Teaching students not only knowledge but also support the development of their key competences is seen as vital for their success in today's society and employment market. Still, the assessment of these competences is a challenge.
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Despite the European economic crisis, most countries in Europe continue to invest in the future by lending political and financial support to increasing students' interest in pursuing science careers, to improving their performance in related subjects at school, and to enhancing their motivation.
STEM Education
Life Science and STEM teachers are invited to join the 6th Distance Learning Activity "Testing Scientific Skills: Exploring a Protocol to Construct Exam Questions to Assess Scientific Skills" which will take place online between February 29th and March 4th 2016.
STEM Education
The gap between the number of job seekers in Europe and the number of unfilled digital jobs is forecast to shrink, according to the latest research from analyst Empirica.
Evidence for Innovation
Over 500 of the most innovative teachers and education experts from across Europe gathered in Brussels for the 2015 annual eTwinning Conference from 22 to 24 October. This year's topic was "Active Citizenship" and – building on the 10th anniversary- how eTwinning has influenced the lives of former pupils who took part in an eTwinning project.
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Society as a whole benefits from a better education in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). That was the general conclusion of speaker after speaker who attended this year's Eminent event (Expert Meeting In Education Networking) in Barcelona on 19 and 20 November 2015. And it was a message welcomed by the nearly 260 STEM professionals who gathered for the event.
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In certain parts of the world, October is earmarked as the anti-bullying month, but for a growing number of countries across the European Union, the high point is EU Code Week.
Digital Citizenship
Press release: Brussels, 21 October 2015 The two-year Creative Classrooms Lab project (CCL) brought together teachers and policy makers from eight countries to design, implement and evaluate 1:1 tablet scenarios in 45 schools.
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Eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe won The Entrepreneurial School Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education.
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Fifteen countries across Europe have already integrated coding at primary or secondary school level, according to a new report just launched by European Schoolnet, the coordinator of the European Coding Initiative.
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