CHOICE - Increasing young people’s motivation to choose STEM careers through an Innovative Cross-disciplinary STE(A)M approach to education

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CHOICE is a KA3 Forward-Looking Cooperation project that aims to develop and test an innovative and collaborative approach to STE(A)M education, complementing existing initiatives to support the reform of school curricula. The project aims to boost young people’s interest in STEM subjects and careers, helping to reduce skill mismatches in the labour market.

CHOICE promotes the joint action of nine organisations (non-profit, business, education institutions, advocacy network) across five European countries who will carry out a cross-disciplinary, bottom-up process leading to the production of innovative open educational resources (OERs) providing real-world examples regarding the implementation of STE(A)M approaches into teaching. The OERs will be collected in a MOOC, accompanied by a good-practice tool providing guidelines on the implementation of the proposed activities. In this sense, CHOICE aims to contribute to the call’s general objective of promoting innovation in education and training through European cooperation at policy and practice levels.

The project will directly involve teachers and students and role models representing companies and HEIs in the creation of new resources promoting STE(A)M approaches to STEM education, thus ensuring that the OERs respond to current skill challenges in higher education and the labour market. The consultation of policy-makers and stakeholders in the round tables leading to policy recommendations supporting the shift from STEM to STE(A)M education to reform school curricula will be key to mainstreaming the CHOICE action, in line with the call’s general objective of Empowering key stakeholders in developing and mainstreaming policy innovation.

The project takes place in three main phases:

  • State of the Art Analysis of existing initiatives, best practices, attitudes and approaches towards STE(A)M in educational contexts
  • Development and testing of innovative OERs and MOOC through collaborative practices of students, teachers and business/university representatives for the promotion of a STE(A)M approach to teaching STEM subjects
  • Mainstreaming

Besides these three core components, the CHOICE project will also envisage the transversal components of project management, dissemination and evaluation.

 

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