STEM PD Net – ICSE – International Centre for Stem Education

European Network of STEM Professional Development Centres

STEM PD Net (2016-2019) is an innovative Erasmus+ project to strengthen European collaboration and exchange among STEM Professional Development Centres in Europe. The project’s core aims include providing selections of STEM Professional Development (PD) materials of the highest quality and to develop ready-to-use guidelines and reference materials for STEM PD providers which are suitable for use across Europe. Further STEM PD Net key targets are to reflect and promote the organisational development of the centres in each national context; and strengthen the voice of these centres throughout Europe.

In these ways, STEM PD Net is contributing to improving the quality and relevance of STEM teacher PD on a large scale. The project offers transnational exchange and mutual learning opportunities in a stable European network and links research with practice.

The STEM PD Net project is backed by the European STEM Professional Development Centre Network. Since its founding in 2014, this network is already comprised of 30 PD centres from 12 European countries – and is expanding continuously. The University of Education Freiburg serves as the network coordinator.

The STEM PD Net project has received funding from Erasmus+ KA2 (Key action for ‘Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices’) and is coordinated at the International Centre for STEM Education (ICSE) of the University of Education Freiburg, Germany.

Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Katja Maaß, International Centre for STEM education, University of Education Freiburg

Project team Freiburg: ICSE Team

Project Consortium:

Assoc. Prof. Stefan Zehetmeier, University Klagenfurt, Austria

Assoc. Prof. Suzanne Kapelari, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Assoc. Prof. Toni Chehlarova, Institute of Mathematics & Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Ivenlina Pashova, Ljuben Karavelov School, Bulgaria

Stephan Griebel, Texas Instruments Education Technology GmbH, Germany

Prof. Dr. Günter Törner, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Mar Jiménez, Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture & Sport, Spain

Ruta Mazgelytė,Education Development Centre, Lithuania

Andzelika Andreikeniene, Gymnasium of the President Valdas Adamkus, Lithuania

Claes Klasander, Linköping University, Sweden

Dr. Peter Nyström, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Hilmi Colakoglu,Turkish Ministry of National Education, Turkey

Assoc. Professor Gultekin Cakmakci, Hacettepe University, Turkey

Disclaimer

The creation of resources has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union under grant no. 2016-1-DE03-KA201-023103. Neither the European Union/European Commission nor the project’s national funding agency [PAD] are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.