Equal Place in STEM Career and Digital World Erasmus Project

Project Title

Equal Place in STEM Career and Digital World

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

Despite the fact that numbers of males and females participating in science are roughly equal in primary and secondary school, fewer women choose STEM subjects in college, and fewer still make career in a STEM subjects. The pattern continues as lower percentages of women pursue advanced degrees in STEM areas and fewer yet obtain jobs in STEM areas.
In 2017, of almost 18 million scientists and engineers in the EU, 59% were men and 41% women.

Men were particularly overrepresented in high and medium-high technology manufacturing (83% of scientists and engineers in such manufacturing were male), while the gender ratio in the services sector was more balanced (55% male and 45% female).
Closing the gender gap through digital and entrepreneurship education is vital if Europe is to fully embrace the benefits of the digital revolution. While both girls and boys have similar levels of interest and competence in digital technologies, fewer girls go on to develop this interest in their studies or for their career.

This project bring together a cross sector of schools from 5 different countries of Europe; France, Turkey, Romania, Italy and Portugal, to exchange good practices and to develop a training curriculum to provide positive examples, role models and support to overcome stereotypes for girls and young woman and realise that they too can embark on a fulfilling and successful career in ICT and STEM. During the project activities, STEAM activities and some gender awareness activities will be implemented.

To make an awareness about both STEAM oppotunities and some gender issues, the boys and girls in partner schools will work and study together both in LTT activities and local activities.

Objectives
-increase and promote changes about gender issues
-improve key competence and basic skills via STEAM activities
-provide a guidence about science and technology opportunities for labour markes issues
-increase the level of achievements and interest science, engineering and technology
-supply an unbiased basis for science and technology opportunities
-monitor and evaluate the preference and involvement of women in STEM jobs
-figure out the necessity of build gender into educational practice.
-understand women has limited represent in STEM career subjects.
-raise gender awareness in teaching and learning in classroom practice.
-create gender considerations into professional practice.
-raise consciousness and promote climate changes.
-experience different types of STEAM activities at school.

In this project, 5 learning-teaching and training activities (LTT) for students are planned to lead to achievement of the project’s objectives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170790 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée polyvalent Bel Air & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Bosanci
• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS JOAO DE DEUS
• Viransehir 75. Yil Ortaokulu
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE PADRE PINO PUGLISI