1,5 million BGN envisaged for innovations in schools next year

The students from the Second English Language School "Thomas Jefferson" are the first in Sofia, who already have a STEM centre. The new virtual laboratories for studying were opened by the Minister of Education and Science, Krasimir Valchev.

He said that about 1.5 million BGN are planned for next year's innovations in schools.

STEM is an abbreviation for "Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics". Simultaneous teaching of two or more sciences builds natural links between subjects.

Krassimir Valchev, Minister of Education and Science: Today's generation gives better results when learning through information technologies and we need to invest. And next year, we hope we will have opportunities in the budget and we plan to fund in at least 50 schools.

Innovative projects already exist in 300 schools, and 1,100 are equipped with wireless internet. Next year, there will be WI-FI in all 2,300 schools. The ministry also develops an electronic cloud with free content.