European Commission includes EU STEM Coalition in new education plans! Read the full article via the link above.
TeachSTEM is an initiative developed under the ARTIFEX project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the EU. Its aim is to provide support and resources for STEM teachers to improve their practices and methodologies, further the specific STEM partnerships at schools and communities, and provide insights to policy makers with regard to the existing models and the challenges we all face in re-shaping our education and training systems and strengthening them with STEM-competences.
STEM is a very large field of work and exploration. With the ARTIFEX project and through the learning platform (see link above), the project attempts to help educators identify their personal strengths and weaknesses with regard to teaching STEM, and to assist them in improving their skills and competences by providing ready-to-use practical workshops. The learning platform offers the following components.
Not yet available.
All elements of the tool and project are freely available.
The project was co-funded by the European Union and developed by an international consortium of universities. For more information please visit the project website via the link above.
STEM@Home is digital learning platform coordinated by CSR Europe in cooperation with three major companies. The platform offers online materials and courses focused on STEM for students between 6-20 years old.
As students and teachers continue to navigate the challenges presented by COVID 19, the collaborative platform Together 4 STEM, coordinated by CSR Europe, has launched STEM@Home: a digital learning platform with a rich collection of free, multi-lingual courses on STEM. The platform’s partners Amgen, IBM, and Johnson & Johnson, currently offer resources in English, French, Italian and Spanish, and cover age groups from 6 to early 20s.
The materials will support students and teachers with easily accessible world-class resources. From “Elephant Toothpaste”, a course that helps explain chemical reactions to kids between the ages of 11 and 14 all the way through to “Gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9”, or “Cybersecurity Fundamentals”, teachers and students are one click away from building, developing and sharpening their STEM skills (see programme website for more information about the activities mentioned).
STEM@Home will continue to add new resources and expand beyond the pandemic to become a long-term reference point for digital education and effective remote learning.
No information regarding the project's impact is currently available.
The platform offers access to learning resources free of charge and aims to reach as many students and teachers as possible. The resources are currently in four languages (more language options will be added later).
The platform is directly funded by the participating companies.
In a recent web conference organised by Euractiv European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel (Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth) highlighted the importance of school-company partnerships in STEM to tackle societal challenges. In her speech she mentions the EU STEM Coalition as one of the key initiatives of the European Commission. The full conference can be viewed via the link above.
Meet and Code invites local nonprofits across Europe to apply for micro-grants to organize events that foster interest in and access to digital skills among young Europeans. The aim of Meet and Code is to help build a world in which every young European has the digital skills required to shape their own future. Behind Meet and Code are the founding partners SAP, Haus des Stiftens gGmbH, TechSoup Europe with the respective country partners of the TechSoup Europe network. In 2020, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI) joined as a European partner. Meet and Code 2020 is made possible through financial support of SAP and BMI, while Haus des Stiftens gGmbH is responsible for the initiative.
Meet and Code invites local nonprofits across Europe to apply for micro-grants to organize events that foster interest in and access to digital skills among young Europeans. The aim of Meet and Code is to help build a world in which every young European has the digital skills required to shape their own future. It was co-created by SAP and Haus des Stiftens gGmbH in Munich, which coordinates the grant-giving process, along with the TechSoup Europe network partners. The initiative is aligned with the EU Code Week and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
THe Meet and Code Award presents and honors the most successful event ideas. The goal is to award the most creative and innovative event ideas used by nonprofits to get youngsters excited about coding. The five categories of the Meet and Code Award 2020 are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Winners of each category will receive 2000 euro prize money.
The following 35 countries are eligible for grants from the programme: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
THe aim of Meet and Code is to help build a world in which every young European has the digital skills required to shape their own future. Since it's launch the programme sponsored over 3000 coding events.
During the last 3 years, more than 138 000 young people took part in the programme. For more information, please check the programme website via the link above.
Nonprofits from 35 countries can apply online until September 10, 2020. Each approved event idea will receive a grant of up to 500 euros. Meet and Code was co-created by SAP and Haus des Stiftens gGmbH in Munich, which coordinates the grant-giving process, along with the TechSoup Europe network partners.