Raising STEAM in Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Raising STEAM in 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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Natural sciences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

KA2 “Raising STEAM in education” was an educational innovation aimed at facilitating learning difficult subjects such as natural Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Maths through Art by taking a more interdisciplinary and holistic approach and basing on the practical hands-on experience, experiment, learning by doing as well as enabling artistic expression. It included secondary schools from Poland, Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Slovakia. Each school recruited 12 students aged 15 – 18 years old, in Slovakia 16 (according to the Application Form). The Project gained acceptance and support of most of the pedagogical and teaching staff in the partner schools, but its coordination and implementation was mainly carried out by an international team of ca. 12 teachers. The STEAM Project promoted inclusive education through a bigger engagement of girls and students orientated at humanities and arts into learning natural sciences, as well as an increase in interest, understanding and popularization of art among students more eagerly learning natural sciences and engineering, and also at facilitating understanding of the principles of maths and development of mathematical skills. It developed key competences: cooperation and collaboration in an international environment, multiculturalism, team work, problem and conflict solving through negotiation, time management, digital and multimedia skills (ICT), making presentations in a foreign language in front of an international audience, tolerance and openness to otherness. The working language of the Project was English, that is why its participants improved their communication skills in everyday situations as well as expanded their topic vocabulary of the STEAM subjects (biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, geography, history, architecture, art) in English. Each partner school prepared a programme of their short-term international students’ exchange devoted to and exploring one of the STEM subjects and combined them with art. A big impact was put on the development of civic competences and European dimension in education through practical teaching about the cultural heritage and biodiversity of Europe with the use of works of art, achievements of engineering, distinguished scientists and artists and potential of the sites from the UNESCO World Heritage List available and connected with the Project partner countries. Thanks to the character of some of the Project results (multimedia presentations and videos) it enabled students to improve their digital skills – ICT tools, multimedia and learning applications were employed in interdisciplinary teaching of STEAM subjects and in artistic expression. The Project participants learnt responsibility for sustained development combining practical knowledge from biology, chemistry, physics, robotics, engineering with artistic expression. The Project helped better prepare students to function on the job market and increased their employability in the future, because apart from developing global competences it stressed the importance of versatile interests and skills – within the scope of different subjects the Project introduced interdisciplinary education and holistic approach to the contents taught. Among the teachers in partner schools the Project contributed to an increased interest in innovations in education and willingness to undertake new international cooperation initiatives, which led to striking up new Erasmus+ KA2 and eTwinning partnerships.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98895 Eur

Project Coordinator

VII Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Juliusza Slowackiego & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Gymnázium
• IMS Private School
• EPAL KALAMARIAS
• IIS GOBETTI MARCHESINI-CASALE – ARDUINO