Building the future of Latin America: Engaging women into STEM

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Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM Funding: European Union. ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education Call for proposals EAC/A05/2017 Project type: European Coordinator: University of Salamanca Project leader: Francisco J. García Peñalvo Partners: Universidad del Norte Oulu University Politecnico di Torino Technological University Dublin Nothern Regional College Tecnológico de Monterrey Universidad de Guadalajara Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica Universidad de Costa Rica Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja Universidad Técnica del Norte Reference: 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Time: 15/01/2019 to 14/01/2022 Budget: 862.268€ Abstract: The participation of Women in STEM in the Latin-America region is a very complex problem in which necessarily call for actions from different actors, such as governments, private sector, families, as well the different levels of education (since childhood to higher education). In order to make concrete contribution, Higher Education Institutions need to focus on those needs and situations in which it has certain influence for making real progress, such as: Significant minority of Women choose and access to STEM programs at tertiary level. The lowest rates appears in science and engineering programs. Data is scarce, showing a need for analytical and systematic methods, which reflect actual participation of women in STEM at HEIs. Tertiary studies with a high math component such as STEM seem to be excluded from the studies options by girls in secondary schools. Lack of bridges between public policy and institutional actions led by HEIs. In this way, and aligned to the Erasmus + Capacity Building priority for improving management and operation of higher education, in terms of access to and democratization of Higher Education, the W‐STEM Project aims at Improving strategies and mechanisms of attraction, access and guidance of Women in Latin-American STEM Higher Education programs. For achieving this main objective, W-STEM project, will Measure the gender equality in enrolment and retention rates in STEM programs. Implement Universities’ policies, strategies and organizational mechanisms for improving attraction, access and guidance at undergraduate levels in STEM programs. Promote STEM studies vocation and choice in girls and young women in secondary schools as well as guidance in the first year of the STEM program. Develop an online training package for Higher Education Institutions to implement effective strategies to enhance attraction, access and guidance of Women in STEM programs.

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    Facilitating Access to the Role Models of Women in STEM: W-STEM Mobile App
    (Springer, 2020-07-19) García-Holgado, A.; Verdugo-Castro, S.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    W-STEM is a research project funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in order to develop concrete actions to mod-ernise the government, management and operation of higher education institu-tions in Latin America to improve women’s access to STEM programs. Among the main objectives of the project, there is the development of a mobile app to be used in attraction campaigns conducted by the Latin American higher education institutions involved in the project. Specifically, the app aims to facilitate access to the role models of women in areas related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The main content inside the app will be a set of video interviews with women from different ages, cultural backgrounds, profiles, sharing their experiences about their careers, occupation and future plans. This work aims to describe the prototype of the mobile app and the exploratory study conducted with a group of students from secondary education to know their perceptions and opinions about the proposed app and the video interviews.
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    Cooperación internacional para modelos sostenibles
    (Grupo GRIAL, 2020-11-04) García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    Participación en el Tercer Laboratorio de Innovación Social “REAcciones Abiertas”, organizado con el apoyo de la Cátedra UNESCO Movimiento Educativo Abierto para América Latina del Tecnológico de Monterrey, el Cuerpo Académico de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en la Educación del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo de la UABC, la Corporación Universitaria Autónoma del Cauca, la Universidad Mariano Gálvez de Guatemala y la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. La conferencia “Cooperación internacional para modelos sostenibles” tuvo lugar el 4 de noviembre de 2020. La temática se justifica en el Tercer Laboratorio de Innovación Social por su relación con la recomendación de la UNESCO sobre los Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) “Promoción y fortalecimiento de la cooperación internacional”. Este Laboratorio se enmarca en los 17 ODS de la UNESCO, de los que se destacan: • Garantizar una educación inclusiva, equitativa y de calidad y promover oportunidades de aprendizaje durante toda la vida para todos. • Garantizar una vida sana y promover el bienestar para todos en todas las edades. • Lograr la igualdad entre los géneros y empoderar a todas las mujeres y las niñas. • Promover el crecimiento económico inclusivo y sostenible, el empleo y el trabajo decente para todos. • Promover sociedades justas, pacíficas e inclusivas.
