The University of Cantabria (UC) is located in Cantabria, Spain. It is a modern public institution whose main purpose is to contribute to social progress through a firm commitment to teaching and scientific excellence. Although the UC is the 44th in terms of size within the Spanish University System, it is positioned the second Spanish university in terms of research (CYD Ranking 2019), and it is the 4th most productive Spanish university in teaching, research and knowledge transfer (U-Ranking 2019). In addition, the UC led the last six rankings of the Compromiso y Transparencia Foundation, assessing the openness of institutions.
Open STEAM Group
The UC role in the STEAMTeach project is to coordinate the cosortium with a high involvement in all intellectual outputs. The UC team is conformed by members of the Open STEAM Group. It is a multidisciplinary team including researchers from the Departments of ‘Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science’ (MATESCO), ‘Earth Sciences and Condensed Matter Physics’ (CITIMAC), and ‘Education’. Its research activity is focused on the teaching and learning of mathematics through a STEAM-based approach. The Open STEAM group has an extensive experience in projects aimed at promoting STE(A)M education, being part of European projects such as, KIKS (Erasmus+) and STEMforYouth (Horizon2020), and Spanish national projects including EAMARE-STEAM (in progress). Currently, the group is also collaborating in the Mathematics EduLarp and AuthoMath projects (Erasmus+).
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