The MINTvernetzt project is establishing a nationwide competence and networking center for extracurricular STEM education. It aims to elevate extracurricular STEM education for children and adolescents with a focus on girls and young women. The project supports providers of extracurricular STEM education, coordinators of STEM networks, women in STEM advocacy initiatives, and volunteers in STEM education by providing networking spaces, sharing of best practices, and innovative impulses.
The focus of the STEM and Gender subproject at the University of Regensburg is providing solutions to the STEM community on how to encourage more girls and women to take up STEM. There is usually not a lack of suitable instruments or findings from research but rather a need for appropriate transfer into practice and scaling up of successful projects. This is where the STEM and Gender subproject comes in, firstly, by implementing monitoring of STEM education programs from a gender perspective and, secondly, by creating synergies through the networking of projects with a gender focus, and, thirdly, by improving the transfer of research findings on gender aspects in STEM education into practice.
MINTvernetzt is a joint initiative by the Körber Foundation, the matrix gGmbH, the National STEM Forum e.V., the Stifterverband, and the University of Regensburg.
Funding:
MINTvernetzt has been funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) since 2021.
More Information:
www.mint-vernetzt.de (external link, opens in a new window)
Researchers:
Prof. Dr. Heidrun Stoeger, Dr. Sigrun Schirner, Rebecca Winter, and Dr. Anika Wohlleben
