The side event is being hosted by the UNESCO Natural Sciences Sector and the World Federation of Engineering Organisations and will demonstrate the key role of women scientists and engineers in addressing climate change, disaster risk management, innovation and advancing the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG […]
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School Break (SB) project, funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, aims to explore the possibilities of school students learning through playing and designing escape room game type educational experiences. This project makes the assumptions that collaborative problem-solving and design supports teamwork, communication skills, and creativity, while the […]
Finnish universities and companies remain to be in the need of students and highly skilled experts. At the same time, Finland can offer high-value education and job opportunities for international students and employees. Future is Made in Finland is a long-term program in which they are going to connect people […]
Finnish girls seem to be highly successful in science and mathematics but many of them don’t end up working in the field. Technology is still often seen as masculine field, which requires more perspective and talent from women. The University of Oulu organized a live stream talk show on 24th […]
The Global Indigenous Speakers Series highlights the theory, research, and practice of international Indigenous scholars, offering students and faculty across disciplines inspiration, creativity and paths forward in uncertain times. Next Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 10:00 am to EST – 5:00 pm EET, Rauna Kuokkanen will share her experience about […]
Study in Finland has organized a webinar series focused on learning more about Finland, how to study, research, work, and cooperate in Finland, and how to create the future. The webinars were for students, researchers, innovators, start-ups entrepreneurs, and curious minds. The “Future is Made in Finland Webinar Series” were […]
In the Object Oriented Programming course, which is taught in the third semester of the Systems Engineering career at UNINORTE, students have the opportunity to put their project development and object oriented software development skills into practice with a real client. In this opportunity, Professor Lucy Garcia from the W-STEM […]
Sofía García-Bullé reflects on the need for Gender Studies in schools. The gender perspective, as defined by Susana Gamba, is the epistemological conception that approaches reality through the proper lens of each gender and their power relations. Gender Studies and Perspective 101 What do we really mean by the gender […]
University of Oulu published a new Gender Equality and Diversity action plan—a GEP for years 2019–2022, which is the seventh in order. The first one was drafted already in 1997. The brochure recaps the current tasks of the gender equality work at the university and it is published today—the national […]