REAL - Addressing digital transformationthrough development of digital readiness, resilience and capacity

Das Projekt wurde von der UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI GUGLIELMO MARCONI eingereicht und umfasst Parterninstitutionen aus ganz Europa. 

PROJECT AIMS

The project answers to the ERASMUS + call horizontal priorities “Addressing digital transformationthrough development of digital readiness, resilience and capacity” and “Environment and fight against climate change”.

Specific sector priorities in the field of school education are the following:

- Supporting teachers, school leaders and other teaching professions.

- Promoting interest and excellence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and the STEAM approach.

The project wants to address to the all above mentioned old and new needs, which are further become urgent after the current pandemic, of the STEM education in European secondary school by providing teachers the needed competencies and tools to apply the use hands-on laboratories, virtual and remote laboratories.

In order to engage more students to learn STEM, they need to access STEM experiences more ofte and more effectively. Hence, schools need to be equipped with the necessary infrastructure and tools for students to learn STEM. At the same time, teachers need to be prepared to teach STEM and to use the necessary ICT tools. Access to equipment and professional development will ensure that teachers can provide motivating and engaging lessons for students to learn STEM.

In particular, after the pandemic second wave, National Authorities in Europe are reiterating the importance of maintaining the schools open. Now it is necessary not only to allow students to follo the lessons online but also to access remotely to experiments and practical tasks, pivotal for teaching STEM subjects efficiently.

Hence, the project main objective is to promote the digital transformation of secondary schools on STEM education to cope with the needs and challenges created by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe by equipping European secondary schools with the needed equipment and skills. In detail, the project aims to equip the teachers and schools with the needed competences and equipment to allow students to perform experiments and practical tasks in hands-on laboratories, but also accessing the laboratory remotely, as well as by accessing to online simulations on STEM subjects. This allow to create an overlap between online and traditional learning and allowing students to experience practice activities/experiments integrated to the  theoretical lessons.