A group of Maltese youths have joined international participants in Marathon, Greece for a summer school on science communication and public engagement called STEAM. As part of the course they are creating science plays, entertaining talks and science stand-up comedy nights.

Students came from a great diversity of cultures including Brazil, Nigeria, America, and South Korea. Their backgrounds range from PhD students to teachers, and undergraduate students to entrepreneurs.
The summer school is a 10-day intensive course, to provide training on the different media that can be used to communicate research and also combining the arts. The participants wrote scripts, directed, created props, set up pr and took part in a science play. STEAM Lab, were some of the participants prepared a 3 minute talk on a science topic. A few participants organised a science and comedy night and performed.

The school was organised by 5 institutes- ScienceView (Greece), University of Malta, University of Edinburgh, Rhine Waal University in Germany, and Oysha (Finland), with University of Malta being the leading institute. The students from Malta also came from a variety of backgrounds, Alexia Micallef Gatt a science teacher, Giulia a PhD student, James Ciarlo also a science teacher and PhD graduate, Nathan Gatt a University of Malta Earth Systems student, Antonio Mazzonello a PhD student, Roslyn Bonetta, a Post-doc researcher at the University of Malta.

STEAM Transcultural Science Communication Summer School is organised by the University of Malta, European Union of Science Journalists' Associations, Haaga-Helia University, Rhine-Waal University, Science View, and University of Edinburgh. Funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.