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Siemens Stiftung, Siemens Limited (India), and Pratham Education Foundation launched the “STEM Education for Innovation: Experimento India” project in New Delhi today to enhance the learning experiences of students in STEM subjects by offering Open Educational Resources. With this project, the foundation extends its impact to India by providing quality education and supporting educational equity.

From November 14 to 16, Africa's largest music conference will bring together music professionals, artists and experts in Kigali. It offers a platform to experience and shape the continent's rapidly growing music industry.

Dr. Rukmini Banerji explains how the Experimento India project brings hands-on learning to the classroom not as a theory but as something that can be learnt and applied in real life.

Working towards a period-friendly world is the underlying goal of the program, which was launched by Siemens Stiftung in partnership with Seecon Impact and Cewas as well as funding and implementation partners.

“What we have done with WeTu is to co-create with communities. That means we’re transferring skills to people”. Tarwish Lemeeh from WeTu describes how communities at Lake Victoria not only profit form the social enterprise’s solutions but are also directly involved in their development.

“Red STEM Latin America network connects institutions and communities from different, countries and organizations with a common goal to transform the way we learn sciences”. Listen to our next voice: Martín Bascopé from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

The kiosk has actually empowered the community as well”, Joyce Onyach, Lower Nyatike Water User Association, explains how the entire community is involved in the Safe Water Enterprise project and strengthened through trainings, job creation and improved health.

In CUNA's nursery, mangrove seedlings are continuously grown and matured in the hands of local caretakers and citizens for further planting. CUNA strengthens plural learning in the public space and seeks to generate social and environmental interaction.

“The Design Thinking approach encourages teachers to introduce creative and critical thinking to create suitable learning environments. Listen to our next voice Dr. Claudia Nicolai from HPI d-school.

“Health, hygiene and development are things that go together.” - Sareen Malik from Cewas is committed to social entrepreneurial solutions for menstrual hygiene in order to promote empowerment and social development. Find out more in our video series “15 Voices - 1 Vision”!