STEAME Teacher Facilitators Academy (www.steame-academy.eu)
Project code: 101102619 — STEAME-ACADEMY
Duration: June 2023 – May 2026
It is widely accepted and documented through studies and references that school students lack
competences and skills at the completion of the cycle of their school studies. As one of the key
factors that can develop competences and skills in school students, especially in grades 6-12, is the
known multidiscipline and multi-science project based learning activity. In the last 15 years we have
seen the development from STEM to STEAM and now to STEAME (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Entrepreneurship) becoming the subject set that through project
based learning activity of school students, is considered the kinetic energy for producing the creators
and innovators of the future. The catalyst in making this a reality are the subject teachers in service
and the future student teachers through their initial training at the university level. This project will
develop a model through a STEAME Teacher Facilitators Academies networked through a European
Federation of such Academies at the local level, which will support the change to the future schools
with main actors the teacher facilitators as the future professionals and experts of learning change
and facilitators of competence and skills development in youth.
The STEAME Teacher Facilitators Academies will support the training of service teachers and the
training of student teachers. At certain stage the service teachers will serve as mentors of the
student teachers throughout a European mobility based system. This will create a networking
between school education and university education and possibly industry, working together as cocreators
for the sustainable development between teacher education providers with impact on the
quality of education in Europe. This will support the continuous professional development of future
teachers and lay the ground for the future schools of STEAME project based learning environments
for students.
The main innovations to be delivered by this project are:
1. STEAME Teacher Facilitators Competence Framework for student and serving teachers
2. STEAME Teacher Facilitators Learning Modules/Workshops
3. International Sharing Observatory for STEAME Learning Facilitators
4. Development of the STEAME Facilitators Community of Practice/Mentoring and Certification
Programme
5. Policy Recommendations – European Federation of STEAME Teacher Facilitators Academies
Most of the above are based on experiences and innovations from 16 completed or running projects,
mainly school education projects under ERASMUS+ KA2. The 5 innovations listed above will serve
the continuous professional development of teachers enhancing also the European Dimension and
internationalization of teachers, facilitating the European wide mentoring to support mobility of
teachers and place teachers in the path to Education 3.0 and 4.0, all for producing the creators of
the future.
CONSORTIUM:
1. PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF KRAKOW, (PL) (Coordinator)
2. CYPRUS MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (CY)
3. UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE (PT)
4. UNIVERSITY OF AEGEAN (GR)
5. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREER GUIDANCE (CY)
6. UNIVERSITATEA SPIRU HARET (RO)
7. ASOCIATIA "INSTITUTUL PENTRU DEZVOLTAREA EVALUARII IN EDUCATIE" (RO)
8. UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV PAISII HILENDARSKI (BG)
9. UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA (ES)
10. PAIDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE OF CYPRUS, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (CY)
11. PROF. IVAN APOSTOLOV PRIVATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL (BG)
12. INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO (PT)
13. EUROGEO VZW (BE)
14. DOUKAS SCHOOL (GR)
