La brecha de género en los contextos STEM: propuesta de 
acción en Latinoamérica 
 
Alicia García-Holgado 
research GRoup in InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL) 
Computer Science Department 
Research Institute for Educational Sciences (IUCE) 
University of Salamanca, Spain 
aliciagh@usal.es  
 
Resumen 
Presentación del Proyecto Europeo Building the future of Latin America: Engaging 
women into STEM (W-STEM – Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) [1-
4], financiado en el Programa Capacity-Building in Higher Education de la Unión 
Europea. 
 
Esta presentación se realizó el 19 de noviembre de 2019 en la Universidad de Salamanca 
(España) en el contexto del III Congreso Internacional (Des)Igualdad y Violencia de 
Género.  
 
Keywords 
CBHE, EU, género, STEM, W-STEM, brecha de género 
 
Introducción 
Como socio coordinador, el grupo de investigación GRIAL [5, 6] tiene una amplia 
experiencia en liderar y participar en proyectos europeos como, por ejmplo, VALS 
(Virtual Alliances for Learning Society) [7-18], TACCLE 3 – Coding [19-26], WYRED 
(netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society) [27-35] o 
ROBOSTEAM [36-39]. En estos y otros proyectos se han implementado diferentes 
ecosistemas tecnológicas y apps [40-45] en un contexto de investigación e innovación 
educativa [46]. 
 
Política de diseminación 
W-STEM quiere estar presente en la Sociedad y el consorcio desea que los resultados de 
este proyecto tengan efecto real [47] en el contexto social de Latinoamérica, además de 
en los países participantes por la parte Europea. 
 
Política de acceso abierto 
El proyecto W-STEM es completamente congruente con la política de acceso abierto [48-
57] para acceder y compartir el conocimiento generado en el seno de este proyecto. 
 
Enlace a la presentación 
https://zenodo.org/record/3548916 
 
DOI 
10.5281/zenodo.3548916 
 
 
 
 
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