ICSE – International Centre for Stem Education

„Can You Escape?“
2022-07-20 08:00 - 2022-07-26 14:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Freiburg, Germany
Maybe you have heard about escape rooms and wondered, what is that all about? Maybe you have already visited an escape room with your family or friends or cracked the right code for an online escape room? Escape rooms are fun, escape rooms are challenging and escape rooms can teach you a thing or two. If you take part in the summer school this year,, you can find out, how to develop one entirely by yourself!
You will undertake a discovery road of escape room planning, design and printing, participate in activities that are embedded in real life situations. You will apply knowledge in different STEM areas and learn new concepts in a hands-on, collaborative and supporting environment. You will meet successful women who will share their experiences in choosing a career in STEM field: being a part of research on the use of 3D-printing, entrepreneurship with STEM-background.
Contact Person: Dita Kreuz at dita.kreuz@ph-freiburg.de
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“GirlsClub WIN Summer days: Three days of science and fun”
2022-07-12 - 2022-07-17
Are you in 3rd or 4th grade, have you participated in GirlsClub WIN and find math, computer science and physics interesting? Then sign up NOW for the new GirlsClub WIN Summer Days program. Because math, computer science and physics need more girls! Are you in for the WIN?
You don’t have to get high grades, motivation is more important to join!
WIN = Wiskunde – Informatica – Natuurkunde (Mathematics – Computer Science – Physics)
What will you do? You’ll be coming to Utrecht University for three days on 11-13 July. Every day you will work on mathematics, computer science and physics and meet (female) scientists and female students. Every day is different and we work on an art project. You get to work yourself, for example by doing an experiment or programming. And you get the chance to look around in places of the university where students normally do not come.
Finally, and perhaps most fun of all, you will get to know 29 other WIN`ers who, like you, are enthusiastic about mathematics, computer science and physics! Together you will follow the program of the Summer Days, get to know each other better and discover the university together.

Contact Person: Vincent Jonker at v.jonker@uu.nl
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Empowering girls to unveil their digital, entrepreneurial and STEM potential
2022-07-11 - 2022-07-15
Outstanding female role models in STEM will empower 60 female students from the province of
Jaén (Spain) to show, enjoy and make the most of their STEM, digital and entrepreneurial potential.
These girls will live a real research experience guided by excellent mentors, leaders of cutting-edge
research projects related to socially relevant STEM topics at the University of Jaén. The girls will
make the research project their own and will learn about STEM in a totally applied and useful way
while discovering the personal and professional career paths of their mentors. The female role
model will be also represented by lecturers and speakers organizing workshops focusing on digital
skills to solve scientific problems. On the other hand, this Summer Camp has the purpose of sowing
entrepreneurial thinking in girls, thus they will be challenged to design an entrepreneurial proposal
that they will outline with the help of successful entrepreneur women.
The girls will show off their presentation and communication skills at the open-door Final GEM
Conference, where they will enjoy a thought-provoking talk by a renowned researcher in STEM.
They will present the experience lived during the week as well as a poster about their idea of
entrepreneurship making it clear that they can be the leaders of the future and, why not?, also of the
present.
Contact Persons: Marta Romero Ariza at mromero@ujaen.es and María Martín Peciña at mmpecina@ujaen.es
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3rd International STEM Education Conference - Promoting Key Competences in Education
2022-07-02 08:00 - 2022-07-03 17:00 | Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
An international multiplier event in the frames of STEMkey project will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on July 2-3, 2022.
The STEMkey Multiplier Event will take place as part of the 3rd International STEM Education Conference and the 3rd International STEM Teachers Conference, which will be held on July 2-3, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. We are happy to present to you the call for proposals. The conference is organized in collaboration with International Centre for STEM Education (ICSE), İbn Haldun University, and Hacettepe University as part of the STEMkey project. The theme of this year’s conference is “Promoting Key Competences in Education”.
We want to hear what you have to say! We are looking forward to seeing you in Istanbul in July.
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1h4 Girls in STEM - A series of online events to support girls in STEM education
2022-06-30 13:00 - 14:00
ICSE invites you to a 1-hour-crash-workshop on
“Gender-sensitive Didactics in STEM Education: Research Findings and Practice Approaches”
In this workshop participants are introduced to research findings and practice approaches to support girls in STEM. Challenges and successful strategies in STEM education are discussed, new ideas, practical tips, and key insights are shared.

