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🆕✅ The "European Charter for STE(A)M Education" is finally ready!
https://in2steam.eu/media/in2steam-io4-european-charter-en.pdf

The document is directed to educational stakeholders and policy makers, with reccomendations on how to provide a 21st century education strategy targeted to educational institutions, in order to promote synergies between science, creativity and innovation, and to support the sustainability of STE(A)M learning at primary schools.

The "European Charter" is supported by:
➡️📝 the "Impact Report" with case studies related to the piloting of the STE(A)M Labs in schools;
➡️📝 the "Behavioural Assessment Model (BAM)" with guidelines on how to effectively measure behavioral change in pupils (in particular in girls) in primary school using the project's tested approach towards STE(A)M.

📌 Visit https://in2steam.eu/outputs/ to find all the resources of IN2STEAM.

On the 7th of June 2022 the IN2STEAM partner 4-elements organised the multiplier event "Science Day" in Greece, with a focus on “Promoting girls’ participation in STEAM activities: applications in the Greek educational system”.
During the event, participants had the opportunity to discuss about the opportunities and challenges of an inclusive education and to share feedback on the "European Charter for STE(A)M education".

Before the summer vacation, the partner Danmar Computers organised the multiplier event “Science Day” which took place on the 28th of July 2022 in Rzeszów, Poland.

The objective of the event was to promote IN2STEAM project's tools and results (https://in2steam.eu/outputs/) among representatives from the primary education field as well as government and NGO organisations and private stakeholders.

Participants took part in a discussion on how to promote a positive change of attitudes towards non–stereotyping choices in education, in order to attract more girls into STEM fields: the conclusions from the discussion were interesting and enriching.

How to involve more in careers? Discover the methodologies and tools developed by In2steam ⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://cesie.org/en/school/final-meeting-exchanging-good-practices-in2steam/

The final meeting of IN2STEAM as an occasion of exchanging good practices among partners On July 26 and 27, 2022, IN2STEAM partners gathered in Palermo for the final project meeting to review the goals achieved over the past years.

☑️✍️PROBLEM BASED LEARNING replicates real life scenarios and develops skills across a range of subjects.

📌 Teachers and educators in classroom can use this approach to enhance the learning of STEMs, focusing on:

- Formulate a problem statement
- Identify key factors
- Brainstorm
- Analysis of potential solution

This process lead to the acquisition of new knowledge and the formulation of a solution to the problem statement by the students.

✔️To discover more about this approach, take a look at the video realised by the IN2STE(A)M turkish partner DOGA School.
➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnAahIaISQ4


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📆📌The 28th of July 2022 CESIE organised a meeting with different stakeholders (at Al Fresco giardino e bistrot venue in Palermo): it was an occasion to share the IN2STE(A)M results, to promote the educational resources developed and the best practices carried out within the project, highlighting the socio-emotional skills and their role in the STE(A)M education.

🔜 IN2STE(A)M partners are working on the final document, the “European Charter for STE(A)M Education” which will be published soon here ➡️ : https://in2steam.eu/outputs/

Stay tuned!

📌📆 The 26-27th July 2022, the IN2STEAM project consortium gathered in presence in Palermo, at CESIE's venue, for the final meeting of the project.

🗣 📝 The partners discussed about:

- the milestones reached throughout the project lifetime;
- the different goals achieved through the development and sharing of the project's resources with the targets (students, teachers and school stakeholders);
- the experiences in promoting the IN2STE(A)M approach in the countries involved in the project;
- the finalisation of the European Charter with the reccommendations directed to educational stakeholders and policy makers on how to engage more girls in STEM's careers;
- the Sustainablity of the project in order to promote and sustain the project resouces beyond its lifetime;
- the actions to maximise the potential of the project's tools and to optimize the result’s value in order to strengthen their impact;
- plans for collaboration to extend IN2STE(A)M project in the future.

As soon as the European Charter is finalised it will be published on the website: www.in2steam.eu


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The 27th May 2022 INOVA+ organised the "Science Day" in Portugal to present the results of the implementation of the IN2STEAM Labs in schools and to share the project's resources among teachers, students and other stakeholders.


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On April 9th 2022, CARDET organised a 2-hrs f2f workshop to promote the IN2STEAM project. The workshop was part of the 1st E2STEAM festival (https://www.unic.ac.cy/el/1o-festival-e2steam-kyproy/) organised by the University of Nicosia (private university in Cyprus) and the Υouth board of Cyprus.

The aim of the initiative was to equip citizens with skills related to Environment and Sustainable Development, Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (E2STEAM).

