
3C4Life - Perspectives for Lifelong STEM Teaching – Career Guidance, Collaborative Practice and Competence Development (grant no. 626139-EPP-1-2020-2-DE-EPPKA3-PI-POLICY)
Europe is facing teacher shortages. This EU-funded project aims to raise the attractiveness of teacher profession.
Teachers need to update their teaching skills, competences, operate digitally, and act self-efficiently. 3C4life gathers 12 partners from 6 European countries. This powerful tandem structure tackles a fallow issue, which impedes top conditions in STEM education across Europe: STEM education systems lack the capacity to support teachers to make the best of their life as teachers.
About the project
3C4Life will develop an online platform for future STEM student teachers, young teaching professionals as well as experienced in-service STEM teachers to increase the attractiveness of the STEM teaching profession in the partner countries (and abroad).
To raise the attractiveness of the teacher profession, the following requirements have been identified:
Our measure is an all-digital STEM teacher platform with an innovative occupational advancement concept. The three perspectives are:

Events
We will organise national and international multiplier events to promote the project among relevant educational stakeholders and initializing dialogue on the matters at hand.
Project consortium
Coordinator - University of Education Freiburg, Germany
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
University of Lisbon, Portugal
University of Jaen, Spain
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Zentrum für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung, a Landesoberbehörde of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Germany
National Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania
Directorate-General for Education (DGE) of the National Ministry of Education, Portugal
VOHO Netwerken, a network funded and trusted by the Ministry of Education, The Netherlands
Conselleria d’ Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport, Spain
Ministry of National Education, Turkey