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Do you think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe?

Yes, there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe, mainly because many graduates are not prepared with the skills currently demanded by the job market. Some experts also point to structural economic changes and recruitment practices as contributing factors.

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No I dont thınk so

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Stem skills should be perceived correctly and handled simply. Stem technologies to students; must be processed by discovery, experimentation and research.

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I think STEM skills need to be improved. For this, trainers should be trained more frequently. Many teachers run STEM projects in their classroom without realizing it. But if the teacher is better equipped, the efficiency of these projects will increase.

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Indeed, there is a lack of STEM skills, this is becoming increasingly visible through the difficulties employers face in finding a medium and highly skilled workforce. This is due to the inadequacy of the national educational curriculum with the requirements of the economic market. Although all political programs are promising to focus on education, investment in educational and human infrastructure (teachers) is minimal. I believe that besides the efforts of the state in this direction, it would also be of interest for employers to invest in educating and preparing their own labor force and to make a strategic partnership in this respect with the educational units.

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I think we need more teachers who have STEM skills .Students ,teachers and parents should know the existence of it asearch about it and be gudie to the students.

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In my country there is a shortage of STEM skills.We are new about this anf there arent so many guides we can follow and we can learn from.

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Individuals should develop themselves in every direction in the field where they will work. The necessary guidance for this should be made.

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Yes, my opinion is that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe.
In Romania, dual education has been introduced, which has a great demand.
There, students' abilities are used.
It is hard for employers to hire qualified people in certain jobs because they are lacking. Missing qualifications from schools in Romania. For example: I'm looking for a skilled painter to renovate a home, I do not find a qualified one, only one who has the skills of a painter but is not qualified. Here is a problem.
I recently heard that many companies employ people after the aptitude test, is sent to school qualification.

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I believe girls aren't that much involved in STEM Area. We need to encourage the new generation and increase students interest in STEAM Education.

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Lithuania really lacks STEM skills, this topic is only relevant for the second year. as well as STEAM skills are more developed in schools only in schools. I think that since the early childhood, STEAM skills have to be strengthened. The curiosity of children is so great, and through the playful activities we can touch and see and create, we can present and educate children, especially girls, to the fantastic world of science, technology, engineering and math. The attitude of these disciplines is important and must be started at an early age, and then continue the further learning cycles with the most exciting action. My kindergarten already has a STEM creative lab and I really share this experience from America, where STEAM has been implemented for several years now. I think that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe.
My Kindergarten Photo: Creative Laboratory STEM

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I do not think Europe's STEM skills are inadequate.
There are several reasons why employers can not find workers:
Our younger generation wants less money to work less.
Easy work, lots of money.
I believe that a new generation must first educate on these.

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No, because the low-paid workforce is looking for

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I think, that there is a lack of STEM specialists in Europe, but the sortage is different in every countri.

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Like any new concept, we need to develop it in relation to the labor market.

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I think, that there is a lack of STEM specialists in Europe, but the sortage is different in every countri. This depends on organization of education, the change in the need for specialists, emigration, etc.

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I believe there is a shortage of stem skills, especially for girls. Girls are not that much involved in STEM Area. We need to encourage the new generation and increase students interest in STEAM Education.

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Mariapia del Fosco          I think that in Italy there is a need for STEM skills, especially girls are not involved. Technologies and sciences are generally more closely related to a male sector. My goal in the school where I teach is to guide students alike to STEM technology, with educational robotics.

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Mariapia del Fosco          I think that in Italy there is a need for STEM skills, especially girls are not involved. Technologies and sciences are generally more closely related to a male sector. My goal in the school where I teach is to guide students alike to STEM technology, with educational robotics.

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I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe. I think main reason traditional education. Delivering instruction must change

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I think that there is no a shortage of STEM skills. During years people have been formed to be specialist in only one skill (to be a mathematician, a physicist, a byologist,...) Nowadays, society needs multidisciplinary or "multiskill" people to advance at the actual velocity. Nevertheless, the education has not changed as necessary. We need to introduce the new skills, the new profile of citizens in schools from an early age.

