Webinar – Discover the real challenges faced by first-year STEM students and learn how we can support them better.

🎓 Join our Erasmus Days Online Webinar
🗓️15 October 2025, 12:30–13:30 (CEST)
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Join us for an engaging online session where we will present the first results of the In-4-STEM Project.

You’ll hear firsthand stories from students and discover proven strategies that help improve both the social and academic integration of new STEM students.

About In-4-STEM: Innovative interventions to improve social & academic integration of STEM university students

In-4-STEM wants to improve social and academic integration of new STEM students by designing and implementing innovative interventions that tackle challenges that are experienced by  minorities such as first-generation, women, and apprenticeship students. The goal of this project is to improve the first year experience of a more diverse pool of STEM students.

start date: December 31st, 2024

end date: December 30st, 2027

Objectives

In-4-STEM wants to improve the social and academic integration of new STEM students, especially of minorities such as first-generation, women, and apprenticeship students by the following objectives:

• identify the challenges faced by minorities during transition in various European STEM universities
• develop and validate a tool to measure the social and academic integration of new STEM students
• design, implement, and evaluate innovative interventions that address the identified challenges and  improve social and academic integration during transition into STEM

Consortium

The consortium consists of 4 partner universities that are members of the SEFI network (KU Leuven, TU Dublin, TU/e, and ENSTA), and three Associate Partners (Board of European Students of Technology (BEST),  European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) and Instituts des Techniques d’Ingénieur de l’Industrie (ITII) ).