SySTEM 2020
The SySTEM 2020 project tackled scientific literacy and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education of children and teenagers. By focusing on science learning outside the classroom and mapping the field across Europe, SySTEM 2020 supported future citizens in a world of fast-evolving science and technology. The project evaluated transdisciplinary programmes to design the best principles for educators, and examined individual learning ecologies by piloting self-evaluation tools. This study mapped practices in 19 EU countries, including in-depth studies in 8 of the countries, and gathered the input of 9- to 20-year-old learners from various backgrounds including those from geographically remote, socio-economically disadvantaged, minority, and/or migrant communities.
Within three years, several workshops took place at the Ars Electronica Center to explore the learning of 9- to 20-year-olds outside schools and universities.
- Mozilla Hubs online exhibition (Ars Electronica Festival 2020)
- Learning Perspectives in the STEAM Garden programme (Ars Electronica Festival 2020)
- SySTEM 2020 Map part of the STEAM Garden programme (Ars Electronica Festival 2020)
- #festivalstories: Learners’ Perspective and festival exploration (Ars Electronica Festival 2020)
- Tagtool Connect (Workshop and Open Lab OMAi (AT), Ars Electronica Festival 2020)
- Jugend hackt remote: digital gardening (Workshop and stream on Festival Channels, Ars Electronica Festival 2020)
- Cinema 4D Animation — Jugendbegegnungsprojekt (Ars Electronica Festival 2019)
- SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (S.I.A.) (Ars Electronica Festival 2019)
- Human Cyborg (Ars Electronica Festival 2019)
- oneshots (Ars Electronica Festival 2019)
- Learner’s Perspective (Ars Electronica Festival 2019)
- SySTEM2020 Round #1: Highlights tour, Future Matters workshop, ZIEGE workshop
- Meine Zukunftswerkstatt: Programme for NEET youth (Not in Education, Employment or Training)
- Workshops for apprentices
- SySTEM2020 Round #2: Highlights tour, Deep Space 8K and workshops
- Seedbombs — Flower to the people!: Online Tutorial
- 3D print — from idea to print: Online Tutorial
- Earth Observation Browser: Online Tutorial
- Co-design workshop materials
- SySTEM 2020 Map: Interactive data visualisation to explore science learning initiatives outside the classroom across Europe.
- Conceptual framework on informal/non-formal learning
- Ars Electronica at the SYSTEM2020 co-design meeting in Helsinki
- Report about the SySTEM2020 co-design meeting in Helsinki
- Looking at STEAM learning ecologies
Duration: 01.06.2018 – 31.06.2021
Partners (Consortium): Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin / Trinity College Dublin, Waag Futurelab, Ecsite / European Network of Science Centres and Museums, Aalto University, Centre for Social Innovation, Bloomfield Science Museum, Kersnikova Institute, Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, LATRA, Centre for Promotion of Science
SySTEM 2020 has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 788317. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.