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US Women in STEM report: A Gender Gap to Innovation
Women still significantly underrepresented in STEM fields, impacting U.S. competitiveness. Closing the gender gap in STEM degrees will boost the number of Americans in STEM jobs, and enhance U.S. innovation and sharpen US global competitiveness.
President of the Parliament calls all the talents of Catalonia again be an economic engine at the conference 'Women and Technology'
The President of the Catalan Parliament, Sra Núria de Gispert stressed that commitment to real equality between men and women and strengthening the representation of women in new technologies is needed to overcome the economic crisis.
Committed Commissioner Concerned about plugging the ICT skills gap
Vice President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner of the Digital Agenda twittered Every Woman Digital on the 8th of March, the centenary Internarnational Women's Day. Neelie Kroes shows now her real concern for the issue.
Awards - Competitions - Scholarships
Oracle's Think Quest International Competition 2011 coming soon!
Since 1996 over 7,000 websites have been created by students around the world who have participated in Oracle's ThinkQuest Competition in 12...
European Union Women Innovators Prize 2011 - Competition
The EU Prize for Women Innovators will be awarded to three women entrepreneurs, who were at some point during their careers beneficiaries of funding...
Geek Power and Die Acht Mädchen souvarain winners of First lego League Oslo Regional Competition
Three girls teams winners of the annual First Lego League competition in Oslo Region held the 13 November for young people between 10 and 16 years of...
672 drawings from 12 countries submitted for the European drawing competition to reward girls’creativity about the future technologies
In less than a month time 672 drawings were submitted from 12 countries to the European drawing competition for girls around the theme of European...
European drawing competition to reward girls’creativity about the future technologies
A European drawing competition for girls age 6 to 16 around the theme of European girls draw the future of ICT. Deadline for submission: 20 February...
Competitiveness and Economic growth
3 G Summit - The Future of Girls, Gaming and Gender
The 3G Summit a visionary 4-day initiative that convenes 50 urban teenage girls with five leading women game designers and scholars for intensive...
Gender-equality is an economic necessity - Spanish EU Presidency Conference adopts Gender Equality Declaration
SheLeader 2.0 the high-level Spanish EU-Presidency conference of female directors organized by the Government of Catalonia the 10 - 11 June 2010 in...
Europe's Digital Competitiveness Report 2010
The report shows that the digital economy is growing in strength, spreading throughout all sectors and reaching throughout all areas of our lives. ...
WEF Gender Gap Report 2009
Iceland and the other Nordic countries lead the WEF Global Gender Gap Index Report 2009
Education and Training
Greenlight for girls - Science, math, engineering, technology - it can all be fun!
THE BIG EVENT on the 20th of November in Brussels to show girls 11-15 years the fun in math, science, engineering & technology!
ditact_women 's IT summer studies 2010
The summer IT course by women for women is a real success story in Austria.
Roberta - girls discover robots in Italy
The School of Robocs - Roberta’s European Regional Centre in Italy presents its activity in Torino during the thre days Girls discover Robots fair.
The future in your hands: watch Conchitas dream!
Btw 12-14 and making your life's choice? The Spanish Electronics, InformationTechnology and Telecommuni-cations Industries and e-Skills Info Spot...
Roberta and Scuola di Robotica selected as best practice at Campus Party 2010
For four days 800 young people from Europe participated in Campus Europe 2010 in Madrid. Scuola du Robotica from Piemonte was selected as oen of the...
Entrepreneurship
Queen Honours Enterprising Women Founder Bev Hurley
Bev Hurley, founder of the UK Enterprising Women's Network receives the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion.
Focus on women's entrepreneurship and women in technology in Catalonia
The high-level conference organized by Barcelona Chamber of Commerce the 29th of April highlighted the role and voice of women in the economic and...
3rd Edition of Gamma Donna in Torino
The 3rd Edition of Gamma Donna to promote female entrepreneurship in Piemonte on 28-29 January 2010
Growing opportunities and challenges for Italian women in ICT
There are more than 31.300 enterprises run by women in the ICT sector in Italy and female businesses in ICT have sustained their position in the last...
Digital literacy, skills and inclusion
5 M People to have the possibility to be skilled thr ECDL Foundation's support of the Digital Agenda
In an open letter to the President of the European Commission, ECDL Foundation has specified its commitment to a number of high-level targets to...
Recommendations for actions towards optimising the ICT skills of immigrants
The skills of women and men with migrant backgrounds in particular in the fields of IT-technologies and multi-functional media such as PC, Internet...
UK e-Skills Manifesto
Major employers in the UK have set out their recommendations on how to e-skill the workforce to create sustainable economic growth
e-Skills Week France - Talents of Digital France 2010
Key e-skills stakeholders in France urge for speeding up collaborative actions. New Honorary Excellencia Award 2010 laurate Claudie Haignere stressing...
Futuralia 2010 Portugal: Launch of the Lisbon Learning Working Group and the e-Skills Charter
Education-Training-Employment attracts in Portugal and e-Skills stakeholders were all represented to join a Portuguese National Platform for the...
Global initiatives for Women and Technology
Budapest International Women's Day Centenary Declaration 2011
The Commission and Hungarian EU Presidency conference ‘ Women in science, innovation and technology in the Digital Age’ opened by Commissioner Neelie...
eGEN - Women on board in ICT, technology and innovation - ICT 2010
The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) and its members are invited to organize both an exhibition and a networking session at the...
