Keywords: knowledge sharing, STEM

Teaching teachers how to teach - this is the credo of the NAWImix in the Educational Lab of Lakeside Park. STEM fields are trained in innovative ways with collaboration of tenant enterprises in the STP to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs and employees.

Fostering innovation and creativity science parks are at the forefront of bringing together enterprises research and education. The focus on education especially on STEM fields has often been neglected in responsibilities of StP, however it is of crucial importance when it comes to future entrepreneurs and workforces. Lakeside has tackled this promising issue with the setup of NAWImix, another innovative module in the educational lab. The University of teacher Education Carinthia in collaboration with the Carinthian Regional Education Board has moved its faculty of STEM training and education to the StP. This enriches the existing training of future teachers in innovative didactic teaching STEM fields in hands-on methods with the collaboration of tenant enterprises of the StP. Also mature teachers are invited to visit nawimix with their classes to be trained by the innovative staff and test and develop methodologies.

STPs being valuable catalysts of the quadruple helix (industry government university society) LSTP serves as a platform in the knowledge triangle (enterprises research education). Given this social responsibility of an STP the setup NAWImix is both metaphorically as well as physically »innovation« itself: the morphology inherits all stakeholders from the regional education sector, research and enterprise partners developing new forms of education for the surrounding society empowering visitors to discover, research and innovate themselves. Enabling all parts of the quadruple helix to not only reside, but develop coherently new forms of education and training is crucial for the success of LSTP.

Being one module in the set up of the Educational lab the module NAWImix has already educated and trained 150 teachers in experimental natural sciences education in the first year who are themselves teaching 800 pupils in total. Right after the setup of nawimix many enterprises have understood the potential of collaborating with education institutions. On the one hand developed technologies can be tested directly by a young generation and in education surroundings, on the other hand they express interest and even shape future skills of workforces way ahead. The company priorIT has worked together with NAWImix from the first day in the park testing their application of digital literature being read out in multiple different languages. This project also contributes to the enhancement of the competitiveness of the region and the structural requalification of the location as well as it benefits knowledge-transfer in the areas of education and training. In respect to digitization, IoT and automated production this project alters the importance of human resources in STEM fields and boosts the regions qualitative development massively

From the hour of birth twelve years ago the five childcare services have been crucial for the success of LSTP. With NAWImix we are able to fill the gap between these early ages until university and to invite people of all ages, being pupils, high school kids to students, to teachers and professors as well as young entrepreneurs and enterprises

NAWImix is run by the University of teacher Education Carinthia and the Carinthian Regional Education Board