ICSE – International Centre for Stem Education

GEM Summer School in Jaén
2021-06-28 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | 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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Environmental socio-scientific issues in (teacher) education for science & mathematics
2021-05-20 13:45 - 17:00 | Online
Abstract
Should vaccination be compulsory? Is it possible to use only ‘renewable energy’? Can global warming be stopped?
The relevance of paying attention to this type of socially relevant scientific dilemma’s (socio-scientific issues) in teacher training for science and mathematics is increasing. After all, education has the task of preparing pupils for a future in which they are able to think along and decide on these kinds of issues.
SSI are little structured, open problems or dilemmas that have multiple solutions. Underlying data plays an important role in making decisions on such issues. Using mathematics, in particular statistics on large databases, therefor can play an important part in this.
In this multiplier event of the Ensite project we will talk about how science and mathematics teacher educators can incorporate SSI. We focus on environmental SSI and use experiences and ideas from Ensite and other European projects on this subject (Parrise, MasDiv).
We invite teacher educators of STEM-subjects and other interested parties to register.
Schedule

13:45-14:00
Introduction

14:00-14:45
Invited plenary – Christine Knippels (Utrecht University, Freudenthal Institute) – SSI and IBL
To make responsible decisions regarding SSIs, such as increased carbon dioxide emissions, deployment of resources, citizens need to consider both scientific knowledge and personal and social values and beliefs. Fostering these aspects of democratic citizenship is an important aim of science education (European Commission, 2015). SSIBL aims to foster responsible research and innovation through science education, by connecting SSIs with inquiry-based learning and citizenship education (Levinson et al., 2017).
Christine will show how SSIBL was developed (for example in the Parrise project), will talk about the challenges of giving the right attention to SSIBL in teacher training, and show some results of recent research: How do pre-service teachers value SSIBL-pedagogy?

14:45-15:00
Break

15:00-16:30
Topic discussions

Participants will learn how to teach science and maths, with the use of socioscientific issues.
Registration
Please register at here.
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2nd MOST Consortium Meeting online
2021-04-28 09:00 - 2021-04-29 17:00
The MOST consortium of 23 educational and environmental expert teams from ten European countries meet for the second time to exchange information on the current status of the project. The aim is to find out how to open schools and bring teachers, students and citizens together to work on environmental issues, even in times dominated by the pandemic.
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3rd ENSITE Consortium Meeting in Malta
2020-11-16 13:00 - 2020-11-18 13:00 | Malta
The ENSITE Consortium will hold its 3rd project meeting in Malta.
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2nd ENSITE Consortium Meeting in Prague
2020-05-18 13:00 - 2020-05-20 16:00 | Prague, Czech Republic
The ENSITE consortium will meet for the second time in Prague. Focus of the meeting is to further develope and revise the modules for initial teacher education by giving feedback and advice.
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ENSITE Multiplier Event in Utrecht
2020-05-14 13:00 - 2020-05-15 16:00 | Utrecht, the Netherlands
Should wind power plants be set-up everywhere? Should we forbid the use of drinking water for cleaning and gardening? This type of socio-scientific issues is receiving increasing attention in teacher education for STEM subjects. The use of mathematics plays an important role when exploring these issues. In particular the use of statistics to analyse the ‘big’ data involved, can help taking decisions.
During this mulitplier event (ME) of the project Ensite Environmental Socio-Scientific Issues in Initial teacher education) we will present and discuss examples of how students in Initial teacher education can learn about statistics and SSI and how they in turn can teach this in secondary school.

Target group: Teacher educators of STEM
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Dates:
Thursday May 14, 13:00-17:00 International meeting (ME): Environmental SSI in mathematics and science teacher education
Friday may 15, 10:00-16:00 national (dutch) conference for teacher educators of STEM, with an international track (in English) on Environmental Socio-Scientific Issues in Initial teacher education

More information: https://elbd.sites.uu.nl/2020/02/17/maatschappelijk-technologische-vraagstukken-in-het-beta-onderwijs-14-mei-2020/
If you want to participate please send an email to: m.wijers@uu.nl
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ICSE Consortium Meeting
2020-01-29 13:30 - 2020-01-31 12:00 | Freiburg, Germany
We are looking forward to our next ICSE Consortium Meeting in Freiburg!
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1st ENSITE Project Meeting
2020-01-27 12:00 - 2020-01-29 12:00
The Kick-off meeting of our new project ENSITE (Environmental Socio-Scientific Issued in Initial Teacher Education) brings all eleven partners from across Europe together in Freiburg.
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Final MaSDiV Project Meeting
2019-10-09 09:00 - 2019-10-10 18:00 | Freiburg, Germany
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MaSDiV Policy Seminar (by invitation only)
2019-10-08 11:00 - 13:00 | PH Freiburg, University of Education Freiburg, Kunzenweg 21, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79117, Germany
Initiating and Sustaining Cooperation for Innovation in STEM Education
Collaboration between different stakeholders in education is vital for the implementation and mainstreaming of innovative STEM education at school. In order to reach large numbers of teachers, all stakeholders in the field of Professional Development need to cooperate. In the European project MaSDiV, for instance, Ministry-University tandems from each partner country ensure cooperation between the policy and research level, to achieve the highest possible impact. However, cooperation is not always moving straight forward, as different stakeholders have different aims, agendas and schedules. In order to enhance cooperation between different stakeholders, a particular policy seminar was set up as an international forum to reflect and exchange experiences in cooperation on both, the national as well as the European level.
The Policy Seminar is part of the final MaSDiV conference, Educating the Educators III, hosted by ICSE, ICSE Consortium and MaSDiV. During the seminar, Mónika Kepe-Holmberg, EU – DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, will illuminate the importance of cooperation on the European level. Experts from policy, research and industry will present recent models and examples of best practices for cooperation in Europe. Policy makers, researchers and stakeholders in the field of Professional Development from all over Europe are invited to discuss and reflect various questions concerning the approach and implementation of successful cooperation: Strategies and communication, benefits, risks and challenges.
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International Conference “Educating the Educators III”
2019-10-07 - 2019-10-08 | PH Freiburg, University of Education Freiburg, Kunzenweg 21, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79117, Germany
International Conference on approaches to scaling-up professional development in maths and science education. Following the first two successful conferences, the third conference will continue to offer participants from all over Europe and beyond a platform to explore, discuss and exchange approaches to scaling up professional development in maths and science education.
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STEM PD Net Multiplier Event: International STEM Education Conference in Istanbul
2019-06-13 - 2019-06-14 | Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey

6th STEM PD Net Project Meeting in Istanbul
2019-06-11 - 2019-06-12 | Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey

5th MaSDiV Project Meeting
2019-05-15 13:00 - 2019-05-17 15:00 | Cyprus, Greece

STEM PD Net Project Meeting
2018-11-26 - 2018-11-29 | Sofia, Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
We are looking forward to our next STEM PD Net Project Meeting. This time it will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in November 2018.
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InclusMe Project Meeting
2018-10-22 - 2018-10-25 | St. George’s Bay, St. George's Bay, Malta
We are looking foward to announce our next InclusMe Project Meeting, which will take place in Malta, October 2018. More about the InclusMe project: inclusme-project.eu
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MaSDiV Project Meeting
2018-10-22 - 2018-10-25 | St. George’s Bay, St. George's Bay, Malta
The next MaSDiV Project Meeting will take place in St. George’s Bay, Malta. We are looking foward to seeing all our partners there in October! For more information on the MaSDiV project, please visit our website: masdiv-project.eu
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