STEM Education Centres – Europese call

Algemene doelstelling

Increasing an equal access to holistic quality STEM and STEAM education through community-based learning ecosystems while combining formal, nonformal and informal learning environments.

• Increasing students’ interest, motivation and achievement in STEM and STEAM, particularly among the underrepresented groups of learners such as female students, learners from low-income families and migrant backgrounds, as well as with disabilities.
• Raising teachers’ competences in effective STEM and STEAM teaching and learning approaches and addressing STEM teacher shortages.
• Strengthening cooperation between community actors to better respond to local/regional needs in STEM and STEAM education.
• Fostering exchange and mutual learning through transnational/regional cooperation between STEM and STEAM education stakeholders.

Waar gaat het over?

This topic would aim to support a gradual establishment and development of transnational collaborative partnerships and networks of STEM Education Centres to strengthen and/or build up local and regional STEM/STEAM learning ecosystems for educational innovation and social inclusion. Such ecosystems should respond to different cultural and educational contexts and varying, specific needs in each EU country, while building on existing structures and initiatives where available, or creating new ones.

The Centres should be guided by the community-based learning concepts such as:

• the whole school approach [1] or
• an open schooling [2]

and align with the latest advances in STEM fields e.g. linked to the green and digital transitions, based on research; they should promote a systemic approach in STEM and STEAM education, e.g. with aggregated pedagogical standards, monitoring of learning outcomes, and professional development of educators, going far beyond a simple provision of quality STEM and STEAM education teaching and learning.

Vanuit Stem22/Nebo is men voornemens een gezamenlijke aanvraag te schrijven (contact: Vincent Jonker, v.jonker [at] uu.nl).

Verwijzingen

• European policy experimentations, ERASMUS-EDU-2026-POL-EXP (pdf)