The Edu-Mat project (Project Number: 2023-1-IT02-KA220-SCH-000157934) has been co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

Testimonials

Magi Danailova
Steam researcher/expert (Bulgaria)
As a university student I am exposed to numerous different teaching approaches. The digital mats offer a great instrument to teachers, helping them deliver the content to a diversified classroom of students who have different learning needs and who need to express what they have learned in a different way. There are videos, there are games, there are online and offline activities, there is Scratch. So lots of fun and learning.

Burcea Angela
Teacher (Romania)
Digital Mats Kit has several interesting features and strengths that make it a valuable solution: - it allows users to create and modify digital maps in real time, making it easy to explore and customize content - the intuitive interface makes navigating and editing maps accessible for beginners and advanced users alike - it can be used in education, role-playing games, planning strategies, etc.

Roberta Dardanello
Teacher (Italy)
It improves skills and competences in an innovative way, responds to the differentiated needs of students, respects everyone's time and different learning methods. It stimulates the enhancement and acquisition of logical skills linked to experiences and observations of real problematic situations, encouraging the development of a positive attitude through the creation of specific and significant paths capable of increasing educational success and valorizing excellence.

Madalena Brás martins
Assistant Director (Portugal)
Digital kits simplify the teacher's approach to steam and programming in the 1st Cycle of Elementary Education. The paths proposed to students enable the learning of very important concepts. Through play, children learn, becoming aware of environmental concerns and the need to combat them.

Carlos Santana
Teacher (Spain )
The most interesting aspects of the Digital Template Kit are its ease of use—allowing anyone to use it regardless of their digital skills—and its flexible customization, as it can be adapted to individual specific needs.

Todorka Pavlova
Teacher (Bulgaria)
Storytelling is an instrument, which works well when teaching children all kinds of subjects. Humanitarian topics via STEM activities here also will be perfectly delivered via the developed stories and the opportunities to play with Scratch.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
Tools, which can be applied literally immediately in my classes, considering how well the content is organized and how finely it matches the time slots I have with the children. Great topics and engaging stories.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
I am an arts teacher and consider these digital mats an asset because the approach used in their development is not pure STEM but engaging STEAM, which not only tackles humanitarian subjects, but also uses artistic approaches and storytelling.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
An instrument, which can be very useful in the practice of teachers, who want to follow the STEAM way and develop their students' opinions on topics from all areas.

Bulgarian Experts
Steam researcher/expert (Bulgaria)
The booklets are a great tool to use in my activities and workshops with the children, covering topics, which are of major importance for the new generations. Well organized and varied content and variety of activities and games to do.

Bulgarian Experts
Steam researcher/expert (Bulgaria)
I study pedagogy and use STEM and consider the infographic mats an excellent tool, which I can use in my future classes, considering how engaging they are, how full of varied activities and opportunities to play and learn.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
Excellent set of materials to assist the work of the teacher on humanitarian topics with the children while engaging all types of learners in activities that take care of their interests, abilities and talents.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
As a member of the Ucha.se team I understand how important it is to deliver the content in an understandable and engaging way for the young children. Here there is everything and theory is slipped in and feels like it is disguised, which is great for the children who prefer to learn through playing and coding.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
In the booklet I love the combination of activities and also the balanced involvement of the teacher, who can leave the children to do things on their own, assisting where necessary.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
I have gone through the website in class training and am experienced in diversifying both the topics and the approaches in my classes. The Edumat+ infographic mats will be a great asset in my set of tools, considering the topics they cover and the fact that they hold activities from both traditional, innovative and STEM education.

Bulgarian School director
School director (Bulgaria)
Being the head of an innovative school, I see the importance of variety in the education we deliver. The approach used in the digital mats and the topics they cover can bring great value to our teachers and ultimately - the children.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
The booklet allows to create possibilities for giving individual tasks and group tasks to children, which is important to me considering how varied my classes are. They have different needs but with these mats all can get engaged in one way or another.

Bulgarian Experts
Steam researcher/expert (Bulgaria)
The digital mats have a great potential to be very useful as they cover in an exhaustive manner the topics tackled and they provide a bouquet of activities, resources, games. Something particularly useful also in the setting of a private STEM center.

