"<< Background >>Even if it tends to change, women remain still underrepresented in STEM jobs. “Girls are not talented at science, science is for geeks and thus not for girls…”. These are some persistent gender stereotypes in science education that can explain this underrepresentation. The former Gender4STEM Erasmus+ project (No 2017-1-LU01-KA201-023926) aimed at tackling this issue and therefore, developed a hands-on training and a digital assistant platform for teachers, to provide them with concrete tools for more gender-fair teaching. The Gender4STEM blended approach combining, hands-on training and digital assistant platform (https://edu.gender4stem-project.eu/), was really appreciated and impacted from 2017 to 2020, more than 3000 actors (teachers, pupils, experts…). At the end of the project, we reached the conclusion that fairness in teaching is becoming a real competence to develop among School education and that requires to be accompanied thanks to an advanced approach. The overview of the project results has thus concluded on multiple developments that could be done to fully exploit the Gender4STEM approach potential.Building on the Gender4STEM experiment, the Fairness In Teaching (FIT) new project aims thus at developing an advanced approach to stepping up fair teaching practices especially in STEM disciplines, given consequently equal opportunities and access to STEM among diverse range of pupils. We understand fairness as impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination. It will target 3 target groups:(1) The teachers regrouping teachers and especially teachers in STEM, head of teachers and schools directors, School delegates in digital education and delegates for equality between girls and boys, but also psychologists and career advisors in primary and secondary level education(2) The pupils from primary and secondary level education (children and youngsters of 11-18 years old); the final beneficiary of project results.(3) Associated partners: teachers' training centers, representatives of regional/national and EU authorities, STEM ambassadors etc.Promoting inclusion, diversity and fairness, the FIT project answers the “Diversity and Inclusion” priority of the Erasmus+ programme. Developing digital assets, it also contributes to support teachers in enhancing digital skills and competence development and engage them in digital transformation, thus answering the “Digital Transformation” priority of the Erasmus+ programme.<< Objectives >>The project aims at:1)Extending the competency framework of fairness in teaching from gender to intersectional approach and observing a continuum between primary and secondary School level, and developing its associated assessment questionnaires and training sessions (online as face-to-face), so that it will become a reference for School education. 2)Ensuring the large accessibility of the digital assistant platform, e.g. strengthening its Multilanguage dimension, extending its contents to primary Schools and intersectional approach, and developing the algorithms that provide recommendations of fair teaching materials and its interactive features (e.g. opportunities to give feedback about the use of teaching materials, to rate and comment them, ant to suggest new ones). 3)Developing a FIT community of practice as a pillar to guarantee the large transferability of the FIT advanced approach.<< Implementation >>Activities will follow a design thinking process (DT), collaboratively engaging the 3 target groups thanks to the FIT community of practice (project result 5 (PR5)). It will raise awareness of target groups (especially teachers) about fairness in teaching and engage them as “agents of -change” by helping them to develop specific skills to engage more diverse pupils in STEM disciplines. The 5 non-linear DT approach (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test), will result in 4 other project results (PR). -PR1: Development of the FIT competency framework-PR2: Development of the exploitation of the FIT digital assistant platform-PR3: Development of the features of the FIT digital assistant platform-PR4: Development of the FIT training for teachersThe first stage of the process is to gain an empathic understanding of the problem, that is to find out more about the area of concern through observing, engaging and empathizing with people thanks to co-design workshops to extend:-the issue of gender stereotypes and biases in STEM education to fairness in teaching thus integrating a broader intersectional approach, -the target to primary level education (not only secondary level education)The Define stage results in analysing observations from stage 1 and synthesizing them in order to define the core problems: ensure the large transferability of the FIT approach as an advancing framework for the development of fairness in teaching. Then the Ideate stage allows to ""think outside the box"" to identify new solutions to the problem statement and conduct in the Prototype step; an experimental phase which aims to identify the best solutions to answer problems identified and defined in phase 1 and 2. These three first stages of the Design Thinking process allow to produce the prototypes of -the competency framework for fairness in teaching and its associated assessment tools (PR1)-the advanced FIT digital assistant platform (PR2 and PR3)-and the FIT training (PR4)The Test is the final stage of the 5 stages-model which must be consider as an iterative process, so that the results generated during the testing phase are often used to redefine one or more problems and document the understanding of the users, the conditions of use, how people think, behave, and feel, and to empathize. This test step conducts in pilot sessions allowing to test and improve the designed PR1, 2, 3 and 4 outputs with the target groups, in PR4.<< Results >>The FIT project will conduct in the production of 4 main outcomes:-The competency framework of fairness in teaching for secondary and primary Schools, and its associated assessment tools so that teachers can find out how their teaching is fair.-A FIT digital assistant platform with fair teaching materials that teachers can experiment with into their classrooms,-The training contents which will contribute in stepping up teachers’ fair practices.-The FIT community of practice that will allow to develop the FIT project results in a collaborative approach, but also disseminate them.Finally, the FIT project aims to trigger a real process of change regarding fairness in teaching among primary and secondary level education so that more diverse range of pupils will equally access to STEM opportunities."