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The SEER seminar 1

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SEER
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International
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The First STE(A)M Education European Roadmap Seminar confirms: STE(A)M is the future of Education!

On 27 March 2024, the Horizon Europe funded project STE(A)M Education European Roadmap (“the SEER”) held its first public seminar to present the results of the first half of the project to broad audiences of teachers, educators and other stakeholders interested in joining the conversation on the value of STE(A)M practices. The SEER seminar was organised with the support of Scientix, the community for science education in Europe.

During this interactive online event, the SEER team showcased the results of the project to date while opening a conversation with practitioners and key education stakeholders on the diversity of STE(A)M approaches, the availability and accessibility of STE(A)M education resources and continuous professional development opportunities for teachers. 

STE(A)M education is an innovative pedagogy, where Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics are integrated with "ALL” the other subjects in the curriculum to create engaging and contextualised learning experiences for all students. This wide and encompassing definition in turn can create confusion for practitioners, who can struggle with identifying the adequate approaches and resources to fit their needs in the classroom. 

To connect the multiple approaches to STE(A)M education, the SEER invited guest speakers from other STE(A)M Roadmap initiatives, RoadSTEAMER and Sense., who collaborate with the SEER on the STE(A)M Atlas, a joint initiative for the mainstreaming of STE(A)M in Europe. These guest speakers offered additional perspectives on STE(A)M teaching and learning, which combined with the SEER provided the audience with a cohesive view of the journey ahead to mainstreaming STE(A)M education in Europe. 

The seminar, which was open to all, saw the participation of various types of stakeholders, including teachers, educational science professionals and researchers, teachers in training, and coordinators of national STE(A)M programs. The rich variety of participants led to essential discussions about the usefulness of STE(A)M as a pedagogical approach to enable a contextualised and experiential science education, breaking the silos of traditional subject-based education.

In simple words, the message from participants was loud and clear: STE(A)M is the way of the future but implementing it remains a challenge for practitioners. Indeed, educators need to be supported through policy changes, resources and continuous professional development offers, and a paradigm shift in schools that would make STE(A)M a core component of the curriculum in European countries. 

This seminar, beyond consolidating and validating the past work of the SEER, also paved the way for the project’s future activities and confirmed that the SEER roadmap will be a key tool in making STE(A)M teaching and learning a reality in European schools.

Watch the recording of the Seminar: https://bit.ly/see-seminar1

STEMLab

Center for Education and Innovative Learning - STEMLab was registered in 16 May 2018. It is a non-governmental organization that consists of educators, primary and secondary school teachers, university professors, advisers, former higher education accreditation board member and teacher trainers from Republic of North Macedonia and abroad. They have experience in working in different environments with cultural diversity, different age groups and different languages, people with different professions and life-long experience. Our institution is continuously communicating and collaborating with primary and secondary school teachers, municipalities, faculties, NGO and other institutions of social importance. Our programs consist of organizing courses, tribunes, lectures, seminars and conferences on topics in the field of STEM education for students, teachers and other educators from the Republic of North Macedonia and abroad. Moreover, our focus is also in realizing joint projects with the NGO, educational policymakers, governmental sector, companies, student families, public institutions and realization of international cooperation in order to provide and ensure input for quality education at the national level. Our determination is to build a center that, in line with current trends, will provide curricula, programs, and educational tools appropriate to the 21st-century education requirements in STEM profiles, at all levels of education.

University Kadri Zeka, Gjilan

University Kadri Zeka (acronym: UKZ) is a public university that was established by the Government of Kosovo on March 6, 2013. UKZ organizes studies at two levels, Bachelor and Master: There are seven Bachelor and six Master programs. Our university has about 3,500 students. UKZ fosters  the cultivation of critical thinking and the spirit of knowledge for new research. Responsibilities and those new technologies make responsible young people capable of being part of a virtual and global society as well as part of an open labor market.

The teaching process is organized into five faculties: education, economics, law, computer science, and applied sciences. From the social aspect, it is based on several pillars, such as education and knowledge; modern society and fair competition; modern labor markets; and critical, investigative, and active thinking. 

