With the project "STEAMulate your school", partners from Lithuania, Italy, Greece and France aim to support students of secondary schools in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences through effective and innovative methodologies that promote interdisciplinary co-operation in science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STE(A)M) in connection with IT and Media Literacy. To facilitate access to technology, development of digital competences for all students and enhance the attractiveness of STEAM, we need to find a way to bring teachers closer to methods and projects that can open up the way to new interests. Partners believe that the tools created in this project contribute to this objective.

The main target group of this project are secondary school teachers and students (aged 11-16), although some of the outputs (for example, the application about universe) might be used with primary school students as well. In addition, having in mind the complexity of some of our proposed digital ateliers (a format of workshops used in this project), they might be explored with older students. A second priority of the project is the implementation of innovative practices in the digital era promoting new transversal methodologies and pedagogies for developing digital competences and teaching STEAM through training, the production of open-source materials and software, that can support teachers both in the development of their digital competences, as well as develop the competences of their students. The project is proposing new flexible and transversal methodologies and educational pathways that are needed to guarantee the integration and inclusion in particular of students that face learning difficulties, have poor school performances and are at risk of early school leaving. Therefore, the project is proposing an innovative practice of “Digital Atelier”, which is based on the Italian participatory methodologies Alberto Manzi and Bruno Munari. This format is used to develop basic and key competences of students via activities related to IT, media and STEAM subjects.

The project is planning to develop 3 intellectual outputs: Toolkit for teachers, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for teachers and Application.