Please find more information concerning the event as well as the registration link here: https://icse.eu/hrf_faq/1h4-girls-in-stem-a-series-of-fee-free-online-events-by-gemnet-part-ii/
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Empowering Girls
2022-06-27 - 2022-06-30 | Online
The summer school will be addressed only to girls 13-15 years old, that is girls who attended classes od secondary education during 2021-2022 school year. It will be held online for three days from 9.00 to 15.00 approximately every day. The girls will be divided in three groups according to their class. A mentor will be responsible for each group as regards the educational part of the camp (e.g., activities, structure of sessions, materials, etc.) while another colleague will be responsible for the communication with parents/guardians for all organizational issues. The girls will be involved in STEM labs based on activities addressing at least two STEM fields. The activities will be adapted to diverse levels and profiles including connections to women’s contribution to STEM fields and favouring the girls’ reflections on their own educational and professional path. With these activities, we aim to (a) introduce the girls to featured STEM fields and corresponding professional spaces, (b) inform girls about women’s contribution to scientific domains, and (c) improve girls self-confidence in their abilities related to STEM.
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Empowering Girls to understand their role in STEM - Colors Uncovered
2022-06-27 - 2022-07-01
The purpose of the summer camp is to engage girls in Cyprus with STEM activities, with an emphasis on understanding the role of STEM, and especially the entrepreneurial potential of the field. More than 12 female scientists, science communicators and educators have worked together to develop interactive activities around the topic of “Colours”. The girls, in small groups will have the opportunity to learn about colours and their importance from the perspective of science, mathematics, technology, engineering and the arts and will collaborate on producing final products and present them. The teams will learn about design process and how to produce and present products, and for the final day of the summer school they will prepare their own product based on knowledge and skills gained during the summer school. The girls will also have the opportunity to work with female scientists, interview female scientists, participate in a field trip at an environmental centre and prepare their own digital advertisements to promote their products.
Contact Person: Maria Evagorou at evagorou.m@unic.ac.cy
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Scientific Excursion around Sustainable World
2022-06-27 - 2022-06-30
The central theme of the summer school is sustainable development. Sustainability has three main pillars: economic, environmental, and social. The sustainable development goals are universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. For this reason, sustainable development is part of the education of most countries around the world. The GEM summer school focuses on presenting the role of science and research in fulfilling the economic, environmental, and social goals of sustainable development. The summer school includes outdoor STEM activities, the use of information and communication technology for simulations and modelling of processes in the landscape and group work, students’ projects, based on the principles of inquiry based learning. The environmental goals of sustainable development are in the focus of the summer school. Participants, teenager girls, will gain knowledge that will help them realize the role of the individual and his conscious steps in the sustainability of life in their surroundings, region and on the planet. The topics that the girls will address in their projects will teach them to understand the context of human activities with respect to the environment, the protection of plant and animal species and to consider and process information in a scientific context. The acquired knowledge and skills will enable girls to prepare activities aimed at sustainable development for their children’s and adult clients in tourism.
Contact Person: Sona Ceretkova sceretkova@ukf.sk
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Smart City
2022-06-20 - 2022-06-22
“The Smart City 2022” Summer School continues the idea of previous Summer Schools – see STEM from a different, unprecedented perspective, be curious, creative and entrepreneurial in designing your life and your vision of a smart city.
The main questions we will seek to answer through the school’s activities are: how do smart technologies create a convenient life? Why STEM + business = innovation?
The Summer School activities should spark curiosity and a desire to create smart environments for ourselves and for people. The girls will learn by asking questions, finding creative solutions and working together with the school’s faculty and university researchers. The main goal of the school activities is to develop the girls in STEM fields, to experience a sense of success in the “here and now” by designing and creating a mini project with Arduino, to motivate them to go deeper into STEM and entrepreneurship, to spark their curiosity to question, to go deeper, to explore, and to create in the pursuit of new values.
Contact Person: Asta Meškauskienė at asta.meskauskiene@fsf.vu.lt
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Teknikkollo
2022-06-20 - 2022-06-23
The purpose of Teknikkollo is to inspire young people to technology, give technical self-confidence and, in the longer term, contribute to a well-thought-out high school choice. Sweden needs a lot of manpower with technical skills going forward and we must all contribute to this! In addition, Sweden needs to level the gender-segregated labour market.
In Teknikkollo we will teach in programming, 3D modelling, 3D printing and use laser cutters as well as several maker moments with electronics as well as programming robots. Our idea is that we teach basics, show possible prototypes they can try to make but that their interest and curiosity will make them later develop their own products based on their own ideas. The whole process is the instructors there and lead them to progress. We will program with Microbits and build products controlled by Microbits. The participants are encouraged to create complex products where they use knowledge from several different new technologies they learned during the week. We have a lot of materials, tools, and knowledge so there are great opportunities to pursue their production ideas. The instructors also serve as good role models for choosing technology and science education. They talk about their experiences, feelings and thoughts about the technology and contexts they have come in contact. In the end of the week they are going to create a simple video to show what they accomplished during the week.
Teknikkollo is free for the participants and they are all allowed to bring a lot of thing home in the end of the camp, etc Microbit. This camp will hopefully be a unique experience of science and technology with other young people. Our idea is that it should not end with the camp but that a genuine interest in technology develops.
Contact Person Linda Samuelsson Linda.samuelsson@jonkoping.se

