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Compiling and sharing the experiences that pioneer schools have had with digital media – schools can apply until November 8, 2016 – a workshop conference organized by the Forum Education Digitalization initiative will bring together professionals and representatives from the worlds of science and school administration.   What do schools that have successfully integrated digital Read More...

Due to its great importance for individual development, social participation and career perspectives, numerous initiatives throughout Germany are involved in providing specific offerings designed to promote an effective STEM education. The question whether or not these will have a lasting impact and achieve the desired effects is of equal interest for supporters, initiators and target Read More...

The “empowering people. Award” seeks to identify low-tech products and solutions that enable people to access basic services in developing regions. Embedded in social entrepreneurship models, these innovations are designed to foster opportunities for employment, thereby providing sustainable development perspectives.   Two expert teams specializing in appropriate technologies for development and social entrepreneurship evaluated more Read More...

How can refugees better connect with German companies and the training and jobs they offer? Employers have a lot of openings. However, many refugees are not able to take advantage of these opportunities that would help them integrate. How can this gap be overcome? Siemens Stiftung and the international educational platform DO School invited refugees Read More...

With its education work, Siemens Stiftung aims to give fresh impetus to ensuring scientific subjects are taught in a modern, attractive way that leverages the potential of digital learning and teaching. The foundation was given its most recent opportunity to do that when it was invited by the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education and Read More...

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...

Harvesting the power of collaborative learning of leading players around the globe to increase and sustain the impact on global poverty – this is the aim of the “Practical Impact Alliance” (PIA) program at MIT D-Lab, an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston) that promotes development through discovery, design and dissemination. Headed by 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...