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A new and reformed European Education Area by 2025
05/02/2018
Modernisation, mobility, competences and shared identities are at the heart of the European Commission’s agenda for 2025, presented at the first European Education Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on 25 January 2018. Students’ performance and interest in science-related disciplines is a key element of this agenda, which the European Commission wants to improve drastically through a set of measures.
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Scientix welcomes 198 new Ambassadors to its team!
23/01/2018
Following the third Scientix Ambassadors’ Training Course, held in autumn 2017, there are now 502 members of the Scientix 3 Teachers’ Panel in total. All those teachers are appointed Scientix Ambassadors, who in their volunteer capacity support the project’s dissemination and exchange of knowledge and practices towards 44 countries around the world.
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Exciting summer school programme in Greece for science teachers
22/01/2018
The new programme for the upcoming Inspiring Science Summer Schools features a set of week-long courses, split into two sessions, from 1 to 6 July 2018 and from 8 to 13 July 2018. The summer schools take place in Marathon, Greece.
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Students’ performance in science and mathematics on the decline
05/01/2018
Only two countries, Estonia and Finland, have less than 15 per cent of students, aged 15, underachieving in science and mathematics at school. More than 42 per cent of Cypriot students are underachieving in those subjects, the worst performance within the European Union. Eight countries have more than 25 per cent of students underperforming in mathematics.
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Get ready for the upcoming summer programmes at CERN in 2018
04/01/2018
Both teachers and secondary school students can join several summer courses in 2018 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which has just published a new course catalogue on its website.
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Eleven science teachers receive awards at STEM Alliance and SYSTEMIC conference
12/12/2017
Teachers from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Malta, Romania and Ukraine, all gathered in Brussels, Belgium, on 7 December 2017, where they received awards for organising science-based activities and events from representatives of major companies in Europe as part of the STEM Alliance initiative.
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Win an Arctic expedition in this new competition!
11/12/2017
Teams, composed of one secondary school student, aged thirteen to twenty, and one teacher, can now enter the new competition of the European EDU-ARCTIC project. Winning teams are invited to join an Arctic study expedition to Northern Norway and Svalbard in the summer of 2018.
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Register for this intensive five-day course at the Future Classroom Lab
28/11/2017
The Future Classroom Lab of European Schoolnet has published its brand-new course catalogue for 2018. Among the courses offered is one on “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in primary school classrooms”, co-organised with Scientix, from 25 to 29 June 2018.
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IMAGINARY goes global with its Science Spaces Workshops
24/11/2017
IMAGINARY is a platform for open and interactive mathematics, originating in Germany in 2008, which recently launched a new series of workshops under the name of Science Spaces.
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Experts want to add more aspects in early science and technology education
14/11/2017
More than one hundred international experts in educational policies and practices got together on 2 and 3 November 2017 during the Berlin Science Week to discuss the future of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for children.
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