SEISMO-Lab will prepare teachers and students to create participatory, inclusive, cross-curricular learning challenges and engage students in projects that will increase their problem-solving skills, creativity, and promotes a learning-by doing attitudes. They will reinforce the application of key (beyond scientific) skills and competences, adopted to the local conditions by employing problem solving skills, handling and studying situations, and participating in meaningful and motivating science inquiry activities on earthquake disaster mitigation.

Furthermore, SEIMSO-Labs will create a teacher training program to support teachers in the establishment and implementation of the SEISMO-Labs, including training on innovative methods such as inquiry-based and experiential learning. SEISMO-Lab supports the creation of Competence Development Labs, developed and run by teachers that will then be able to create “bottom-up” STEAM curricula for their schools, that are enabling students to practice competences and skills that go beyond STEM: learner independence – and interdependence – through collaboration, mentoring, and through providing opportunities for learners to understand and interrogate their place in the world.

SEISMO-Lab Framework for Establishing STEAM School Competence Labs