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ENSITE Summer School in Prague, June 15th-24th
2022-06-15 - 2022-06-24 | Prague, Czech Republic
Socio-scientific Issues in Mathematics and Science Initial Teachers Education
Join a unique intercultural experience preparing you for the future classroom!
Czech Republic, Prague: Univerzita Karlova (CUNI)
Main target group: Students of maths and sciences in ITE programmes at higher education institutions

For implementation of socio-scientific issues (SSI), first-hand experiences are indispensable and in particularly relevant for the future classroom. Yet, prospective science teachers need to be aware of the social realities of many science tasks as well as of culturally different algorithms.
They should be able to perceive social different perspectives and develop socio-scientific sensitivity. Participating students of the ENSITE summer school will have numerous opportunities for intercultural exchange, both within the international student group and outside when meeting local students, teachers, and pupils. This will enable them to gain rich experience connected to their own future profession.

Lectures will be held by an international team of renowned lecturers from 4 countries!
Venue: Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (M. D. Rettigové street 4, closest Metro station – Národní třída or Můstek)
Main target group: Mathematics and natural sciences students in teacher education programmes – also interested teachers welcome!
Application deadline: June 6th, 2022
Award: 3 ECTS credits from Faculty of Education, Charles University, certificate of participation
Language: English
Costs for students of ENSITE partner universities: free of charge
Fee for students of other universities: Attendance fee 100,- EUR. Travel, accommodation and subsistence costs on own expenses.
Organizer: ENSITE Project – Charles University Faculty of Education

Contact for information and application: martin.bilek@pedf.cuni.cz

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ICSE's Quarterly Problem - Learning Opportunities for Social Participation
2022-04-29
Current societal problems such as climate change or the Covid pandemic are increasingly putting topics related to mathematics and science at the center of public discussions. To participate in these discussions, people need the skills and knowledge to engage with, discuss, and make reasoned decisions about mathematical and scientific ideas and information. Therefore, these skills and knowledge should be acquired as early as at school. With our Quarterly Problems, teachers can provide learning opportunities that support the development of responsible citizens.
Alice Hesse shares in a short video, uploaded to our website on April 29th, what our Quarterly Problems are about and how they encourage students to consider social, economic, political, and ethical aspects of the learning context.

