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03.08.2022 11:48
Federal funding for better MINT education in the West Palatinate
Skills in the fields of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology (MINT) are in demand. In order to strengthen MINT education in the West Palatinate, a consortium led by the Verein ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz (ZRW) has successfully applied for funding as part of the “MINT Education for Young People” program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The total funding amounts to around 400,000 euros. The funding notices have now been received by the five core partners – ZRW, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, IB Südwest gGmbH and Dynamicum Pirmasens eV.
Today, highly qualified jobs in high-tech companies or science, as well as countless other jobs in industry and the service sector, require STEM skills. Last but not least, these also form an increasingly important basis for finding one’s way in our digitized world. For a long time, numerous actors in the West Palatinate region have therefore been active in getting children and young people interested in MINT topics and teaching MINT content beyond school lessons.
Thanks to the BMBF funding that has now been approved, these efforts should now receive additional impetus and achieve a region-wide effect. The consortium, led by the ZRW, had already applied last year for funding under the BMBF program “MINT education for young people” and prevailed against over 100 other applicant regions.
The 5 core partners and numerous other partners want to grow together over the next three years as the “MINT Region West Palatinate” into an active cluster in which the exchange between the MINT makers, the testing of new forms of cooperation and the creation of transparency in the field of STEM education is paramount. The aim is to set up an annual program of extracurricular MINT education from which interested children and young people can select the most interesting offers. The broad impact and visibility of the MINT educational offerings is to be further increased by establishing central MINT experience locations in the three largest cities in the region and involving other stakeholders.
Scientific contacts:
Graduate economist Thomas Jung
Tel.: +49 (0)631 205 2049
E-Mail: [email protected]
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