Context/background of the project SciVis The European public has comparable little knowledge of new developments in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Often information is provided by experts in a way not easy to understand, a way which keeps citizens uninformed and does not foster public understanding. By this a responsible citizenship concerning technical or scientifical innovations is not possible. Parallel to this phenomenon school subjects of the STEM field are often taught in a teacher-centered way, in which the teacher is the expert talking to very weakly informed novices. This again does not foster students´ development of active participation in the learning process on STEM. Objectives of the project The project combines two main targets of the new European strategy by forming an international network of four south-east European institutions: (1) the interactive information of the public on Science and Technology innovations and (2) the development of a project based learning course for pre-service teacher students in STEM subjects. By this the lack of information and the traditional way of information from an expert to an ignorant is turned into a new way of STEM education. Number and profile of participants The project combines special expertise from distributed institutions in an international team, involving 3 universities (Germany, Czech Rep., Slovakia), one Science Center (Serbia) and one German publisher. The universities are experts in project work and in developing new teaching courses as well as designing evaluation tools. The Science Center is very experienced in developing new information formats, and the publisher has a strong impact on the STEM-Education. Description of activities; methodology to be used in carrying out the project As teacher students are involved into the development, but also the evaluation of new interactive information formats, they are able to learn a new teaching/learning-strategy. The evaluation results foster the trust in evidence-based teaching and learning. The strategies and the evaluation instruments will be developed and tested in an international team, meeting 3 times during the project lifetime of 2 years and informing the broader public in a final conference in Summer 2016 in Berlin. Short description of the results and impact envisaged New courses, engaging pre-service teachers into project learning on informing students and the public on STEM innovations, will be designed by the consortium and will be implemented into the academic teaching. The Science Center in Serbia will distribute the strategy into the Balcan area, the Klett publisher to the German public, and by his international partners to a wider public in Europe. The new interactive information tools, like interactive public screens, holiday camps, science fairs, STEM online games, will give their informational impact on European citizens, because they are open to be used by everybody. Potential longer term benefits Not only the universities will profit from the new courses. As new interactive information tools are developed, adapted and evaluated, these tools will remain at the universities. Through information on a broader level more institutions can learn to implement them and to distribute their own information on STEM through these tools. The south-east European network will go for further collaboration and exchange.