Research-based partnership
acaSTEMy connects STEM teacher education and training providers to support high-quality development from pre-service education to continuing professional development.
ERASMUS+ Teacher Academy
acaSTEMy
Across eight project countries, acaSTEMy connects STEM teacher education with transversal competence, sustainability education and digitally confident teaching.
- 8
- project countries
- 6
- work packages
- 37
- partner organisations
- 2023-2026
- implementation period
Project Focus
STEM teacher education for green, digital and diverse classrooms.
Digital competence
The project develops teachers' capacity to use digital tools and content in pedagogically meaningful ways across formal and non-formal learning.
Modules and micro-credentials
Partners design, pilot and validate flexible learning opportunities tied to sustainability, transversal skills and classroom diversity.
Mobility and policy impact
The academy builds international professional development through hybrid cooperation, job shadowing, co-supervision and policy-facing outputs.
Academy Mission
Teachers gain science confidence, transversal skills and practical routes into new STEM education practice.
The academy brings together universities, schools, education ministries, science centres, associations and industry partners across Europe. Its work is organised around teacher competence, digital skills, sustainability, mobility, micro-credentials and dissemination.
Green transition
Digital transformation
Diversity in classrooms
Professional wellbeing
Project Pathway
From shared expertise to classroom-ready STEM practice.
Connect expertise
Universities, schools and partner organisations align teacher education needs across national contexts.
Build capacity
Hybrid seminars and trainer workshops strengthen STEM, digital and sustainability education competences.
Pilot learning routes
Modules, micro-credentials and mobility formats are tested with educators and practice schools.
Share impact
Outputs, policy-facing results and open materials support wider European use.
Project Objectives
The academy keeps the full project ambition visible, from teacher competences to policy impact.
Work Packages
Six connected workstreams guide the project from coordination to European outreach.
Management and Quality
Coordination, quality assurance, sustainability and mutual recognition of learning outcomes.
Led by the University of Tartu, this workstream safeguards delivery, quality monitoring and the long-term independence strategy.
Science Competencies
Capacity building for STEM staff in green deal, medicine and cultural-linguistic diversity.
Partners identify best practices and build staff capacity through hybrid seminars and train-the-trainers workshops.
Digital Skills
Pedagogically meaningful use of digital tools, collaborative learning and digital STEM materials.
The University of Eastern Finland leads teacher training, digital tool guidance and the collaboratively created STEM DigiManual.
Micro-credentials
Flexible modules and micro-credential programmes tested with practice schools and teachers.
The work designs four micro-credential programmes and six modules, with piloting through practice schools across partner countries.
Communities and Mobility
Job shadowing, local hybrid mobility, international visits and co-supervision pilots.
ELTE coordinates communities of practice, the acaSTEMy Hub, mobility formats and joint master thesis supervision pilots.
Impact and Dissemination
European outreach, dissemination events and policy-facing communication.
The Ivo Pilar Institute supports outreach to teachers, researchers, schools, policy institutions and associated partners.
Project Impact
Project results for teaching, teacher education, research and policy.
Use acaSTEMy through the route that best matches your work. Public materials are linked directly; restricted project documents remain protected.
Training, Materials and Outputs
Project outputs are grouped around quality, digital skills, modules, mobility and impact.
Digital Skills for STEM Teachers
The digital skills workstream includes a Training the Trainers syllabus, workshop materials and an e-manual for STEM teachers.
Open the STEM DigiManualMaterials Library
Key outputs are explained here in a clearer, classroom-facing format.
Six Teaching-Learning Modules
Blended learning from health and sustainability to inclusion and systems thinking.
Each 32-hour module is designed for pre- and in-service STEM teachers and combines research-based content with practical classroom development. The syllabi are available in all nine project languages.
DigiCampus sign-in is required. Enrolment details are provided by the course organisers.
Four Micro-Credential Designs
Flexible 6 ECTS learning routes for STEM teacher development.
D4.1 defines four research- and practice-oriented courses. Each is designed for 6 ECTS (156 hours), online and asynchronous study, and assessment through a submitted lesson plan.
Programme designs
DigiCampus learning spaces
These confirmed course spaces require DigiCampus sign-in. The teacher enrolment key is not published on the public website.
Research and Dissemination
Publications and presentations connected to acaSTEMy.
The entries below come from the consortium's WP1 tracking workbook, updated on 6 August 2026. They are presented as project-related research, without implying that every publication was funded solely by acaSTEMy.
Published research
Conference presentations
Latest News
Hybrid seminars connect educators around transversal skills, digital media and sustainability.
Research Team
People behind acaSTEMy: teacher educators, STEM education researchers and project specialists.
The research team brings together expertise in science, chemistry, mathematics, technology education, educational psychology, digital learning and teacher professional development.
Consortium
A broad European network across universities, schools, science centres and education organisations.
Partner Network
Countries and partner organisations around acaSTEMy.
Explore how the 37 partner organisations connect to their countries and to the central acaSTEMy collaboration.
View associated partners
- "EUROPSKI TALENT CENTAR HRVATSKA - CENTRI IZVRSNOSTI VARAZDINSKE ZUPANIJE" USTANOVA ZA OBRAZOVANJE ODRASLIH
- Associação para Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina
- BAHCESEHIR EGITIM KURUMLARI ANONIM SIRKETI
- BSA
- Centar Drustvenih Inovacija
- Eesti Keemiaõpetajate Liit
- EESTI TEADUSTE AKADEEMIA
- Egis Pharmaceuticals Private Limited Company
- ELTE Bolyai János Gyakorló Általános Iskola és Gimnázium
- Experimenta gGmbH
- FabLab München e.V.
- FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG
- Gedeon Richter Plc.
- HARIDUS- JA TEADUSMINISTEERIUM
- Hariduse Edendamise Sihtasutus
- INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION
- IZMIR IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
- Jelgavas Valsts gimnazija
- JOENSUUN KAUPUNKI
- KIRCHLICHE PAEDAGOGISCHE HOCHSCHULE WIEN / KREMS
- Kõrveküla Põhikool
- Latvijas Fizikas skolotaju asociacija
- Latvijas kimijas skolotaju asociacija
- Magyar Kémikusok Egyesülete
- Miina Härma Gymnasium
- Opetushallitus OPH
- Osnovna skola Veceslava Holjevca
- RAVIMIAMET
- Sihtasutus Tallinna Tehnika- ja Teaduskeskus
- SIHTASUTUS TEADUSKESKUS AHHAA
- SVEUCILISTE U SPLITU FILOZOFSKI FAKULTET
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
- ThingLink Oy
- UDRUGA ZA PROMICANJE POZITIVNE AFIRMACIJE MLADIH U DRUSTVU IMPRESS DARUVAR
- Valmiera State Gymnasium
- VALSTS IZGLITIBAS SATURA CENTRS
- VARAZDINSKA ZUPANIJA
Contact
Interested in acaSTEMy activities, seminars or materials?
Contact the project directly from this page. Use the project mailbox for general enquiries, or follow the project channels for announcements and seminar updates.
- Project mailbox
- project.acastemy@gmail.com
- University of Tartu coordination
- moonika.teppo@ut.ee
- Research contact
- miia.rannikmae@ut.ee