ServusMINT - Strong Network for STEM Education in the Region 10

How do you get young people interested in maths, IT, science, and technology (STEM) at an early age? With a network that starts exactly where STEM education comes to life - in the region's schools, laboratories, workshops, and innovative learning centres. This is the aim of ServusMINT, a joint initiative of IFG Ingolstadt, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU), and the digital start-up centre brigk.

Networking for the Region: THI and its Partners are Committed to STEM Education (Photo: IFG).

The project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), was launched in 2024 and got off to a promising start at its first major network meeting at THI in April 2025.

Over 50 committed participants - from teachers and representatives of STEM initiatives to extracurricular educational institutions - took the opportunity to exchange ideas and network. After the welcome and a keynote speech by the City of Ingolstadt's education and culture officer, the ServusMINT project team presented its plans: regular network meetings, STEM mentors, STEM prizes and many other measures are intended to improve the visibility and accessibility of existing programmes, initiate new collaborations and tailor existing formats even more precisely to the target groups.

Four further network meetings are planned for 2025 - one in Ingolstadt, Pfaffenhofen, Eichstätt, and Neuburg-Schrobenhausen. This will create a strong regional network that makes STEM education practical, tangible, and sustainable.

The IFG is also pursuing a clear vision with ServusMINT: to further strengthen the region as an attractive business location. After all, good education is the first step towards qualified skilled workers, and these are essential for companies in the region. Targeted educational impulses are intended to support young people in their career choices, put technical professions in the spotlight, and stabilise the regional labour market in the long term.

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