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International Conference on Approaches to Scaling-up Professional Development in STEM Education

ETE Special 2027: Research Perspectives in STEM Education

To honour Prof. Dr. Katja Maaß’s 60th birthday, we are organising the international conference Educating the Educators: Research Perspectives in STEM Education (ETE Special) in Freiburg on 9–11 June 2027.

The conference will focus on three areas:

  • Real-World Applications in STEM Education
  • STEM Education in the Digital Era
  • Diversity in STEM Education

Keynote speakers will be:

  • Prof. Dr. Alan H. Schoenfeld (UC Berkeley)
  • Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kaiser (University of Hamburg)
  • Prof. Dr. Knut Neumann (IPN Kiel)
  • Prof. Dr. Michèle Artigue (Paris Diderot University)

Details on the programme, submissions and registration will follow shortly.

We are happy to welcome you to Freiburg for another great Educating the Educators conference!

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ETE V – a celebratory finale for the ICSE Academy

The fifth Educating the Educators (ETE V) conference, held on May 8–9, 2025 in Limassol, Cyprus, marked the grand finale of the EU co-funded ICSE Academy – proSTEM project. Organised in collaboration with the University of Nicosia and the ICSE consortium, the event brought together 121 participants from 26 countries, including STEM teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and policy makers.

Under the theme “21st Century Challenges in STEM Education”, the conference offered a rich programme featuring:

  • Three keynote speeches by Jonathan Osborne (Stanford), Anastasios Hovardas (Cyprus), and Hilda Borko (Stanford), addressing scientific literacy, STEAM pedagogy, and leadership in professional development.
  • A dedicated Teachers’ Day with interactive workshops tailored to classroom practice.
  • 24 poster and oral presentations showcasing innovative approaches to STEM teaching and teacher education.
  • A European Policy Round Table with high-level representatives from the European Commission and national ministries, resulting in a strong recommendation for a European-wide framework to recognise teacher mobility experiences.

ETE V served as a vibrant platform for sharing innovative practices in STEM teacher education, with a strong focus on inclusion, sustainability, digitalisation, and mobility. The conference celebrated the achievements of ICSE Academy, which over three years developed and tested impactful professional learning formats such as job shadowing, summer schools, and the European Workshop Series. These formats were praised for their accessibility, transferability, and alignment with European priorities like sustainability, inclusion, and digitalisation.

A key outcome of the final Policy Round Table was a call for a European-wide framework to recognise teacher mobility experiences, underlining the systemic relevance of the project’s results.

ETE V was not only a closing event but a launchpad for future collaboration. The conference proceedings will be published open access in 2026, and many partners committed to continuing the work through new initiatives.

Educating the Educators (ETE) is an international conference series on professional development that brings together teacher educators, policy makers, teachers and various other stakeholders related to STEM education.

Past Educating the Educators Conferences

Following up on a core barrier to a broader take-up of innovation in STEM education, a conference series Educating the Educators (ETE) was established in 2014. ETE focuses on approaches to scaling-up STEM teacher professional development and has, though a research-based conference, from the outset been designed to enhance exchange between research, policy and practice.

  • Limassol, 2025: Educating the Educators 2025 took place in in Limassol on the beautiful island of Cyprus. The conference focused on “21st Century Challenges: Technology, Sustainability, Interdisciplinarity and Diversity”.
  • Leiden, 2023 : Educating the Educators VI took place in the inspiring Naturalis Museum in Leiden in the Netherlands. This time the conference focused on the topic “STEM and Open Schooling for Sustainability Education”.
  • Freiburg, 2019: Following the first two conferences, ETE III continued to provide a space for an exciting exchange of knowledge on approaches to and concrete materials for scaling up professional development in STEM education.
  • Freiburg, 2016: Educating the Educators II boasts a highly innovative concept combining a classical research conference with interactive formats such as a Policy Seminar, a Materials Market and a Company Visit.
  • Essen, 2014: The first Educating the Educators Conference on international approaches to scaling-up professional development in maths and science education takes place in Essen.

Educating the Educators Conferences Books

The first five Educating the Educators conferences took place in 2014 in Essen, Germany, 2016 and 2019 in Freiburg, Germany, 2023 in Leiden, Netherlands and 2025 in Limassol, Cyprus. Like the upcoming conferences, the previous events offered participants from all over the world a platform to explore, discuss and exchange approaches to scaling up professional development (PD) in math and science education. If you want to find out more about the past conferences, please take a look at our conference proceedings and conference books from the ETE I, ETE II, ETE III and ETE IV.

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