The Mangualde STEM Academy is the result of an application by the Municipality of Mangualde to a project promoted by Intermunicipal Community of Viseu Dão Lafões, "Promotion of Educational Success Viseu Dão Lafões", to "Support the Educational Contexts and Pedagogical Practices of Success". In this context, Academi@ STEM Mangualde aims to support work in a school context, promoting the use of new ICT tools, encouraging project work, collaborative and interdisciplinary work new learning methodologies. The Academy aims to promote success, inclusion and an improvement in the quality of learning, seeking to develop teaching and learning in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics aimed at the integration of disciplinary knowledge. This Academy has as its premises i) curriculum development, in an articulated way between STEM subjects, with a local context ii) the training of teachers based on in the teaching and learning strategies related to the developed STEM activities iii) the creation of events to disseminate the work carried out and reflect on teaching practices, disseminating/discussing concrete activities, focusing on its different dimensions, iv) integration of the business and cultural fabric of Mangualde, particularly project partners, in the development and promotion of activities in a real context, v) presentation of proposals tfor a new organization of school, namely, the creation of teams that enhance the curriculum development focused on the local context.

The work developed in the Mangualde STEM Academy, by teachers, collaborators and political and pedagogical decision-makers, is also intended to be a reference for the planning of projects with a strong local nature, valuing the development of activities within the curriculum and involving a network of collaborators from different companies, local entities to higher education institutions. It is a work that, in a second part, presents concrete proposals for interdisciplinary activities, from preschool to 9th grade, which is expected to be an incentive for the development of teaching-learning strategies closer to current guidelines and the promotion of of essential skills for the future of students.

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