Green STEAMTech
Year Awarded
2022
Amount
€265,000
- Organisation:Kinia
- Audience:Post Primary Teachers - Junior Cycle
- Format:Non-formal Education
- Location:Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford
- Topic:STEAM
Project Summary
For climate action to take root and happen at the speed and scale required, people and communities must be empowered to act now. Our goal is to drive meaningful and sustainable change in communities by providing the infrastructure for marginalised young people to be solution-focused and creative with technology within a STEAM based framework.
This project aims to increase the number of marginalised young people engaged with STEAM based solutions for Climate and Environmental challenges and so inspiring them towards future STEAM learning opportunities and career paths.
There are three pillars to this project:
Community Action: leverage the energy of young people and the creative potential of STEAM and technology to mobilise and drive solutions to local challenges.
Training and Education: launching accessible and relevant climate and environmental action STEAM project-based learning resources and programmes.
Awareness: Increase awareness of climate and environmental change with a focus on taking ownership of practical actions.
This is a national project that will equip 150 educators, (teachers and youth workers), and 1,500 young people with climate-related STEM skills, knowledge and confidence. Educators and young people will be supported to develop their climate STEM projects into local climate action projects within their communities.
As specialists in STEAM and Digital for equality and inclusion, we will use our experience to put marginalised groups at the centre of the programme.
We will focus on young people experiencing marginalisation due to
Socio-economic disadvantage
Rural isolation
Language and culture
Ethnicity (Traveller, Roma, and Migrant)
Women and girls