The participants of the event discussed possible opportunities and challenges about STEAM education and the use of the IN2STEAM resources. The practical session provided the opportunity for the teachers to produce a STE(A)M lesson following the philosophy of the IN2STE(A)M project.


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📆On June 4th 2022, Doğa Schools held the IN2STEAM International Science Day and Conference “Shape the Future: Student-Led STEAM Learning for Career Pathways and Gender Equitable Empowerment” in İstanbul (Bilgi University Santralİstanbul Campus) as the final event of the IN2STEAM project, with the participation of 8 international guests and 64 local attendees from Turkey.

The topics of the discussion were related to:

• STEAM Based Learning in primary school education
• Teacher Qualifications and Courses for STEAM
• Policies and Practices in STEAM Based Learning
• Empowering Girls in STEAM STEAM Based Learning
• Enhancing STEM skills through the Arts
• Positive and enabling environments in primary school education
• Values education for young learners
• Development from the child’s perspective
• Nurturing creativity of young learners with STEAM
• Evaluation of classwork and learning outcomes in STEAM Based Learning

Moreover, the results of the IN2STEAM project were shared among the participants and the event ended with the music performance of Group Abiler from Doğa Schools Çekmeköy Campus.

If you missed it, follow the event here: https://youtu.be/FulqmGy7DyQ



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☑️✍️The INQUIRY BASED LEARNING process is a way of thinking and acting that could be used in real-life contexts, to explore and solve real-life problems and issues.

🕵️‍♀️🕵️ Within this approach, the learner is an “inquirer” who develops an “investigation plan” and, for that purpose, will gather all the necessary information and resources to carry out the investigation, in order to analyse and solve a problem.

📌How the Inquiry Based Learning Model is important to manage STE(A)M activities in classroom?

✔️Find out more in the video realised by the IN2STE(A)M turkish partner DOGA School ➡️ https://youtu.be/xMNondi5Zcw

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📢📢 How can design thinking empower our students and develop a problem solving mindset? 💡🔎 Take a look at the video realised by the IN2STEAM partners in Turkey Doğa Koleji and try to apply the methodology in your classroom

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Today at Associazione "Cuore che vede" venue in Palermo (Italy) we shared the IN2STE(A)M results with parents, teachers and educators.

We talked about strategies and activities useful to bring children (especially young girls) closer to STEAMs.

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‼️✅ Within IN2STE(A)M we support every action that highlights the commitment of girls in STEAM 's: in the beginnig of July, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (Italy) will host a preparatory course to bring female students closer to STEM subjects.
60 girls selected among different secondary schools from all the italian regions will attend the event: they will have the opportunity to talk with different female STEM professionals and to know more about the future prospective of women in STEM fields. 🧪🔬🧬

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp24.ilsole24ore.com/pagina/AEjTdejB

🔜 The IN2STEAM partners are working on the Impact report and the European Charter with the results of the piloting activities in schools and the reccomendations to policy makers and stakeholders to contrast the gender gap in STEM's.

Soon the results will be available in www.in2steam.eu

Con le materie Stem le ragazze si mettono in gioco alla Scuola Sant’Anna di Pisa Due corsi che presentano contenuti e prospettive dello studio di discipline come biotecnologie, robotica, informatica, fisica, agraria, e per un'esperienza di vita collegiale

In Italy, the final conference of the IN2STE(A)M project took place on the 9th of June at the Palma Nana venue in Palermo: we presented the results of the project and we discussed about the multidisciplinary approaches for the teaching of STE(A)Ms' subjects in primary schools, with a focus on gender practices, sustainability and green jobs.

📢TODAY! The international conference of IN2STE(A)M hosted by DOGA Schools and LIVE from Istanbul.
We will talk about STE(A)M approach, new methodologies and educational tools, participation of women in STE(A)M, creativity and innovation in STE(A)M and much more! Teachers and researchers from different educational fields are ready to share their experience and expertise with you!
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Follow the discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FulqmGy7DyQ

IN2STEAM International Science Day & Conference - Live Zoom Participation

Today, the In2steam project has been introduced to the researchers from the natural and environmental science department of the University of Palermo ... A great opportunity to exchange and plan new strategies on how to involve more girls in STEAM careers
Moreover, thanks to the cooperation with the Scientix network 15 new teachers have been introduced to the project and they will experience the IN2STE(A)M approach in the next few days

🔜 IN2STE(A)M (www.in2steam.eu) will participate in one of the (Science Project Online Workshop) organised jointly with Scientix EU within the framework of the STEM Discovery Campaign 2022.
👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 During the seminar we will share with teachers and educators innovative interdisciplinary teaching methodologies and resources for the STE(A)M education.

