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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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Space Awareness publishes a new booklet about space careers
13/11/2017
The new Space Career Booklet, published as part of the Space Awareness project funded by the Horizon 2020 framework of the European Union, provides an excellent overview of all the exciting careers that space sciences have to offer.
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HundrED amazing global innovations in education!
30/10/2017
Seek inspiration in some of the one hundred innovations in education that the HundrED initiative has now published online. Scientix, the community for science education in Europe, is proud to be among those top one hundred innovations in the world that HundrED has recognised!
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OpenSKIMR helps people to identify their ideal career paths
29/10/2017
The Management Centre Innsbruck (MCI), PDAgroup and Telefónica have released the prototype for a new online career match-making tool, as part of the OpenSKIMR project. This tool uses an algorithm to find matches between its users’ personal profiles and possible career opportunities or suitable training.
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