Utilisation analysis of STEM funding initiatives in Switzerland

Over the past 15 years, numerous extracurricular STEM support programmes have been initiated and successfully implemented in Switzerland. A study is now to analyse the use of selected offers in the period 2021-2024.

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The STEM support programmes are actively used at all levels of primary and secondary school. As a result, numerous teachers and several thousand pupils at various target levels are addressed by these STEM support programmes every year.

In this project, the use of selected STEM programmes will be investigated in the period 2021-2024. To this end, the attitudes and use of teachers and pupils will be recorded and documented. The target groups for this project are teachers at primary school and upper secondary level and pupils at lower and upper secondary level who have taken advantage of such STEM programmes. It is expected that the results will provide an accurate picture of the attitudes and benefits of STEM programmes among teachers and pupils. These findings will be used to formulate well-founded recommendations for the further development or redevelopment of extracurricular STEM programmes.

The study is a joint project of the Institute of Natural Sciences Didactics at the PHSG, the SATW and the Metrohm Foundation.

Further information in German

Contact Rahel Schmid

Management:

Dr Rahel Schmid (scientific director), Prof. Dr Nicolas Robin

Team:

Prof. Dr Robbert Smit (PHSG), Sanja Atanasova (PHSG), Belinda Weidmann (SATW), Edith Schnapper (SATW), student assistants (PHSG)