A government program coordinated by the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) and INCoDe.2030, in conjunction with the Portuguese Association for Diversity and Inclusion (APPDI), the Instituto Superior Técnico and the Order of Engineers and supported by a network of 101 partner organizations and schools that promotes the choice of engineering and technology among female students from secondary, vocational and primary schools and aged between 10 and 20, deconstructing the idea that these are male domains. The focus of the initiative is on training, empowering, hiring and retaining more girls and women in the field of technology and engineering by proposing various activities, including laboratory practices, role modelling sessions and mentoring. In order to schedule the learning sessions information about students’ areas of study and ages are collected. The information was collected by the teacher in charge of the class, who carried out a survey on age, activity preferences and tastes. After this survey, the data was sent to us, who filtered it to find out which activities were best suited to this audience. There is a transferability to areas outside its target audience in order to extend the project's lifespan.
The GP deals with the following diversity types (with regard to Erasmus+ priorities): Social, economic barriers, Barriers linked to discrimination. |