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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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 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)
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

