The 2025 Scientix Awards

Scientix Awards are dedicated to celebrating outstanding achievements of educators in science education across various educational themes and domains, fostering innovation and promoting excellence in teaching and learning.

 

Note by agreeing to the Terms and Conditions of the 2025 STEM Discovery Campaign, you agree for your entry to be considered for the Scientix Awards.

Watch the video to find out how to participate in the Scientix Awards!

 

 

Follow these basic steps to enter a Scientix Awards:

  • Log in with your EUN username and password (register as a user if you haven't already)
  • Fill out the submission form on the STEM Discovery Campaign App or Scientix Platform
  • Pin an activity on the map (instructions here)
  • NOTE if you implement the activity with your colleagues, indicate their names in the ’Description’ section of the Submission Form.

 

Scientix Awards will take into account the information provided in the description of the activity in the Submission Form, as well as any additional information linked in the description or the ‘Website’ question, like:

  • a more detailed ‘Story of Implementation' (using this or any other template),
  • a full new ‘Learning Scenario’ (using this or any other template), or anything else.
  • a ‘Career Sheet’ to introduce an expert/ professional to students (using this or any other template)

 

The Awards are organised into categories according to their thematic content. There are a total of five categories:

 

Scientix® Awards for Cooperation and Integration

For those Awards related to cooperation and inclusion, among other related concepts.

 

Scientix Open Doors to Science Award

The Scientix Open Doors to Science Award, supported by SLEs, will celebrate outstanding teachers and classroom projects that outline open schooling to help everyone learn science in different places, including schools and informal learning environments.

Prize: Winners (x1) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

 

Scientix Teamwork Award

The Scientix Teamwork Award, supported by SMART Technologies, will celebrate educators who demonstrate outstanding commitment to fostering collaboration and inclusivity among their students using the educational technology resources available, such as the Lumio platform by SMART Technologies.

Prize: Winners (x2) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

 

Scientix Inclusive Creators Award

The Scientix Inclusive Creators Award, supported by SpicE, will celebrate teachers who submit the best entries that show they are integrating the knowledge from the SpicE training programme.

Prize: Winners (x1) will be invited to the SpicE final conference in Greece, on the 30-31st of May 2025.

 

Scientix® Awards for Digital Competencies

For those Awards related to digitalisation and use of technology in education.

 

Scientix EdTech Pioneers Award

The Scientix EdTech Pioneers Award, supported by EmpowerED, will celebrate educators who have made significant contributions to the integration of educational technology (EdTech) in both traditional and innovative classroom settings. The term “EdTech” encompasses both hardware and software. This Award is open to educators working with students of all age groups.

Prize: Winners (x2) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

 

Scientix Cultural Legacy Award

The Scientix Cultural Legacy Award, supported by Europeana, will celebrate those entries that present the stories of implementation (standard or micro) that make the best use of Europeana’s resources.

Prize: Winners (x5) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels. Winning stories of reuse will be published on the Teaching with Europeana blog. 5 runner-up stories will be published on the Teaching with Europeana blog.

 

 

Scientix® Awards for STEM Careers

For those Awards related to promotion of STEM careers on different levels of education.

 

Scientix Early Foundations Award

The Scientix Early Foundations Award, supported by Timken and the OUTSTE(A)M project, will celebrate teachers in nursery and primary education, who have shown students the different and exciting careers available in STEM through real-world examples and STEM professionals’ advice.

Prize: Winners (x3) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

 

Scientix Next-Gen Shapers Award

The Scientix Next-Gen Shapers Award, supported by Cummins and the SEER project, will celebrate secondary school teachers who have shown students the different and exciting careers available in STEM through real-world examples and STEM professionals’ advice.

Prize: Two winning entries (x2) with a maximum of four winners (x4) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

 

Scientix® Awards for Environmental Sustainability

For those Awards related to specific areas within the field of sustainability.

 

Scientix Climate Gamechanger Award

The Scientix Early Climate Gamechanger Award, supported by CarbonAct, recognises teachers who have successfully implemented inquiry-based activities for the teaching of climate change. Please refer to this document for further information.

