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