Budget 42200 Euro

AMASE wants to bridge the gap between advanced technologies in the real world and STEM education in the classroom for students from 12-18 years old within the context of advanced materials. This way, AMASE wants to help tackling two of Europe’s many challenges: stimulating youngsters to choose a STEM-profession and taking care of the environment, including climate change. What AMASE is standing for: making science studies more attractive by building a strategic partnership between Advanced Materials researchers, educational researchers, experts in making sciences attractive and teachers. This way students get insight in the real world of advanced research and its applications in enterprises, including 21st century challenges like sustainability, eliminating pollution, combating disease. Therefore, a long lasting Community of Practice between educators and researchers and between students and researchers will be established that can be easily expanded to other scientific fields. The public is unaware of the technological developments and therefore, it is hesitant to consider the new possibilities. Our task is exactly there; to help students understand the developments, prepare them for being part of the solution and become the problem solvers themselves.