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In Italy, Stem skills should be strengthened from childhood. The curiosity of children is so great and through playful activities that we can touch and see and create, we can bring and educate children and especially girls to the fantastic world of science, technology, engineering and math. The approach to these disciplines is important and it must be started at an early age and then continue in subsequent school cycles with more and more engaging activities.

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The necessary training environment for stem applications needs to be provided.

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I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe.The main reason is education systems.Education systems should provide students with  knowledge in STEM disciplines builds upon each other useful in real life.

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The skills that students who carry out activities under this STEM pedagogical approach help them to understand and participate in the work world that awaits them after the year 2020 where they will be protagonists of this world. Let us help them understand their world and how they can contribute in their environment in a profitable way

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I think that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. The main reason for this is the lack of cooperation between employers and schools.

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İ think the workd iş changing aroubd us.we Must demek different . Web have to learn STEM to feel the different that is educational chang

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İ think the workd iş changing aroubd us.we Must demek different . Web have to learn STEM to feel the different that is educational chang

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I think it is not enough because science is constantly progressing. Today's skills may be insufficient in the future. Therefore, root skills should be developed continuously.

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I think that in Europe and especially in Italy, we are quite far from a good coverage in Stem skill for younger people. However there is more attention and care in order to improve Stem perfomance.

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I believe that STEM vocations are decreasing, partly due to difficulties in terms of knowledge and skills. Companies require versatile professionals that adapt to very specific jobs and tasks. Is not easy.

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My thoughts are STEM shortage. The European exhibit, the best exhibit in technology and education, is not interested in STEM due to its different interests. STEM requires research and study. But it's a little heavy for this generation. That is why the generation that is interested in working in Europe is taking the brain

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In my opinion there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe.These days, enthusiasm for STEM education is growing. However, care must be taken before integrating into curricula and activities. Because there are many bad examples. For this, students and their families are informed more about STEM

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I think there is an inadequacy of Stem performances in Europe. These days, enthusiasm for STEM education is growing. However, care must be taken when integrating curricula and activities. Because there are many bad examples. In addition, students and families need to be particularly informed about STEM careers.

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I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe because it is difficult to find workers with the characteristics: education can do a lot, especially STEM teaching

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We can see the shortage of STEM skills in Europe not only from the charts and research results presented in the articles but also after reading the comments of other course participants. It would be difficult to decide about the reason of lack of STEM skills in other European countries as the factors might differ, as it was said while analyzing the evidence that not all the countries face the same level of shortage. Up to my country, personally I think that there is some miscommunication between the labor market and education system. Also, students are not informed enough about potential need of future careers. That is what we should start from!

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I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe because  it is a new field.  At schiil, these skills should be more promoted.
Childrens loves anything is new and  learn dearly

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Yes, I believe there is a shortage of STEM skills as they are challenging and demanding and perhaps students are not stimulated or motivated enough at school to develop them.

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Yes, I believe there is a shortage of STEM skills as they are challenging and demanding and perhaps students are not stimulated or motivated enough at school to develop them.

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Bogusława

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I do believe that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe because students believe that Science is only for gifted people and they find it difficult and sometimes boring.

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I believe that skills are not always properly evaluated

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Yeah, I think there is a shortage of Steam skills because we don't ensure that the path that our students take is the correct path for the jobs of tomorrow.

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I believe there is a shortage of STEM skills because of many different reasons.the sciences are a serious topic and to understand them thoroughly it is necessary to have a curious attitude towards what surrounds us. Unfortunately, children, who are naturally curious, are little stimulated by observation in their early years of life.Political economic choices and well-being have diminished interest in science in many European countries, while in economically less developed countries we can observe an opposite trend

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Yes, I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe because there is a discrepancy between how education is done in school and the realities of the labor market, and this is particularly worrying when there will be a need in the future skills and STEM knowledge in the vast majority of jobs.
To support the implementation of STEM strategies in the Member States of the European Union, several European organizations have come together in a coalition. The EU STEM Coalition organizes extensive meetings each year, including the exchange of best practices in STEM education and the promotion of the Triple Propeller Approach.
In Romania, the restoration of healthy attitudes towards scientific and technical education is a mandatory step in triggering a real economic progress of our society. The first step, the most simple to accomplish, is that all teachers give up on the purely theoretical static education and implement an STEM type education in the educational process.
Students will be involved in concrete activities with technical, experimental support, so that they will participate with maximum determination in the formation of skills necessary for the future scientist, engineer, technician.
We must all be aware that STEM represents the concrete educational framework optimal to the age in which young people manifest and satisfy their curiosities, improve their skills in the use of tools and devices, use ingenuity and enhance their creativity.

