Research-based partnership
acaSTEMy connects STEM teacher education and training providers to support high-quality development from pre-service education to continuing professional development.
ERASMUS+ Teacher Academy
acaSTEMy
Trans-national STEM teacher education focused on transversal competence, sustainability education and digitally confident teaching.
- 6
- work packages
- 37
- associated partners
- 2023-2026
- implementation period
Project Focus
STEM teacher education for green, digital and diverse classrooms.
Digital competence
The project develops teachers' capacity to use digital tools and content in pedagogically meaningful ways across formal and non-formal learning.
Modules and micro-credentials
Partners design, pilot and validate flexible learning opportunities tied to sustainability, transversal skills and classroom diversity.
Mobility and policy impact
The academy builds international professional development through hybrid cooperation, job shadowing, co-supervision and policy-facing outputs.
Academy Mission
Teachers gain science confidence, transversal skills and practical routes into new STEM education practice.
The academy brings together universities, schools, education ministries, science centres, associations and industry partners across Europe. Its work is organised around teacher competence, digital skills, sustainability, mobility, micro-credentials and dissemination.
Green transition
Digital transformation
Diversity in classrooms
Professional wellbeing
Project Pathway
From shared expertise to classroom-ready STEM practice.
Connect expertise
Universities, schools and partner organisations align teacher education needs across national contexts.
Build capacity
Hybrid seminars and trainer workshops strengthen STEM, digital and sustainability education competences.
Pilot learning routes
Modules, micro-credentials and mobility formats are tested with educators and practice schools.
Share impact
Outputs, policy-facing results and open materials support wider European use.
Work Packages
Six connected workstreams guide the project from coordination to European outreach.
Management and Quality
Coordination, quality assurance, sustainability and mutual recognition of learning outcomes.
Science Competencies
Capacity building for STEM staff in green deal, medicine and cultural-linguistic diversity.
Digital Skills
Pedagogically meaningful use of digital tools, collaborative learning and digital STEM materials.
Micro-credentials
Flexible modules and micro-credential programmes tested with practice schools and teachers.
Communities and Mobility
Job shadowing, local hybrid mobility, international visits and co-supervision pilots.
Impact and Dissemination
European outreach, dissemination events and policy-facing communication.
Training, Materials and Outputs
Project outputs are grouped around quality, digital skills, modules, mobility and impact.
Digital Skills for STEM Teachers
The digital skills workstream includes a Training the Trainers syllabus, workshop materials and an e-manual for STEM teachers.
Open the STEM DigiManualLatest News
Hybrid seminars connect educators around transversal skills, digital media and sustainability.
7th hybrid seminar: foundations of the education future
A Croatian seminar on integrating transversal skills into 21st century learning outcomes.
Read newsDigital media for chemistry lessons
A session for chemistry teachers on digital media, cognitive load, representations and augmented reality.
Read newsNew approaches in oncology
The 5th hybrid seminar focused on recent advancements in oncology and collaboration among project partners.
Read newsConsortium
A broad European network across universities, schools, science centres and education organisations.
View associated partners
- "EUROPSKI TALENT CENTAR HRVATSKA - CENTRI IZVRSNOSTI VARAZDINSKE ZUPANIJE" USTANOVA ZA OBRAZOVANJE ODRASLIH
- Associação para Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina
- BAHCESEHIR EGITIM KURUMLARI ANONIM SIRKETI
- BSA
- Centar Drustvenih Inovacija
- Eesti Keemiaõpetajate Liit
- EESTI TEADUSTE AKADEEMIA
- Egis Pharmaceuticals Private Limited Company
- ELTE Bolyai János Gyakorló Általános Iskola és Gimnázium
- Experimenta gGmbH
- FabLab München e.V.
- FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG
- Gedeon Richter Plc.
- HARIDUS- JA TEADUSMINISTEERIUM
- Hariduse Edendamise Sihtasutus
- INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION
- IZMIR IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
- Jelgavas Valsts gimnazija
- JOENSUUN KAUPUNKI
- KIRCHLICHE PAEDAGOGISCHE HOCHSCHULE WIEN / KREMS
- Kõrveküla Põhikool
- Latvijas Fizikas skolotaju asociacija
- Latvijas kimijas skolotaju asociacija
- Magyar Kémikusok Egyesülete
- Miina Härma Gymnasium
- Opetushallitus OPH
- Osnovna skola Veceslava Holjevca
- RAVIMIAMET
- Sihtasutus Tallinna Tehnika- ja Teaduskeskus
- SIHTASUTUS TEADUSKESKUS AHHAA
- SVEUCILISTE U SPLITU FILOZOFSKI FAKULTET
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
- ThingLink Oy
- UDRUGA ZA PROMICANJE POZITIVNE AFIRMACIJE MLADIH U DRUSTVU IMPRESS DARUVAR
- Valmiera State Gymnasium
- VALSTS IZGLITIBAS SATURA CENTRS
- VARAZDINSKA ZUPANIJA
Contact
Interested in acaSTEMy activities, seminars or materials?
Use the official contact page for project contact details and the contact form. Follow the project channels for announcements and seminar updates.