It’s a matter of STEM Erasmus Project

Project Title

It’s a matter of STEM

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

According to the European Commission, around six million young people drop out of school each year – about 14% of all pupils. On the other hand, improving the attractiveness of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) to young people is crucial to generate a more skilled workforce in the EU. Encouraging young people to consider a career in STEM related occupations, pursuing higher levels of study and acquiring technical skills through effective teaching and learning
are important elements of any strategy aimed at addressing skills needs. Skills in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) are becoming an increasingly important part of basic literacy in today’s knowledge economy.

The level of development of countries is consistent with the number of individuals who are qualified in science and technology. In the future , societies can meet their needs and they can cope with challenges only through the progress made in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) and with qualified human resources in these fields. Number of reports on science education indicated that;
•In many EU countries, unlike the number of young people entering universities is increasing, studying in scientific field is decreasing.
•Students often describe “science is interesting”, despite their positive attitude; they do not like learning science at school.
•Number of students lack basic skills in science.

To keep Europe growing, we will need one million additional researchers, technologists and mathematicians in applied science by 2020 (European 2020 Initiative). This quotation from the EUN Schoolnet webpage could be the perfect motto for our project. The creativity of the international teams, sharing of own and mutual values, each school’s own work in the field of STEM, mutual offline and online meetings together with development of digital content – all of these skills in one project creates a fantastic challenge not onlyfor students but also for teachers.

The main aim of the project is to make science and math education more relevant and meaningful for our students in the ways of respect, beliefs and cultural diversity.

There will be 5 LTT activities.There will be 7 students and 2 accompanying person for C1,C2 and C4.But for spanish coordinator school 5 students and 1 accompanying person because of long distance KM budget.There will be 5 students and 1 accompanying for C3(IT) and C5(ES) activities from each institution.It will be students centered. There will be equality for participation of the participants. There will be selection criteria and these students will be selected who are interested in stem and has good level of english.Number of participants includes: students of groups 12-15 years, teachers, parents, school communities and other guests. Their roles will be given in specific time. Students will be involved in the international teams as well as teachers.

The objectives of the Project:
-develop key competences and basic skills on STEM education
-increase science literacy and student interest in STEM
-improve attitudes toward STEM fields and careers
-acquire 21st century skills; critical thinking&problem solving; collaboration across network and leading by influence; agility and adaptability; initiative and entrepreneurship;effective oral and written communication; accessing and analyzing information; curiosity and imagination.
-engage and support girls in STEM fields
-enrich skills with specific reference to STEM
-develop creativity,innovation,entrepreneurship
-improve the attractivity of,attainment in,and lifelong relationship with, science and technology for adults and students
-implement the innovative pedagogy in school and out-of-school contexts at European level and create a Europe-wide community of practice of institutions
-to improve generic skills of students,including digital and language.
-increase the use of ICT in schools through virtual learning for students and pedagogical support for teachers
-the learning of science and technology as a basis for the gateway to employment and social inclusion.

A pedagogy we use encourages creativity, vision, cooperation and collaboration in every student and teacher. Project-based, child-directed learning and also peer- learning methods are used in the Project.The methodology will be both qualitative and quantitative to assess the activities and overall project success.

The long term benefits include the addressing of skill shortages through influencing and encouraging young people to choose these careers,the addressing of worklessness and dropout by improved teaching resources and a more appealing curriculum and the development of national and European strategies through learning and sharing good practice.

The project takes an important role to engage children in science activities with minds, hands, heart and it encourages them for future career in STEM fields. Also science as a subject, clears boundaries in our minds.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150951 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto Secular “Hijas de la Natividad de María” – CPR Nuestra Sra del Carmen & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Liceul Sanitar ANTIM IVIREANU Rm. Valcea
• Istituto Comprensivo “Francesco Crispi”
• duraliler ortaokulu
• ZESPOL SZOL W JANKOWIE PIERWSZYM