EASTEM is an Erasmus+ capacity building project (Key Action 2) running from 2019–2022 and is formed by a consortium of three universities from Europe, three from Vietnam, three from Thailand and four from Indonesia. The project aims to ensure that STEM education provides students with competencies relevant to the labour market, thus improving their employability.By exchanging best practices among European and Asian universities, each partner university can find inspiration to enhance STEM education at their institutions. This network of mutual exchange and learning will further the cooperation between EASTEM partners beyond the project’s lifetime.