PROmoting STEAM in primary school: partnership for disseminating good practices

Field: School education

Unipi Team Leader: Anna Baccaglini-Frank, Department of Mathematics

With the aim of increasing the levels of achievements and interest in STEAM in primary school, the ProSTEAM project intends to develop educational packages related to STEAM (including contents, science kits and guidelines of implementation) to be implemented at an international level. At total of 10 educational packages will be produced, 5 for 1st and 2nd grades (6 to 8 years old) and another 5 for 3rd and 4th grades (8 to 10 years old). In this regard, experts on STEAM education (higher education teachers and researchers) will collaborate with primary school teachers in order to produce rigorous scientific materials in line with primary school curricula. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) will be one of the themes of the educational packages. A total of nine partners will participate in this project including four universities, a polytechnic institute, and 4 schools from four countries (Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Serbia). In order to accomplish the activities, regular face-to-face meetings will be held to develop the network and promote knowledge and skills amongst partners, including five transnational meetings for planning and monitoring and one LTT (Learning, Teaching, Training Activities). In addition, five Multiplier events are planned to be organized in all the countries participating in this project as a way to disseminate and sustain the project in the long run.

Coordinator: ISPA CRL (Portugal)

Other participants:

INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE TOMAR (Portugal)
Agrupamento de Escolas de Ferreira do Zêzere (Portugal)
UNIVERSITA' DI PISA
UNIVERZITET U BEOGRADU (Serbia)
VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS (Lithuania)
Osnovna skola "Lazar Savatic" (Serbia)
Vilnius Joachim Lelevel Engineering Gymnasium (Lithuania)
ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO DON P. BORGHI - REGGIO EMILIA (Italy)

Start date: 01-02-2022

End date: 31-01-2025

EU Grant: 313.112,00 €

Project website: http://www.pro-steam.eu