The European project W-STEM (Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM) aims to improve strategies and mechanisms for attracting, accessing, retaining and orienting women in STEM higher education programmes in Latin America. W-STEM involves institutions from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Finland and […]
11 February
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The road for women in science in Mexico and the world has not been easy. A very frequent question is, how to achieve the perfect balance between our personal and professional roles? We need to create mechanisms that favor an equitative and collaborative working environment, focused on achievements and development […]
Workshops were developed with girls from 7-13 years. Every 15 days we met to make experiments and show how girls can make science! Activities were hold at a marginal region of Costa Rican metropolitan area.
Last Tuesday February 11th, during the welcome-back fair organized by the student life department (LiFE), representatives of the W-STEM project at Tecnológico de Monterrey celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. During a celebration that took place from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., W-STEM team congratulated female […]
In the frame of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Uninorte organized some activities with the aims of empowering girls and creating awareness of the problematic: a talk about why is it important to have more women in STEM and how media has invisibilized the role of […]
On 12th February 2020 there will be an event in occasion of the Celebration of the International Day of Women in Science. It will be a time to reflect on the past and on the history of women engineers in Politecnico di Torino, on the present, with three talks from […]
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar celebrated on February 11th the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with several activities. The day started with the event: “Coffee for the education of the girls and women”, where public and private entities were invited to learn about the initiatives developed to encourage […]