STEAM education develops in 21st Century Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

STEAM education develops in 21st Century Schools

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The whole economy of modern societies rotates directly or indirectly around the STEM disciplines, so it is impossible to find a part of society that somehow does not interact with them: in fact, in its broader definition STEM Education includes the fields of information technology, engineering, earth sciences, science, mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, life sciences.
According to EU estimates, employment in the STEM professions is expected to grow nearly twice as fast as the average for other jobs, and it is estimated that by 2025 there will be a shortage of more than half a million workers in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
Furthermore, it should be noted that among the most frequent causes of school dropout there are the failures that students experience in learning mathematical and technological-scientific disciplines; students who leave school prematurely find themselves with low basic skills that affect their employability.
In line with the specific objectives of the Erasmus + program, the proposal aims to
– promote the acquisition of specific skills and the strengthening of the professional skills of the teachers of the schools directly and indirectly involved in the project
– inducing the teachers involved in the attention of the ongoing changes in the STEM sector by promoting the culture of lifelong learning and supporting them in learning through self-empowerment, both content and methodological, which allows them to face the growing diversity of learners and pedagogical innovations
– support the development of the basic and transversal skills of the learners of their vocational training, i.e. oriented towards the labour market
– support dissemination and systematic actions of open and innovative teaching methods
– to stimulate the permeability between different sectors of education and training
– improve the quality, innovation and internationalization of school education and training through transnational cooperation

During the joint training events (Learning/Training/Teaching Activities) the hosting organizations will prepare each one a program on a different activity that involves the use of STEM education, using teaching techniques and methodologies such as flipped classroom, use of ICT useful for integration purposes also in other school disciplines.
This training will have an even wider impact than on direct beneficiaries: to benefit from it will be all the staff and the student body of the institutions involved which, hosting the training events, will open the whole institute to the exchange of good practices and a positive contamination among the participants. Furthermore, the parents of the students will also be directly involved in some of the proposed activities.
Thanks to the exchanges students will have the opportunity to interact with people and peers of different language and culture, to compare their respective contexts of life in person, in order to:
· Take a cue for the subsequent planning activities and be aware of the conditions of planning and urban life
· Develop the language skills related to the Italian and French languages, and of the other vehicular language, English, which will be used by students and teachers to communicate
· Develop transversal skills, such as the ability to relate and compare in a different cultural and social context, the capacity for dynamism, entrepreneurship and adaptation to various situations, intercultural awareness and European citizenship.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197665 Eur

Project Coordinator

GO! Atheneum Geraardsbergen & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Klaipeda Baltija gymnasium
• ULAMIS ORTAOKULU
• Agrupamento de Escolas Eduardo Gageiro
• Polo Liceale Statale “R. Mattioli”
• Colegiul National Nicu Gane