Bulgarian Teacher
Teacher (Bulgaria)
The infographic mats can even be used by interdisciplinary practices, which upper secondary school or university students can implement with younger students. They are that intuitive to use and well organized.

Corina Angel
Teacher (Romania)
I will use it in the robotics club and I think I will also tell the teachers I collaborate with how I can use it in the civic and environmental education classes

Gabriela Burduja
Teacher (Romania)
Very interesting and attractive. Me, as a teacher, I understood how I could use the booklets and I most certainly I will

Carmela Tindara Lombardo
Teacher (Italy)
It represents a versatile educational resource that combines technology and educational content to address key issues, such as climate change, promoting active and conscious learning among students.

Eugenia Agrò
Teacher (Italy)
The kits can be used for a variety of applications

Antonina Fazio
Teacher (Italy)
It promotes an educational and participatory approach based on interactive, immersive experiences, stimulating learning, creativity and customization.

Mariagiovanna pontillo
Teacher (Italy)
They allow for more precise measurement than traditional methods

BIANCA MARIA RESTANTE
Teacher (Italy)
Innovation and the playful aspect

VALENTINA FANFANI
Teacher (Italy)
Through a project of this kind, children are able to be guided, both visually and with a narrative, in a learning process that makes them participants and active and above all offers the opportunity to have direct and immediate feedback on what they have learned and to transport it more concretely, through simulation, into the everyday world and into their experience.

Francesca Lara Risica
Teacher (Italy)
The most interesting aspects and strengths are interactive and immersive technology to create educational and playful experiences. It stimulates learning and creativity.

Maria Anna Abbate
Teacher (Italy)
The narration that accompanies the work is the possibility of interacting with multimedia tools

Rossi Loredana
Teacher (Italy)
Create interactive and engaging lessons

Tiziana Sfari
Teacher (Italy)
The ability to address important issues through fun and effective educational and recreational experiences.

SUSANNA COLELLA
Teacher (Italy)
It's the colors and the images

MARIA MANNA
Teacher (Italy)
Engaging, innovative, appropriate project.

Francesca Galei
Teacher (Italy)
Completeness of the expository material, functional subdivision of the work steps, good range of interdisciplinary connections

Michelle Tortolani
Teacher (Italy)
The use of technology as a game and educational resource.

Carmela Tindara Lombardo
Teacher (Italy)
Digital Mats Kits combine technology, interactivity and learning and offer an educational, playful and sensorial experience that can be customized according to the needs of those who use them.

Vendemini Cristina
Teacher (Italy)
Each lesson is well divided between storytelling, videos, interactive exercises and laboratory activities for children. But the story could be built with a more interesting text. So it will be the teacher who will have to add some sentences during the reading, to better clarify some information or some key elements of the story to the young children.

Sandra Taccetti
Teacher (Italy)
tackle interesting topics that stimulate critical thinking

Eli Shopova
Pedagogy student (Bulgaria)
The training course is great for guiding a teacher how to implement the lessons in the different infomats. The introduction with Scratch clarification and the closure with evaluation tool make the package complete.

Ivana Aznarez Moreno
School Teacher (Spain )
The strengths of the training have been the connection between the SDGs and the content covered, as well as the use of technology through programming and gamification in the classroom.

Francesca Lara Risica
School Teacher (Italy)
The training course offers the opportunity to implement strategies for integrating highly formative interactive methodologies into the classroom.

Ilincii Daniela
School Teacher (Romania)
I think that the proposed themes are very well structured, the level of difficulty is accessible to the age of the young schoolchild, arousing their interest and turning them into active actors in their own learning.

Nikoleta Petkova
STEM center expert (Bulgaria)
A nice course to get me understand how the mats can be used in my work and what path or approaches I could follow.

Elina Ferdinandova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
I use various innovative approaches in my work with the children, following the Together in class programme. The EduMat+ course is a wonderful addition to the package.

Todorka Pavlova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
Some years ago, before I got better informed, I was really sceptic about everything related to STEM. Now, I understand the logic and the effects from this type of education and consider the EduMat+ an excellent tool, which can help teachers, including such that are at the beginning of their STEM teaching practice.

