Funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation and managed by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency, the prize is focused on awarding the pioneering game-changing innovations across a wide range of industries and help tackle global challenges.

There had been nominated 21 women innovators as finalists of the prize. Seventeen candidates are competing for three prizes of €100,000 each in the Women Innovators category. A further three candidates are competing for the Rising Innovator title that recognises excellent female entrepreneurs under the age of 30 and comes with a €50,000 award.

First launched in 2011, the EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. In doing so, the EU seeks to raise awareness of the need for more women innovators, and create role models for women and girls everywhere. Women innovators have a wide background and missions that are related with the STEM and STE(A)M fields. Discover them and take inspiration from their experience here.

The winners of the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2021 will be announced at the European Innovation Council Summit taking place on 24-25 November 2021. At the same event, the Commission will award the European Capital of Innovation Awards, and the European Innovation Procurement Awards.

By AD

Assessment of Transversal Skills in STEM is an innovative policy experimentation project conducted across 8 EU countries and involving 12 educational institutions. It aims to enhance digital assessment of students’ transversal skills in STEM. Drawing on key ideas and theories of STEM educational policy, formative assessment, use of digital learning tools, and integrated STEM education the project developed an overarching conceptual framework that underpinned a training and development programme for teachers. Teachers in 107 schools in seven European countries worked with teacher mentors to help teachers reflect on and develop their teaching practices to teach students key STEM skills via learning projects aiming to have a real-work impact and address the UN’s sustainable development goals.

EDEN, European Distance E-learning Network, has organised the webinar ‘Assessment of STEM transversal skills from conceptual framework to real- world problems’ on Wednesday, 1 December 2021, at 17:00 CET.

The session will consist of presentations followed by a discussion

This presentation will feature tales spun from theoretical frameworks to classroom practices. Dr. Eamon Costello will first give an overview of the project and discuss the topic of real-world skills, a concept of contestation in the STEM educational discourse. Following the overview, Dr Eva Hartell will present the project implementation in Sweden where the research team worked in partnership with schools and parents on projects that allowed students to explore and affect their real world. Lastly, teacher Alberto Sacido will share an inspirational story of the ATS STEM pilot implementation undertaken in Rosalía de Castro High School, Spain, with his enterprising students in a project about Covid-19.

Register to take part in the webinar.

By AD

The event, in hybrid format, is within the 2021 social internet day #Jdis21, where Esther Subias from Colectic, Claudia Matera from ALL DIGITAL, Achilles Kameas from Hellenic Open University, Cornelia Popescu from Fundatia EOS Romania, Katrin Schuberth from Helliwood media & education and Paolo Russo from Stati Generali dell’Innovazione will present the European framework and approaches to STE(A)M education in the session “STEAMonEdu for digital inclusion: project results”.

The Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia (Spain), through the Xarxa Punt TIC and the Secretariat of Digital Policies, are pleased to invite you to be an active part of the conference.

During the conference, will be presented the most relevant results of the project and how STEAMonEdu works to strengthen a network of people interested in the field and offers the opportunity to share their experiences.

Time for interactive workshops will take place from 12:15 pm to 13:45 pm.

Additionally, the workshop “Free software tools and resources: the Punt TIC experience” will be focused on free software and tools helpful to work and share results, with open standards to facilitate cooperation. These opportunities can allow wider control over the computer, data and privacy.

From the Punt TIC experience, we’ll explore how it can be implemented in telecenters.

A second workshop on “SteamOnEdu and the telecenters: exploring the intersections” will be focused on how the professional profile of digital trainers and facilitators influences and matters. And to which extent sharing ideas, experiences, activities, resources, networks and dialogue is an element that makes a difference.

The STEAMonEdu project has explored all these avenues as ICT Point Network. Now is time to share, analyze the results, see how we can improve our impact on the citizens we interact with and answer some questions such as: Is the STEAM profile essential in a telecentre?

Registration for the final event session at #JdIS21.

For any questions, feel free to contact steamonedu@colectic.coop.

By Colectic

That was the 7th Patras Innovation Quest (Patras IQ) 2021 version of the Exhibition, for the promotion of Innovation on a national and European scale and the aim to highlight mature and innovative research ideas for their further development for the benefit of society and the economy and returns dynamically. It is co-organized by the Greek Ministry of Development and Investments, the Greek Ministry of Education, the University of Patras, the Achaia Chamber of Commerce, the Region of Western Greece and the Hellenic Open University.

During Patras IQ 2021 participants could have access to the Auditorium and watch Numerous important Live Events, of special and general interest, addressed to professionals and the general public, visit Virtual Halls with Subjects such as Science – Research, Support Agencies & Businesses, visit the virtual expo and discuss in each booth live with representatives of each exhibitor (online) in which new & mature companies, research projects & mature research ideas, research laboratories, institutes and their support bodies are presented and benefit by the networking opportunities to collaborate with researchers, companies, start-ups, academia & research community and policy centers.

During the virtual exhibition, Regional Directorate of Education of Western Greece team interacted with numerous national and European researchers, with government representatives, with teachers of primary and secondary education,  School Education, VET  and Higher Education students and with the general public and received very positive feedback on the results of STEAMonEdu as well as the rest of its EU educational-research projects.

Dr Giannopoulos Konstantinos, the Regional Director of RDEWG who is also one of the head members of the Organizing Committee of Patras Innovation Quest underlined the importance of collaboration among all levels of education and the real world for the promotion of Technology, Innovation, Cooperation, Research, Education, Entrepreneurship and Growth. Moreover, he expressed his complete satisfaction for the extra effort and accomplishments of the RDEWG team involved in its EU Projects being a Greek Public Regional School Education Organization and the developed results including the prototype and innovative results of STEAMonEdu on a global basis. Finally, he expressed his deep appreciation and gratitude to the EU members of the STEAMonEdu partnership for the extraordinary cooperation as well as its entire EU partnering organizations of the projects CHOICE, GEM-IN and DANsCE for All.

By RDEWG