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There is a shortage of STEM skills everywhere. The reasons are complex and depend on countries and their educational systems. In some countries at schools students acquire only knowledge, at other only skills. The best option is when students acquire  everything - skills and knowledge at school. The other main reason is that in recent years there is low students' attitudes towards STEM

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STEM skills are lacking, because in schools there is no professional hierarchy of specializations among the school population in relation to the needs of local communities.
Old jobs have disappeared from the labor market and young people do not acquire the required qualifications required by employers.
We believe that proper human resource management is needed, both among teachers and students.

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Albania
The shortage exist in our country but it is focused in big cities.
Schools are not ready to connect with new tecnology. It is a traditional learning most of the schools use.

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There is a shortage of STEM skills everywhere. The main reason is STEM in schools is not connected to Industry thus relevant skills are not been built in students and the teachers are also not equipped for the future as STEM Industry is moving at a rapid pace but the school systems have yet to catch up.

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though Iam a Indian national i feel from the interaction with others that there is dearth of STEM Professionals in Europe, this could be due to lack of awareness about the same

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though Iam a Indian national i feel from the interaction with others that there is dearth of STEM Professionals in Europe, this could be due to lack of awareness about the same

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I agree that there is a shortage of STEM skills in my country. In Romania is no coordination and no connection between what students learn in school and the skills desired by companies for employees. The primary reason is that curricula in school is not related with real life. As a teacher, you have to be creative, try to develop STEM skills extra-curricula, and if it is possible in classroom.

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Türkiye
İn mu opinion it's not about finding the right school.it's about finding the right human in school.If you want to prepare people for the future, or if you want to shape the future, we have to make all our investments in human beings. Countries will continue to exist to the extent that they have invested in education and human resources.STEM very good invested

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Shortage of Stem skills in Europe
I agree that there is a shortage of Stem skills in Europe. There is no coordination between different degree of study in Italy and mainless there is no connection between what students can learn and the reality around them. I think that it would be more active in changing point of view when we teach, I mean teaching Stem skills needs well creative and innovative teachers. Then we could raise some outcomes:
Motivation for students and teachers
Change of curricula
Link between schools, institutions and labour martket
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I think, there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe. Students have not motivation to learn especially sciences.

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It seems to overcome the perceived and real obstacles related to preparing, training and filling STEM jobs that stronger partnerships between education and companies could go a long way in narrowing the gap.

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In my opinion there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe, because the students are more and more not motivate to learn and so we must learn how to teach them in a modern and useful way.

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In the last few years I saw a few changes.
More people, especially women, are being encouraged to study ICT and STEM subjects. Efforts are being made to bring jobseekers together with companies that have skill shortages and will provide training. Fast-track training opportunities for employed and unemployed people to qualify in shortage occupations are also being developed.

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I am sorry it took me a while to participate...Yes, I think there is definitely a shortage of STEM skills in Europe and I can see this very clearly at least in my country. I feel this may be due to the educational system which does not focus on the here and now and does not really link its efforts to the world market needs.This skills gap is inevitably a cause to the difficulty of employers to recruit the right people and I have spoken with many of them who insist it is the schools' job to change this and that it is usually too costly for them to necessarily have in-servi

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I think the education system need moor non-formal projects.

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I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe, because pupils have little motivation for the exact sciences.

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In the education system much more refoms should be taken beause of the traditional way of teaching and the gap between the teachers and students new demands including STEM cannot be afforded.

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I agree with Regina from Lithuania. There is also a lack of STEM knowledge in Latvia. We learn a lot, but let's not let the students work.

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There is definitely a shortage, especially in women's population.

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We can say that there is a shortage of stem skills in my country, generally. I think main reason is great wishes and ambitions  of parents about their children. For this reason, A lot of the parents send their children to preparation courses for university entrance exam by payng huge amount of money. Also they do not care about if their children learn science. Only thing they want is that child to be succesfully in exam one way or another.

