Technology continues to dominate much of our daily lives.<\/p>\n
To be able to compete worldwide, Europe needs more highly skilled technicians. \u00a0We need to use the talents we have available, especially the talents of women. The current low participation of women in STEM fields is a problem for most European countries.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The project duration from\u00a01 September 2016 until 31 August 2018.<\/p>\n
Director:\u00a0Dr. Diana Andone<\/p>\n
Members
\nProf.dr.eng. Radu VASIU<\/p>\n
As.dr.ing Mihaela Crisan- Vida<\/p>\n
Camelia Ciuclea<\/p>\n
Renate Iovi<\/p>\n
Partners
\nMBO Raad (The Netherlands)<\/p>\n
Association of Colleges, (UK)<\/p>\n
Forave (Portugal)<\/p>\n
Hariduskeskus (Estonia)<\/p>\n
Politehnica University of Timisoara (Romania)<\/p>\n
Sataedu (Finland)<\/p>\n
\u0160olski center Nova Gorica (Slovenia)<\/p>\n
VHTO (The Netherlands)<\/p>\n
Project Plan
\n8 meetings for all participants (Skype in between)
\n8 documents (one from each country) : each country provides a document with the featured GPs and the program of their meeting
\n8 reflection reports; after each meeting 1 report with the reflections of each country regarding the program and tools
\ntoolbox of procedures and instruments as used in the participating countries
\n1 final report; containing the above mentioned documents and \u00a0general conclusions and recommendations
\nPublication of the final report on the website of INNOTECS and the website of the project partner websites.
\nProject partners
\nAs there is so much variety in the number of girls participating in STEM at VET-level in Europe, the project partners were selected from three groups: high, medium or low performing countries. The majority of the partners were selected from the INNOTECS network.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands: MBO Raad + VHTO
\nUnited Kingdom:\u00a0Association of Colleges (AoC)
\nSpain:\u00a0CIFP Construcci\u00f3n LHII (Eraiken)
\nPortugal:\u00a0Forave
\nEstonia:\u00a0P\u00e4rnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus
\nRomania: Politehnica University of Timisoara (UPT)
\nFinland:\u00a0Sataedu
\nSlovenia: \u0160olski center Nova Gorica<\/p>\n
Reasons for GirlsTech project
\nThe idea for the GirlsTech project was suggested during the first INNOTECS conference in 2015.<\/p>\n
Participants at the conference wondered why there was such a considerable difference in the number of girls participating in STEM-studies.<\/p>\n
Summary of the reasons:
\nShortages in STEM areas
\nMost obvious and largest reservoir of talent is girls\/women as they are 50% of the population
\nIn NL a special \u2018think-tank gender\u2019 that was established to advise the Minister on issues in STEM in VET, advised that the situation should be investigated in other countries
\nWhy are some countries better performing than others?
\nHow do we explain high participation in the VET STEM-labour market, but low participation in VET STEM programs in some countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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