What’s in it for you?
- Increased evidence capability: Enhanced skills and knowledge to leverage evidence in your practices and decision making.
- Grants: Access to financial support to kickstart and sustain your initiatives.
- Mentoring/coaching: Expert guidance to navigate challenges and maximise impact.
- Partnerships: Opportunities to collaborate with like-minded organisations and experts to amplify your impact.
- Data analysis: Expert assistance in interpreting data to inform decision making and drive improvements.
- Awareness of evidence and standards: An increased understanding and adherence to industry standards, boosting credibility and impact.
- Co-design processes and implementation plans: Collaborative evidence-based frameworks that are tailored to your unique needs/goals.
The Opportunity
Recognising and harnessing the dedication and influence of educators and program delivery experts on students' engagement with STEM is fundamental to the success of the Capability Enhancer.
Participants will focus on identifying barriers and goals and build partners' capabilities to generate and use evidence for greater impact. Throughout the partnership, CSIRO works collaboratively to develop processes, tools and models that can enhance the generation and implementation of evidence-based STEM learning and education.
The flexible, co-design model means STEM-INSIGHTS can meet the differing needs of organisations.
What participants can expect as part of this co-design opportunity:
- Training and development in data collection and analysis; monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods; and transforming evidence into action.
- Guidance in evaluation design and developing key evaluation questions.
- Co-developing program logics, indicators, and evaluation frameworks to track and assess your organisation's pathway to impact.
- Understanding the types and strength of evidence needed for effective program design and implementation.
- Understanding ethical considerations for evaluation.
- Co-developing tools and processes to support data handling and evidence-based decision making.
Tiered options for participation are as follows:
Partner: Applications for partner have now closed.
- Formal collaboration agreement with shared goals and contributions.
- Eligible to receive small monetary grants to assist with building capability and capacity to engage with co-design processes.
- Work closely with CSIRO to co-design relevant evidence-based tools and processes (that can be scaled) and build capability to generate and use evidence.
- Share learnings and insights with the rest of the STEM education ecosystem, for example, through a joint case study with the STEM-NSIGHTS team.
Collaborator: Applications still open.
- No formal agreements or grants.
- Contribute to discussions, feedback and directions, including design of scalable tools, models and frameworks as part of STEM-INSIGHTS.
- Share own findings, insights and tools with ecosystem.
- Use common frameworks and indicators where appropriate.
- Join the new STEM Ecosystem Allies (SEcA) to be a part of a collaborative effort of STEM education providers to transform evidence into action, focusing on inclusion and best practices for diverse STEM engagement. Share, learn and apply best practice in the SEcA Unconference in mid-2025. Be part of an ongoing community of practice to build improved ways to use evidence to make positive impact.
Stay informed: Applications still open.
- Receive updates from the STEM-INSIGHTS project.
Project eligibility
Participants of the STEM-INSIGHTS Capability Enhancer co-design project should meet the following criteria:
- Are a STEM education or learning program provider that works directly with students or through educators, parents, STEM professionals, or communities.
- Has a goal of increasing participation or retention in STEM education and/or career pathways.
- Has an interest in improving the capability to generate and use evidence to improve STEM education outcomes, and a willingness to share what is learned.
- Are a not-for-profit, government, and for-profit organisations based in Australia.
- Be able to enter into a Collaboration Agreement with CSIRO to work together to build evidence capability and share the learnings with the rest of the STEM education ecosystem.
Please note:
Organisations that deliver wholly or partly in New South Wales will be given higher priority.
How to apply
If you are a STEM education expert interested in participating in the STEM-INSIGHTS Capability Enhancer project, please click Apply now to get started.
Please note:
Collaborator and Stay informed requires only basic contact details to be completed upon application.
Timelines
- EOI opened 10 February 2025.
- Partner applicant assessment begins 24 February 2025.
More information
If you have any further questions or you would like to know more about the STEM-INSIGHTS Capability Enhancer Project, please review our FAQS or contact CEdOimpact@csiro.au
What’s in it for you?
