CC-BY, provided by author The “Feel the FemPower Limassol” event successfully brought together academia and industry experts to discuss and address gender inequalities in the sector of clean energy transition. The event took place online on Wednesday, 29 May 2024. The event was organised by the Cyprus University of...
CC-BY, Unsplash STEM has a gender problem. Some fields have it worse than others; women tend to outnumber men in biological fields, for example, but in medicine, engineering and essentially all areas of tech, men far outnumber women. Steps must be taken to address this issue. But, as is...
Image: https://www.google.be/search?q=woman+in+tech&espv=2&biw=1229&bih=685&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjq8MaMkNfMAhUG1x4KHarvBDIQ_AUIBigB#tbs=sur:fc&tbm=isch&q=women+in+technology&imgrc=4LkPtys8q8Bu8M%3A Last 28th of April was the International Girls in ICT day, an initiative developed with the objective of encouraging and empowering young women to consider careers in the field of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The initiative has continuously encouraged a number of stakeholders to organize events on...
Image: Tiina Kähära The year after Kodukup my four pupils, age 13, participated in Code Camp for girls that took place in Helsinki in October 2015. The camp was organized by Frantic, a digital agency providing high technology services. Week long day camp was all about learning the basics...
Image: Shutterstock/Michele Paccione Review of the conference “Ada trifft … MINT – Genderdidaktik in der Praxis” (“Ada meets … STEM – gender didactic in practice) of the “Ada Lovelace project” in June 2015 in Mainz at the Johannes Gutenberg university (Germany) Important results Since many years ago, we know...
Image: Shutterstock/Sergey Nivens I was very surprised to hear it! “If students don’t find STEM more interesting at school, we won’t be able to get enough qualified professionals to work for our industrial and technology companies in Europe in the future.” This was the main concern of the biggest...