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1hour4 Girls in STEM | Gender, Identity, and Intersectionality in STEM Education
2022-04-28 13:00 - 14:00
This free online workshop provides you with an insight into the role of gender and stereotypes, STEM identity, and intersectionality which are at the roots of gender gaps in STEM education, studies and careers.
Together we will unpack personal identities and reflect on them in the context of STEM education. You will gain a basic understanding of the mechanisms behind inequities in STEM and develop ideas to help students build STEM identities.

This time’s one hour for girls in STEM will be led by Dr. Anneke Steegh, an educational researcher with particular interest in diversity and gender-equality in STEM education.
Find out more about Dr. Steegh as well as the workshop here.

As soon as you registered yourself, we will send you the Zoom link.

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STEMkey's 4th Transnational Project Meeting
2022-04-07 09:30 - 12:30
During this meeting, the main focus is on finding solutions to assess STEM key competences in classroom settings. Assessment methods are of high importance, as only when teachers are enabled to assess learners’ performances upon completion of any given task/subject lesson/programme can they realistically implement these activities in their classrooms. Key competences pose a particular challenge here, as key competences are a combination fo knowledge, skills and attitudes. Whereas knowledge bits have been assessed for ages, this does not apply to skills and least of all attitudes in STEM education so far.
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Socio-Scientific Issues in Mathematics and Science Teachers Education Spring School 2022 in Slovakia
2022-04-01 | Nitra, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Intensive program for higher education learners and for teaching staff in Nitra, Slovakia

We would like to invite all interested students to our Spring School in April 2022 (exact date is tbd) in the beautiful city of Nitra in Slovakia. During this ten-day event you will have the opportunity to explore socio-scientific issues (SSI) in the education of maths and science teachers, such as:

Reasoning, argumentation and critical thinking using media reports as a starting point
Decision-making based on confronting scientific positions
Designing a SSI lesson II with focus on appropriate methods to promote creativity, critical thinking and reasoning
Scaffolding, supporting students by providing a framework how to deal with SSI
SSI and assessment of student learning

Especially welcome are Science and maths Initial Teacher Education students as well as PhD students in mathematics and science education.

What awaits you at this ten-day spring school?
You will attend plenary lectures given by the ENSITE project partners, among others. Exciting seminars and workshops also await you.
At the ENSITE Spring School, it is important to us that you actively participate in the discussions and help shape the event with your contributions. In addition, you will gain an insight into the aims and objectives of this exciting EU project. The event is intended to integrate socio-scientific issues into your future teaching and academic work. All participants will have the opportunity to present their acquired knowledge and experience in a scientific colloquium at the end of our spring school.
Your stay will be accompanied by a cultural programme. Among other things, you will make excursions to culturally and/or scientifically significant sites as well as visits to relevant exhibitions and museums.
As a confirmation of participation, you will receive a certificate stating the scope of the activity and the learning outcomes achieved. Your work and achievement will be recognised by 3ECTS credits.

Have we raised your interest? Please contact our host team from Slovakia. More information will be available on the event website from December 2021.

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3rd MOST Consortium Meeting
2021-12-01 - 2021-12-02 | Online
In the first practical phase of the project, which has now been completed, many different School-Community-Projects (SCPs) were launched in the ten participating countries. The consortium is now meeting to share the results from the first round, analyse experiences and further develop the different approaches. The evaluation of the data collected in the course of the evaluation will also be a focus of the meeting – online again due to the current situation.

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Online International Forum on Teacher Professional Development and Socio-Scientific Issues
2021-11-30 10:00 - 16:00 | Online
This stand-alone, international event brings together experts in the area of socio-scientific issues and teacher education to discuss recent trends, synergies and collaboration as well as exploitation capacity.
The specific objective of this multiplier event is to provide a venue for ITE teachers and curriculum developers in Higher Education, and other policy makers to discuss and share good practices and ideas on further improving teacher education related to socio-scientific issues. The multiplier event starts with an invited plenary, followed by workshops and lectures that provide concrete examples of how to include SSIs in ITE for science and mathematics teacher educators.

