The objectives of acaSTEMy are as follows:

1. Form a strong, sustainable partnership of STEM teacher education and training providers to support high-quality, research-based STEM teacher education from pre-service teacher education to continuing professional development, with the aim of equipping teachers with the science competences and transversal skills they need to prepare themselves, as well as their students, for the future labour market. This objective entails extending and developing the competences of pre- and in-service STEM teachers, teacher educators, and other STEM personnel who support adult learners.
2. In line with The Digital Education Action Plan strategic priority of enhancing digital competences for the digital transformation (European Commission, 2020 ), acaSTEMy will contribute to improving digital education across the EU by focusing on STEM teachers’ digital literacy, skills, and competence for all levels: from basic to advanced digital skills, during pre- and in-service education, in the context of formal and non-formal learning. The project will improve teachers’ capacity to use digital tools and content in pedagogically meaningful ways, and develop skills for teaching-learning processes including collaborative learning, computer use and using computerized learning tools with learning support in STEM education, focusing on how digital technologies are used to enhance teaching and learning.
3. Develop, pilot, and validate effective teaching-learning modules and micro-degree courses for STEM teacher competences on challenging matters of common concern, specifically related to the twin green and digital transitions, as well as to diversity in the classroom. Devising a strategy for the cross-consortium recognition of learning.
4. AcaSTEMy seeks to contribute to the ‘Teacher Academies’ goal of making mobility an essential component of pre-service and in-service STEM teacher education by designing a supportive, inspiring and sustainable international framework for professional development throughout STEM teachers’ careers, including virtual, physical and blended cooperation, co-supervision of Master theses, job shadowing, coaching and mobility activities.
5. Further, acaSTEMy will contribute to enhancing STEM teacher education practices and policies in Europe by pooling teachers’ and teacher education providers’ expertise for future policy design and by facilitating interactions with policymakers.
6. Finally, an objective is enhancing and diversifying the competences and wellbeing of STEM teachers, and by extension, raising the attractiveness and value of the profession in the society.