After one year of preparation we managed it: MathCityMap is the heart of the Strategic Partnership MoMaTrE. MoMaTrE is an acronym for Mobile Math Trails in Europe. The working group MATIS I led the application for this Erasmus + project. Currently, seven institutions from five countries are participating:
- Goethe University, Frankfurt
- Univerzita Konstantina Filozofa, Nitra, Slovakia
- Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
- Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal
- Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Porto, Portugal
- Autentek GmbH, Berlin (software company)
- Federación Española de Sociedades de Profesores de Matemáticas, Santander, Spain
Within the next three years, the project has the following aims
- Spread of mobile Math Trails across Europe
- Further development of MathCityMap (including Gamification, mobile authoring tools, new task formats, educational Math Trail features)
- Database for generic Tasks
- Development and implementation of (international) training modules (shortterm curriculum)
- Development and implementation of accredited seminars on outdoor mathematics (longterm curriculum)
- Explore the use of mobile math trails and present the results at congresses and publications
Apart from the contentual reasons, the many supporting letters of our associate partners were responsible for the award. For example, we were able to convince the MNU, the Media Office of the DMV, Mathe im Leben, the DZLM, and the Stiftung Rechnen. From France are supported by the IREM, from Spain the Royal Spanish Society of Mathematics, from Portugal the Mathematicial Society as well as the Mathematics Teaching Association, and from Slovakia the Association of Slovak mathematicians and physicists.