Let’s STEM it! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s STEM it!

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The ”LET’S STEM IT” partnership has been conceived against the background of the current crisis and the lack of growth and youth’s unemployment that have been upsetting strongly Europe’s society in the last 5 years. Education is therefore called to respond to the urgent need of highly skilled engineers and technologists and labor supply must match demand as recognizsed in the Flagship initiative “An Agenda for new skills and jobs” in the EUROPE 2020 strategy of the EC.

The General objective of the LET’S STEM IT project is to guide increasing Europeans’ interest and skills in STEM and to provide the schools with the necessary tools in order to engage their students, teachers and other actors, in related activities.

The project aims to develop teachers’ and educators’ competences – especially integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) teaching skills, based on collaborative problem-solving (CPS) – sharing experiences among countries involved in the project (the project was compatible with PISA 2016 aims to evaluate students’ performance in mathematics, science and financial literacy; performance in problem-solving and reading).

Specific Objectives of the project:
-Offer teachers collaboration in creating innovative STEM school curricula
-Contribute to developing and implementing innovative STEM education in order to enhance the quality of science teaching and learning
–to develop teachers’ and educators’ integrated teaching skills, based on collaborative STEM education.
-Develop a student-centered approach to STEM education, facilitating inquiry-based teaching, collaboration and active learning.
–To explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment of students achievements
–To guide teachers and educators, how to motivate children and inspire their passion for discovery and learning
–To share experience of good practice on increasing students’ interest in STEM and technical creativity; developing students’ skills of logical and critical thinking

The ”LET’S STEM IT” project is focused on the fact that the level of employability, competitiveness and wealth of our society will depend on the ideas and skills of its population. These have always been the EU’s most important assets. As the world becomes increasingly technological, the value of these national assets will be determined in no small measure by the effectiveness of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the EU. STEM education will determine whether Europe will be able to solve immense challenges in such areas as energy, health, environmental protection, and national security. It will generate the scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians who will create the new ideas, new products, and entirely new industries of the 21st century.

The target group of the project – teachers and educators, who are not afraid of challenges and are seeking quality of teaching and learning and higher learning achievements of students in STEM education, are open-minded, communicative and collaborative, and are ready to provide meaningful learning experiences for 21st-century students. Participants will be science, mathematics, ICT, technology and design teachers from schools and directorate of educations(local authorities) and academics and lecturers from partner universities. Our main target group are teachers, of course also pupils, but also, school Principals, Policymakers, STEMcenters, parents, other institutions related to the school education.

The Final beneficiriars will be the students who will carry Europe further.
The main activities will undertaken:
– 5 short-term joint staff training events
– 2 Trans-national project meetings
– Seminars
-Local Trainings
-Dissemination
-E-conferance

Methodology to be used in carrying out the project: The training comprises 8 hours of lectures and demonstrations and 15 hours of hands-on workshops. These sessions will be framed with field trips and hands-on outdoor activities that will regard innovative ways for creating links between schools, research centres and non-formal learning settings. Careful analysis of the present situation in terms of attractiveness of the STEM disciplines in the concerned partners at all levels of school education. This includes a collection of data, Inquiry-based learning, short-term joint training events within the involved corporate.

Potential longer term benefits include the skills acquired by the students such as critical thinking and ICT skills will make them more employable in STEM related areas in the future. Innovative teaching resources created during the project will be available online after the project is finished for use by other teachers. LET’S STEM IT project will strengthen European integration by increasing cooperation across different institutions, and by bringing together different cultures. It will also promote the idea of European citizenship and the extended local community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 259920 Eur

Project Coordinator

Antalya Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Juhan Liivi nim Alatskivi Kool
• Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
• duraliler ortaokulu
• Pamukkale Universitesi
• REZEKNE CITY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
• Yenikoy Ortaokulu
• Peipsiääre Vallavalitsus