scientix (Brussels) and City University of New York (New York) among others. He has published several research and popular science articles on creativity, improvisation and the meeting points of art and science in education. He is the main developer of Write a Science Opera (WASO), which was the foundation for the Danish Education and Culture Ministries’ Springfrø prize for Creativity in Schools awarded to Opera i Midten (2016).

Oded has led WASO workshops at the Norwegian Opera (Oslo), the Flemish Opera (Antwerp) and the Louis Cruls Astronomy Club (Campos, Brazil) among others. He has a Masters Degree in Music Performance and Bachelor Degrees in Business Administration and Musicology.