Road-STEAMer - Developing a STEAM Roadmap for Science Education in Horizon Europe

Road-STEAMer attempts to develop a STEAM Roadmap for Science Education in Horizon Europe and in educational policy across the continent.
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Description

Road-STEAMer had the ambitious objective to deliver a STEAM Roadmap for science education in Horizon Europe (in short, the Roadmap), i.e. a plan of actions to provide guidance to EU's key funding programme for research and innovation on how to encourage more interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) through the use of artistic approaches involving creative thinking and applied arts (the "A" in "STEAM") by triangulating the knowledge gained through stakeholder engagement, the analysis of STEAM practices, and the analysis of current educational policies, contexts and frameworks.

The work of the project has been informed by:

  • Collaboration and co-creation with stakeholders through intensive exchange, dialogue and mutual learning processes which will produce better knowledge and shared understandings of the relevant opportunities, challenges and needs;
  • A bottom-up approach emphasising educational practice and practitioners' agency rather than high-level conceptualisations of STEAM and generic top-down plans or vague intention statements for its adoption in science education;
  • A specific focus on ways to leverage the power of STEAM approaches, as manifested through exemplary cases and best practices, in order to enable a bridging of open science and open schooling mentalities and practices which can catalyse an increased impact for science education as a crucial tool for addressing Europe’s current scientific and societal challenges.

Road-STEAMer notably produced a novel framework for STEAM education that goes beyond the conceptualisation of "STEM plus A", and rejects the notion of the arts as instrumental to create interest in STEM, towards a more holistic approach that breaks disciplinary silos and creates truly innovative education.

The project's core outcome is its Roadmap, released in Summer 2025, presents a series of actionable funding recommendations for EU institutions, which are expected to lead to an improved education landscape across the continent.

The project Roadmap and other key results are available on the project website (www.road-steamer.edu) and on the dedicated page on the Zenodo repository: https://zenodo.org/communities/road-steamer/records​​​​​​​

 

Funded by the European Union under grant agreement No 101058405. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor REA can be held responsible for them.

Basic information

Coordinator

The Lisbon Council, https://lisboncouncil.net/

Partners

Programme

Horizon Europe (programme-horizon-europe)

Project Acronym

Target groups

college students, education authorities, general public, industry, parents, policy makers, primary school students, teachers, trainee teachers, under school-age kids, university students, university lecturers, vocational school students, youth clubs, other

Topic

Education

Start year

2022

End year

2025

Url

https://www.road-steamer.eu/

Contact person

Francesco Mureddu, francesco.mureddu@lisboncouncil.net