Schedule:
10-10.30 Teacher Professional Development and SSI – The Ensite Project (Maria Evagorou, University of Nicosia)
10.30- 11.15 Formative Assessment in Socio-scientific Issues-based Science Lessons: Examples from Dutch teachers’ (Dury Bayram Jacobs, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
11.15 – 12.00 Promoting Collective Activism on Socio-Scientific Issues through Communities of Practice (Pedro Reis, Instituto de Educacao, Lisbon)
Lunch break & Recorded poster sessions with ENSITE
2 pm – 4 pm round table (15-minute presentations) and discussions (names of invited experts will be shared next week)

You can register here.

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GEM Network Kick-Off Meeting, online, November 11, 2-5:30 p.m. (UTC/GMT+1)
2021-11-11 14:00 - 17:30 | Online
The project GEM Consortium would like to kindly invite all interested parties to participate in the GEM Network Kick-Off meeting, taking place: November 11, 2 – 5:30 p.m. (UTC/GMT+1) virtually:
https://zoom.us/j/98338946823?pwd=[REDACTED]
As a member of the Europe-wide network you will on the one hand be sensitised to gender-equitable STEM education, receive information on relevant gender topics (deficits in STEM/digital education, drop-out rates of girls, roles and barriers of girls, serious upcoming lack of digital skills, loss of innovation capacity for Europe etc.). On the other hand, you will help shaping the network with your contributions and become active yourself: share your experiences, best practices and knowledge, information on equal opportunities for girls in STEM/ICT, implement a variety of awareness-raising activities in society.
On November 11 we would like to inform you about the GEM project and the role of the GEM Network, as well as offer you to take a closer look on best practices in creating good learning environments at the example of Slovakia. You will have a chance to discuss interesting questions arising from the speaker’s presentations. Together with stakeholders from around Europe you will have a chance to think about other actions and activities that can inspire and support girls on their journey towards STEM and ICT professions.
Please find a detailed agenda and information on meeting speakers:
Sharing best practices and personal stories
2 – 2:30 p.m. Mrs. Dita Kreuz (project GEM manager) and Mrs. Sona Ceretkova: Welcome and GEM project introduction, National GEM Team background: example Slovakia
2:30 – 3 p.m. Mrs. Ľubica Rozborova, RISOTO (Respectful Inclusion, Social Opportunity, Tolerance; NGO), Bratislava
Mrs. Rozborova is CEO of RISOTO, which conducts audits, consults, designs processes, and trains employees and management to help the company get on the path to building a truly inclusive organization. The RISOTO also design and manage externally funded projects delivering social value. The primary areas of expertise include Human Rights, Gender Equality, Arts and Culture, Green Innovations, Education, and Social Entrepreneurship.
Discussion in groups on gender equality.
3:15 – 4:15 p.m. Mrs. Zuzana Staňáková, Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (CVTI SR), Bratislava
Mrs. Staňáková works in the CVTI SR in the department of international projects and currently also in the position of a contact person for gender equality. CVTI SR is currently working on creating a system of support for research institutions and universities with the integration of Gender Equality into research and innovation.
and prof. Dr. Ing. Jana Žiarovská, PhD., Slovak Agricultural University (SPU) in Nitra.
Professor Žiarovská will share her personal story as successful woman in science and research in genetics and molecular biology and her carrier as the university professor.
Discussion in groups on questions dealing with the institutional strategies towards to gender equality and female scientists support.
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Mrs. Petra Kotuliaková, NGO “Aj Ty v IT” (You in IT), Bratislava
Mrs. Kotuliaková is CEO of Aj Ty v IT, the civic association “Aj Ty v IT” was established in 2012. At a time when the number of girls at IT faculties of universities fluctuated for a long time between 3% – 5% of the total number of students of these university programs in Slovakia. The NGO activities are focused to motivation, education and building the community of woman in IT sector. “So that the IT sector doesn’t come either about one clever woman.”
Discussion in groups on women and girls in IT sector.
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Summary of discussions, further questions, outlook.
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PBE 2021 - Project-based education and other activating strategies in science education
2021-11-04 - 2021-11-05 | Prague, Czech Republic
Pre-service training is crucial to promote innovative educational approaches. Research has shown that, activating strategies – such as project-based and inquiry-based teaching and learning – need to be trained in pre-service teacher training, as teachers who have not experienced and practiced it, will unlikely apply such strategies in their future practice.
At the same time, it seems that applying these strategies requires gradual steps. Students need to develop a growing autonomy of their own learning step by step. From the teachers’ competences point of view it is important to choose appropriate amount of scaffolding and its successive decreasing.
PBE conference has actively supported future and practicing STEM teachers for a decade, come and join our journey!
PBE 2021 is organised by and at the Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University, Czech Republic, with support of other STEM teacher training experts.
The STEMkey project will contribute to the conference with its latest insight into competence-based and interdisciplinary STEM education.

