Climate Change and STEM Education in Classrooms

Cândida Rocha

Cândida Rocha has a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering with the title “Climate Change Risk Assessment and Public Perceptions in Portugal”. She is the Director of the Master of Environmental Engineering in Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal and is responsible for the “Climate Change and Decarbonization Strategies” course.

Seema Pal

Math’s and technology Mentor to Technology students, Coordinator and representative for Erasmus + Projects.
Member of Swedish Science and Tech House.

Lotta Nilsson

Student councilor.
Working with Swedish election board.

Ivan Lio

Biology and Chemistry Mentor for 2nd year.
Researcher at Karolinska Medical institute and Stockholm University.

Christine Amini

Qualified Special education teacher & Swedish language teacher, she is also mentor to Ethete & media students. She is core member of Students health team & school management.

Mats Johnsson

Social sciences, Communication Mentor for 3rd year students.
Guide for Art and Culture.

Anita Šimac

Anita Šimac, Mathematics teacher mentor. Scientix STEM ambassador, eTwinning ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Education Educator and trainer.​ Head of the county professional council of mathematics teachers in the city of Zadar.

Ivana Perić

Ivana Perić, Croatian language and literature teacher, School librarian, teacher librarian advisor, extensive collaboration with the University of Zadar as a mentor for information sciences students.

Renata Cvetkoski

Renata Cvetkoski, Geography teacher mentor, experienced contributor to geography textbooks for lower secondary school, extensive collaboration with the University of Zadar as a mentor for geography students. Head of the county professional council of geography teachers in the city of Zadar.

Margarita Morić

Margarita Morić, biology teacher, holds Master’s degree in Ecology and Nature Protection, worked as consultant for GRI Sustainability reporting, founder of the NGO Green Window (part of the CDN).

Antea Žaja

Antea Žaja, speech and language pathologist pedagogical support, participates in the standardization of diagnostic tests in the field of language and phonology, mentors speech therapy students for work in elementary school.

Jelena Marcelić

Jelena Marcelić, Religious Education teacher. Following her degree from the Catholic Faculty of Theology at the University of Zagreb, Jelena has been working in primary schools as a catholic catechist and teacher.

Snježana Lovraković

Snježana Lovraković, Physical Education teacher advisor. School coordinator of the project ‘Spin a healthy film’ which is focused on the importance of a healthy life with an emphasis on a varied diet, the importance of physical activity, reduced food waste and environmental sustainability.

Engin KARAMANLI

Engin KARAMANLI, Science and Technology teacher mentor. Mersin University Science and Technology master’s degree graduate. Scientix STEM ambassador. Founder of Calibred Academy.

Cantekin KARASU

Cantekin KARASU is a teacher of English at Yenisehir Anatolian Imam Hatip High School, Middle Section. He coordinated the teaching practice at schools at English Language Teaching department of Cag University in 2017 and 2018.

Mehdi ERCİK

Mehdi ERCİK is a teacher of English at Yenisehir Anatolian Imam Hatip High School. He has attended many national and international projects and got certificates in many seminars.

Babak Majidzadeh Garjani

Babak Majidzadeh Garjani is Head of the Mathematics Department. He has done his Phd, doctorate degree Mathematical Physics, Stockholm University. He is author of five mathematics textbooks. He also has YouTube Channel 1 (High School Level) & YouTube Channel 2 (Advanced Level). Thinking on hard math and physics problems is his passion.

Karin Westin Engström

Karin Westin Engström, is Head of the administrator for 5 years As an administrator. She has contact with every student and all the staff which is really nice. Since many years she worked as a project manager in other companies, her experience & involvement makes our school run in very professional way, basically she is core member of Arena top management.

Leen Siongers

Leen Siongers is science teacher in the secondary school ”De Vesten”, Herentals near Antwerp. Her students are from 12 till 16 years old who are in the 1st grade. A level and in the 2nd grade sports, electromechanics, business organization and society and welfare. Leen was the Erasmus-coordinator of this project. Leen has her bacheler degree in chemistry.