📆Our session will take place on Tuesday 24 May: Session 1 will take place 16:00 – 18:00 CEST

Registration here ➡ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPxnbS90jiHZzTBvqRmynBCCLDxeWKmdBm7qFISDWNUxDBeQ/viewform

More info about the session here:http://files.eun.org/scientix/SPOW_12_track-c_Onepager_V02.pdf

🔜🌿Are you interested in discovering the new horizons of STEM education and learning more about how to bring environmental action in it?
😍 In the upcoming , you will have the opportunity to practice with fellow teachers on these and similar topics: http://www.scientix.eu/live/spows

📆 On the 13th of April 2022 the IN2STEAM consortium organised the “Online European Charter for STEAM Education" event, aiming to raise attention on the importance of interdisciplinary learning approaches of combining arts and science disciplines.

👨‍🏫👩‍💼 The event was attended by teachers, school leaders, policy makers and STEM professionals who contributed to the discussion on the current situation of STE(A)M following the topics:
1- STEAM in Early School Education;
2- Policies and Practices for STEAM and Gender Inclusive Education;
3- Teacher Qualifications;
4- Evaluation and assessment in STEAM.

📝 All contributions from the participants will be useful for the development of the European Charter, which will contain:
- guidelines in pedagogical methods on how to effectively measure behavioural change in pupils, with an emphasis on girls, in primary school using the STEAM approach tested by the project;
- an impact report containing an evaluation of learning outcomes and the impact on teachers and students, concerning the acquisition of key competences and knowledge in STEAM;
- a charter targeted at decision makers in education to support integration of IN2STEAM outputs.

👏👏👏 Thanks to all the participants who joined and provided their important contributions on the topics.
www.in2steam.eu



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We are actually online talking about STE(A)M education with teachers from all Europe. Would you like to join us? Click on:
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Are you interested in learning about new STE(A)M activities to test at school with your students? Download the activities created by the IN2STE(A)M partners and available in the online Activity Kit for teachers and students: https://in2steam.erasmus.site/
You will also find a tutorial on how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdwNji8up7s&t=24s
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The piloting of the IN2STEAM Labs are in its final steps: in Portugal the partner + conducted successfully the workshops, involving primary school students in STEM and non-formal activities, with the aim of making scientific subjects more attrattive, especially for girls since a younger age, in order for them to have an easier access to STEM related path in higher grade schools and in the job market.
During the Labs some of the lesson plans contained in the Digital Teacher's Toolkit with STE(A)M Activity Kit (➡️ https://in2steam.eu/outputs/ )have been used with students and teachers.

⬇️⬇️⬇️ some pictures from the IN2STEAM Labs from the Portuguese partner INOVA+.

, , and cooperation among students: these are the topics addressed during the

Find out more in the article below 👇⬇️
https://cesie.org/en/school/in2steam-labs-art-science/

IN2STE(A)M Labs: combining art and science, creativity and problem solving On the 9th and 10th of February 2022, the IN2STEAM project's consortium gathered on-line for the 5th Transnational partner meeting, to share the good practices from the IN2STEAM Labs carried out in the six partnerships countries.

For the we want to underline the importance of recognizing the role of women and girls in STEMs, not only as beneficiaries, but also as agents of change, in view of accelerating progress towards science and other STEM fields.

As promoter of contrasting the gender gap in STEM education and careers through the IN2STEAM project's actions, today we want to celebrate this important day mentioning four of the most important women on the frontlines in the quest to find vaccines capable of ending the global COVID pandemic:

1) Dr. Kathrin Jansen - head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer;

2) Dr. Katalin Karikó -biochemist and researcher of the mRNA molecule at University of Pennsylvania, in 2013 joined BioNTech, the pharmaceutical firm that partnered with Pfizer to make the first COVID vaccine from mRNA;

3) Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in US, her work on Moderna's vaccine has been praised by Dr. Anthony Fauci;

4) Dr. Lisa Jackson - senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, she led the world's first COVID-19 clinical vaccine trial, overseeing the first shot of the Moderna vaccine in Seattle on March 16, 2020.

Take a look to the article below to know more about the issue
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https://people.com/health/the-women-behind-the-vaccine-meet-the-scientists-leading-the-fight-to-end-the-pandemic/

The Women Behind the Vaccine: Meet the Scientists Leading the Fight to End the Pandemic Four researchers responsible for the life-saving COVID vaccines open up to PEOPLE in this week's Women Changing the World issue

On the 9th and 10th of February 2022, the IN2STEAM project's consortium participated in the 5th Transnational partner meeting, held on-line due to the pandemic situation.