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GEM Summer School in Nitra, Slovakia
2021-09-24 - 2021-09-27, 2021-07-12 - 2021-07-16 | Nitra, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
More than a Trip – outdoor STEM scientific activities

The summer school in Nitra offers outdoor STEM activities for girls between the age of 15 – 18. They will learn about landscape scientific research through the observation of selected protected areas like a botanical garden and protected landscape areas. Activities will be supported by digital technologies and take place both in the field and in the laboratory.

Contact Person: Jarmila Čameková
Website: will be available later on
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GEM Summer School in Malta
2021-09-13 - 2021-09-17 | Malta University, Malta
Girls4STEM Malta Summer School

This free summer school at the University of Malta is for girls who have finished year 7 of their schooling (around age 12).
Participants will participate in team activities linked to real life problems in which they apply their knowledge of different STEM areas and learn new concepts in a hands-on, collaborative environment. The summer schools will also include meeting and working with women involved in exciting work such as research on the use of electromagnetics for medical applications.

Summer School Dates: 13, 15 and 17 September 2021
Contact Person: Dr. Josette Farrugia
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ENSITE Multiplier Event in Turkey
2021-08-28 - 2021-08-29 | Cappadocia, Turkey, Turkey
Theme: Incorporating Socio-Scientific Issues in STEM Education
Hacettepe University, Turkey
How would you persuade someone to take COVID-19 vaccine? How can we tackle with climate change? As a teacher, how would you use socio-scientific issues in your classroom practice?
The citizens make their decisions based on their knowledge, beliefs, social values, worldviews, as well as based on the understanding about science and its nature. The participation of the public in discussion, policy debates and decision-making about science-related issues is essential to maintain a healthy democracy. This ENSITE Multiplier Event aims to discuss with teachers, teacher educators and policy makers how to incorporate socio-scientific issues in STEM education. The Event will take place as part of the 2nd International STEM Education Conference and the 2nd International STEM Teachers Conference, which will be held on August 28-29, 2021 in Cappadocia, Turkey. Accordingly, the theme of this year’s conference is “incorporating socio-scientific issues in STEM education”. There will be plenary talks, workshops, poster presentations and show and talk sessions. In particular, outcomes of the ENSITE project and other national and European projects on SSIs will be presented at this event.
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GEM Summer School in Vilnius, Lithuania
2021-08-16 08:00 - 2021-08-19 17:00 | Vilnius University, Lithuania
Smart City 2021

Smart city and home – already a reality? Yes! Better yet, we offer girls (age 12-14) to learn for themselves how to apply automatisation solutions for safe and comfortable life.
The summer school will take place at Vilnius University. During the school, playful educational activities will be implemented developing girls’ algorithmic thinking, creativity and programming skills. The girls will meet with the executives of the TeachLeadTeach company and Business Machinery Company to get acquainted with the activities of the companies and the success stories of the managers.

