Euro-Asia Collaboration for Enhancing STEM Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Euro-Asia Collaboration for Enhancing STEM Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Bridging the skills gap for graduates is a key challenge globally and has a detrimental effect on both individual employability, local, national and regional growth and development. Both the EU and ASEAN are putting significant resources towards addressing the issue. Partner institutions have expressed a need for the activities planned in this project. In spite of the focus on development of professional skills development for employability in recent years nationally, regionally and locally (including several EU funded projects), the penetration rate remains low, particularly in STEM education.EASTEM will facilitate employability of STEM gradutes and enhance the quality of STEM education by bridging the skills gap through student centered competence development approaches, increase visibility and sustainability for institutional STEM education activities through the creation of 10 STEM Education centers and a sustainable STEM Education network. The project will also facilitate competence orientation of educational programs and increase university industry engagement Staff development in cascade format is used to address lecturer and student competence development. Sharing of good practices provide collaborative insights into partner institution contexts. All major teaching and learning materials will be made available in four languages (English, Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese)Outputs includeChange in attitude (Lecturers, students, institution)Inclusion of industry-based problems in teaching, Asian staff development sessions in student centered competence developmentAsian partners having developed and lead student focused test bed moduleFunctioning centers of Excellence in STEM education Increased visibility of STEM educationActive engagement with industry partnersAS partners staff development sessions for external partnersnational/international network of STEM Education centersUniversity strategy plans updated with focus on competence development

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999000 Eur

Project Coordinator

UPPSALA UNIVERSITET & Country: SE

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAS UDAYANA
• PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY
• YAYASAN DEL
• MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY
• HUE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE
• INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI BANDUNG
• TRUONG DAI HOC SU PHAM KY THUAT THANH PHO HO CHI MINH