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Projects

Browse through projects from around the world that are empowering girls and women with digital skills for life, work and leadership. These include projects empowering girls both inside and outside of school, professional development programmes for women, initiatives building teacher capacities, and policies, laws and plans aiming for structural change. 

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Thinkabit Lab

These sites offer students hands-on engineering activities that involve problem-solving, creativity and collaboration and exposure to related careers, along with training programmes for educators to learn best practices for engaging students in STEM.

Organizer

Qualcomm

Turkiye'nin muhendis kizlari - Engineer Girls of Turkey

This programme holds trainings, awareness-raising events, and access to role models for teachers, students and parents in Turkey to better understand the engineering profession, and a targeted programme for girls.

Organizer

Limak Holding

UNAXUNA

These trainings allow participants to learn programming skills in data and design knowledge and user experience including IT, product design, Metrics, Data science, backend and frontend trainings.

Organizer

Media Chicas, DataArt, Fibertel, Telef�nica, JPMorgan, IBM

UNESCO-MERCK Africa Research Summit (UNESCO-MARS)

This regional summit, organized every three years, aims to build STEM research capacity on the African continent, with a particular focus on young researchers and women researchers.

Organizer

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Merck Foundation

UTS High School Engineering and IT Projects

This project-based, in-curriculum program for secondary school students aims to increase girls' and teachers' interest and confidence in Engineering and IT.

Organizer

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

UTS STEM x Play Primary School Program

This 6-week in-curriculum program targets primary school students in Year 5 and 6 as well as their parents and teachers, to catalyse generational perception change and build confidence and interest in exploring with STEM.

Organizer

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Uganda Computer Aid (UCAid)

This Ugandan initiative works with local and international partners to promotes digital literacy and bridge the digital gender gap in rural areas, targeting girls, women, children and people with disabilities.

Organizer

Uganda Computer Aid (UCAid)

VHTO (National expert organisation on girls/women and science/technology)

This Dutch organization provides research-based activities for girls and women from primary to higher and vocational education, training programmes for teachers and career advisers, and consultations with school/education managers, with the aim to increase girls' involvement in STEM.

Organizer

VHTO (National expert organisation on girls/women and science/technology)

Vacances TICs - ICT Holidays

These training programmes for girls in Chad focus on the use of ICT, computers, Smartphones, electric money and other digital skills, and are linked to proceed reductions to expand women's access to information technology.

Organizer

Milicom Tchad, TECHNIDEV, L?association Action pour l?Education et la Promotion de la Femme (AEPF), Tigo

Verizon Innovative Learning

This is a free, three-week summer STEM programme for girls in Grades 6-8 in rural areas of the United States of America designed to intervene in the critical middle school Grades to influence rural girls to pursue paths of study in high school and beyond that could lead them to careers in STEM fields.

Organizer

Verizon Innovative Learning

Vijay Computer Academy

This Indian IT education and training institute focuses on skills development in ICT and other related areas for women and girls, youth and adults.

Organizer

Vijay Computer Academy

Visiola Foundation

This Foundation runs a range of activities to train, educate, and mentor girls and young women from underserved communities to build their technical skills, analytical ability, and leadership acumen.

Organizer

Visiola Foundation

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