ESERO Greece takes off to boost STEM education in school

ESERO Greece is section of the ESERO community, ESA’s flagship project in support of school instruction in Europe. The task uses the inspirational ability of area, and the immense prosperity of knowledge and competences created by it, to improve the training and studying of STEM (Science, Technological innovation, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines at big.

ESERO Greece was inaugurated through a dedicated start function hosted by the Aristotle College of Thessaloniki with the participation of Maria Antoniou, Head of Prime Minister’s Office in Thessaloniki and Athanasios Staveris-Polykalas, Secretary Normal of Telecommunications & Posts at Governing administration of the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Electronic Governance, and Gunther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science.

“ESERO Greece is a prolonged-time period instructional venture that, by setting up with the education of the youngest generation, is established to react upstream to the developing demand of Greek’s society and financial state for certified professionals and industry experts in the STEM sectors, place in particular” said Maria Antoniou. “This is specifically critical at a historical second of fast societal and financial transformation and urgent international problems, these kinds of as weather improve, which call for innovation and fast responses extra than ever. The place sector is ready to provide these kinds of responses to society, also by suggests of schooling.”

“We have commenced our journey in space activities on a stage by action technique, with the motto Space as an enabler for Digital Transformation,” reported  Athanasios Staveris-Polykalas. “We are being pragmatic in our options and aspirations, even though capitalising on the new place era. In buy to reach our ambitions for a sustainable foreseeable future we have to have to put together the next technology, not only university students but also all those that are in major and secondary training nowadays.”

“ESERO is a essential ingredient of the ESA Education Programme which often accompanies, contributes to, and rewards from, ESA’s strategic eyesight for Europe in area,” explained Gunther Hasinger. “For many yrs this eyesight has constructed on the crucial role of area in our day-to-day life, for society and for humankind. Room is a strong societal and financial driver and enabler, and a significant element of contemporary society. Schooling is needed to attract the best expertise to the space sector and to modern society and, reversely, the room sector itself is a terrific asset in support of training,” he concluded.

ESERO and the ESA STEM Programme

ESA has a abundant instruction programme focusing on pupils from faculty to university stages. Its school level branch – the ESA STEM Programme – mainly focuses on curricular faculty education and learning and aims at sparking curiosity in science and technological innovation, nurturing STEM literacy, competencies and competences, core values and attitudes, and supports the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

At nationwide level the ESA STEM Programme is executed via ESERO – a consolidated network of countrywide offices coordinated by ESA in near collaboration with nationwide house organizations. The profitable recipe for ESERO, operate beneath the coordination of ESA, is the contribution to the undertaking of various organisations and establishments at countrywide amount, every single bringing their own expertise and potential. Each ESERO is equipped to tailor actions to the countrywide STEM instruction curricula, demands and context, when benefitting from the steady exchange of finest tactics and sources inside the ESERO community.

General, ESERO focuses on bridging the hole among the STEM theory taught in university and the genuine observe of science. In executing so, over the earlier 15 decades, ESERO has correctly achieved and supported hundreds of countless numbers of teachers, as effectively as hundreds of thousands of university college students, throughout Europe.

ESERO in Greece

Less than the leadership of Aristotle College of Thessaloniki (AUTh), and with the constant help of ESA and the Greek space sector, ESERO Greece can depend on the impressive educational and pedagogical experience of critical national companions, this kind of as the Laboratory Facilities of Actual physical Sciences (EKFE) Community, the Hellenic electronic earth Centre of Excellence (HCoE), the Hellenic Education Modern society of STEM (Ε3STEM), the ATLAS Study Group of AUTh and several other people.

In-assistance and pre-provider teacher training will sort the backbone of the ESERO Greece exercise portfolio and include things like MOOCs and an on the internet discovering system. The academic method will use authentic-lifestyle place contexts to set the scene for impressive curricular functions in the classroom. ESERO Greece will also give no cost classroom components, interdisciplinary school assignments, information on STEM careers, as perfectly as access to purpose products from the countrywide place sector and academia.

ESERO in Europe

With Greece joining, the European network of ESERO workplaces now covers 20 ESA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the Uk.

ESERO is portion of the ESA Education Programme, an ESA mandatory exercise explicitly mentioned in the ESA Convention. In particular, education occupies a unique location in the present-day programmatic manifesto of ESA, Agenda 2025, which – reinforced by the latest suggestions of the Significant-Amount Advisory Team – is stressing the virtuous transformative influence of house on modern society, and identifies influenced STEM education and learning as a essential enabler to form, draw in and retain the greatest talents to the house sector in favour of society at substantial.

ESERO Greece: [email protected]

The Greek house programme: http://www.minidigital.gr  https://digitalstrategy.gov.gr 

ESA and the European Space Programme: www.esa.int

ESA Education and learning Programme: www.esa.int/instruction