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01/08/2025 | Campus-Meldung

Borromeo Ferri and Meister are STEM ambassadors

Prof. Dr. Rita Borromeo Ferri and Prof. Dr. Andreas Meister have been awarded the STEM Ambassador Prize by the national initiative "MINT Zukunft schaffen" (Creating a STEM future) (patron is Federal Chancellor Scholz). The main reason for this was the first STEM hub that Borromeo Ferri and Meister established at the University of Kassel.

Portrait of the two professors.Image: University of Kassel
Andreas Meister and Rita Borromeo Ferri.

Borromeo Ferri and Meister have been committed to STEM education in all courses of education for decades, for example through the MINTERFACE project or through mathematical modeling days at Kassel schools; for this, the two received the Hessian University Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018.

Both work very successfully in the field of STEM, both in the transfer area and in research. The STEM hub at the University of Kassel has been funded by the state of Hesse with EUR 1 million since 2021 until the end of 2025 as part of the profile budget of the University of Kassel and is now known nationally and internationally. The advisory board consists of schools, institutions, well-known companies and associations that are actively involved in promoting STEM. Through many new STEM formats, such as "MINT in the Park", "MINT Saturday", "MINT Week" and now the upcoming "MINT Days" from February 10 to 12 at the University of Kassel, the hub has contributed to the university, city, companies and regional STEM initiatives (e.g. NaWi-LoLa, Future Space) being perceived as a motor for supporting STEM education.