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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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links between STEM education and careers, by
involving schools throughout Europe.
With the support of major industries and private
partners, the STEM Alliance for inGenious Education
and Industry activities promote STEM jobs in all
industrial sectors and contribute to build a STEM-
skilled workforce. The STEM Alliance will join forces
to improve and promote existing industry-education
STEM initiatives (at national, European and global
levels) and contribute to innovation in STEM
teaching at all levels of education.
This year, STEM Alliance and Scientix
http://www.scientix.eu/ organized STEM Discovery
Week competition, which was dedicated to all kinds
of activities in STEM education across Europe. STEM
Alliance awarded 17 teachers who supported and
organised activities in the frame of the STEM
Discovery Week 2018 campaign. A pedagogical
expert reviewed all submitted activities and the
organisers of selected activities were invited to
attend the 23rd Science Projects Workshop at the
Future Classroom Lab (SPW23), held in Brussels,
Belgium, from 22 to 24 June 2018. This workshop
was co-organised with the Scientix project.
The selection criteria were the following:
- the successful use of two existing STEM Alliance
schemes – Professionals Go Back to School and
Teacher Placement;
- the use of STEM role models and career
aspirations;
- focus on gender equality (female role models,
initiatives of industry partners focused on
involvement of girls in choosing STEM careers).
The STEM Alliance
http://www.stemalliance.eu/home– inGenious
Education and industry, brings together Industries,
Ministries of Education and education stakeholders
to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and
Maths education and careers to young European's
and address anticipated future skills gaps within the
European Union.
The STEM Alliance builds on the success of the
inGenious initiative (2011-2014) to increase the
The activity held in “Nicolae Orghidan” School
Brasov, Romania was among the winners: from
26th and 30th of March an event dedicated to STEM
education was organized for young students – aged
10. For five days, the students visited companies,
met engineers, doctors or scientists, made
experiments discovered on Scientix Resources and
created posters.
http://www.scientix.eu/documents/10137/750126/
41-23rdSPWFCL_Cornelia_Melcu.pdf/38d01b14-
bd76-493c-89ba-bf05e9335e99
STEMAlliance winners, 2018
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