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We can say that there is a shortage of stem skills in my country, generally. I think main reason is great wishes and ambitions  of parents about their children. For this reason, A lot of the parents send their children to preparation courses for university entrance exam by payng huge amount of money. Also they do not care about if their children learn science. Only thing they want is that child to be succesfully in exam one way or another.

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in my opinion
the education system is not suited to the needs of future generations.
they get bored very quickly ..we should begin to attract their attention.

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I think the problem is society, we have to change the way we see the world. We need to change the school, to prepare students the best to face tomorrow's challenges.

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Yes, I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in europe and there are several reasons for it. Students are usually encouraged to find the simplest way to make a living. Governments should do something for it and educate theirteachers about this. There seems to be an increase in the near future.

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Firstly I believe in STEM onEducation at schools may be perfectly but education policies and politicians unfortunately ignore sustainability of science in terms of resources of environment. I think that STEM on Education is interdiciplinary approach. Beside that its reasons and results should be comprehended.

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I think that Europe is now starting to invest in the STEM career and that in a few years we will have very good results in this.

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Yasemin ATILGAN SELÇUKLU ANAOKULU KONYA /TURKEY 

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Yasemin ATILGAN SELÇUKLU ANAOKULU KONYA /TURKEY 

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Yes, I think the STEM skills in the EU are inadequate. The education policy of the presenter and the employers is also responsible for this. My observations show that students prefer to learn to memorize and learn less and spend less time experimenting and dealing with less.Getting STEM skills with STEM training means more self-control, longer concentration and more time to spend. It is not attractive for young people.
The difference between STEM skills is in Europe and unfortunately in our country - there are no specialists to prepare good experts

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I think there is no shortage of STEM skills in Europe however, the employers finding it difficult to employ workers because of some reasons:
-economical reasons
- experience
-salary

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I thanks stem that accept multidisciplinary approach in education is a new concept in my country.Educators and academicans all aware of the importance of the stem but they are not sure about the most effective way to give this necessity to the new generations

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I think that Europe is now starting to invest in STEM careers and that in some years from now we will have very good results with that.

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1. Do you think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe? If so, what is the main reason for that?

Yes there is. I think that the main obstacles are in the legal system. Existing laws and procedures are too slow for this ever-changing area of science and technology. Schools must follow the law and can not implement all the STEM innovations as quickly as possible.

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Yes, it is a shortage of STEM skills in Europe due to different reasons:
-too few young people are studying STEM subjects;
-Romania suffer from ‘brain drain’ as STEM professionals emigrate for better jobs elsewhere etc.

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Seems that shortage of STEM professionals and schools has more than a few reasons – this is a new concept of education that still needs to be critically approved, socially recognized and acknowledged by business sector. This is why it’s not surprising that we hear a collective “YES” from the participants of this course. From my point of view, I believe that there is almost tragic lack of information on the subject and that majority of students, teachers and professors have never even heard of STEM as a principal. I need to add that we in Serbia face tremendous economic challenges when it comes to public schools and universities, and that apart from all the problems mentioned, we are struggling to enable practice classes and strengthen specific skills that can only be learned in practical environment.

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My country, Italy, is suffering very much because of the lack of STEM careers. Our students have good preparation because Italian Universities work well. But everything stops here. Then they leave.
Few go to Europe. Most of them go to America or elsewhere.

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While the number of graduates with science and technology qualifications keeps falling, recent reports estimate a need for a high number of scientists and researchers within Europe.

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Jeane de Fatima - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Jeane de Fatima - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Our young people are more connected every day
Technologies are essential to arouse interest and add challenges
Today the teacher is not updated with new technologies.
See this project
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/133692082/

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There is a shortage of STEM in Lithuania.
There are a few reasons:

Young people prefer social sciences.
STEM professions are not well-paid. So they emigrate.

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There is a shortage of STEM skills in Spain. the gap between Primary Schools and Universities. Universities don´t work or investigate together with primary schools, sharing ideas and investigation projects that promote STEM skills,above all between girls students.
The job market nowadays, want people that work for less money than before. The job market do not want degrees students. It is a pity that aren´t fostered all their capacities to other professional careers.

