Family engagement in STEAM

Acronym: FASTEAM

Programme: Erasmus 2027

Call: KA220-SCH - Cooperation partnerships in school education

Project number: 2025-1-NL01-KA220-SCH-000350389

Implementation period: 01.09.2025 - 31.08.2027

Website: https://learninghubfriesland.wixsite.com/fasteam

Aim of the project
FASTEAM strengthens family involvement in STEAM education. The project connects parents, teachers, and students to make science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics more engaging (in and outside of the school), especially for girls and underrepresented groups.

Key results

• Together Tool - supports collaboration between teachers and families.
• STEAM Storytime with Experiments - a guide combining storytelling and hands-on experiments.
• Online Family Challenges Platform - fun STEAM challenges families can do together.
• Teacher training - equips teachers with culturally responsive strategies for family engagement.

Coordinator: Learning Hub (NGO), Leevarden, The Netherlands

Partner organizations:

• Future Minds (NGO), Skopje, North Macedonia
• University of Zagreb, Zagrreb, Croatia
• De Jutter school (primary school), Vlieland, The Netherlands
• Osnovna skola “Vrhovci” (primary school), Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Osnovno Uciliste “Vera Ciriviri Trena” (primary school), Skopje, North Macedonia