About the project

Funding Programme: ERASMUS-EDU-2022-PEX-TEACH-ACA — Partnership for Excellence – Erasmus+ Teacher Academies
Budget: 1.452.536,76 euro, Funding(80%) : 1.162.029,40 euro

It is widely accepted and documented through studies and references that school students lack competences and skills at the completion of the cycle of their school studies. As one of the key factors that can develop competences and skills in school students, especially in grades 6-12, is the known multidiscipline and mutliscience project based learning activity. In the last 15 years we have seen the development from STEM to STEAM and now to STEAME (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Entrepreneurship) becoming the subject set that through project based learning activity of school students, is considered the kinetic energy for producing the creators and innovators of the future. The catalyst in making this a reality are the subject teachers in service and the future student teachers through their initial training at the university level. This project will develop a model through a STEAME Teacher Facilitators Academies networked through a European Federation of such Academies at the local level, which will support the change to the future schools with main actors the teacher facilitators as the future professionals and experts of learning change and facilitators of competence and skills development in youth.

The STEAME Teacher Facilitators Academies will support the training of service teachers and the training of student teachers. At certain stage the service teachers will serve as mentors of the student teachers throughout a European mobility based system. This will create a networking between school education and university education and possibly industry, working together as co-creators for the sustainable development between teacher education providers with impact on the quality of education in Europe. This will support the continuous professional development of future teachers and lay the ground for the future schools of STEAME project based learning environments for students.

The main innovations to be delivered by this project are:
1. STEAME Teacher Facilitators Competence Framework for student and serving teachers
2. STEAME Teacher Facilitators Learning Modules/Workshops
3. International Sharing Observatory for STEAME Learning Facilitators
4. Development of the STEAME Facilitators Community of Practice/Mentoring and Certification Programme
5. Policy Recommendations – European Federation of STEAME Teacher Facilitators Academies

Most of the above are based on experiences and innovations from 16 completed or running projects, mainly school education projects under ERASMUS+ KA2. In the partnership of this project there is at least one partner from each one of these 16 projects, who will share the experience and innovations created utilizing them in making the 5 innovations listed here above a quality innovation for serving the continuous professional development of teachers. This will also enhance the European Dimension and internationalization of teachers, facilitating the European wide mentoring to support mobility of teachers and place teachers in the path to Education 3.0 and 4.0, all for producing the creators of the future.

Latest News

November 6, 2024 – Invitation to the New European STEAME Competition for school teachers and HE student teachers
12 – 16 March 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece

The European STEAME Competition 2025, for school teachers and HE student teachers, will be organized from 12 to 16 March, 2025, in Thessaloniki-Greece, during the European STEAME-Academy Symposium 2025.

Submit your STEAME Learning & Creativity Plan, using Project-Based Learning for students aged 12-15.

Completed STEAME Learning & Creativity Plans by a teacher, or a group of teachers can be submitted for the competition by 31 December 2024.  The top 3-6 plans will be presented in person, with awards for the best 3.

For more details and the L&C plan template, visit the link HERE.

October 14, 2024 – Announcement of the 2nd Cyprus STEAME Festival 2024

The Cyprus Mathematical Society, partner of the STEAME ACADEMY project, in collaboration with Thales Foundation and other local organizations, organises the 2nd Cyprus STEAME FESTIVAL 2024 on November 29th and 30th, 2024. The event will be hosted at the Linopetra Lyceum in Limassol, Cyprus.

The festival’s primary focus is to showcase a diverse array of interactive STEAME learning activities addressed to school students and a set of workshops addressed to school teachers. The Festival is bilingual, Greek and English.

The event is organized under the patronage of the Minister of Education, Sport and Youth of Cyprus.

For more information, click HERE.

 

October 2, 2024 – Cyprus Award Ceremony – «STEAME Teacher Facilitator» (Micro-credential) Certification to educators

On Wednesday, October 2, 2024, the Award Ceremony for the «STEAME Teacher Facilitator» (Micro-credential) Certification to educators was successfully held in Nicosia, Cyprus. This event celebrated the achievements of 32 educators who completed a 25-hour certification program organized from February to June 2024 by the Cyprus Mathematical Society, in collaboration with the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, the European Association of Career Guidance, and the University of the National Education Commission of Krakow.
The certificates were awarded by the Minister of Education, Sports and Youth of Cyprus, Dr. Athena Michaelidou.
This ceremony marked a major milestone for the STEAME Teacher Academy project, as it was the first certification of our pilot training program and received the support of the Minister of Education of Cyprus, reinforcing our commitment to advancing STEAME education.