International conference

"STEAM Innovative Teaching in the Digital Era":

Erasmus+ project: №2023-2-BG01-KA210-SCH-000176961 co-funded by the EU. Key Action: Partnerships for Cooperation and Exchange of Practices

The International Conference "Innovative STEAM Teaching in the Digital Era" was held on 26 of August 2025 at SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak, Bulgaria.

At the Conference were attended 16 partner school principles and teachers and 35 principles and tecahers from the schools and kindergaten from Kazanlak region.

The collection of 10 innovative STEAM lessons created during the project time was presented by international partner teams. Dr. Rumyana Grozeva, Coordinating Partner, European Digital Innovation Hub Zagore, Lecturer at the Department of European Studies, Sofia University ”St. Kliment Ohridski" gave a speech about the Innovation and Digitalisation in education. Prof. Akseniya Tileva, PhD Aksenia Tileva from Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Department of Pedagogy, made a review of the project's lesson collection. The 51 participants at the conference had the opportunity to test the innovative techniques used in our lessons through the workshops after the lesson presentations

Friendship knows no borders!

STEAM Innovative Teaching in the Digital Era- Erasmus+ KA2 project co-funded by the EU, eTwinning project.

A story of trust, collaboration, and inspiration.

Nothing is by chance – everything is partnership.

One theme, one team, one story.

25-27 of August- last meeting in Kazanlak, Bulgaria.

I love and will remember every minute of this last meeting. I know that my partners will also do that. Our partnership has been going on for many years and has long since grown into a strong friendship.

On the 25th, we prepared our presentations for the conference, and to recreate the unity of our project spirit, we dressed in T-shirts with characteristic Bulgarian embroidery and then toured the Valley of Roses and the Thracian Kings.

August 26 was the most exciting day - the day of the international conference. We presented the STEAM LESSONS we created to the audience of principals and teachers from Kazanlak schools and kindergartens. We received an excellent review of our lessons from an associate. Prof. Akseniya Tileva, PhD Aksenia Tileva from Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Department of Pedagogy, which made us incredibly happy and proud. We were congratulated by Dr. Rumyana Grozeva, Coordinating Partner, European Digital Innovation Hub Zagore, Lecturer at the Department of European Studies, Sofia University ”St. Kliment Ohridski”, and the principals of the partner schools.

We held workshops with digital techniques from our lessons and embraced the printed booklet with the 10 lessons in a limited edition, for each of the partner schools. But all the lessons are available on the project's website and in Calameo.

August 27 - another unforgettable experience - a walk to Tryavna and Kapinski waterfall.

We also visited the Archaeological Complex "Valley of the Thracian Kings"

STEAM is not only an approach, it is a bridge between subjects, schools, and countries

Partner Organizations: SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak, Bulgaria - The project coordinator;

2nd Primary School of Karditsa, Greece;

Vastseliina Gümnaasium, Estonia;

Spetalen skole, Råde kommune, Norway;

EB1/PE da Lombada - Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal

by Natasha Dzhurkova- the happiest coordinator