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GirlsTech
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Promoter Information:
Name: Romania: Politehnica University of Timisoara (UPT)
Email: rector@upt.ro
Website: https://www.upt.ro/Universitatea-Politehnica-Timisoara_en.html
Abstract:
Technology continues to dominate much of our daily lives. To be able to compete worldwide, Europe needs more highly skilled technicians. The current low participation of women in STEM fields is a problem for most European countries. In the Erasmus + KA2 project GirlsTech this theme is addressed. Eight countries share their knowledge to improve their own policies. The project is not about developing a new universal tool, but to focus on peer learning activities, to find out which approaches might be suitable for the participating countries. There are several reasons for the existence of GirlsTech project: - Shortages in STEM areas; - Most obvious and largest reservoir of talent is girls / women as they are 50% of the population; - In NL a special ‘think-tank gender’ that was established to advise the Minister on issues in STEM in VET, advised that the situation should be investigated in other countries; - Why are some countries performing better than others?; - How do we explain high participation in the VET STEM-labor market, but low participation in VET STEM programs in some countries. The project promotes more girls in STEM education because its mission is to inspire the orientation of more and more girls & women towards technical activities in Romania. Create awareness in the society - Romania and abroad - about the good history and about the current situation of Romania’s Women in Tech in respect to other EU countries.
Keywords:
STEM,women,tech,visibility,opportunity
Dates:
Jan. 9, 2016 - Jan. 7, 2018
Source Specificity:
Initiative/Practice/Project/Programme/Case Studies
Website:
https://elearning.upt.ro/en/project/girlstech/
Power Domains:
Economic
Methods Tools:
Competence development, Awareness-raising
Country:
RO
City:
Bucharest
Implementation Scale:
national
Language:
English, Romanian
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