21/01/2025

The SEER Highlights Interdisciplinarity and Policy Shifts at EMINENT 2024

On December 11, the SEER participated to Eminent 2024, European Schoolnet's annual conference, with a roundtable and a dedicated session.

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This year, Eminent focused on exploring the transformative potential of STEM Education to inspire and support a better future for all.

On this occasion, SEER hosted a roundtable promoting the integration of STEM subjects with other disciplines as a means to foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and real-world application.

The roundtable underscored the importance of interdisciplinarity in education, a challenge many teachers recognize but feel underprepared to address. It also reinforced the necessity for education stakeholders, public sector authorities, and private partners to collaborate to provide concrete STEM career prospects for students.

To address these issues, during the SEER session, the project offered a first glimpse of its Roadmap, designed to offer knowledge, guidance, and practical recommendations for all major education stakeholders to help bring the policy and paradigm shifts necessary for transversal learning. SEER also introduced the impact assessment tool it is testing, which will help project reviewers and project coordinators alike assess and improve the impact of future STE(A)M education initiatives. Feedback on the content and structure of the Roadmap was gathered through interactive discussions.

Eminent 2024 marked another step forward in mainstreaming STE(A)M education across Europe, and provided the opportunity to gather useful information for the further refinement of the SEER Roadmap.

Steering the roundtable and SEER session were:

  • Jessica Niewint Gori, Head of the Research Structure Technological Applications for Laboratory Teaching at INDIRE in Italy;
  • Oliver Straser, Vice Director of the International Centre for STEM Education at the University of Freiburg in Germany;
  • Beatrice Boots, Director of the Platform Talent Voor Technology and chair of the EU STEM Coalition;
  • Matthew Coates, Project Manager at Platform Talent Voor Technology;
  • Evita Tasiopoulou, project and pedagogical manager at European Schoolnet and coordinator of the SEER;
  • Ioana Caraghiozov, project officer at European Schoolnet, contributing to the SEER.