Innovative approaches will be developed to achieve an integrated and consistent concept that picks children up at different ages, beginning in primary school and accompany them until graduation from secondary school. At the same time students will learn about technology (e.g. The ER4STEM framework will coherently offer students aged 7 to 18 as well as their educators different perspectives and approaches to find their interests and strengths in robotics to pursue STEM careers through robotics and semi-autonomous smart devices. learning through making (or presenting ideas with tangible artefacts). The concept is founded on three important pillars of constructionism: 1. Young girls as well as boys can easily connect robots to their personal interests and share their ideas through these tangible artefacts.ĮR4STEM will refine, unify and enhance current European approaches to STEM education through robotics in one open operational and conceptual framework. This fascination and the variety of fields and topics covered make robotics a powerful idea to engage with. Children are fascinated by such autonomous machines. Moreover, due to various application domains, teamwork, creativity and entrepreneurial skills are required for the design, programming and innovative exploitation of robots and robotic services. The domain of robotics represents a multidisciplinary and highly innovative field encompassing physics, maths, informatics and even industrial design as well as social sciences. The Educational Robotics for STEM (ER4STEM) project aims to turn curious young children into young adults passionate about science and technology with a hands-on use case: robotics. Many children lose their natural curiosity for how things function and interrelate to each other along the way into their lives as young adults.