Prize: Winners (x2) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

 

Scientix Circular Choice Award

The Scientix Circular Choice Award, supported by Clarios and the GenB project, , celebrates educators who showed exceptional dedication to promoting sustainable and circularity practices in the classroom activities. This award will recognize the most impactful projects that emphasize the importance of the seamless incorporation of circularity principles within STEM education, such as bioeconomy and the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) among others. For more information and inspiration on different activities and tools, check out the GenB MOOC and the GenB Toolkit.

Prize: Winners (x3) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels and receive a set of GenB merchandise.

 

Scientix Roots for the Future Award

The Scientix Roots for the Future Award, supported by Life Terra, will celebrate outstanding tree planting activities implemented with students.

Prize: Winners (x1) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

 

Scientix Soil Guardians Award

The Scientix Soil Guardians Award, supported by LOESS, will celebrate outstanding activities on preservation of soil health.

Prize: One winning entry (x1) with a maximum of two winners (x2) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels. In addition, four (x4) entries will be selected as runners-up and be curated and published.

 

Scientix Green Go-Getter Award

The Scientix Green Go-Getter Award, supported by NBS NBSEduWORLD, will celebrate outstanding activities related to nature-based solutions (NBS) in various learning settings, types and levels of education.

Prize: Winners (x5) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

Scientix Learning Tides Award

The Scientix Learning Tides Award, supported by ProBleu, will celebrate outstanding activities tackling the topic of ocean literacy.

Prize: Winners (x2) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

Scientix Earth Protectors Award

The Scientix Earth Protectors Award, supported by Trane Technologies, will celebrate teachers and projects that demonstrate a deep understanding of sustainability and inspire young people to care for the environment by engaging students in learning about ecosystems, climate change and protecting the planet.

Prize: Winners (x2) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

Scientix Waste to Wonder Award

The Scientix Waste to Wonder Award, supported by Lenovo, will celebrate educators who have led hands-on classroom activities exploring the intersection of STEM and sustainability and creating innovative projects that integrate technology while reusing simple waste materials, such as cardboards and packaging. The aim is to transform everyday recycled materials into prototypes for sustainable everyday practices, such solar-powered ovens, vertical gardens, wind turbines, hydraulic systems, compost bins and much more. Educators can benefit from the Lenovo’s Activity Booklet as inspiration, that guides teachers on integrating practical, real-world activities into STEM lessons, while fostering students’ sustainable practices that can shape a smarter, greener future.

Prize: Winners (x2) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels. In addition, the winners will also have the opportunity to be invited to participate in a Future Classroom Lab teacher training course

 

Scientix® Awards for Community Engagement

For those remaining Awards which are not focused on a specific theme.

 

Scientix Contributors Award

The Scientix Contributors Award, supported by Airbus Foundation, acknowledges participants who did not have time or means to organise their own activity but took part in other STEM-related activities including participating in trainings, events, MOOCs, providing feedback to surveys, commenting to STEM related videos, etc.

Prize: Winners (x1) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

Scientix Enthusiasts Award

The Scientix Enthusiasts Award, supported by FunEcole, acknowledges participants who had the largest number of good quality entries to the 2025 STEM Discovery Map, whether as organisers or participants.

Prize: Winners (x1) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

Scientix Influencer Award

The Scientix Influencer Award, acknowledges participants whose activities had the greatest impact, e.g., involved the greatest number of people.

Prize: Winners (x1) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

Scientix Providers Award

The Scientix Providers Award, supported by Britannica Education, acknowledges participants who submitted entries with the clearest descriptions of their activities to the 2025 STEM Discovery Map.

Prize: Winners (x1) will be invited to the upcoming 2025 Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.

Scientix Organisers Award

The Scientix Organisers Award, recognises the most meritorious entries submitted by an organisation, institution, or other collective entity.

Prize: Winners of this Award will receive a certificate of recognition.

 

Bonus Prizes

Microsoft and SMART Technologies, partners of the Scientix STEM Alliance, are offering the following additional prizes:

 

  • Microsoft will support two additional winners of Scientix Awards. The exact Scientix Awards supported from the above list will depend on the entries received and eligible for each award received during the 2025 Scientix STEM Discovery Campaign.
  • SMART Technologies will provide Lumio SPARK licenses to all winners of the Awards, to be used by their school/organisation. The Spark plan offers new, additional capabilities and features designed to support schools, Multi-Academy Trusts, and other organizations with enhanced instructional consistency and more flexible lesson creation and delivery.