PROMISED: PROMoting twin transition through Integrated steam in bilingual Secondary EDucation

Description

The Erasmus+ PROMISED project emerged as a natural continuation of a previous Erasmus+ KA220 initiative, known as SELFIE, which focused on the development of STEAM educational materials for teaching non-linguistic subjects through a foreign language in Early Childhood and Primary Education.

A key innovation of the SELFIE project was the use of an illustrated picture book as the central thread guiding the implementation of all learning units, ensuring a balanced integration of subject content and language development. Coordinated by the University of Burgos and completed in 2023, the project had a significant impact on primary schools across the participating partner countries (Spain, Poland, and Malta). Its sustainability has been ensured, as the methodology developed continues to be integrated into initial teacher training, ongoing professional development for in-service teachers, and the creation of future classroom environments based on this approach.

Building on the success and impact of SELFIE, there was a clear need to extend this work to Secondary Education. The PROMISED project, coordinated by the University of Burgos (Spain), brings together the University of Granada (Spain), Howest University of Applied Sciences (Belgium), Matej Bel University (Slovakia), and the quality and management consultancy company K-veloce (Spain). Together, the consortium is developing a new set of STEAM-based educational materials aligned with the same methodological principles, this time adapted to Secondary Education contexts. In this case, a comic format has been chosen as the central narrative resource, in line with the older age of the target learners.

The materials are currently approximately 95% completed. While some minor final adjustments are still being made, they are already being implemented in partner schools across all participating countries. Importantly, these resources are openly accessible and intended for use by teachers in schools across Europe, not only within the partner countries, in order to maximise their dissemination and educational impact.