Girls Go STEM Teacher Awards 2026
EIT Community · Cascade funding
Summary
In our view, a Polish company will not get R&D or investment funding here.
Rewards teams of two or three schoolteachers designing and delivering materials science classroom activities, with the winning team attending a Brussels gathering.
- Who can apply
- Companies cannot apply. Applicants: individuals.
- Amount
- Amount not stated
- Deadline
- 2 Nov 2026 13:00 CETin 7 days
- Status
- Openopened 2 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
This year, Girls Go STEM joins forces with the European Advanced Materials Academy for its first ever Teacher Awards.
Teams of two or three teachers of any subject are invited to design a classroom activity on materials science, with the winning team joining the Girls Go STEM Ambassadors Gathering in Brussels in spring 2027.
Who can apply
• Teams of two or three teachers of any subject, from the same school or from different schools and countries
• Teachers currently working at a public or private school in one of the participating countries across Europe (see the full list on the Teacher Awards page)
• Teams able to communicate with the organisers in English; classroom activities may be delivered in the local language
How it works
• Register as a teacher on the Girls Go STEM learning platform and complete a Girls Go STEM Teacher Course
• Ensure at least 12 students complete three Girls Go STEM courses, including the course “The Power of Advanced Materials”
• Design and deliver a classroom activity introducing students to materials and materials science
• Submit the completed activity template, consent forms and course certificates before the deadline
Apply here
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Individual
- Purpose
- Training and people
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Unclear
- Country limit
- Participating European countries; the country list is not supplied
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Required
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- Materials science
- STEM education
- Classroom activities
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 24 Oct 2026
Call facts
- Opens
- 2 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- EIT Community
- Call
- —
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- eit.europa.eu
- Checked
- 25 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.