The University of Mostar

University of Mostar (SUM) is a higher education institution, which organizes and performs university studies, scientific and professional work. It is one of eight public Universities in B&H and the only one where Croatian is used as the official language. It consists of 10 faculties and the Academy of Fine Arts. Today, over 11000 students study at the University of Mostar. The educational process is conducted through 70 study groups at the undergraduate and 77 groups at the graduate and postgraduate level, with 1000 teachers. The University’s mission is best reflected through three basic features:

Education - based on excellence, which through the teaching and research process focuses on students in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies, preparing them to be highly professional, self-motivating and productive experts in both their existing and future activities.

Scientific-research work - based on excellence and integrated in the education process at all levels in order to train new generations of researchers capable of operating and accomplishing in the international research market. The development of the community - due to educational, artistic and scientific research work, the University is the main agitator of the overall economic, cultural and social development both in the region in which it operates and at the national and international level; through its activities, the University promotes the preservation and promotion of the historical and cultural legacy of our community on regional, national and international level.

STEAM+ Albania

"STEAM+Albania" is a comprehensive national system of functionalities of "Barleti" University which aims to strengthen and develop the creativity of pupils, students and professionals through encouragement, incentive and motivation, to integrate the component sciences of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics), in the realization of various applied and scientific projects in function of inventions, innovation, high scholastic and professional achievements. All while also providing solutions to the most frequent problems of daily life and comprehensive global developments.

STEAM+Albania is based in 3 important key components: 1. STEAM+ALBANIA Program – Curriculum, training, implemented practical models, capacity building for all STEAM target groups, realization of lessons based on STEAM, contests, competitions, promotional campaigns, etc. 2. National STEAM Center (Steam Fab Lab+ Maker Space) physical environment for support for all categories and target groups of STEAM such as pupils, students, teachers, schools, parents, community, professionals. 3. STEAM+ ALBANIA platform as a 360° information resource center for STEAM. VISION.

Our vision is to shape STEAM education policies and practices that foster economic growth, opportunity, and well-being for all. We work to promote modern and new ways of teaching and learning based on STEAM. We want to encourage thinking differently and nurture learning with a comprehensive system of functionalities in an environment that fosters the opportunity for success. Our mission is to provide them with whatever knowledge and skills they will need in their careers to become independent thinkers and communicators who apply critical theory and creative design to collaboratively solve important issues through integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/Humanities and Mathematics.

EU STEM Coalition Newsletter, June 2023

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EU STEM Coalition
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International
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This newsletter contains the following articles:

- Best practice examples 

- Welcome to the SEER network

- Report on round table on missing STEM data in Europe

- Program mapping on MINT-Pro²Digi

- The CoVE selection from 2022

- Three new members join the EU STEM Coalition

 

 

The SEER Network

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The STE(A)M Education European Roadmap is proud to announce the creation of the SEER
Network, that gathers leading and pioneering STE(A)M Education stakeholders, teacher training
institutions, STEM industry representatives, and educational research organisations.
By taking part in the SEER exchange activities during the duration of the project, the members of
the SEER Network will work together to produce state of art knowledge on STE(A)M education,
collect pedagogical resources for teachers and schools, and collaborate to build the foundations
of the SEER Roadmaps.
The members of the SEER Network will participate in focus groups, seminars, and other exploratory
activities to discuss, share, and identify challenges and opportunities that will pave the way toward
a STE(A)M future for all European students and schools.

Description and objectives: 

The members of the SEER Network will work together to produce state of art knowledge on STE(A)M education,
collect pedagogical resources for teachers and schools, and collaborate to build the foundations
of the SEER Roadmaps.

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The STE(A)M Education European Roadmap
Impact: 

The impact has not yet been realized.

Reach: 

The SEER Network includes the EU STEM Coalition, the SEER consortium, and the STEM Alliance. 

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Not relevant. 

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2023
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CoVE Selection from 2022

Source / author: 
Matthew Coates
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International
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This is a description of the CoVE selection from the 2022 application period. It describes three of the CoVEs from this years selection, and provides a link to a source which contains descriptions of all of them. 

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