- The document discusses several European Schoolnet (EUN) projects focused on STEM education, including Scientix, inGenious, and Go-Lab.
- Scientix is a community for science education in Europe that aims to improve science teaching and learning from primary through secondary school. It includes resources like an online portal and annual conferences.
- inGenious works to engage students in STEM careers through school-industry collaboration. It collects examples of such partnerships and evaluates their effectiveness.
- The document provides details on the goals, activities, and impact of these various EUN STEM initiatives in promoting science, technology, engineering, and math education across Europe.
STEM and European Schoolnet: Scientix, inGenious and Go-Lab
1. www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
STEM and European Schoolnet
Scientix, inGenious & Go-Lab
Dr. Àgueda Gras-Velázquez
European Schoolnet’s Science Programme Manager
27/01/2014
2. www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
European Schoolnet (EUN)
Promoting the use of ICT
and digital technologies
in the classroom
Promoting the European
dimension in schools
Improving the quality of
education in Europe
Network of
30 Ministries
of Education in Europe
Three areas of interest:
services to schools,
research and innovation,
sharing of learning resources
4. Scientix, the community for science
education in Europe
The work presented in this document is supported by the European
Commission’s FP7 programme – project Scientix 2 (Grant agreement N.
337250). The content of this document is the sole responsibility of the
consortium members and it does not represent the opinion of the European
Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might
be made of information contained herein.
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Scientix 2: 2013 - 2015
Conference 2014Portal
(disseminate projects)
Workshops
Scientix
observatory
Collaboration
between projects
National Contact
Points &
teachers’ panel
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Scientix 2: 2013 - 2015
Conference 2014Portal
(disseminate projects)
Workshops
Scientix
observatory
Collaboration
between projects
National Contact
Points &
teachers’ panel
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Projects: e.g. Creative little scientists
http://www.creative-little-scientists.eu/
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Translation on demand
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Scientix 2: 2013 - 2015
Conference 2014Portal
(disseminate projects)
Workshops
Scientix
observatory
Collaboration
between projects
National Contact
Points &
teachers’ panel
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Scientix European Conference
6-8 May 2011, Brussels
• Key note speech – Sir John Holman, UK
• Posters session
• 46 talks
• 2 Round tables
• 25 stands presenting EU funded projects
• 10 mini-workshops
• 379 participants from 37 countries
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Scientix 2 European Conference
24- 26 October 2014, Brussels
• Key note speech
• Posters session
• Talks
• Round tables
• 25 stands presenting EU funded projects
• Workshops
• BUT this time…
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Scientix 2 European Conference
24- 26 October 2014, Brussels
• Key note speech
• Posters session
• Talks
• Round tables
• 25 stands presenting EU funded projects
• Workshops
• BUT this time… 550 participants
• AND EUN will be covering:
• hotel accommodation for all
• 200 flights for teachers
http://scientix.eu
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Scientix 2: 2013 - 2015
Conference 2014Portal
(disseminate projects)
Workshops
Scientix
observatory
Collaboration
between projects
National Contact
Points &
teachers’ panel
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Online training…
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…and Scientix workshops
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Scientix workshops
32. Future Classroom
Lab
A flexible learning space to
experiment with different styles of
learning, facilitated by technology,
furniture and design.
A space to promote
discussion on
future learning
strategies with
teachers, students
and policy makers.
33. Six different zones
Supported by industry:
Microsoft, Acer, Panasonic, Promethean, Smart, Dymo-Mimio,
RM Education, Planet PC, Fourier
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http://scientix.eu
@scientix_eu
49. Ingenious is co-funded by the European Commission’s FP7
programme. The document reflects solely the views of its
authors. The European Commission is not liable for any use
that may be made of the information contained therein
50. ingenious-science.eu
• Most significant project ever funded by
European Commission FP7 Science in
Society programme targeting education
• € 8.3 M – 50% from EC funding
• Unique consortium due to:
• Career focus
• Industry engagement
inGenious
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Observatory of Practices: Sample
Total Number of
Collected Practices
152
Country Number of
Practices
Austria 3
Belgium 7
Czech Republic 3
Denmark 6
Estonia 2
Finland 4
France 29
Germany 9
Italy 4
Country Number of
Practices
Israel 7
Netherlands 36
Portugal 1
Romania 1
Spain 19
Sweden 12
Turkey 3
UK 2
USA 4
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I. Putting at schools disposal
resources to promote the
improvement of scientific or
technological knowledge potentially
related to the company (materials,
ambassadors, courses, etc.)
II. Establishing personal
communication of STEM
professionals with students
III. Giving accessibility of the company
premises to schools
IV.Engagement of STEM professionals
with students’ work
Percentage of practices belonging to the different
kinds of initiatives. The four different colours
correspond to the four categories of initiatives.
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
I II III IV
28.7 30.0 26.7 25.3
%
Categories
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School-industry collaborations
are especially addressed to
students’ engagement in the
study of STEM and also to
career information → Need to
promote personal characteristics
and interests.
