On Friday, January 20, 2023, at 1 p.m., the Incubator for New Technologies Trokut will host the initial conference of the “RaSTEM Šibenik Regional Science Center” project.
Mayor Željko Burić and Head of the Administrative Department for Economy, Entrepreneurship and Development Petar Mišura will address the media at the presentation of the project. After the presentation, a short panel discussion about the project will be organized.
The “Regional Science Center – RaSTEM” project has a total value of 2,042,449.12 euros and will be implemented from July 2022 to March 2024. The goal of the project, financed 100 percent from donor and national funds, is to establish a synergy in the development of formal and informal education for the purpose of developing a program for the STEM field, divided into two parts; one for students, the other for teachers.
Five primary schools founded by the City of Šibenik are partners in the project, namely: Juraj Dalmatinac Primary School, Juraj Šižgorić Primary School, Meterize Primary School, Vrpolje Primary School and Brodarica Primary School with regional schools. Elementary schools from Murter and Skradin are also included. The partners in the project are the Croatian Robotics Association, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing from Zagreb and the University of Oslo.
As part of the project, classrooms will be arranged inside the schools, which will have additional infrastructure, and the emphasis is on robotics, meteorology, climatology and entrepreneurship. It is intended to educate a minimum of 15 teachers who will be able to educate not only children and other teachers, but also 200 children by the end of the project.
The furnishing also includes the environment of the Meterize Elementary School, where a park of approximately 300 square meters will be arranged, which will be used to educate children about climate change. One STEM park will be built in the environment of our Triangle, and Juraj Dalmatinac Primary School will receive a special upgrade for the STEM classroom. The education program for children is called ‘New Nikola Tesla’, while the teacher education program is named after Tesla’s physics professor Martin Sekulić.
