MINTvernetzt is a nationwide umbrella organisation for German STEM education that caters to the STEM-educator community in Germany as a service and contact point. MINTvernetzt is part of the 'MINT Actionsplan' (STEM Action Plan) of the Federal Ministry of Education in Germany. 

The main objectives of MINTvernetzt is to support STEM educators by providing:

• networking spaces,
• knowledge transfer activities 
• inspiration and incentive for innovation topics 
• addressing broader and more diverse target groups in the process with a focus on girls and young women

In response to the diverse and heterogeneous landscape of learning sites, initiatives, actors and networks for STEM education, the MINTvernetzt-initiative aims to:

• Create a digital STEM platform to create direct access to and among all stakeholders concentrated on a digital platform
• Build an autonomous STEM community for networking, knowledge sharing, and strengthening purposes
• Help to amplify the impact as well as the degree of self-professionalization among our stakeholders
• Showcase best practice projects
• Improve the integration of in-school and extracurricular STEM education
• Promote the transfer of expertise from educational research to practitioners.
• To support stakeholders in disadvantaged regions to foster an equitable geographical distribution of STEM education opportunities
• Increase the number of STEM professionals and increase the proportion of women in these professions

Teknikcollege is Sweden’s largest collaborative platform for the supply of expertise in the industrial sector. By encouraging companies, municipalities, and educational institutions to collaborate, it creates a match between education and the job market, with a common goal: The growth of tech industry through a highly qualified labor force.

Education via Teknikcollege is quality assured, based on eight criteria. The companies in a certified Teknikcollege region play a key role in shaping the structure of the courses as well as designing their actual content. In each Teknikcollege region there is a regional steering group, as well as local steering groups. Most members in these steering groups come from the technology industry. By basing it’s courses on the criteria of the companies themselves, providers of education ensure the quality of technical training at upper secondary and post-secondary levels.

At the national level, there are several organizations that work with STEM, of which Teknikcollege is the largest with 3000 companies, 180 municipalities, 150 education providers and 20 000 students.