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Skills for industry: Robotics and schools conference: 23 January 2020

28/01/2020

The “Skills for industry: Robotics and schools conference” took place on 23 January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference, organised under the wider #skills4industry initiative by the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) with the support of European Schoolnet, brought together over 80 practitioners including industry, European Commission services, representatives of educational systems of Member States and teachers interested in robotics and active in bringing robotics education to schools (see agenda here).
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“Our Fragile Planet” MOOC runs again and is now open for registration!

28/01/2020

The Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) of the spaceEU project is now open for registrations and provides teachers from all levels of education with the means to teach space and astronomy related subjects.
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Visit LabXchange, a new open online platform for science education!

28/01/2020

LabXchange is a free, open online platform that allows educators and learners to explore top-quality digital content, remix content into their own learning pathways, and discuss and share content with other users. The platform offers a new approach to better prepare learners to study science at secondary school or university level and thrive in a research environment, whatever their social, academic and educational background.
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Challenge your students to take part in International STEM Awards

14/01/2020

International STEM Awards, a non-profit organization created by technology lovers, wants to inspire and mobilize young generations to propose solutions to the world’s most urgent problems and to share their ideas with their peers worldwide for a sustainable and ethical future. Check out numerous challenges for pupils and students who would like to put into practice their skills and knowledge!
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All you need to know about the 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign

14/01/2020

One of the biggest worldwide STEM campaigns is back! The 2020 STEM Discovery Campaign, a joint international initiative organised by Scientix to celebrate STEM careers and studies, will run from 1 February to 30 April 2020 with the peak of activities from 20 to 26 April. Are you involved in a STEM project or in an organisation promoting STEM careers? Maybe you are a science teacher? Your project, organisation or school can join the STEM Discovery Week now!
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The Three Rs and Animal Use in Science

10/12/2019

How to teach animal welfare and animal testing in your STEM classes? Find out how on the The Three Rs and Animal Use in Science MOOC , launching on January 13th 2020! The MOOC will be hosted by the European Schoolnet Academy, in collaboration with ECORYS, SYRCLE (Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation), under the initiative of the EC Joint Research Centre.
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The final newsletter of the SYSTEMIC project is online!

10/12/2019

The SYSTEMIC project ("Say Yes to STEM In the Classroom") aimed to increase young Europeans’ interest in maths, science, engineering and technology education and careers and at the same time provide teachers with the appropriate pedagogical tools to enable them to teach STEM topics differently and in a more attractive way. The last newsletter, prepared in collaboration with STEM Alliance, presents the results of the project, including the record-breaking STEM Discovery Week 2019 campaign.
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Bring bioeconomy into your classrooms and prepare your entries for the “BLOOM Stories of implementation” competition!

25/11/2019

All over Europe and beyond, teachers are looking for innovative ways of engaging their students with the big issues facing today’s societies. In collaboration with the STEM Discovery Campaign 2020, the BLOOM project is inviting primary and secondary school teachers of all subjects to use bioeconomy as a way of engaging pupils in school subjects, and to share their stories of implementation! Teachers can start organising their lessons starting from this November and prepare their stories to be submitted in February 2020!
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The highlights of Scientix 3: the final publication revealed!

14/11/2019

Have you ever wondered how big Scientix is? How many projects it gathers, how many Scientix Ambassadors support the project or how many people follow it regularly? Scientix has just published the final publication of the third phase of the project, summarising the last three years full of outstanding events, projects, resources and other activities. Without doubt, it was an intense and exciting time for the Scientix community.
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Get inspired by the new Finnish STEM curriculum!

12/11/2019

Finland’s education system has been at the top of the rankings for many years now and the country has become world famous for its high quality. Scientix is taking a closer look on the STEM part of the new Finnish national core curriculum for upper secondary education published on 7 November by the Finnish National Agency for Education.
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