Liesbeth Leysen

Liesbeth Leysen is a teacher in Dutch language for foreign students from 12 till 18 years old. She is extremely passionated about the ‘A’ in Ste(A)m. In her classes, she is the creative jack – of all trades and likes to work actively preferably with recycled materials. Liesbeth has her bachelor degree as teacher in Dutch language and history an her master degree in medieval history.

Martine Verstappen

Martine Verstappen is teacher Project General Subject in the secondary school ”Daltonatheneum Het Leerlabo”, Westerlo near Antwerp. The students there are from 15 till 20years old who study to go to the labour market (Hairdressers, metal constructions, vocationally oriented). Martine has her educational bachelor degree in finances, economy and trade.

Lies Van Daele

Lies Van Daele is teacher Project General Subject in the secondary school ”Daltonatheneum Het Leerlabo”, Westerlo near Antwerp. The students there are from 15 till 20 years old who study to go to the labour market (Hairdressers, metal constructions, vocationally oriented).

Isabel Bouwen

Isabel Bouwen Isabel Bouwen is mathematic teacher in the secondary school ”Daltonatheneum Het Leerlabo”, Westerlo near Antwerp. The students are from 15th till 18th years old who study to prepare themselves for higher education. Isabel has a masters degree in chemistry.

Osnovna škola Petra Preradovića Zadar (Croatia)

Osnovna škola Petra Preradovića school is the oldest primary and lower secondary school in the city of Zadar. It has an integral role in the history of Zadar and Croatian education. The main school is attended by almost 600 students in 24 classes including a class for students with specific educational needs. In addition to the principal, the school has five professional assistants and almost 60 teachers, three of whom are teacher mentors, three are teacher counselors and one has achieved the highest level of professional development and holds the title of exemplary teacher counselor.

Beside its regular exceptional educational work, the school has realized notable results, won awards and recognitions in various fields related to extracurricular activities. The school has been awarded the STEM School Label Expert award, it is a Platon Research School and an eTwinning School. It is one of 10 schools in Croatia with an integrated Regional Education Hub.

For many years, Osnovna škola Petra Preradovića school has been a training laboratory for students of classroom teaching. Croatian language, foreign languages, geography, history and information sciences of the University of Zadar, who do the practical part of the methodology of the aforementioned subjects.

The school is also the professional exam centre for classroom teaching and school librarianship in cooperation with the Croatian Education Agency.

The school has been awarded the STEM School Label Expert level, it is a Platon Research School, an eTwinning School and a Regional Education Hub for the local community.

The school has most recently achieved the prestigious European Blue School label. Each Blue School promotes an interdisciplinary, inquiry, and project-based approach to teaching and learning about the ocean. Petra Preradović school integrates ocean knowledge into the classroom.

Lusófona University (Portugal)

Lusófona University is the largest non-public University in Portugal. The name of the university comes from the word “Lusofonia”, which encompasses all the Portuguese speaking countries and their shared linguistic and cultural background.

Lusófona University has a student body of more than 10,000 students and 1,500 teachers and is structured around 9 (nine) Schools that constitute the main institutional unit, offering 44 Bachelor’s Degrees, 45 Master’s Degrees, 11 PhD Degrees and 42 Specialisation Courses.

In addition to this, the university offers a large number of vocational and continuous training courses according to the life-learning development paradigm. All the university courses fulfil the European Higher Education requirements and comply with the European Credit Transfer systems (ECTS).

Het Leerlabo (Belgium)

Het Leerlabo is a Dalton-based school in Belgium that emphasizes self-directed learning, collaboration, and personal responsibility. Their approach integrates the principles of Dalton education, where students have the freedom to manage their own learning process at an individualized pace.

This fosters creativity, critical thinking, and a passion for lifelong learning. The school creates a dynamic and exploratory environment, encouraging curiosity and independence through project-based activities and collaborative tasks.

