Robotics in schools: 30 million euros for equipment from the Recovery Fund

The Ministry of Education and Religions is proceeding with the immediate implementation of a budget project of 30 million euros for the supply of robotics and STEM equipment in our schools, funded by the Fund for Recovery and Resilience.

These are more than 177,000 sets of robotics for children 4-15 years of kindergarten, elementary and high school, adapted by age group – learning needs. Robotics kits consist of components / equipment parts, as well as the relevant software, which allow the construction and programming, forming a complete project. It is also accompanied by supportive educational material for teachers and students, for its optimal use during the learning process.

Objectives of securing Robotic Systems for all students attending compulsory education are, among others:

• Familiarization of students with Programming and Technology
• The promotion of educational innovation
• Enhancing teamwork
• Students’ involvement in problem solving (analysis, design, implementation, testing and experimentation, evaluation)
• The development of communication skills and valuable mental skills (analytical and synthetic thinking, creativity, critical thinking).
• The cultivation of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.

The project enhances in practice the digital transformation of education, enabling students to engage collaboratively in the construction and programming of new robotics programs, and complements other activities in the same direction funded by the Education Recovery and Sustainability Fund. such as the Digital Care program. Robotic programming creates a whole new work environment for students and their teachers, with features such as motivation, highlighting multiple solutions rather than a single, support for metacognitive learning processes, as programming activity leads to composition, analysis and externalization. cognitive processes.

Educational robotics has been included in the compulsory school schedule from this school year through the Skills Laboratories, in Kindergarten, Elementary and High School, while targeted training of teachers in these innovative teaching methods is also provided.

Minister Niki Kerameos stated: “Our constant goal is to provide our children with access to all those knowledge and skills that they will need in an ever-changing environment. The public school is evolving, acquiring modern technological equipment, promoting -through educational robotics- creative, combinatorial and computational thinking and the solution of realistic problems. It cultivates exploratory and collaborative learning, redesigns innovative teaching methods, highlights the role of the teacher as a companion of digital evolution. “With new learning tools, new curricula, skill workshops, modern equipment, our children gain valuable supplies for a better today, a more optimistic tomorrow.”

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