STEM

Mexico HEIs: Mentoring Women in STEM

18 January 2023    By Carolyn Usher

Following on from our work in Mexico, we will be delivering a series of Action Learning Sets and supporting trained mentors from our previous programmes in Mexico to develop mentoring programmes in their own institutional settings. Staff participating will be supported through online sessions to…

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Mentoring in Action: Women and Girls in STEM

18 January 2023    By Carolyn Usher

We are proud to be working with the British Council in Mexico and Peru to develop mentoring programmes supporting women in STEM. So far the project has trained 292 mentors in both Mexico and Peru, through live, online workshops and an online training programme. 180…

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MentoraSTEAM

10 February 2021    By Eric Wijmenga

  The "MentoraSTEAM- Boosting Migrant Women’s Employability in the STEAM Sector" project is a three-year Erasmus+ funded project (2020-2023) which focuses on highly skilled migrant women's employability in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) sector. It seeks to raise awareness and improve understanding about the challenges migrant women…

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FemSTEM Coaching – Recruitment, Retention and Progression Coaching for Women in STEM

20 December 2019    By Eric Wijmenga

There is a significant lack of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and the FemSTEM Coaching project aims to bridge the soft skills gender gap in STEM, by providing women with tools and techniques to develop their confidence and soft skills through a…

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EUMentorSTEM

5 January 2018    By Eric Wijmenga

The objective of the EUMentorSTEM project is to develop a mentoring programme for international women with a STEM background (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The project also aims to create a training programme for trainers working with this target group. All project partners are members…

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3D4VET

4 December 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

3D Printing for Manufacturing project aims to develop training for organisations on the potential of 3D printing, Inova will develop an online mentoring programmme.  3D4VET, standing for 3D printing for Vocational Education Training, mainly aims at developing innovative curricula based on the usage of new digital…

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GenderIT

17 August 2017    By Carolyn Usher

Fostering gender-mainstreaming in VET for the ICT sector. The Gender-IT project aims identify and contribute to gender-mainstreaming in Vocational and Educational Training (VET) practices in the ICT sector. Its specific objective is to build a sustainable multistakeholder network at a European level which will actively…

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Eye Mobility

17 August 2017    By Carolyn Usher

European Young Engineers of the Future (EYE) will provide engineering students from the Sheffield College (UK) with a relevant, meaningful & quality work experience in a leading German engineering firm in order to meet training needs based on their course broaden horizons & develop strong…

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Tackling Stereotypes

17 August 2017    By Carolyn Usher

The aim of Tackling Stereotypes is to analyze on a European level the barriers that women encounter in their promotion and professional development in the field of science and technology, and to propose actions aimed at removing them. The project is led by members of…

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Equalitec

17 August 2017    By Carolyn Usher

Equalitec seeks to address gender inequality in the Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITEC) industries by providing services and resources to individuals and organisations for more effective implementation of diversity policies. Equalitec started operating in 2001 as a project of Portia (sister company) funded by…

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