The campuses of Ferrol and A Coruña hosted some European project conferences this week STEM is inspiring future careers and which led to the University of A Coruña and the CPR Nuestra Señora del Carme La Grande Obra de Atocha de Betanzos (A Coruña).
The goal of this project is to increase the quality of school education by inviting secondary school teachers teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects to use a multidisciplinary approach, which will allow their students to acquire the necessary skills to develop into the society of the future. As explained by professor and researcher Laura Castro Santos, this initiative “It strengthens the capacities of the participating centres develop skills in subjects such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics through innovative and interactive pedagogical methods and approaches that allow solving real-life questions.
During this week, numerous secondary school teachers from Turkey, Cyprus and Spain participated conferences and workshops held by professors and researchers of the University of La Coruña. The teachers were also able to visit the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC), the Center for Technological Innovation in Building and Civil Engineering (CITEEC) and the Center for Research in Naval and Industrial Technologies (CITENI), the latter, located on the Ferrol Industrial Campus. The training proposal included a gymkhana in the Ferrol Polytechnic School of Engineering and in which visiting faculty needed to solve an engineering problem as effectively and quickly as possible. The teachers were also received in Ferrol by the Councilor for Economic Promotion, Mayte Deus, with an institutional act.
Shipbuilding, the science of materials, chemistry, electrical engineering, engines and heat machines, as well as financial economics and accounting focus, to a large extent, on the STEM Training Week program is inspiring future careers promoted by Laura Castro Santos in collaboration with the professors of the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Ferrol (EPEF), Almudena Filgueira Vizoso, Ana Isabel García Díez, Manuel Ángel Graña López, María Isabel Lamas Galdo and Luis Carral Couce. A project in which the professors of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of Campus Elviña (A Coruña), Félix Puime Guillén, Lucía Boedo Vilabella, Joaquín Enríquez Díaz, Begoña Álvarez García and María Dolores Laguna Varela have also joined.
The project STEM is inspiring future careers It is funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Program and has a total budget of 152,395 euros. The University of A Coruña has 19,820 euros to train teachers in STEM methodologies and prepare a work guide for secondary school students from collaborating centres.
