STEAMFUL

since 2018.

STEAMFUL KA229 is based on the partnership among six European countries: Italy, Estonia, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Croatia, with students aged 16-19 and will have practical results, as well as moments of discussion using STEAM in global approach, with the involvement of over 100 participants.

STEAMFUL

There is a growing interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, combined with Art. This should result in national stratiegies in teaching/learning and lead to an international cooperation to boost quality and exchange of good practices.
Society should be involved, in order to have citizens able to meet the reequirements of a continuosly changing world.
The STEAM approach could be used in cultural, environmental, economic, managerial contexts, with the involvment of many other subjects.
A new pedagogy and a new evaluation system could strengthen the idea of cooperation and mutual trust among
European citiziens and governments.
An integrated approach will favour all stakeholders.
The project has main roots in the "Mega-Trends, Catalysts and Game Changers" described in the "Global Trends to
2030. Challenges and Choices for Europe" by ESPAS (European Strategy and Policy Analysis System), a Report issued in April 2019 thanks to the cooperation between the main EU institutions. STEAMFUL KA229 is based on a partnership between six European countries (Italy, Estonia, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Croatia) where students aged 16 to 19 will have the opportunity to face the following challenges: - Climate change and saving the planet – Demography, migrations, improvement of living conditions for the elderly – Connectivity, artificial intelligence and transport – Economic growth and international trade - Europe's position in the world: How to protect democracy and manage conflicts and terrorism

About STEAMFUL

Project activities are characterised by a very innovative methodology, based on the following steps: a challenge is launched, followed by braistorming research, hackathon (digital marathon) /discussion in multicultural teams, assessment by the teachers, production of STEAMFUL possible solutions and improvement of the present situation.

The Project Will

Enhance the STEAM process, based on investigation, discovering, connecting, reating, reflecting, imagining, planning, designing, and improving. This will enhance transversal skills, such as "learning to learn".

STEAMFUL WILL:

Indentify STEM in everyday life and learn how to integrate real-world STEM problems in classes
Build confidence in trying out new methods in the classroom, thanks to an interdisciplinary approach
Explore a range of resources, tools and strategies for activities that enhance STEAM in real life
Enable to learn about 21st-century skills and how to address them
Reduce gender biased stereotypes regarding both science/technical and care activities by propposing challenges that require a solution obtained combining both technical and social aspects

STEAMFUL

Furthermore it will increase:

Knowledge and understanding of the differences, by encouraging tolerance and respect for other cultures;
the European dimension of education as well as the importance of a European Heritage;
the promotion of equal oppertunities, regardless of gender, social background, ethic origins, educational special needs;
cooperative learning and lifelong learning;
learning-by-doing and teamwork;
cross curricular involvement of different departments at school

Project - The school of the future

We are honored to be selected to participate in the School of the Future project - an innovative STEAM program from STEMI's artificial intelligence. More than 250 schools across Croatia and the neighborhood applied for the project, and 60 schools were selected. STEMI company is engaged in the development of advanced STEAM programs for primary and secondary schools and seeks to transfer knowledge from modern technologies straight from industry to the education system. In this project, students will be introduced to the development of artificial intelligence. Students will form development teams in schools and will explore UN sustainability goals as a first step. They will then choose one of the sustainability goals and detect which problem they can solve by creating a chatbot. The expert jury will select the best and most creative solutions, and a rich fund of prizes worth more than HRK 100,000 has been provided for the best ones. The project will involve students of 4tr1 and 4tr2 classes under the guidance of mathematics teacher Marin Kanaet.

STEAMFUL PROJECT: ITALY

In the period from 24.10. until 29.10. our school's team consisting of: Ivan Mikodanić, Viktor Katalinić, Robert Vranješ, Josip Šimun Kuči and Jelena Stričak participated in the mobility of the Erasmus + project STEAMFUL accompanied by teachers Danijela Ivanović Ižaković and Karolina Brleković. The main topic of mobility was the challenge of climate change. During the Hackathon: "FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE AND SAVE THE PLANET. THE FUTURE IS NOW!” students in teams made up of participants from different countries came up with ideas that they can implement in their schools and thus participate in the fight against climate change.

