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The international foundation Siemens Stiftung, the Mexico office of UNESCO and the not-for-profit association INNOVEC (Innovación en la Enseñanza de la Ciencia A.C.) have announced the first international partnership agreement intended to promote interest and skills in the sciences amongst preschool children, in particular girls.   As part of the “Made in Germany” exhibition, the Read More...

Exceptional student performance, diversity and respectful interpersonal relationships were just a few of the quality areas in which a school had to produce above-average results to win over the Robert Bosch Foundation during this year’s selection process for the German School Prize. In the 10th year of the program to select Germany’s best schools, German Read More...

The non-profit Education Group GmbH (EduGroup) and Siemens Stiftung are cooperating in providing science and technology teaching materials. Teachers in Upper Austria can now additionally access around 5,500 quality-controlled media from Siemens Stiftung’s media portal on their accustomed platform EduGroup and download them free of charge at https://www.edugroup.at/medien Networking made easy: Digitalization and the use Read More...

The subject of education and digitalization is at the focus of the 4th National STEM Summit. The keynote speaker is German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. With this event, the “Nationales MINT Forum” (German STEM Forum) aims to initiate a debate on how Germany has to shape the digital transformation so that as many people as Read More...

How can digital media be used to improve education in Germany? There are many initiatives and offerings for teaching and learning with digital media. However, a common strategy for the education system is missing. Following the lead of Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, the Forum Education and Digitalisation is being launched in cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung, Robert Read More...

The Fourth National MINT Summit will take place in Berlin on June 2 under the motto “Embracing digital opportunities – Closing digital gaps.” Germany’s National MINT Forum seeks to foster a debate at the summit among representatives from government, civil society, education and the economy about the impact of digitalization and the essential learning processes Read More...

The “Integration through STEM” project was launched today at the Berchtesgadener Land Student Research Center. This program, which was developed by the School of Education at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), teaches young refugees the German language using more than just the standard subjects of a language course. The program also delves into STEM Read More...

In Santiago de Chile, on March 31 to April 1st 2016, the first Regional Meeting of the Experimento Program in Latin America was successfully held, uniting partners from all 6 countries were the Program is being implemented; Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Peru. The event was a instance for the different institutions to meet,  Read More...

Global refugee movements are one of the key challenges of our time – politically, economically and socially. With its existing projects, Siemens Stiftung helps improve the living situation in countries of origin and integrate refugees in Germany. Since it was founded, Siemens Stiftung has been committed to securing basic services, promoting high-quality education, and fostering Read More...

At the 107th German Math and Natural Sciences Congress (MNU) scheduled for March 20-24 in Leipzig, the Siemens Stiftung and the Freudenberg Foundation will present Service Learning – Learning through Civic Engagement for use in teaching STEM subjects. Service learning combines the learning of a topic with social engagement by students. Since the beginning of Read More...