Pune: Goethe Institut launches unique language e-learning platform to instil love for science

PUNE: The Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan on Sunday launched an e-learning programme called Kinderuni Marathi to instil interest for science among children through Marathi language as well as facilitate learning of German language in a playful way.
The institute aims to give children lessons in various topics such as humankind, nature and technology in an easy and simple manner and it will be available for free of cost.
The programme was inaugurated on Sunday in the presence of Tejasvi Vartak, the deputy director and head of language department and examinations of Goethe Insitut, Andrea Walter, the South Asia regional head of the project PASCH, Vaishali Dabke, the project coordinator, and Jayashree Joshi of the Institut of Mumbai.
Ten Marathi schools from Pune, including one from Bhor tehsil and the other from Gorhe Budruk village, participated in the programme. Various activities such as Taster lessons of Kinderuni, science workshops, reading of science stories in Marathi and quizzes were organised for them.