1st meeting of the Ministries of Education STEM Working Group

The event brought together representatives from Ministries of Education and national STEM organizations from across Europe, as members of the Ministries of Education - STEM Representatives Working Group. The meeting aimed at providing with a stable platform of discussion and exchange for Ministries of Education and other STEM organizations in regard to STEM education policies and as a way of creating synergies with Scientix and other STEM projects.

You can find here:

The Programme

• Final programme (including list of attendees).

Presentations

• Introduction to Scientix and the Ministries of Education - STEM Representatives Working Group
• STEM Alliance
• Amgen Teach
• Go-Lab

Reference materialS

• Kearney, C. (2016). Efforts to Increase Students’ Interest in Pursuing Mathematics, Science and Technology Studies and Careers. National Measures taken by 30 Countries – 2015 Report, European Schoolnet, Brussels
• Balanskat & Engelhardt (2015). Computing our future: Computer programming and coding Priorities, school curricula and initiatives across Europe
• Shaping career-long perspectives on teaching. A guide on policies to improve Initial Teacher Education. ET2020 Working Group on Schools Policy (2014/15)
• Beernaert "STEM in the countries involved in the STEM Working Group set up by European Schoolnet in cooperation with member Ministries of Education" (v01-17/03/2016)
• Report of DG Research and Innovation on science Education, August 2015: Science for responsible citizenship
• Meta-Report by the Teacher Development Trust UK on CPD, Dec 2015: "Developing Great Teaching: Lessons From The International Reviews Into Effective Professional Development"
• Report of the Science learning network UK, November 2015: "Lessons in Excellent Science Education: 10 years of impact on teachers, pupils and schools"
• The LUMAT Journal: Research and Practice in Math, Science and Technology Education (Journal of the LUMA centre Finland network of 13 LUMA centres / STEM centres) run by Maija Aksela, University of Helsinki (In Finnish but with abstracts in English)