Developing a STEAM Roadmap for Science Education in Horizon Europe 

1 SEPTEMBER 2022 - 31 AUGUST 2025
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101058405

The overall aim of the project is to develop a STEAM roadmap for science education in Horizon Europe, i.e. a plan of action that will provide guidance to EU's key funding programme for research and innovation on how to encourage more interest in STEM through the use of artistic approaches, involving creative thinking and applied arts (the “A” in ‘STEAM’).

The consortium aims to provide Europe with this roadmap, through:

• Collaboration and co-creation with the stakeholder communities of science education, research, innovation and creativity, through intensive exchange, dialogue and mutual learning among them which will produce better knowledge and shared understandings of the relevant opportunities, challenges and needs.
• A bottom-up approach emphasising educational practice and practitioners’ agency rather than high-level conceptualizations of STEAM and generic top-down plans (in reality often just vague statements of intention) for its adoption in science education.
• A specific focus on ways to leverage the power of STEAM approaches, as manifested through exemplary cases and best practices, so as to enable a bridging of open science and open schooling which can catalyse an increased impact for science education as a crucial tool for addressing Europe’s current scientific and societal challenges

The originality of Road-STEAMer resides in its overall approach to the development of the STEAM roadmap that will triangulate the knowledge gained from the stakeholder engagement and the analysis of the STEAM practices with the knowledge produced from the analysis of the current educational policies, contexts and frameworks.

Our Target Groups

●    School education teachers, leaders (school heads, authorities, etc), experts
●    Higher education teachers, leaders, experts, lecturers, and universities
●    Informal/non-formal science educators, leaders, experts
●    School education students
●    Higher education students
●    Informal/non-formal science education learners/audience
●    Students’/learners’ parents
●    Research and innovation community members
●    Creative community members, creative industry, arts institutions
●    World of entrepreneurship and business members
●    Policy makers at various levels (local to European)
●    Citizens, third sector organisation members, NGOs

Project Partners
●    The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness (Belgium)
●    Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Greece)
●    Ecsite (Belgium)
●    Association Traces Theories et Reflexions sur l’ Apprendre la Communication et l’ Education Scientifiques (France)
●    Universita ta Malta (Malta)
●    Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
●    Science View (Greece)
●    Zentrum fur Soziale Innovation (Austria)
●    Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica (Italy)
●    Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece)
●    European School Heads Association (Netherlands)
●    University of Exeter (UK)

Road-STEAMer's studies conducted in Malta

One of the Road-STEAMer partners, University of Malta, continues its work in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Faculty of Education through the Science Communication Office under the direction of Dr Edward Duca. This team carries out activities and research in science communication and education, bringing together STEM professionals, artists, educators, researchers, design thinkers and citizens. 

It organises events and workshops on co-creative, co-produced and co-implemented science communication and nature-based solutions, community-led participation, innovative-creative science communication approaches, and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) development approaches in science communication and education.

Road-STEAMer at the Ecsite conference 
The Ecsite Conference is a global meeting of science engagement professionals from over 50 countries who join together to share their expertise, learn from one another and make valuable professional connections.
Road-STEAMer will first meet its partners for the project meeting in Malta just before the Ecsite Conference. Afterwards, Road-STEAMer  will feature in the Project Showcase, the Ecsite Booth and workshops delivered by the project’s partners in Malta. For info, check the conference program.

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