Campus De Vesten Herentals (Belgium)

Traditional or Cognosco method education? Additional subjects such as STEM, Latin, cultural education, sports & health and cycling? Prepare yourself for higher education, a technical profession or a future as a professional? Or combine learning and working?

Secondary education De Vesten in Herentals offers you many possibilities, spread over three campuses.

Arena Academy (Sweden)

Arena Academy is a higher secondary school, students of age 17 to 19 years go in this school. Its location is in the heart of the city, and it is well connected with Swedish SL local traffic. It was founded in the year 2010. It has an integral role in the Swedish education system. The school has almost 400 students in 12 classes including four departments of Science, Technology, Social science & Ethete & media.

In addition to the principal, the school has four professional assistants and almost 30 teachers, most of the teacher are class mentors, and subject teachers and foreign language teachers.

We have a student council, a special needs teacher, a school nurse & a doctor to take care of special needs students in every class.

The school has achieved higher results, and our students have won awards and recognitions in various fields of science, medicine & technology.

Many of our teachers closely work with KTH & Stockholm University students.

Arena Academy school was previously called the International IT School of Sweden, it is known for different IT courses like Programming, web designing, computer technology CAD-based project designing & 3D printers’ workshops.

The school has three laboratories for students of classrooms teaching, Physics, Chemistry & Biology. School also provides mother language, and foreign languages like Japanese, Spanish, German & Chinese. The school is only the professional exam center for Cambridge Exams for different subjects A level exams. (Includes Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics & English language)

The school has a very spacious library with enormous resources & a full-time librarian.

The school also has an IT support department as every student has been provided with a personal Laptop.

The school in Gothenburg is located on Elof Lindälvsgatan 13 in the same building as the Deutschlandterminal. It moved there in the summer of 2007 after having been located in Gårda since the school was founded in 2004. The school in Stockholm is located on Hälsobrunnsgatan 6, earlier named Crafoords väg 20. Both school have the same student associations, like Skoluidrottsföreningen SIF (Athletics), Student Council, and the LAN-groups ILA (Gothenburg) and LUNI (Stockholm).

Yenişehir Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi (Turkey)

Yenişehir Anadolu İmam Hatip High School is a state school at secondary level for general education with the students aged between 11-18 and from 5th grades to 12th grades.

Students get education on sciences, mathematics, social sciences, foreign languages, art and music which already exist in the curriculum of all types of schools. Yenişehir Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi was founded in September 2016 and it has a new modern building with all kinds of facilities such as laboratories, conference hall, central heating and cooling, restaurant, a very big garden having too many playing fields and a luxurious pension to host the students etc.

There are 925 students and 85 teachers in the school. 5 administrators work in management as 1 principal and 4 manager assistants. We have students from 5th grade to 8th grade (called as secondary school students) and the students from 9th grade to 12th grade (called as high school students) attend different schools in our education system.

The aim of this school is to donate students not only with academic subjects but also with religious and moral themes. The school aims to educate the students with European standards of teaching methods. The students are encouraged to attend the European projects. The more they have social integration with the rest of Europe the more they will be capable of integrating with the rest of Europe.

The students are interested in local and international social events. They are involved in sports events, youth and science projects. The teachers also have a variety of capabilities such as having better teaching skills, being sociable and experts in their professions to work at the school. The school has a high standard of technology. It gives great importance to extend the integration of itself, its city and its country with Europe because they think that as a candidate country to the European Union it is a must for them.

It has participated in many regional and national Works and competitions. Since our school was opened, we have given importance to technological issues. There is a big STEAM Lab in our school. Students have been learning STEAM for four years. So far, two Erasmus+ Projects have been carried out about STEAM and coding. In the strategic plan of the school, it is aimed to enable our teachers and students to acquire the skills of the 21st century.

That’s why we would like to carry out activities to make all teachers and students of our school more aware of the importance of AI and to provide them adequate information about what we can do as normal people.