Empowering Secondary School STEM Education with AI Training and Resources for Students and Educators / FUTURE-STEM-HUB
Programme: Erasmus+
Key action: Cooperation partnerships in school education
Start date: September 1, 2024
End date: August 31, 2026
Duration: 24 months
Coordinator: Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Partners:
- Tetra Solutions Ltd., Bulgaria
- M&M Profuture Training, S.L., Spain
- Kutahya Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu, Türkiye
- COOPETAPE, Cooperativa de Ensino CRL, Portugal
Objectives:
The primary aim of the project is to advance and facilitate the integration of AI topics into STEM education at the secondary school level.
The specific objectives are to:
- To provide teachers and students with educational materials that introduce the fundamental concepts of AI and foster awareness and discussion regarding their societal and ethical implications.
- To furnish teachers and students with practical learning materials that facilitate students’ initial forays into AI using Python programming.
- To equip teachers with methodological and instructional support for designing and delivering STEM training in the field of AI, thereby enhancing the capacity for incorporating AI topics into secondary school curricula within the project regions.
- To widely disseminate the project results so as to foster the integration of AI topics into secondary school learning environments, thus supporting the transition to AI-benefited EU society.
Target groups:
- Secondary school students (ages 15-18)
- Secondary school teachers, particularly those teaching STEM subjects
- Educational authorities responsible for STEM education development
- School management staff.
Key results:
- Online Course “Digital Primer: Artificial Intelligence Essentials”
- Digital Course: Delving Deeper in AI with Python and Scratch
- E-Toolkit for School Educators: Enhancing AI Skills
- Engagement workshops & coding challenges with students & teachers to pilot the two AI courses, involving min. 100 target group representatives
- Transnational & national teacher training on embedding AI topics into curricula, engaging min. min. 35 secondary school educators
- Student Contests “AI Future Explorers” & Final Conference “Exploring the AI-Driven Future”, gathering 170 target groups representatives and secondary stakeholders.
Project website: www.future-stem-hub.eu