A.R.T.E.M.I.S. Erasmus Project

Project Title

A.R.T.E.M.I.S.

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Natural sciences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The main goal of the project implemented by the Finnish school Hyvinkään Sveitsin lukio, the Turkish school Trabzon Fen Lisesi and the Polish school Zespół Szkół Da Vinci, which was also the project coordinator, was to familiarize students and teachers with the STEM methodology and to introduce innovative teaching methods in each school that would combine teaching of natural and mathematical sciences as a common paradigm based on the problems of the modern world, and not as separate school subjects. For this purpose, during the project implementation, we conducted a number of workshops, classes, smaller projects and challenges that helped to understand that school knowledge should be treated holistically. Our goal was also to develop 21st century skills among project participants, i.e. developing critical and analytical thinking, creativity, digital skills, teamwork, communication in an international team and leadership skills. Thanks to a very broad perspective and the diversification of activities carried out by the project participants for 30 months, we showed what employment opportunities are offered by the STEM area, what professions can be performed under this methodology, and we tried to convince participants that it is also a discipline for girls and not how it is widely believed that STEM is the most successful discipline of men.
All activities carried out under the project concerned such STEM areas as: robotics, natural and mathematical sciences, software, mobile applications, programming and coding, nanotechnologies, natural language processing.
Thanks to the project, the participants:
– participated in cyclical STEM classes in each school – some of these classes were carried out together, others separately due to the specificity of the curricula and lesson plan,
– participants had the opportunity to participate in 2 two-week STEM challenges – these activities were open to participants who took part directly in the project and other students who could prove themselves in the STEM discipline,
– students from the partner school Trabzon Fen Lisesi built the ARTEMIS project application,
– during the project, we conducted 5 project webinars, which were available to all interested students and teachers and concerned the use of STEM in school teaching, computer science and the phenomenon-based learning methodology widely used in the Finnish education system.
Students aged 15-18 who were successfully recruited into the project were directly involved in the project, while most of the project activities were open to all students and teachers.
As part of the project, we managed to implement one learning and teaching activity – mobility at the school of the project coordinator, which took place in May 2019. During this mobility, students had the opportunity to work in international teams by solving the Marshmallow Challenge task, designing a logo using the Design Thinking method, participating in coding and programming workshops, workshops on Industrial Design – Explosions about materials and their processing technology, visiting Imaginarium – Virtual Reality Center and by participating in the HackingSTEM workshops and building a model of the human hand.
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic prevented us from organizing the remaining learning and teaching activities, but did not prevent the achievement of the project’s objectives – all webinars and activities were held mainly online. We managed to achieve our project goals, meetings and activities took place online – either synchronously or asynchronously to allow even more participants to participate.
We were also able to collect all the materials, activities, webinars, projects and other activities related to the project in the digital repository, which we made available to all interested people – both students and teachers from outside our schools, to show good practices and encourage a change in the perception of teaching of natural and mathematical sciences.
In Zespol Szkol Da Vicni, a STEAM profile for high school students was created, which is very popular, while in partner schools modular classes on the STEM methodology were regularly organized, which were included in the work plan of both schools. Many teachers took part in project webinars, gained new skills and knowledge about conducting STEM classes, which they will use in the future. Thanks to the involvement of teachers and students, we will continue to cooperate as partner schools in the field of STEM, exchange experiences and good practices, and enable students to meet in virtual platforms.

Project Website

http://bit.ly/ARTEMIS_2021

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 40424,92 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Da Vinci & Country: PL

Project Partners

• FURNESS ACADEMIES TRUST
• Hyvinkään Sveitsin lukio
• TRABZON FEN LISESI