E-STEAM: EQUALITY IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ART AND MATHEMATICS: 5TH NEWSLETTER

TRAINING PROGRAM IN GREECE

In Greece, during the piloting phase of the Training program, teachers from public and private schools registered on the ATHENA platform in order to check their knowledge on the STEAM education and evaluate the training material that partners have developed. The total number of the participants was 12 teachers from the first educational level.

TRAINING PROGRAM IN PORTUGAL

On September 25th, in a face-to-face session, the E-STEAM Training Program was presented by teachers who are developing the project to a group of teachers from the Silves School Group.
During the presentation, the teachers were very receptive, very curious and participative and, right away, they mentioned that it was a very current and interesting topic.

GENDER EQUALITY IN COUNTRIES: MYTHS, STEREOTYPES, REALITY IN BULGARIA

This was the topic of the multiplier events held on 10 and 30 September 2020, where the intellectual products of the project «Equality in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics /E-STEAM/», funded by the Erasmus + EC program, were presented.The events included panel meetings with teachers and lecturers from the University of Ruse, as well as with successful professionals from various fields of business.

FUE-UJI TRAINING PROGRAM

The E-STEAM Teachers training programme has been carried out during the month of October and November with 4 online sessions with the teachers and through the Athena Platform. The sessions were finally celebrated only online because of the pandemic situation and the safety and comfortability of the participants, which prefered to participate in a totally online course. A total of 11 teachers have benefit by this course and its resources.

E-STEAM MULTIPLIER EVENTS IN PORTUGAL

The Portuguese team, after some contacts in order to hold the face-to-face event in three School Groups and two universities, due to the covid only managed to hold a multiplier event in person at the University of Algarve, on November 17th, for 31 future teachers, from pre-school to basic education, and for their teachers.

MONTHLY ONLINE MEETING AND LAST PROJECT TRANSNATIONAL MEETING

The last transnational meeting in Ruse, Bulgaria, was canceled due to the pandemic and replaced by an online meeting of E-STEAM partners to be held on January 15, 2021. During 2020, monthly meetings were held to evaluate the latest project’s results. All the deliverables and dissemination actions were commented and completed. This was the way to face the constraints that the pandemic imposed on the project.

‘DESIGNATHON’ – Professional Foundation Romania

In spite of the fear of carrying out this challenging activity it seemed that if well planned could bring new perspectives for teachers and enjoyable activities for students. Promoting the Design Thinking as a method which can be applied in lots of projects and interesting activities was accompanied by creative and critical thinking abilities developed during this DESING + MARATHON.

FINAL MULTIPLIER EVENT IN SPAIN

The FUE-UJI, through its Office of European and International Projects (EuroFUE-UJI) has presented the E-STEAM project, for the promotion of equality in STEM, at the E-STEAM Multiplier Event, this Monday, December 21 at 9:30 am in the Assembly Hall of the FUE-UJI. The event has announced the progress of the project and results obtained after its two years of implementation, in addition to hosting a debate on the promotion of equality in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers.

MULTIPLIER EVENT IN “DIMITRE CANTEMIR” UNIVERSITY

Dimitrie Cantemir University have organised the Multiplier event E-STEAM in DECEMBER 21, 2020. The event beguin with registration of participants and provision of COVID prevention measures
19. The welcome message was addressed by Mr. Rector prof.univ.dr. Simionescu Mircea. The presentation af E-STEAM project presentation has been made by Balan Sorina-Mihaela partner coordination.

AFTER PILOTTING THE ESTEAM TRAINING PROGRAM – HOW TO BE SUSTAINABLE?

FPS Leonardo da Vinci, the lead organization for IO6, analyzed the results of the post-pilot evaluation and proposed guidelines for the operation of the project products after the Erasmus + funding period.

THE LABOUR MARKET TODAY AND GENDER EQUALITY

On December 8, The Institute for Entrepreneurship Development held free online Event: The Labour Market Today and Gender Equality

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