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    Empoderamiento de la mujer en carreras STEM
    (W-STEM Consortium, 2020-10-14) García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    El programa institucional Cátedra Europa de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia) es un espacio de encuentro académico y cultural entre el Caribe Colombiano y el mundo académico de Europa. La edición XXIII de Cátedra Europa con España se realiza del 12 al 23 de octubre de forma virtual debido la situación mundial por el efecto de la enfermedad COVID-19. En este contexto se organiza la mesa redonda Empoderamiento de la mujer en carreras STEM, en la que se ha invitado a que se presente las experiencias del proyecto europeo W-STEM (European Union. ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education Call for proposals EAC/A05/2017 - Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP).
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    Algunos proyectos destacados y en curso del Grupo GRIAL
    (Grupo GRIAL, 2020-06-30) García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    Webinar con la presentación de algunos proyectos destacados del Grupo GRIAL (UIC 081) de la Universidad de Salamanca en el Conversatorio “Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de TIC en Educación” organizado por la Universidad Católica de Santa María (Arequipa, Perú). La ponencia se organizó en los siguientes apartados: 1) presentación del Grupo GRIAL y 2) Presentación de tres proyectos destacados (W-STEM; OpenGame y RoboSTEAM).
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    Informe del W-STEM International Leadership Summit World Café. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 26 de noviembre de 2019
    (W-STEM Consortium, 2020-06-13) García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Bello, A.; Domínguez, Á.; Romero Chacón, R.
    Informe del W-STEM International Leadership Summit World Café Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 26 de noviembre de 2019 W-STEM Consortium
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    Strategies to introduce gender perspective in Engineering studies: a proposal based on selfdiagnosis
    (IEEE, 2020-04-27) González-González, C. S.; García-Holgado, A.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    Gender inequality in STEM careers is a global problem and avoid bias in education can be a solution. This paper presents a framework for inclusion of gender perspective in engineering courses. The methodology followed in its design was divided into two phases: the developed of different educational innovation projects and a co-creation workshop. Several instruments have been created and validated, such as questionnaires, canvas model and rubrics. The framework includes elements such as the self-diagnosis and redefinition of curriculum, conte
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    W-STEM Action Point after technical meetings in Torino and Dublin
    (W-STEM Consortium, 2020-05-08) García-Holgado, A.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    The W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) had scheduled two technical meetings at the beginning of May 2020, the first one on May 4th-5th in Torino (Italy) and the second one on May 7th-8th in Dublin (Ireland). Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, these meetings were held online, but organized by the corresponding local partners, in the scheduled dates and maintaining the meeting goals. The action points after both meetings are presented.
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    Gender equality in STEM programs: a proposal to analyse the situation of a university about the gender gap
    (IEEE, 2020-04-27) García-Holgado, A.; Mena, J.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Pascual, J.; Heikkinen, M.; Harmoinen, S.; García-Ramos, L.; Peñabaena-Niebles, R.; Amores, L.
    According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, most of the countries have achieved gender parity in educational attainment. Furthermore, Latin America and Europe have more women than men enrolled in tertiary education. The problem arises when those numbers are analysed by degree studies. There is a gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), with a low number of women enrolled in those programs and even lower numbers of graduates. The universities have a key role to steer new conceptions and understanding of the females in STEM. The higher education institutions have to define measures and policies to reduce the gender gap in the careers of the future. This work aims to provide a proposal to analyse the gender equality gap in STEM as a first step to define gender equality action plans focused on processes of attraction, access and retention and guidance in STEM programs. The proposal was applied in ten Latin American universities from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico, and five European universities from Finland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom.
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    W-STEM International Leadership Summit World Café Report
    (W-STEM Consortium, 2019-12-13) García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Bello, A.; Domínguez, Á.; Romero Chacón, R.
    In the scope of W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), the W-STEM International Leadership Summit was celebrated in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia on November 25-26, 2019. One of the developed activities was a World Café with the primary goal of stimulating a collective brainstorming for suggesting for institutional strategies and actions for the next stage of the Erasmus+ W-STEM project.
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    Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Salamanca
    (W-STEM Consortium, 2019-11-28) García-Holgado, A.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    Best practice about the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Salamanca presented into the First Benchmarking Round session within the 2nd face-to-face meeting of the W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), which was held in Uninorte, Barranquilla (Colombia), 27-29 November 2019.