W-STEM Action Point after technical meetings in Torino and Dublin Alicia García-Holgado Francisco José García-Peñalvo research GRoup in InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL) Computer Science Department Research Institute for Educational Sciences (IUCE) University of Salamanca, Spain @usal.es http://grial.usal.es Abstract The W-STEM [1-9] 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. Keywords CBHE, EU, gender, STEM, W-STEM Action Points WP2. A2.3.1 Profiling tool • Each partner will review and select at least 100 profiles following the indications. It is possible, 50 from students and 50 from graduates, with a distribution of 50% women and 50% men, in those case in which will be possible. (29th May 2020). • USAL will update the spreadsheet each Friday (Spanish time) with the new profiles collected by each institution until 22nd May (the partners will sanitize that profiles between 22nd-29th May). WP2. A2.3.1 – Women interviews • All the interviews will be recorded on 30th May 2020. • Half of the interviews will be edited at 15th June 2020. • The last interviews will be edited at 30th June 2020. • The interviews will be checked and uploaded to YouTube and in the app for 30th June 2020. WP2. A2.3.1 – Mobile app • USAL will introduce more real examples and share the information in the forum to get feedback and define the exact information of the profiles inside the app (15th May 2020). • Some problems detected during the testing will be solved. No more functionality will be included due to the low Budget (31st May 2020). • Publication of the app in the Play Store and Apple Store (30th June 2020). • ITCR UX team will review and solve UX/UI problems after the first version will be available in the stores. Dissemination • Report the numbers of the dissemination activities organized from the beginning of the Project. • Review the press release. • Create contents for the social media. Attraction campaigns (online editions) • Review of the attraction campaigns proposal shared by UNINORTE before 13th May 2020. • Participation in the meeting of 13th May 2020 to agree on the Schedule (LA partners). • Participation in the meeting of 14th May 2020 with the European partners to share the agreements and get their support and opinions. • Collect the list of schools that each LA partner contacted to be involved in the attraction campaigns (18th May 2020). • Final version of the global schedule of activities and the protocols to implement them (29th May 2020) . • Have women students identified in the list of prospective students (14th June 2020). • Prepare the launch of the attraction campaigns (22nd June 2020) Action plans • According the proposal, the action plans have to be done for the meeting in Colombia (Dec 2019). • We have a full version of all the institutions, but not all are the final one. • They are inside this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1os8lztDTgp9OIMuHA0ZfelY6_RIaSHX m?usp=sharing. • We will take this as finals, if we need to modify them regarding the COVID-19, I will collect a new version of January 2021, when the situation will be under control. • The action plan will be used to check if you did the work from now till the end of the Project. Progress report • Each partner has to prepare the documents. • Tasks planned in the proposal for M16 have to be finished. • All the information required from your side have to be done for 30th June 2020. • Valentina will contact each partner individually after 15th May 2020. • Valentina will create a folder per each partner in the W-STEM Google Drive, inside Progress report. She will share with you the link to your folder, also the links will be in the management platform. Link to the presentation https://zenodo.org/record/3843208 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3843208 References [1] A. García-Holgado, A. Camacho Díaz and F. J. García-Peñalvo, "La brecha de género en el sector STEM en América Latina: Una propuesta europea," in Actas del V Congreso Internacional sobre Aprendizaje, Innovación y Competitividad. CINAIC 2019 (9-11 de Octubre de 2019, Madrid, España), M. L. Sein-Echaluce Lacleta, Á. Fidalgo-Blanco and F. J. 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