Contact persons: Asta Meškauskienė and Aušra Kynienė
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GEM Summer School in Freiburg
2021-07-19 - 2021-07-22 | PH Freiburg, University of Education Freiburg, Kunzenweg 21, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79117, Germany
The summer school in Freiburg will take place from July 19th to July 22nd as a hybrid summer school – certain activities will be conducted during the morning in virtual spaces with online meetings and in presence at the University of Education in Freiburg during the afternoon. Thereby the participants will be split into groups of three to five with one assigned female mentor. The camp offers activities centered around STEM and ICT subjects and aim to increase the interest of the participating girls aged 12 -19. The programme will include activities with links to real life problems in which the girls can apply their STEM knowledge and acquire new concepts in a hands-on and collaborative environment. Certain activities are centered around designing escape rooms, as well as 3D-printing.

Contact Person: Oliver Straser
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GEM Summer School in Athens
2021-07-05 - 2021-07-07 | Athens, Greece
Athens Summer School 2021
This 3-day online summer school targeting girls 13-15 years old will take place online from 5-7 July 2021. The event aims at including the participants in STEM labs, where they are exposed to at least 2 STEM fields. For the summer schools the participating girls will be split up into three groups, adapted to the diverse levels and profiles of the participants with one mentor each. Additionally, the girls will learn about women’s contribution to STEM, potential future professional spaces in STEM fields in order to further self reflection in regard to the girls educational path and to increase the participants self-confidence regarding STEM.
Contact Person: Eleni Kli and Griogos Psycharis
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GEM Summer School in Jönköping, Sweden
2021-06-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Jönköping University, Sweden
Sommer School “Teknikkollo”

Girls aged 12-16 are invited to join the free four day long summer camp at UppTech in Jönköping. The summer school is taking place for multiple groups in three consecutive weeks starting in the middle of June 2021.
The purpose of the summer school is to inspire young girls in technology, to give technical confidence and in the long term to contribute to a well thought out high school choice. The school will include lessons in programming, 3D modelling, 3D printing and the use of laser cutters.
The school is a collaboration between UppTech, Jönköping University and the EU-funded project GEM.

Contact Person: Linda Samuelsson
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GEM Summer School in Jaén
2021-06-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
Empowering girls to unveil their digital, entrepreneurial and STEM potential

16 female scientists will mentor 60 girls from Jaén in their own research projects around exciting topics like artificial intelligence for a better world, using social media data for making good decisions, the secret life of waste and new materials, microorganisms zoos and much more. The community of girls and female mentors will experience and discuss the social relevance of the research conducted by close role models and will share a wide range of activities, including outdoors visits to interesting natural places, speeches by inspiring female entrepreneurs and playful interactive activities. In the end the participating girls will present their projects to their family and the whole community and disseminate the experience through media.

Contact Persons: Marta Romero Ariza and María Martín Peciña
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Nicosia Summer School for Girls
2021-06-22 - 2021-06-25
Empowering Girls to Understand their Role in STEM

The summer school for girls (age 12-14) from schools across Cyprus will take place June 22-25, 2021 in Nicosia.
Girls will be empowered to understand the role of STEM, and especially the entrepreneurial potential of the field. Female scientists, science communicators and educators have worked together to develop interactive activities around the topic of “Colours”. The girls will have the opportunity to learn about colours and their importance from the perspective of science, mathematics, technology, engineering and the arts and will collaborate on producing final products and present them. They also get to work with female scientists, do a field trip to an environmental centre and prepare their own digital advertisements to promote their products.

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GEM Girls Club in Utrecht, Netherlands
2021-05-31 - 2021-12-09 | Utrecht, the Netherlands
GEM Girlsclub WIN
(‘Wiskunde, Informatica, Natuurkunde’ -> Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics)

Utrecht University has shifted from a regular summer school programme for Dutch girls to a yearlong programme of Girlsclub-days, due to the Corona Pandemic. The programme is set for 24 girls on each day between 14 and 15 years old and participants will get to know young female scientists who are already established in the field and young women just entering the fields of computer science, mathematics, and physics. Activities include programming, designing, doing experiments as well as behind the scenes faculty access.

Dates:
31 May 2021
21 June 2021
14 October 2021
9 December 2021

Contact Person: Marjolein Gelauff and Vincent Jonker
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