The DESIRE project consulted science teachers, project managers, communicators and policymakers from 2011-2013 to identify how to more efficiently disseminate results from STEM education projects to teachers and schools. It analyzed stakeholders' experiences to determine the main obstacles and facilitators. The DESIRE survival kit provides recommendations for project managers and policymakers on how to plan and carry out dissemination of funded science education projects based on lessons learned. It identifies targets, obstacles to reaching them, and offers tools to create multiplier effects and mainstream results into policies.

1. DESIREImproving Science Education in
Europe

3. The DESIRE project
The DESIRE project has identified how
Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education
stakeholders can contribute to the improvement of science
education.
From 2011 to 2013 science teachers, science education project
managers, science communicators and policymakers were
consulted on how new project results on STEM education can reach
teachers and other stakeholders more efficiently.
The stakeholders’ experiences were collected and analysed and the
DESIRE project has identified the main obstacles and facilitators to
promote science education projects’ outcomes to teachers and
schools.
The identified best practices in knowledge dissemination in STEM
education can be found in the DESIRE survival kit. As stakeholder
the survival kit gives you excellent recommendations on how
you can contribute with improving STEM education in Europe.

6. Improve STEM education in Europe
The DESIRE project has produced a survival kit
which presents a set of recommendations for
project manager and policy makers to improve
the way dissemination is planned and carried
out in funded projects on science education.
You can find the publication
online:http://desire.eun.org/publications

7. The DESIRE survival kit can...
• Provide you information about the targets of your science education project and
permit you to look at your diffusion, dissemination and exploitation practices with
new eyes.
• Identify obstacles which prevent you from reaching a successful dissemination and
exploitation of your messages to stakeholders.
• Give you survival tools to create a multiplier effect when transferring and
implementing results and eventually mainstreaming them into policies.
• Provide you practical tips based on lessons learned and experiences from teachers
and other science education stakeholder to choose schools outreach models
depending on the needs of a given project, especially when implementing in a
pan-EU or multi-country context
• Highlight approaches which can federate existing initiatives and point to key
European or national services that can act as relays for the results of science
education projects.

8. The DESIRE consortium
The project was carried out by a European consortium including :
• European Schoolnet (BE)
• INDIRE (Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione per l’Innovazione e la
Ricerca Educativa) (IT)
• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
• Dansk Naturvidenskabsformidling (DK)
• Ecsite (The European Network of Science Centres and Museums)
(FR)
and funded under the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning
Programme (DG Education and Culture).