Percentage of practices addressing the different factors
according the qualitative analysis of the facilitated open
descriptions
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
Factor A Factor B Factor C Factor D
66.0
60.8
40.5
57.5
Four factors influencing young people in the process of career
A. Students’ engagement in the study of STEM in school.
B. Information about careers and jobs in industry.
C. Awareness of whether the students’ characteristics and interests fit with
those required for STEM careers.
D. Social perception of the work related with STEM careers.
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The actions are mainly targeted to students from secondary
school → Need to foster the interest in STEM-related careers of
students from primary school.
Percentage of practices addressed to the different age-
group students.
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
17.0
26.1
56.2
65.4
14.4
7.8 8.5
%
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Most of the collected actions explain an evaluation process, but few
of them evaluate if the persecuted goals are effectively achieved
(instead, number of people attending actions and fitting between contents
and curriculum is often considered)
Existence of an evaluation process
Percentage of practices collected via the two surveys that involve an
evaluation process
0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0
Evaluation process
Non evaluation process
17.6
82.4
% of practices
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• Collecting practices / activities for schools from
industry
• Pilot schools – test + evaluate practices info
for new practices
• Workshops, academies, summer schools for
teachers
• Webinars / chats: experts answering questions
from students
• Online Communities of practice / discussions
• Dissemination / information on careers in
industry
• School – industry collaboration needs analysis
• Network of 2000 schools by end 2013, 5000
schools by end October
• Setting up of STEM National Platforms
http://ingenious-science.eu
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inGenious, now in its third year of activity is growing into a mature
network, with proven impact on student interest in STEM careers
and studies – a 20% increase in student interest is
demonstrated through the pilot activities.
Pilot with 180 teachers selected each year- test and evaluate
industry STEM education materials and activities -more than
12,000 pupils directly involved
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159 teachers, industry and government
stakeholders from 20 countries in Europe and
beyond convened in Istanbul at the end of August
for a summer school devoted to the future of STEM
education.
http://ingenious-science.eu/web/guest/summer-school
Thanks to Sabanci University
Istanbul August 2012
1st inGenious summer school
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171 teachers, industry and government stakeholders from 25 countries
in Europe and beyond convened in Barcelona at the end of August for a
summer school devoted to the future of STEM education (15 partners +
associate partners).
Thanks to
Fundació La
Caixa for the
organization
Barcelona August 2013
2nd inGenious summer school
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Cycle 3 face to face events
• workshops (~30 attendees)
• Copenhagen (30-31 Mar12) done (w/eSkills-week)
• Rotterdam (17-19 May12) done (w/Shell)
• Bratislava (23-25 Sep12) done (w/EUCYS&Intel)
• Tours (1-3 Mar13) done (w/STm)
• Brussels (17-19 May13) done (w/nanOpinion&eTw)
• Berlin (23-25 Sep13) done (w/EPCA)
• 2014:
•York (career counsellors)
• Brussels (finalists competition 1)
• Lisbon (most active teachers)
• academies (~80 attendees)
• Bad Hofgastein (19-21 Oct12) done
• Madrid (8-11 Mar13) done
• 2014: Stockholm (principals / head masters /
department heads)
• summer schools (~160 attendees)
• Istanbul (24-26 Aug12) done
• Barcelona (23-25 Aug13) done
• 2014: Split (22 – 24 Aug 2014)
• Over 1,200 teachers in
the pilot online
Community, and over
24,000 pupils reached
• 14 online communities
of practice for 350
educators to discuss
online with industry
experts
• 23 online webinars with
industry experts
reaching more than
9,200 pupils
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Besides working with
teachers…
• 20 national needs analysis workshops analysing national
facilitators and obstacles in school-industry cooperation in STEM
education
• 1 European level conference on industry – school collaboration
with ~100 participants (18th November 2013)
• 2 national platform workshops and national platform toolkit
(under preparation)
• Database of industry science education activities and policy
measures across EU publicly available online
• Publication of 6 research papers and more in preparation,
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About Go-Lab
What is Go-Lab:
The Go-Lab Project wants to provide teachers and students with access to scientific
instruments (remote & virtual laboratories) to help them, respectively, to enrich
their teaching and have a hands on experience on science. Go-Lab wants to provide
teachers with a federation of good quality laboratories to use within their
classrooms.
Main aim (s):
• Offer students the opportunity to perform personalized scientific experiments
with online labs
• Offer teachers the possibility to enrich their classroom activities with
demonstrations and access to on-line laboratories
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The need for a federation of online labs
A search on Google for
“conservation of momentum
lab” retrieves 2.000.000
resources!
Searching for educational materials and tools
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Teachers (planned)
– 1000 teachers
from 15
countries
– Over 4 years
– Participate in
the testing
– Contribute to
the
development
– Contribute to
the
distribution
http://www.go-lab-project.eu/
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European Schoolnet - Science Programme Manager // Scientix project manager
Àgueda Gras-Velázquez, European Schoolnet, Brussels, Belgium
(agueda.gras@eun.org)
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