María de Maeztu Gender & ICT program
The Maria de Maeztu Gender & ICT program, a broad gender strategy at DTIC-UPF in collaboration with many other entities (get to know them below).
- Over 2.000 participants in our #GirlsHacks and courses and support to external programs such as Technovation
- Boys and girls in schools talking about women in ICT in the award-winning Wisibilízalas contest
- Leading professionals mentoring current female engineering students, and UPF researchers mentoring high school students in external programs such as Inspira STEAM and PULSAR.
- Wikimujeres - ViquidonesUPF: An active group filling the gender gap in Wikipedia
- Participation in gender and technology events, including our 2019 Women and Technology events with over 1.000 participants (details)
NEW! FEB - MARCH 2020 - APP INVENTOR WORKSHOPS (first workshop 19/02)
Pyladies meetup 21/10 19:00h - 21:00h, room 55.003. Intro to Python. Details and registration to come here.
divinAI project ( Diversity in Artificial Intelligence).
Summer courses for high-school students in Campus Junior UPF: Girls in Data Science and Feminism: a tool to analyse and transform society
Biomedical Engineering and Data Science Engineering reach parity in enrolment!
Dorcas Muthoni conferred with a doctorate honoris causa by our University to recognise her commitment to fight poverty and equality using technology. Ceremony on December 15th (details)
And more! check the boxes below for details on each of the lines of action.
Related Assets:
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The 2018 GirlsTech summer course at the American Space
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RAVALSTEAM
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Dorcas Muthoni conferred with a doctorate honoris causa by UPF
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Freire A, Ruiz-Garcia A, Moreno Oliver V. Wisibilízalas: promoting the role of women in ICT among secondary school students. International Conference on Gender Research
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3 years of the María de Maeztu gender and ICT program at DTIC-UPF
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Presentation at the first SOMMA Gender event in CNIO
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Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship: Call 2020 for talented African female candidates
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Public engagement activities in early 2020
Co-organisers, sponsors and collaborators
A collaborative effort: co-organisers, sponsors and collaborators. Would you like to join? Contact aurelio (dot) ruiz (youknowwhat) upf (dot) edu
Related Assets:
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Girls and technology for a social cause
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Ruiz-Garcia A., Freire A., Subirats L., Lessons learned in promoting new technologies and engineering in girls through a girls hackathon and mentoring. 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EduLearn16)
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Gender and Wikipedia 2017
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Promoting the role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action
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Celebrating the Science Week! Collaborative and participatory data-driven social action
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New edition of the #GirlsHack - promoting technology among Girls
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The Wisibilízalas contest for schools, special distinction at [email protected] awards
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Celebrating the International Day of Girls and Women in Science with Wisibilízalas