In order to develop inquiry-based learning at school, ASTEP promotes a system where the research scientists, engineers, professional technicians, and science students commit themselves to actively support primary school teachers and their pupils.
Professional scientists and science students can indeed make key contributions to teaching: being both actors and witnesses of today's science, their everyday lives offer stimulating and living examples. Over the last few years, more and more ways have been made available for them to facilitate teaching on the primary school level, ranging from support in the very classroom to teachers training or resources production.