A brief presentation of W-STEM project: Main goals, results and current status Francisco José García-Peñalvo research GRoup in InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL) Computer Science Department Research Institute for Educational Sciences (IUCE) University of Salamanca, Spain (grid.11762.33 / ROR 02f40zc51) fgarcia@usal.es http://grial.usal.es http://twitter.com/frangp https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9987-5584 Abstract The W-STEM European project (European Union. ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education Call for proposals EAC/A05/2017 - Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES- EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) has been selected as good practice to present its advances, results, and current status in the 2021 Cluster Meeting Erasmus+ CBHE projects in Latin America & Caribbean: Building Capacity and Promoting Cooperation in Higher Education (28-29 October 2021). Specifically, the W-STEM project has been included in the Inclusion & diversity Workshop celebrated online on October 29th, 2021. 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