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MINTvernetzt

Country: Germany
Organisation role: National STEM platform
Organisation type: Association / network

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Background:

MINTvernetzt is a nationwide umbrella organisation for German STEM education that caters to the STEM-educator community in Germany as a service and contact point. MINTvernetzt is part of the 'MINT Actionsplan' (STEM Action Plan) of the Federal Ministry of Education in Germany. 

Objectives:

The main objectives of MINTvernetzt is to support STEM educators by providing:

  • networking spaces,
  • knowledge transfer activities 
  • inspiration and incentive for innovation topics 
  • addressing broader and more diverse target groups in the process with a focus on girls and young women
     

In response to the diverse and heterogeneous landscape of learning sites, initiatives, actors and networks for STEM education, the MINTvernetzt-initiative aims to:

  • Create a digital STEM platform to create direct access to and among all stakeholders concentrated on a digital platform
  • Build an autonomous STEM community for networking, knowledge sharing, and strengthening purposes
  • Help to amplify the impact as well as the degree of self-professionalization among our stakeholders
  • Showcase best practice projects
  • Improve the integration of in-school and extracurricular STEM education
  • Promote the transfer of expertise from educational research to practitioners.
  • To support stakeholders in disadvantaged regions to foster an equitable geographical distribution of STEM education opportunities
  • Increase the number of STEM professionals and increase the proportion of women in these professions