About DOTS
The project “DOTS… Development of transversal skills in STEM” is implemented within the Erasmus+ program. The overall objective of the project is to improve the transversal skills of both STEM teachers and other teachers and coaches for innovative approaches to teaching.
The specific objectives of the DOTS project are:
- developing methods, materials, and tools that support the learning and teaching of transferable skills
- training teachers to apply the developed methods, tools, and materials in teaching.
The project aims to engage highly motivated teachers who will participate in a series of coaching trainings to empower them to disseminate the acquired knowledge within their own environments. Additionally, the project will facilitate teachers in exchanging best practice examples from various European countries and the broader international community.
In addition to specific, subject-related STEM skills, the project will also develop transversal skills that will foster open communication and collaborative work within the school community and between teachers and students. Some of these transversal skills include presentation skills, communication skills, critical thinking skills, teamwork skills, and others.
Through the project, the partners will develop a set of practical materials, tools, guidelines, and a manual that will contribute to the application of new teaching methods in STEM subjects. There will also be a series of training sessions in all partner countries. Part of the training is exclusively for teachers, while the other part is for partner project teams in order to raise professional competencies, develop mutual cooperation, and devise new, innovative methods, tools, and materials for learning and teaching.
The project emphasizes the involvement of teachers and schools in the process. For these reasons, the partner organizations are Jelkovec Secondary School, Ellinogermaniki Agogi Greek School, and the University of Vienna. Additionally, the partner organizations involved in the project's implementation are Science View (Greece), Science Center Netzwerk (Austria), Science Factory (Croatia), DOREA (Cyprus), and ATiT (Belgium).
CARNET sees in this project the opportunity for quality international cooperation, the exchange of best practices, and the cooperation of international experts in developing creative, innovative methods, tools, and materials for teaching transversal skills. It also offers the chance to disseminate project results within each partner country, expand the network of international partners, and pilot designed activities with a large number of teachers and, indirectly, students. This will allow for a reexamination of the outputs created during the project.
The project duration is three years – from September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2022.
Co-financing