EeSA endorses the European Directory for Women and ICT (EUD)
The European e-Skills Association has decided to endorse the EUD launched by the European Commision the 8th of October 2009 as a key meetingplace for...
'TechWomen and Women Entrepreneurship - a focus of US foreign policy'
The US State Department launches 3 initiatives to support women's entrepreneurship and involvement in the knowledge economy recognizing the value of...
12 New Commitments to Empower Girls and Women at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative
Together we can do more! Since 2005 members of the CGI have made more than 1400 commitments valued at 46 billion USD in more than 170 countries...
ICT policy and strategy
Every Woman Digital!
Commissioner Neelie Kroes key message on International Women's Day backed up by 261 stakeholders and a Budapest IWD Centenary Declaration
Every Woman Digital = Smart Growth
Lining up for the Gender Action Plan for the Digital Agenda will deliver One Million Girls to ICT in Europe by 2020! ECWT Members on the offensive at...
Gender Equal IT sector to enhance regional growth
The Swedish Minister for IT called forthe implementation of gender equality in realizing the Digital Agenda.
ECWT Position Paper: Lining up for Gender Action Plan for the Digital Agenda (2011-2015)
Getting more women into ICT and technology is a question of economic necessity,growth and competitiveness. The ECWT invites all stakeholders to join a...
Commission adopts new strategy on gender quality
The Commission adopted a five-year strategy for promoting equality between women and men in Europe. The strategy aims in particular to make better use...
IS activities and projects
Women in Science, Innovation and Technology in the Digital Age
The high-level DG INFSO and Hungarian EU Presidency Conference in Budapest 6-8 March 2011 will play a major role in gendermainstreaming ICT during the...
Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Trondheim (NTNU) and its Department of Computer and Information Science running the Norwegian N-PoC of the ECWT
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology -Trondheim (NTNU) -the Centre of Excellence for ICT in Norway has decided to host the Norwegian...
WES Annual Conference - Making Digital Britain
The WES Annual Conference is the premier event in the UK connecting and inspiring women at all career stages in engineering, technology and science.
Latest news about challenges for research on gender and science
'Beyond the leaky pipeline' co-organised by CIREM Foundation, DULBEA and the Belgian Institute for the Equality of Women and Men in Brussels...
Women and ICTs through the lifecycles
After all these years of gender equality policies, why do our daughters still not want to get involved with ICT creation and professions? This is...
Multimedia and digital content
Commissioner Kroes: Social media means talking with Europeans
Vice President Neelie Kroes, Commissioer of the Digital Agenda reveals the importance she attaches to social media and and her use of these tools
Research
genSET capacity building workshop in Linkøping, Sweden
genSET is an innovative project aiming to improve the excellence of European science through inclusion of the gender dimension in research and science...
Dialog started between EIGE and ECWT
The European Institute for Gender Equality and the European centre for Women and Technology start collaboration in the collection of data in the area...
Wanted: new scientific talent to support EU policy-making - The Joint Research Centre launches recruitment drive
Researchers from across the EU are encouraged to apply for a challenging and rewarding job in the European Commission's own research body, the Joint...
Alexandra Millonig FEMTech expert of the month - 6 years with FEMTech in Austria
FEMTech in Austria is one of the leading European public stakeholders for support to companies and non-university research institutes to increase the...
Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science on US visit
Tapping research and innovation for jobs and growth: and strengthening EU-US cooperation in research, innovation and science are key priorities of...
Workforce and Employment
Immigrant women, e-skills and employability
Access to IT is critical to improving social and economic status and finding a job - study among 530 immigrant women in Hungary, Italy, the...
Female unemployment in the UK at its highest level for 15 years
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that while unemployment decreased by 26,000 across the quarter, the number of women claiming...
Women's Careers in the UK technology Industry
There are few positive signs in the comparative survey carried out by Intellect and womenintechnology.co.uk concerning the situation of women's...
Unlocking potential - UK perspectives on women in science, engineering and technology
This collection of essays highlight not just the underepresnetation of women in SET but also the cost of this underrepresentation to the UK economy....
Professor Jennifer Hunt on Why do American women leave science and engineering?
American women leave science and engineering at a higher frequency than men. This column suggests that the gender gap is explained by women’s relative...
Innovation and patents
The gender dimension of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
The special edition compiled by the two prominent international scholars Marina Ranga and Henry Etzkowitz gives you great holidays' reading and...
Creating innovative enterprise search applications
This Webinar will explore how a combination of recent advances in tools and approaches can enable a new vision and reality for search. You will...
Gender and Innovation key issue of the Stuttgart Regional Innovation and Competitiveness Conference
A high-level conference marked the 20th anniversary of Steinbeis Europa Zentrum, the leading regional innovation centre in Baden -Württemberg. Gender...
Italian Female Tech Innovators Awarded in Bari
Angela Serpe and Carla Ferreri are the Best Italian inventor and innovator in Italy in 2010. Stefania Mondello was selected as the Best Italian...
Trust and security
Digital tools against cyberbullying - You decide spreads !
The Norwegian You Decide campaign has been adopted in around 15 countries. Thoughts and facts about the Internet and privacy and tools against digital...