Petar Pashev
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
The training course can provide good orientation to experienced and inexperienced teachers how to use the infographic mats.

Ralitsa Tabakova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
I am only now starting on my STEM path as a teacher and consider the EduMat+ course useful and easy to apply with little previous experience.

Ralitsa Noncheva
STEM center expert (Bulgaria)
A great addition to my practice as an educator of gifted children. The course and the accompanying materials are immediately applicable.

Penka Davidkova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
I have years of experience with STEM and using Scratch. My students are all connected to the school network via their Chromebooks and we work on common projects together. The EduMat+ course and materials can be added very easily to my practice.

Dilyana Gadzheva
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
I am interested in the EduMat+ training course and the infographic mats and look forward to using them in my practice.

Mariya Damyanova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
Interested to use it and learn more about this particular way of using coding. From the implemented tests with one of my colleagues, it seems perfectly usable.

Mariyana Stankova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
Thanks to the TP I now understand how to use the infographic mats. I would like to have all materials in Bulgarian - including all the Scratch coding.

Tatyana Azgorova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
As a primary level teacher, I find this course very useful - as a set of activities and topics, which are well developed for properly informing the children concerning local and global issues.

Stefan Angelov
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
I find it interesting and useful. I believe that I need a bit more time to read and put into practice.

Desislava Filipova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
The training course is well developed and the explanations are clear. The videos come in very handy.

Kremena Kandeva
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
Our school is an innovative school for successful and happy children. Story-based and STEM based learning activities such as the ones proposed in EduMat+ are a great contribution to our programme.

Milena Laleva
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
Curious to use the EduMat+ course and the infographic mats with my children. Impressed by the demonatration done with the climate change mat and the response from the involved class.

Veselka Zhecheva
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
Particularly impressed by the contents and the topics. As far as the use of Scratch and coding is concerned, we do have lots of experience with that and the children are quite well prepared.

Daniela Zlateva
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
I feel prepared to use the tools included in the course. The instructions are clear and accessible. Would like to have all materials in Bulgarian, if possible.

Ginka Ivanova
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
My students will use the Scratch on their own, developing their own projects and games, based on the EduMat+ topics and characters.

Tanya Georgieva
School Teacher (Bulgaria)
The material presented in the EduMat+ course is relevant and useful and I value the possibility to include them in some of the classes I conduct.

Sara Abad de Marcos
School Teacher (Spain )
I like very uch the use of scratch through storys releated with the ODSs

Juan Lorca Santiago
School Teacher (Spain )
The most interesting elemnt of the trainnig course is the gamification in the classroom and the potential of the selected topics to address the content.

Carlos
School Teacher (Spain )
I value this course positively due to the easy access to the necessary materials, the organization of the course, and its usefulness, as it offers a variety of practical examples that we, as teachers, can apply in the classroom with our students.

Antonina Fazio
School Teacher (Italy)
The training course offers a practical and interactive approach. Its strengths include hands-on experience, innovative teaching applications, strategies for classroom integration, and professional development.

Edoardo Azzariti
School Teacher (Italy)
In my opinion, the most interesting aspect of the training course lies in the importance and relevance of the topics presented. Its greatest strength is the use of innovative teaching practices capable of effectively engaging the target end-users.

Carmela Tindara Lombardo
School Teacher (Italy)
The course offers several interesting aspects and strengths: a practical and interactive approach, innovative teaching materials, personalized learning, accessibility, and continuous professional development.

Isabel Guerra
School Teacher (Portugal)
The online course provides teachers with tools to approach content in an inter and transdisciplinary way, adapted to the students' reality.

Zaharia Marian Codrin
School Teacher (Romania)
It was interesting to go through the course - the quizzes were good - although I didn't know all the answers the first time, I went back and found the correct answer.

Burcea Angela
School Teacher (Italy)
The course was easy to go through and easy to understand, a really useful too in class

Geanina Honceriu
School Teacher (Italy)
The most interesting aspects are the practical exercises and ideas and the strengths are the course's clarity and concision.