STEAMKitchen
About the project
The project period is March 2024 - February 2026
It is a Erasmus+ KA220-HED project, code 2023-1-EE01-KA220-HED-000159885
- STEAMKitchen - Bridging STEAM practices and home economics in teacher education. Information about the project in the Estonian Research Information System - ETIS. (link: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/42788872-cefc-4436-9c53-538…).
- Coordinator: Kristi Paas, lecturer of Home Economics theory and didactics, School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University
- Project Team in Tallinn University: Jaana Taar, Kristi Paas, Tiina Vänt, Katrin Männik and Matti Juhani Rossi
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STEAMkitchen project aims to contribute to the transformation of the educational practices in higher education, to provide teacher educators as well as preservice teachers concrete instruments and experiences for implementing STEAM principles into home economics learning practices with a focus on sustainability issues. The project aims to promote women's and girls’ interest in STEAM through interdisciplinary teaching in a home economics context. It is predicted that applying STEAM principles in home economics education brings girls closer to scientific and technological specialties and at the same time also broadens boys' understanding of implementing STEAM-related knowledge into everyday activities.
The STEAMkitchen project has three interdependent outputs: guidelines, a handbook, and an e-course that can be connected to teacher training programs of partner universities and implemented in schools in other EU countries. The created tools alone do not guarantee changes, therefore, as a result of this project, different parties become aware of the content and results of the STEAMkitchen project and thereby gain knowledge about planning interdisciplinary teaching and implementing STEAM learning in different classes, enabling students to integrate these principles in sustainable everyday life situations.
Project Partners
Project partners
Universities from four countries participate in the STEAMKitchen project:
- Tallinn University, School of Natural Sciences and Health from Estonia has the role of the coordinator in this project
- University of Helsinki, Faculty of Educational Sciences from Finland
- University of Stavanger from Norway
- Johannes Kepler University Linz from Austria
Universities from four countries participate in the STEAMKitchen project:
Project Activities
Project activities
18.-20.03.2024 Kick-off meeting in Linz, Austria.The first joint meeting of the project partners: getting to know the project members and discussing the project's activities and results.
Implementation of work package (WP) activities
WP 2 (01.04.2024–31.01.2025): Guidelines. From April to the end of October, regular online discussions were held between project partners. These discussions aimed to collaboratively develop a set of guidelines focused on the effective implementation of home economics and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) principles. During the meetings, ideas were shared, different approaches were discussed, and the final structure and content of the guidelines were agreed upon.
Next steps: compiling the final version of the text, editing the text, and planning focus group meetings for getting feedback from different stakeholders
TP 3 (01.10.2024 - 28.02.2026): Handbook. The collection of ideas for the content of the handbook started in parallel with the development of the guidelines. The main action plan and the oversight of the task template were key points during the partner meeting held in Helsinki on October 7-8, where the next steps were agreed upon and the key stages of work were defined. During the meeting, various concepts were discussed, and a shared vision of the structure of the tasks was reached.
Next steps: creating ideas for tasks.
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Photo: meeting of representatives of project partners in Helsinki