Streaming girls and women into STEAM education, innovation and research.
Context
The main objective of STREAM IT is to initiate change about the persisting gender inequalities in STEM education, research, and innovation to contribute to the implementation of the ‘The European Manifesto for gender-inclusive STE(A)M education and careers.’ By encouraging sustainable collaboration of STEM-oriented businesses, secondary and higher education institutions, research organisations, as well as informal science education establishments, NGOs, and civil society organisations, STREAM IT provides several tools for closing the existing gender gap in STEM education and career.
Objectives
- Empowering underrepresented groups in STEM;
- Piloting and fostering the integration of STEAM approaches in STEM education by synthesising previous knowledge and networks;
- Promoting gender inclusive career paths and increasing the talent pipeline in the STEM fields together with the attractiveness of STEM careers;
- Supporting STEM education providers through knowledge sharing, capacity building to remove gender-based barriers including gender stereotypes in STEM education.
Activities
- Research previous and running initiatives, projects and good practices on STEM education and gender equality;
- Create the Virtual Makerspace for STEAM approaches;
- Raise awareness and foster the active participation of girls and women in STEM.
Resources
- Capitalization and Needs-based Methodology for STEM education
- Mentoring Programme empowering young talents in STEM education;
- National Inspiration Hubs for STEM educators;
- Policy recommendations for national/regional and EU stakeholders contributing to wider EU policy objectives and ‘The European Manifesto for gender-inclusive STE(A)M education and careers’.
Impact
- Synergies between research & innovation and higher education policies and programmes;
- Modernised higher education sector, addressing higher education, research, and innovation;
- Increased number of interconnected knowledge ecosystems, strong in knowledge creation, circulation and use.
Partners
- HÉTFA Research Institute (Hungary, coordinator)
- F6S (Ireland)
- Steinbeis 2I (Germany)
- Regional Agency for Entrepreneurship and Innovations (Bulgary)
- Babes Bolyai University (Romania)
- Sunrise Valley Technology Park (Lithuania)
- CESIE ETS (Italy)
- Nők a Tudományban Egyesület (Hungary)
- Technology Park Varaždin (Croatia)
- HIŠA – House of Experiments (Slovenia)
- Bureau of Research, Innovations and Technologies (Ukraine)
- Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia)
- ADDSEN (Slovakia)
- Universidad de Burgos (Spain)
- Foundation for Management and Industrial Research Foundation Skopje (North Macedonia)
- ReadLab Brussels (Belgium)
- Research Innovation and Development Lab (Grecia, associate partner)
- EIT Food (Poland)
- STEM Ísland (Iceland)
- Women in Tech Gothenburg (Sweden)
- Association of Business Women in Serbia (Serbia)
