1st Annual Meeting and MEDA conference

The STEaiM CT annual project meeting took place on 14–15 September 2026 at Johannes Kepler University Linz. The consortium discussed the project objectives, the next project steps, evaluation, course implementation and the dissemination strategy. Hosted by Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), the meeting brought together partners from Slovakia, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Portugal.

During the meeting, partners reviewed the activities carried out so far and discussed the next stages of project implementation. Key topics included the structure and content of the Handbook for pre-service teachers, STEM activities developed by the partner institutions, course implementation and evaluation, dissemination activities, and further development of project outputs. The meeting also included hands-on testing of the current version of the AI Tutor using partners’ own lesson plans.

The international team then presented the project's idea, research and first outcomes, including the AI Tutor and a draft of the project handbook, at the fifth MEDA conference (Mathematics Education in the Digital Age, 26th ERME Topic Conference), held at JKU Linz on 15–18 September 2026. Three posters and one paper were presented. Team from Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia) contributed with poster about Slovak experience with implementation of the designed course, colleagues from Università di Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) in collaboration with Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal) presented the current state of the handbook for future teachers and Universidad de Cantabria (Spain) elaborated on future teachers’ understanding of computational thinking. The collaboration between Slovak and Austrian team led to paper explaining the principles, objectives and planned deliverables of the project.