STEAM Hub Siemensstadt Square
Space for innovative and equitable STEM education
The Siemens Stiftung’s STEAM-Hub Siemensstadt Square is an innovative place for collaborative learning and design. Anchored in the new Siemensstadt Square urban district in Berlin/Spandau, future-oriented and inclusive STEM education formats are developed, tested and implemented. In a participatory process with local partners and teachers, we are shaping a forward-looking educational practice that promotes equal opportunities and anchors a culture of digitality and sustainability in the neighborhood.
Project
Innovative STEMplus education in Siemensstadt
With Siemensstadt Square, Siemens AG and its partners are developing a place of the future that brings together innovation, climate-friendly solutions, digital concepts and sustainable living and working environments. The changing urban space offers the ideal environment for learning about sustainable development in an urban context and the culture of digitality. In collaboration with local and international educational stakeholders, we at Siemens Stiftung are developing and testing didactic approaches in the STEAM-Hub Siemensstadt Square. These approaches aim to strengthen the competencies of teachers and students to adapt to and drive change. After all, education is a key lever for the success of a digital and sustainable transformation in society.
Sustainability and culture of digitality
An interdisciplinary STEMplus approach combines expertise in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology with the skills of the 21st century: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication. At the STEAM-Hub, we encourage children and young people to experiment, critically question and actively shape their environment and promote sustainability and a culture of digitality. Methods such as design thinking and “Maker Education” are used to invite pupils to work on current issues and solutions that have a direct impact on the ground.
Equal opportunities and social participation
Equitable educational opportunities and participation in social and technological development are crucial for a sustainable society. As a non-profit foundation, we therefore bring society, business and science together to make forward-looking solutions accessible to everyone, especially socio-economically marginalized groups. In Siemensstadt Square, we work together to develop educational projects that promote equal opportunities and strengthen social inclusion in the district.
Spaces for a new learning culture
In the “A32” building in Siemensstadt Square, we are creating the heart of our STEAM-Hub on 100 square meters: a flexible, inclusive learning environment that invites teachers and students to discover, experiment and tinker together – and expressly welcomes digitalization. The focus is on the idea of the room as a “third educator” (alongside teachers and classmates). This learning environment places greater emphasis on concentration, cooperation and creativity than is possible in a traditional setting. At the same time, the space is a meeting point for our network from education, civil society, business and science as well as a place for exchange and knowledge transfer about contemporary STEM education.
»With our STEAM-Hub, we are promoting skills that enable innovative solutions in the digital age.«
Dr. Nina Smidt, Managing Director and Spokesperson of the Board of Directors at Siemens Stiftung
Our activities
The STEAM-Hub Siemensstadt Square offers a wide range of activities for educators and students that prepare children and young people to live in a volatile, complex world characterized by digitality and climate change and to solve current and future challenges.
Partners
All activities at STEAM-Hub Siemensstadt Square are supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family. We would also like to thank Siemens Professional Education and the Siemensstadt Square project team for their support in implementing the STEM activities in Siemensstadt Square.
Contact
Do you have any questions about the STEAM-Hub or would you like to get involved?
Head of Education
Dr. Barbara Filtzinger
barbara.filtzinger@siemens-stiftung.org
+49 89 540487 0
Project Manager Make@thons
Franziska von Einem
franziska.einem@siemens-stiftung.org
+49 162 428 7541
Project Manager Design Thinking
Christine Niewöhner
christine.niewoehner@siemens-stiftung.org
+49 89 540487 119
Project Manager
Angela Clerc
angela.clerc@siemens-stiftung.org
+49 89 540487 303
Further information
Get to know our other STEM projects in Germany!
STEM education around the topics of climate, digitality and health: In our project overview, you will find more exciting STEM projects of Siemens Stiftung in Germany as well as an overview of our international education networks.