The main topics discussed:

- 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫best practices and lesson learnt form the implementation of the IN2STEAM Labs in each country;

- 📝the finalisation of the Toolkit for teachers and the Activity Kit for students (e-platform) (available on https://in2steam.eu/outputs/)

- 📊the use of the BAM model for the collection of data from students and teachers useful for the development of the Impact report and the European Charter, directed to schools's stakeholders (more info available soon)🔜;

- the organisation of the Science Days (one per country) as final events of the project and of the International Science Day in Istanbul (organised by our Turkish partner Doğa School.

Stay tuned for the future actions of the project!



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Discovery and investigation activities can be conducted within the
standard classroom where the students can be divided into working groups and where the desks can be positioned differently, not facing the teacher’s desk but, for example, creating blocks or circles.

These kinds of setups allow students to work together encouraging socialisation and teamwork.

In Italy, the IN2STEAM Labs has been managed by the STEM experts with pupils divided in groups of four or six (as in the picture below), in order to facilitate cooperation and communication between them while they work on their projects. 👩‍🏫📝

To discover more about innovative STE(A)M methodology download the THE DIGITAL TEACHER’S TOOLKIT (DTT) here for free: https://in2steam.eu/outputs/ available in six languages (EN, IT, PT, GR, TR, PL).

CARDET (IN2STEAM's partner in Cyprus) proudly announces the successful completion of the implementation phase in the context of the IN2STEAM project!

More than 150 students enjoyed a unique STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) experience in Cyprus. In particular, a total of ten dedicated, in-service primary school educators utilised the pedagogical material developed to organise and deliver experiential STEAM labs to students aged 8-11 years old.

The lessons went beyond the traditional teaching approaches as they focused on problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and collaboration, skills required in today’s society. Among others, students worked on the construction of bridges, the creation of nature’s pallet and learning Mathematics while drawing.

It is worth mentioning that all students’ reacted positively as well as the educators provided very encouraging feedback.

We would like to thank everyone who became part of this effort!

www.in2steam.eu

In Italy, during the previous days, primary school students have been involved in the 3D printing labs run by FabLab Palermo : designing 3D projects helps students to increase their creative skills and also to develop their ability to solve real-life problems.
The two programmes used during the Labs are:

1)TinkerCAD: through 3D modeling students were able to use their imagination freely;

2) Codeblocks: with modeling through programming a
visual blocks of Codeblocks, students were more involved in the reasoning using mathematical and geometric concepts.

In the other countries of the consortium, the IN2STEAM Labs are proceeding successfully: stay tuned for more updates in the upcoming weeks!

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The project partners of IN2STE(A)M are successfully carrying out their activities in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Poland and Turkey, using the interdisciplinary approach typical of the STEMs.
12 workshops in each country involving about 150 students, several teachers and school directors, 18 female STE(A)M professionals and many other school stakeholders!
Follow us for the latest news!

On the 11th of January 2022, the IN2STEAM - Inspiring Next Generation of Girls through Inclusive STE(A)M Learning in Primary Education - project team participated in the online meeting to discuss about the implementation of the STE(A)M labs in their partners countries. In Greece, 10 IN2STE(A)M labs have been implemented so far at the premises of Robotonio. The project team members will soon present a Report on the current situation of the STE(A)M education among the different partner countries, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Poland.

You can visit the project’s website and have access to all the material produced so far: https://in2steam.eu/

The activities of IN2STE(A)M are in full implementation through the STE(A)M Labs active in all the six countries of the consortium.

The activities managed by Marcella Pizzuto - one of two the female STEM professionals involved in Italy and director of FabLab Palermo - aim at introducing 3D printing and programming elements in a creative and experiential perspective, letting students (8-9 years old) experiment with the creation of 3D projects.

(Thank you FabLab Palermo for sharing https://fablabpalermo.org/2894.html/)

More updates from 4-elements, the IN2STE(A)M's Greek partner: following, images of the piloting activities of the IN2STE(A)M Labs with primary school pupils.

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The piloting of STEM Labs in Greece 4-elements

In Italy, the piloting phase of IN2STE(A)M has successfully started! In the selected primary schools (ICS Rita Borsellino in Palermo and Circolo Didattico "Don Milani" in Terrasini), pupils (8-9 years) had the opportunity to experiment a series of learner-centered activities within different STEAM Labs, with the help of 2 female STEM professionals (Marcella Pizzuto, coordinator of FabLab Palermo and Matilde Passantino, naturalist and educator of Palermo Scienza). Through experiential learning, pupils discovered nature, robotics and 3D printing, while integrating STE(A)M in their school curricula. The piloting of the IN2STE(A)M Labs is ongoing in all the partners' countries and the first results are promising by January 2022!



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