Sensor Space: New funding for STEM education strengthens regional cooperation

In a society that focuses on innovation and sustainability, the need for talented young STEM professionals is of crucial importance. At the turn of the year, funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) was approved to further intensify cooperation in the region. Over the next two years, Sensor Space will be able to significantly expand its STEM offerings thanks to this funding.

Congratulations to Sensor Space! The BMBF funding will further strengthen the existing collaboration in the region. Over the next two years, Sensor Space will expand its STEM offerings and implement new ideas for participation in rural areas. The "Digital Change in Education, Science and Research" funding measure in the STEM Cluster Young People 1 funding area will make mobile environmental sensor kits more widely available. The STEM learning opportunities in the region are also being analyzed and evaluated.MINT-Region Ost: Diversity in education funding

Sensor Space Mobile: Expanded offer for schools and young people

In addition to the existing school services such as lending materials and training for teachers, the mobile Sensor Space Mobil offering is being significantly expanded and condensed. Extracurricular offers from the Sensor Space project will help to reduce STEM education gaps in rural areas. Pupils, interested parties and anyone else who is curious will be inspired on site in courses and events for micro-electronics, high-performance ceramics, software and technical skills to get to know Sensor Space's wide range of offerings and realize their own project ideas.

Long-term partnerships and common goals

Each network in the more than 130 regional STEM regions in Germany is unique, characterized by different geographical, political and financial circumstances. A diverse STEM offering structure is created around the traditional STEM offerings in the student research centers and the Sensor Space project. Long-term partnerships, jointly defined strategic goals and an unwavering focus on their respective regions unite these networks.</p

 

Various institutions are active in the "MINT Region East" in Thuringia, including the Student Research Center Gera, the Student Research Center Jena/witelo e.V., and the Children's and Youth Mi(N)T Lab Sensor Space, a project of TRIDELTA CAMPUS Hermsdorf. The focus is on the conviction that high-quality STEM education is best achieved locally when all those involved work together. This ranges from daycare centers and elementary school to tinkering workshops, companies and associations.

The stakeholders and sponsors who make this innovative STEM initiative possible include:

- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke, Director of the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- STIFT (Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research Thuringia), in particular through the cooperation of the Student Research Center Gera (Susanne Eckardt)
- District of Saale-Holzland

Special thanks also go to all the personal supporters of the project who are helping to strengthen STEM education in the region in the long term. These are, in particular, the office and member companies of TRIDELTA CAMPUS Hermsdorf e.V. (details of the respective commitment will follow shortly).

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