The STEM Education: Curriculum & Literature Overview & Primary Science Education: Systematic Literature Review Report,  commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) was published in July 2023.   Dr Cliona Murphy and Prof Hamsa Venkat lead a team of CASTeL academics, Dr Margaret Leahy, Dr Nicola Broderick. Dr Orla Kelly, Prof., Deirdre Butler, Dr Lorraine Harbison, Dr Yvonne Naughton and Caoimhe Lawlor, in conducting a curriculum review and literature-based overview of Primary STEM integration and a systematic literature review of Learning in Primary Science Education.  The Primary STEM integration overview is rooted in the reports, draft curricula, and the literature bases relating to the focal topic drawn on in these documents, with the overview of digital technologies also drawing from a comparative analysis of a sample of international curricula. The Primary Science Education literature review is based on a systematic review of relevant, internationally peer-reviewed research articles from the last decade, guided by a comparative analysis of the structure and science content seen across the same sample of international curricula.  The Full Report Can be found at this LINK