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Opening Minds to STEM Careers starts again this April

27/03/2018

Scientix invites you to register for a rerun of “Opening Minds to STEM Careers”, its popular Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for teachers. The course, which is completely free of charge, starts on 16 April 2018 on the European Schoolnet Academy platform.
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Ten new videos in the “Science in one minute” series

26/03/2018

Complex scientific concepts and phenomenon can be more easily explained and understood with visual presentations and illustrations. Tarragona’s Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) has made a series of graphic videos to address scientific questions in one minute, perfect for busy people on the go!
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Pick your favourite StarT project and the best teaching practice

20/03/2018

Everyone can now participate in a public vote on YouTube for the LUMA StarT Award 2018. The 28 international and 10 Finnish award nominees all made videos devoted to various teaching practices. The voting process is simple. All that people have to do is go to YouTube and “like” their favourite videos.
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Three elements to increase job satisfaction among science teachers

19/03/2018

Early career motivation, continuous professional development and a collaborative school climate, including access to educational resources, can have a highly positive impact on job satisfaction among science teachers. This is the conclusion of a new working paper published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based on data from the 2015 PISA survey.
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Call for papers for the third Scientix Conference

06/03/2018

Scientix has now published a call for papers for the third Scientix Conference, which takes place in Brussels, Belgium, from 4 to 6 May 2018. The deadline to submit papers for the conference is 19 March 2018.
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Eurydice: Shortage of teachers is a problem in Europe

05/03/2018

Teachers are getting older and older in Europe and there is a continuing shortage of new teachers entering the profession. These are among the main findings of a new report published by Eurydice in February 2018 about teaching careers in Europe.
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The first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about life sciences from Amgen Teach

20/02/2018

Three new Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for teachers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are planned at the European Schoolnet Academy in 2018. The first course, Inquiry-Based Teaching in Life Sciences by Amgen Teach, starts on 12 March 2018 and is already open for registration.
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Robotics and automation workshops for teachers at ESA

15/02/2018

The European space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) in Belgium is organising new two-day long workshops for primary school teachers, in which they learn more about space robotics and automation processes, using programming environments such as Raspberry Pi and LEGO WeDO.
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Become a partner of the STEM Discovery Week 2018

06/02/2018

The third edition of the STEM Discovery Week will be celebrated from 23 to 29 April 2018. Building on the success already achieved in 2016 and 2017, the STEM Discovery Week aims to facilitate more than 500 activities, reaching more than 10,000 schools in 30 countries! Projects, organisations and schools can now request to become partners of the campaign.
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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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