Work package 1 - Training Package development and Implementation

The work package aims to enhance the theoretical knowledge and operational capacity of 30 Secondary School teachers from 5 EU Secondary Schools in the use of open geospatial tools, data processing, and climate change. The work package aims to develop a Training Package that is designed on the specific needs of Partner Schools and provides a balanced technical knowledge related to the tools used for mapping and data processing. The release of the Training Package (Handbook) was complemented by a 3-day joint international training for the 30 Secondary Schools teachers. The next phase involved the transfer of contents to the 200 pupils involved in the project. The work package aims to make the Training Package (Handbook) and other educational materials accessible and transferable to other Secondary Schools in the EU through communication and dissemination activities. The work package will be supported by a Transnational Project Meeting in Italy to achieve its objectives. 

Work package 2 - Pupils - led Local mapping projects

This work package aims to achieve 3 specific objectives. Firstly, to develop 5 open-source mapping projects led by the pupils of the 5 Secondary Schools partners focused on environmental challenges specific to their local context. Secondly, to engage 200 Secondary School pupils and 30 teachers in designing and delivering effective dissemination activities to promote the mapping projects at a local, national and EU level. Finally, to develop the enhanced web-based EUthmappers platform with the scope of providing a collaborative digital location for project participants and future schools. The projects' development will be supervised by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and other scientific partners. The pupils will increase their environmental awareness, digital skills, data literacy, and STEM knowledge by collecting datasets and processing geo-spatial data, using geo-spatial tools and digital software for the development of videos and reports. This activity will complement the pupils' exercise in spatial and critical thinking. During the co-creation of the outputs, the 30 teachers involved will improve their training methodologies and STEM knowledge. Two partner meetings will be organized to ensure high-quality activities development.

Work package 3 - Collaborative Humanitarian Mapping Project

Work Package 4 aims to enhance the skills developed by pupils in previous work packages, particularly in team building, leadership, and technical skills. This will be done through a collaborative mapping project that focuses on humanitarian issues and UN (United Nations) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Pupils will collaborate with UNmappers (a community of volunteers from UN personnel), to create a map that will support UN peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. This project will also improve pupils' civic engagement and knowledge of the UN SDGs, as well as their linguistic and managerial skills in an international context. The work package includes introductory workshops, webinars, and transnational meetings to support the development of the project. The outcome of this work package will be the dissemination of the collaborative humanitarian project to a wider audience.

Work package 4 - Monitoring and Evaluation

This work package aims to monitor and evaluate the project's activities and their impact on the target groups (30 teachers and 200 pupils) in real-time. It also includes the creation of two evaluation reports and a policy guideline to describe the STEM teaching state of the art in the EU and provide recommendations for the adoption of the Curriculum based on the Training Package developed by the project into 50 Secondary Schools in the EU. The objective is to ensure a high quality development of the project's activities and properly assess its impact on participants, target groups, partner organizations, and outside the partnership. The policy guidelines will help innovate the traditional school curriculum by adopting open geospatial tools, data processing, and climate change knowledge. The final goal is the adoption of the Training package in 5 schools partners and 50 EU schools outside the partnership by the end of the project.