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Yes, It is a shortage of stem skills as it is often thought some skills and some toics are of less importance. Some employers do not care about certain laws and self-esteem in society as they are focused on making money.

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There is definitely a shortage.Main reasons are, the increasing demand in this skills as well the effort has to be made to acquire them .

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Yes, I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Romania and in Europe as a whole. The primary reason is that teachers and school fail to make interesting subjects for students and thus never develop a love for learning these subjects. Teachers and students should find a common denominator to better acquire these STEM skills.

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Yes, specially in my country the importance of the knowledge construction has just begun to be understood. There was a generation who memorized the knowledge and could not transfer it to real life. Therefore, multidisciplinary approaches are needed to demonstrate the survival of information such as STEM.

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I think the Stem skills in Europe and all over the world  are inadequate. These schools are give only the theoretical knowledge and this is not enough for creativity.

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Yes, skill gaps are common in some European countries (Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Finland). Skill gaps are linked to job complexity; organisations that design their jobs so that skills of different breadth and depth are required by the staff to carry out their duties are characterised by larger skill gaps. The reason is that complex jobs are associated with a higher level of skill demand, which demands greater expertise of employees so that they are fully proficient in their jobs. But such high-performing organisations also tend to invest more in employee skill development to tackle emerging skill gaps, rendering the cost of skill mismatch smaller and the productivity gains for the firm larger.

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I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Italy as well. Students find STEM quite difficult and there is a buch of them who really wants to improve working hard. Often, they are alone because there are non many teachers who wants to try new teaching methods to involve their students and theur new way of learning

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Yes, I think there is a shortage of STEM skills, not only in Europe, its a worldwide problem. Now a days students want everything to be easy, if they found themselves in a situation somehow difficult for them they quit rigth away.

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I think, there is a shortage of STEM skills in Turkey and in Europe. These problems start with pre-school education until the education in the university.The curriculum is not based on STEM and it is this process that teachers do not benefit from different methods and approaches.

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Yes, i think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Albania

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Sesil, Turkey                    I think  STEM storage is getting developed in Europe. Although there are many researches in universities, there should be studies in curriculum or after school activities in countries. In my opinion in my country there are so many  researchers in STEM education, but there is no experienced teachers in schools  to train students   STEM skills. Labour market changes rapidly; but it’s difficult to change education system simultaneously

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Sesil, Turkey                    I think  STEM storage is getting developed in Europe. Although there are many researches in universities, there should be studies in curriculum or after school activities in countries. In my opinion in my country there are so many  researchers in STEM education, but there is no experienced teachers in schools  to train students   STEM skills. Labour market changes rapidly; but it’s difficult to change education system simultaneously

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Stem skills are evolving in Europe.

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Yes, i think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Macedonia

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Turkey
I think that in Europe, STEM skills are inadequate. STEM is a new concept. Most of the trainers are not yet familiar with this topic. Newly introduced.I think young people do not want to be trained on this issue because they are not very interested.For this reason, employers have difficulty finding qualified staff.Even those who apply for this training are those who are over 36 years old ...

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It is very hard to graduate some STEM college, usually there is more teoretical knowledge and traditional classroom with little inovations in teaching methods. Most of students quit during the education and run away of STEM. After finishing some STEM college they do not have job in our country and have to go abroad or stay at home jobless, because industries are not primary section in Croatia.

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I think that STEM skills of students are inadequate. Reasons of this is traditional classroom environments and teaching methods.

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Yes i think that there is a shortage of STEM skills in Romania and Europe as a whole. The main reason is that teachers and school fail to make the subjects interesting to the students and so they never develop a love for learning these subjects.

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Yes, I think there is a shortage of STEM skills in Romania and Europe.
The main reasons to be mentioned
- information friction
-geographical barriers
- recruitment processes.

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After reading the articles and the video presented I  belive there is still a big shortage of STEM skills in Europe.

I thing teachers should be encouraged to improve their skills and therefore encourage students to work harder, because they are more motivated.
I belive that if we all make a little effort we'll get to a big results, and students can become more interested in STEM careers,