- Increased evidence capability: Enhanced skills and knowledge to leverage evidence in your practices and decision making.
- Grants: Access to financial support to kickstart and sustain your initiatives.
- Mentoring/coaching: Expert guidance to navigate challenges and maximise impact.
- Partnerships: Opportunities to collaborate with like-minded organisations and experts to amplify your impact.
- Data analysis: Expert assistance in interpreting data to inform decision making and drive improvements.
- Awareness of evidence and standards: An increased understanding and adherence to industry standards, boosting credibility and impact.
- Co-design processes and implementation plans: Collaborative evidence-based frameworks that are tailored to your unique needs/goals.
The Opportunity
Recognising and harnessing the dedication and influence of educators and program delivery experts on students' engagement with STEM is fundamental to the success of the Capability Enhancer.
Participants will focus on identifying barriers and goals and build partners' capabilities to generate and use evidence for greater impact. Throughout the partnership, CSIRO works collaboratively to develop processes, tools and models that can enhance the generation and implementation of evidence-based STEM learning and education.
The flexible, co-design model means STEM-INSIGHTS can meet the differing needs of organisations.
What participants can expect as part of this co-design opportunity:
- Training and development in data collection and analysis; monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods; and transforming evidence into action.
- Guidance in evaluation design and developing key evaluation questions.
- Co-developing program logics, indicators, and evaluation frameworks to track and assess your organisation's pathway to impact.
- Understanding the types and strength of evidence needed for effective program design and implementation.
- Understanding ethical considerations for evaluation.
- Co-developing tools and processes to support data handling and evidence-based decision making.
Tiered options for participation are as follows:
Partner: Applications for partner have now closed.
- Formal collaboration agreement with shared goals and contributions.
- Eligible to receive small monetary grants to assist with building capability and capacity to engage with co-design processes.
- Work closely with CSIRO to co-design relevant evidence-based tools and processes (that can be scaled) and build capability to generate and use evidence.
- Share learnings and insights with the rest of the STEM education ecosystem, for example, through a joint case study with the STEM-NSIGHTS team.
Collaborator: Applications still open.
- No formal agreements or grants.
- Contribute to discussions, feedback and directions, including design of scalable tools, models and frameworks as part of STEM-INSIGHTS.
- Share own findings, insights and tools with ecosystem.
- Use common frameworks and indicators where appropriate.
- Join the new STEM Ecosystem Allies (SEcA) to be a part of a collaborative effort of STEM education providers to transform evidence into action, focusing on inclusion and best practices for diverse STEM engagement. Share, learn and apply best practice in the SEcA Unconference in mid-2025. Be part of an ongoing community of practice to build improved ways to use evidence to make positive impact.
Stay informed: Applications still open.
- Receive updates from the STEM-INSIGHTS project.
Project eligibility
Participants of the STEM-INSIGHTS Capability Enhancer co-design project should meet the following criteria:
- Are a STEM education or learning program provider that works directly with students or through educators, parents, STEM professionals, or communities.
- Has a goal of increasing participation or retention in STEM education and/or career pathways.
- Has an interest in improving the capability to generate and use evidence to improve STEM education outcomes, and a willingness to share what is learned.
- Are a not-for-profit, government, and for-profit organisations based in Australia.
- Be able to enter into a Collaboration Agreement with CSIRO to work together to build evidence capability and share the learnings with the rest of the STEM education ecosystem.
Please note:
Organisations that deliver wholly or partly in New South Wales will be given higher priority.
How to apply
If you are a STEM education expert interested in participating in the STEM-INSIGHTS Capability Enhancer project, please click Apply now to get started.
Please note:
Collaborator and Stay informed requires only basic contact details to be completed upon application.
Timelines
- EOI opened 10 February 2025.
- Partner applicant assessment begins 24 February 2025.
More information
If you have any further questions or you would like to know more about the STEM-INSIGHTS Capability Enhancer Project, please review our FAQS PDF (140 KB) or contact CEdOimpact@csiro.au