STEAMFUL PROJECT: SPAIN

From 14.03.2022. until 18.03.2022. in Barcelona, Spain students Etien Bajsić, Luka Toprek, Sabastijan Balić, Robert Vranješ and Ivan Mikodanić took part in mobility as part of the STEAMFUL project accompanied by teachers Igor Ivanković, Marin Kanaeta and Karolina Brleković.

The topic of this mobility was economic growth and international exchange, but considering the breadth of the topic, the hosts concentrated on cryptocurrencies. During five days, the students studied, socialized and united in international teams (Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Croatia) came up with new ideas through the Hackathon.

Spain – economic growth and international exchange

Croatia - Europe's position in the world: How to protect democracy and manage conflicts and terrorism

First day

Yesterday (May 2) we hosted students and teachers from Spain, Italy, Portugal, Estonia and Greece as part of the STEAMFUL project. The 1st day of mobility was spent in fun socializing and getting to know each other during the introductory workshop prepared by our school pedagogue Blaženka Pul, led by prof. Sandra Strasser. In the second part of the day, our guest was our former student, Deputy Mayor Dragan Vulin, who gave an interesting interactive lecture What is democracy - challenges and choices for the future of Europe

Second day

The 2nd day of mobility (Tuesday, May 3) as part of the STEAMFUL project was spent in the company of colleague Tomislav Levak, (AUK - Department of Culture, Media and Management) who held an interesting lecture for students and professors on the ever-current topic of disinformation and fake news. in new media.

Third day

(May 4) ERASMUS+ KA2 of the STEAMFUL project. Today's meeting with partners in the project was active and creative. During the morning, we had the honor of hosting the Center for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights - Osijek with their partners, the Mediation Center MSvijet, who held an interactive workshop and introduced students to the topics of mediation, nonviolent conflict resolution, negotiation and cooperation strategies with interesting activities. We devoted the second part of the day to creative work. As part of the introductory workshop to tomorrow's hackathon, organized and led by Caroline Brlek and Sandra Poljak Strasser, students discussed the importance of the media in the development of democracy, learned how to recognize fake news and developed creative ideas for their own newspaper reports.

Fourth day

(May 5) mobility KA2 Erasmus+ STEAMFUL international teams spent developing ideas for products to preserve democracy and fight against media manipulation. Hackathon teams used what they learned in the past days to create new project ideas that they will present on the last day of our gathering together. But after a storm of ideas and demanding work, a well-deserved rest and fun followed thanks to our pleasant hosts, House in nature Zlatna Greda #elpros #STEAMFULErasmus

Fifth day

The last day of our time together was interesting and tense. After shaping the final presentations, the teams presented their conceptual solutions that try to solve the problem of fake news undermining democracy. Although all the solutions were interesting and creative, the victory was narrowly won by an international team with a conceptual solution called RUMOUR. Congratulations to all teams! After the final ceremony, with sad hearts we said goodbye to our friends full of happy memories, new experiences and knowledge.

STEAMFUL in Portugal - artificial intelligence and transport

In the week from October 2 to 8, the Erasmus + project STEAMFUL, in which we have been participating since 2020, took our students from 3tr1 - Josip Antunović, Dion Halusek, Borna Kovač and Ivan Rengel and Domagoj Vukosavljević from 3tr2, teacher Karolina Brleković and pedagogue Blaženka Pul to another mobility – this time to Portugal. Our hosts were students and teachers from Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Seraphim Leite, São João da Madeira. In the project, students face numerous challenges: climate change and saving the planet, demography, migration and population aging, connectivity, artificial intelligence and transport, economic growth and international trade and Europe's position in the world, with an emphasis on the protection of democracy and the management of conflicts and terrorism. . The topic, which the participants of the project from Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Estonia and Croatia. on this mobility they researched connectivity, artificial intelligence and transportation and tried to find the best solution to the given problem using the hackathon method.

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